My Brain On Glass

Warning: Long post ahead.



I have been stressing about a piece of glass I have had in my possession for about two months. I'm beginning at the beginning here, hence the long post warning. I was contracted to do four pieces of stained glass for Steve a loooong time ago, and finally got it done--had a lot of trouble with the frames, having never done it before. Finally finished the project, delivered it, collected my check and mentally swished my hands on my pants. "Whew! Done with that one!" Steve called a couple of days later. One of the glass pieces had fallen shortly after they had hung it--I had not secured the chain well enough and it detached from the frame, and one of the pieces of glass had broken. One in the middle. Good grief.

Now I have had that piece in my basement workshop and have been stressing about it. See, when I tried to take the broken piece out, I broke the one by it. While trying to take THAT one out, I broke the one by IT. So I put it away and thought about it. I really did not know how I was going to get that --ok those--broken pieces out of there.

A couple of days ago--at 3am--I decided that I was just going to rebuild the whole flippin' piece. Know how long that took me? About four hours last night, and a couple tonight. I have it all ready to solder. Why did I wait and worry? Dunno.

So tonight I thought this would be good blog fodder. I'd take a snazzy picture of my project in process and post it. Cool, huh?

Grab the camera after a few minutes of looking in the drawer where it lives, "humph-ing" when I found it sitting right in front of my face on the counter. Turned it on. No battery life. Of course! Ok, no biggie, I looked in the cupboard where we keep the batteries. One left. How many does the camera take? You know it--two.

Put one new battery and one old one in the camera, and rushed to take one picture. "Was that a beep?" I thought. Maybe.

Went into the office to stick the camera card into the computer. Upside down. Ok, flipped it over and looked through the pictures on the card--good grief there are a lot of them on there--how many does it hold? Whatever, search, search, search--oh could it be?

ONE! YEE-HA!

So here it is, my work in progress. Tomorrow I'll go to town and get some batteries--oh and dish soap for my not-supposed-to-use-it-dishwasher--and when I finish I'll post more pix. By Friday. We are having dinner at Steve & Kristen's on Friday and I promised Steve I'd bring it.

Let us pray.