My Hippo - I think I may call it Murphy

Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

I was well into adulthood when I heard of 'Murphy's Law'-'If anything can go wrong, it will'. 'Poor Murphy, whoever he was, he was just having a bad run of things'.  The Dubliner in me thought, 'is this an 'Irish' thing?'.  It has seemed of late the silly 'law' (see how reckless I am to call it such) is haunting me. Oh yeah, I like to walk on the wild side me!!  I have been making my thrown double walled 'nest' forms, to send to Craft ACT in Canberra for the Crucible Gallery.  They only need five, I made about thirty, because in ceramics - stuff happens!  I KNOW!!  :>P    ... and it did!
At first the usual demon 'Inertia' sat upon me like a big grumpy HIPPO and refused to budge.  Any potter knows that feeling, when you somehow just can't get started - and elbowing that Hippo off you is the crucial step.

Garden Studio

I broke through that barrier and am staying here i.e. on the side where I am PRODUCTIVE! See recent post and kiln-load!  But things went awry! The medium I used for under glaze printing became hard to find, the substitute clogged my silk screens permanently. In troubleshooting I found an ally - and a generous one (Simon Cohen of Nehoc you ROCK!!).  Why do I always do things the hard way? As Janet De Boos wisely observed of my trials, I am process driven.  Recognising this puts it into perspective,  every failure is a lesson learnt, I think Einstein said that.
I copped some 'S' cracks so they met my hammer - it is always the Southern Ice. The TMK was divine to throw but not as white as my beloved SI! I was a smidge displeased with other pieces so I tidied them up to refire alongside a batch of new stuff.  Whew!  You think?  Now due to an error I missed when programming my kiln, I have had to refire that work again as the newer laser decal work did not fuse onto the porcelain surface.  So when I should be congratulating myself on having sent them off on time, instead I am crestfallen, feeling foolish and grinding my teeth.  I'm feeling a little paranoid and a little damp from dashing through rain down to my garden studio to ensure the kiln is doing what I programmed it to do.  I got onto FaceBook, blurted a bit, some pottery friends across the planet said the right thing, told me their tales of, let's face it, cock ups, and I feel better now.  Sigh ... but wait there's more!  I also discovered another Law - did you know there is a Muphry's law too?  Google it!