So, much as I love my job, there are days when things go wrong. Today is one of those days. Now, I say this, knowing that in fact, the first part of the day went very well. I installed the heads and controls on four puppets and then, as a minor miracle, figured out how to get the males’ mouths to open without needing to attach the control to their rods.
This made me very happy. See, the only part of the right hand that’s not being used to control the head and torso are the tips of the index and middle fingers. I mean the tips as in from the first knuckle forward. So the fact that I came up with a way to trigger the mouth, without losing control of the rest of the puppet is a minor miracle.
The problem is that it doesn’t open far enough by about a quarter of an inch. To fix this–and please don’t offer alternatives because I promise you that I’ve tried them all–I need to pull out everything that I did today and reinstall it, because one wire, ONE, is impeding the movement.
I am annoyed.
Besides that, today was lovely. I went to dinner with Dean, Rob’s college roommate, who is delightful and one of the reasons that we are both looking forward to moving here. His band, Kill Henry Sugar (which I love) has a gig on the 21st at 9:00 pm at the Lakeside Lounge. Join me?
