Ichy knee said she goes!

[gurdymonkey]

The open house at Emeryville Taiko last night was fun. I now have a few more things I can incorporate into the warmups I've been doing. (Have I mentioned that I seem to be the only person in my class who bothers to warm up?)

Put another coat of black paint onto the sugoroku box and will probably try to get a third on tomorrow morning. This so-called "semi-gloss" isn't very glossy at all. Sanding takes it right down - which isn't a bad thing because I'll be drafting designs on the sides in pencil and painting them in gold. I'll make it look lacquer-y with top coats of polyurethane.

And on that note, I'm off to the kite festival. I've decided NOT to shlep the hurdy gurdy today, take my camera and just enjoy, especially since I plan to try to find free parking on the east side of the freeway and hike down instead of coughing up $10.

EDIT: So much for that brilliant idea. I should know by now that Berkeley and motor cars are incompatible no matter how you slice it.  I spent an hour and a half sitting in traffic just trying to get down there. Couldn't find a place to park on the east side of the freeway to even try to make the walk over - why? The AM traffic channel said that all the parking lots in the marina had been full for more than an hour at that point.

Plan B, I thought. If there's parking at West Oakland BART, I shall brave San Francisco. There was not.
I took local streets back and made a stop at the Cost Plus in Jack London Square to see if they had any interesting sake in the wine clearance bin (they did not). A glance at the ferry dock as I came down the Embarcadero to make the turn for the Webster Tube showed a huge line.

Plan C, came home. Ate lunch before I gnawed off a limb. Put a coat of paint on the inside lid of the box. The outside of the box looks pretty good and I'm going to put that third coat as soon as I'm sure the second one is dry.