An Arizona Cheesehead's Thoughts

I confess, I haven't watched local or national TV news in years. I bugged out once all of the stations were doing "death" teasers for their broadcasts. "This surprising item in your kitchen will kill you!" "There are unknown predators in your neighborhood!" "Find about the commonplace product under the third step of your stairs that can give you cancer!" "You MUST watch our broadcast or you're doomed!!!!" You get the gist. It was all about sucking you in to watch and the teaser segment was always buried somewhere in the broadcast so you had to wait through it all. Here's another thing that turned me off from TV news; reporters standing in front of a building hours after whatever action happened before. Seriously, you could put that reporter in front of a blank green screen and gotten the same amount of relevance. "What you can't see now because it's all cleaned up is that the bus jumped this curb and ran in...

Our wall of tiles is complete! I wrote about the creative process  a while back where we all had an opportunity to make the tiles. A lot of work by Kim, our resident artist (and VP), later and the wall is done. Careful placement with spacers for the grout. We hired some people to affix the tiles to the wall and do the grout work. They were at it for quite a while. Supply of tiles to be affixed to the wall.  So, yeah, we thought we had made enough tiles... Kim had to make some more as the space was bigger than what we already had for our supply. She did all the stain and kiln work and most of the final design determinations. Kim overseeing the placement work. There was careful consideration to placement to make sure the pattern of colors and tile designs flowed well. Grout work. After a few of the rows had grout put around them we found that the grout stain was also staining the tiles. So, they had to tape off each tile before putting in the grout. And, we h...