Ashley, I love being organized... that is why I think librarianism is for me
Let me know if you want help with bubble tea stuff. I love spreading the love. I wonder if bubble tea is a lot less sweet in the U.S.A., because your guys have, like, unsweetened iced tea... did you find my bubble tea excessively sweet? Some people do.Oh yeah, for cooking the bubbles, if, after the 45 minute total time, the water is very, very thick (oh, stir between each heat change too!), then 10 cups isn't enough. It was a SUPER rough estimate... You don't want the bubbles to stick to the bottom of the pot (which will happen if you don't have enough water.) By 10 cups, I basically meant 3/4 of a pot full... yeah. That's what I do, I just wasn't sure what the average pot size is to most people... so try that.
Shred: September 8th, 2007:
Anyway. Shred today was uneventful.
It, like, hurt to stand the majority of the time. I usually sat out 3 out of 4 rotations. I had some long runs, though. My highlight was a 70-some run that wasn't dumbed down at all. It was just, like, a good run... X 3.5
There was a 60-some one too, but that was mostly big drill-oriented. Then there were a lot of 30 and 40+ runs. Nothing note-worthy, really.Oh yeah, I also broke the world diving mirage record, I think, with 26. I kind of just caught the bag, I think? I don't know what the record was... like 16 or 19? Meh. I could do more. Andrew said a bunch were the, and I've noticed that in that recent video I made, and the ShrEdmonton videos... that sucks. My ducks were always really deep for the most part. I will have to concentrate on that. I'm also trying to calm down my left hand, because my right hand looks relaxed when I shred, but on my left, my fingers look like a witches... all scraggily and tense..
Shins splints + athletic therapy
Shin splints is what's mostly holding me back, which is dumb. So Andrew and I collaborated on a solution. I am going to kind of ease into it, like, try to play lightly every second day, 15-20 minutes, and then ease up the time-span, and then ease down the time span and move to daily, etc. Like, to condition my legs. Andrew made a good point about how I pretty much don't play all week and then stomp the crap out of them for 3 or 4 hours one day... repeat. So this makes sense in theory... He's also going to ask if he can do his paper (in athletic therapy school) on shin splints, to help me out. I'm very excited for him to become an athletic therapist.... because he said he's going to fix me when he graduates :p
So, here are a few more photos. I forgot to take pictures of my Climas mods, like I was excited to before, so here they are:
I've made a couple more mods on my black Climas. Here you can see I've filled in the inside surface with black silicon. The plastic was far too slippery, and the huge gap messed up my spinning tricks. The new inside surface is similar to my old Lavers, which are more consistent. You can see a few air bubbles, which look kinda bad, but don't seem to affect the playability.
Here is a toe mesh-removal mod that Tom Mosher kind of forced on me at Worlds. You can see the comparison to the still-meshy toe surface of my blue pair. It looks a little ugly, but they're all black, so it's hard to notice. I also don't notice much improvement to play, but perhaps there is a little. Certainly, in theory it should help, particularly since I always did the reverse mod on my Lavers.
Here is the comparison between my modded and unmodded Climas. The blue shoe is what the inside looked like before I siliconed the inside surface of the black Climas.
Here is another shot that kind of shows better how deep the gap was, and now how flat the inside is on my modded pair.
Big thanks to Brian Dennis for helping me out with the silicon issue, and all the tips. Also huge thank you to Tom for going and getting me caulking and a caulking gun in Florida, even if we didn't end up using it
#017, custom-made for Manna.
Blew a stitch, so I've brought it home for repair, and sent out a lender bag
I am going to change the filler too, in experimentation.
Oh, I also did some foot jugglinng for a couple minutes last night and got 11 on my good side, and 8 on my flip
New records.Oh yeah, and I also got some comics in the mail! And I should get another shipment, like, tomorrow or Monday! Ahh! I was so excited that it came today, on Saturday, when I totally didn't expect it! I got:
Livewires: Clockwork Thugs, Yo Digest (Adam Warren) (It looks too "Marvel"... like you can tell he was forced to draw a certain way, and it sucks, because his work on his own book, "Empowered" is just breathtaking and full of feeling! -- it's very him, unlike this... I guess that's what happens when you work for a big company. ...Oh, correction -- it's not even drawn by him, just covers and writing... greater disappointment. I probably won't bother reading it.)
The Art Of H.P. Lovecraft's The Cthulhu Mythos (Looks like garbage, like I could draw better... (well, not really... but you know) What a disappointment! I've stuck it in my closet and don't plan to ever look at it again
)Akira Club (Katsuhiro Otomo) (Epic, hardcover...ahh. It may not be TOO interesting because it seems to be mostly behind the scenes stuff of what I've seen a bunch of times over... we'll see. It's quite large)
American Virgin Vol. 1 (Becky Cloonan) (Looks good. I'd read an issue online, and it was kind of confusing, but after reading a synopsis it makes more sense, and sounds really interesting!! I'm pretty excited, and I think I will read it in the bath, while I try to melt my shins in supa hot water)
American Virgin Vol. 2 (Becky Cloonan)
That's the most tricks in a row that I have ever done! Whoa. My vision got blurred (from using peripheral vision while also trying to see through glasses) at about the first 10s...
I haven't finished the movie yet. Stopped to play hacky. EDIT: Also noticed Kevin Smith and the Klingon from Star Trek Voyager. If there was a geek smiley face, I would use it now!)
