Welcome to my time machine

It's hard to describe how quickly time passes here. It's all very zenny....

A whole day can pass here virtually without noticing...days. Extended periods with obsessive focus on an area the size of a playing card. Detail is everything. Things that, ultimately, will be invisible to the average eye consume you and your world is drilled down to a place where every detail has it's own details and the end result represents a commitment to trying to perfect a thing a relative few can appreciate.

This is a new thing to me. A proficiency of the basics is an achievement. My victories are someone else's second nature. The basics, for them, are reflex and they challenge themselves with things that make me shake my head at their complexity and aesthetic and threaten to derail my desire to excel at this. Esoterica really but built on a premise of feeding oneself using a string on a stick.

I'm in awe of the masters. A balance of form and function. Form can be taken to extremes without sacrificing function. A person can literally fish with a work of art. I'm happy to be able to turn out some fine and functional rods. In anything, there are dues to be paid. At this point that's basically what this page is about...paying dues, making mistakes, celebrating small victories, learning...