t00t!

I just bought a harmonica. Jessica and I were sitting around this evening, waiting for the 9:30 feed and I pulled out a little blues harmonica the we have and started playing with it. It reminded me of a great harmonica that I had way back when that my aunt and uncle got me - I think as a birthday present - that got lost somewhere back in Tay-hass. I've missed it ever since - at least when ever I think about it. So after some research found the kind that I wanted, and when I search Amazon for Hohner tremolo harmonica, there she was, the Hohner Echo. I even recognize the stamped pattern on the body of the harmonica.

So I should soon have in my hot little hands one of the first instruments I learned to play (sort of). Yay!

Wizard Wednesday: Easy micro-clamps

For those of you who have ever done any kind of paper modeling, you probably know the frustration that comes from trying to figure out a good way to hold two pieces of paper/cardstock together long enough and flat enough for the glue to dry well. I myself ran into this problem a couple days ago when gluing some WhiteWings together. I started ransacking my garage looking for some small pieces of wood which I could squeeze between two clothes pins when I came across something better: Contrux! These handy little plastic girders are just the right size for clothes pins to grip (in either a parallel or perpendicular orientation) and provide a nice, flat, smooth, reinfored clamping surface. You could probably even use the 'curve' pieces to clamp around a curve!

In other news, I won an internet 'Caption-a-Comic' contest. Check it out here, and check out my winning entry from the link!