Categories: all aviation Building a Biplane bicycle gadgets misc motorcycle theater
I left a few things dangling over the last few days. Here's how stuff turned out:
Tsukamaki: I finished wrapping the sword handle, and even got some of the more obnoxious hishi-gami (little paper thingies) tucked under the ribbon where they're supposed to be. It hardly looks like a professional job, but it's good enough for a Halloween costume.
Total time spent: about 8 hours. That includes a lot of folding, cutting and folding newsprint (black fingertips and all), studying pictures, saying to myself, "uh, what?" and turning my head sideways, and a lot of tugging that ribbon as tight as I could while intricately folding it around little triangular paper wedges. It was actually pretty fun.
Bicycle flats: I put a new tube in the rear tire last night, and it's holding up so far. Of course, so is the front, where I know there's another puncture lurking in the wings. I'll have to get that changed after work today.
Monday in general: ended up being much more pleasant than the start would suggest. Nothing specific to point to, things just went better than I might have expected given the rough beginning.
Posted at 13:31 permanent link category: /misc
Categories: all aviation Building a Biplane bicycle gadgets misc motorcycle theater