Got a stupid no name flu. Still never had the covid for some reason. Work has been fun - lots of new members at the makerspace, things are activating with the spring energy, planning all the summer projects, we have more and more training offerings and are slowly building up local notoriety. I feel things have evolved quite a bit since I joined a year ago. The daily dealings have been almost entirely in my court since my boss is busy with a grant application with a 5mil$ cap to develop 5000 squarefeet of new artist spaces. If we get it, we should start construction by next winter. In the meantime, we're also looking at buying out the whole building while real state prices are still affordable(ish). They have already increased by a few mil since we've started renting about 4 years ago... Did my first MIG welding class this weekend - and I was actually pleasantly surprised at how easy it was. I somehow expected it to be a LOT tougher. My welds are not the prettiest, but that's just practice. Maybe I'll do the TIG class later too. I need to think of a fun little sculpture or something I can build up from scrap metal at the space and can display at the country house - just for the practice! I bet I can even get it financed by our local burning man regional if i bring it over for the event. I need to get my ass in gear about actually learning the skills i've been talking about learning the past few years. I think I've been talking about the welding for the past 4-5 years! Can't believe it took me so long to pull the plug. Next up would be sewing! I also want to do a little bike touring, but have no idea where to start. I think the cost of the gear is what is stoping me right now, but I have never even researched if it's something I could rent.
MIG is stupid easy. It's a hot melt glue gun with protective equipment. Frankly the whole world has gotten easier now that you can buy an auto-darken visor for like $50. The only downside is vanishingly few people actually need to weld anything so the world ends up with awkward scrap-metal constructions scattered about. Know what sets an amateur and a professional apart? Intent. There's a Metal Supermarkets in Ottawa. They'll cut any steel you buy for like $100. They'll even give you the patterns - they had a cool velociraptor that fit on a 4x8 sheet. Then you get it powder-coated for another $150. Now, instead of a bunch of random junk welded into random, larger junk you have an actual public-works grade sculpture that people other than the welder can appreciate. - Signed, someone who went through 40lbs of 6011 and 10lbs of baling wire before he could legally buy cigarettes ALTERNATIVELY See this thing? It's the same as this thing. It uses hypodermic needles as jets, at least if you swap out the handpiece for something that isn't a useless Chinese chunk of shit. And if you have a hydrogen welder and silver solder, you can make peculiar assemblages of desktop garbage that you can call "art", which takes up a lot less room than peculiar assemblages of workshop garbage that you can call "art."
Space really isn’t an issue on my end, but for sure I’m not in the market for those rusty junk blobs I see in front yards that people call « art » My pile of junk welded together will look cool - if I manage to come up with something worthwhile. The metal coat rack we did in the class turned out alright :)
So far mine has been like symptom-lottery, changing every day: Day 1. Extra low energy Day 2. Muscle and joint soreness Day 3. Sore throat Day 4. Congested nose and snot Day 5. Gross wet coughing We'll see what tomorrow brings, but yesterday felt the worst, while I feel mostly recovered today apart from the coughing. I hope it's not one of these long sicknesses yall are talking about, it does feel like i'm cycling through the symptoms pretty fast. It's just sucky because today and yesterday were probably the nicest spring days we've had yet, would have loved to enjoy it more. I did go on a 2h walk with my mom this afternoon. But it's all rain going forward for the rest of the week. Supposed to be biblical tomorrow.
I also had this. I took a home covid test and not believing the negative results got a PCR test. Also negative. I was out cold for a full day and still coughing and blowing my nose ten days later. It took probably 15 days from first symptoms to feel mostly normal again.
Has to be. I did get the flu shot, but wasn't there talk that the 2021-22 vaccine would be difficult because the previous winter had so few cases due to masking and social distancing for COVID?