#developements

     “ I once knew a girl        In the years of my youth       With eyes like the summer       All beauty and truth       In the morning I fled       Left a note and it read                                                                             Someday you will be loved.”

Day 27: Favorite Thing About One Piece

Defence First Defense Last! Or use every possible asset to get patrick kane. wait... damn his contract is up next year not this year. But think about it, patrick kane was offered a 10 year deal with the blackhawks. Didn't take it. A few sentences after he won the cup talked about Buffalo. Talked about Buffalo again and took the cup home makes sense but still. Then when he was drunk he admitted he would love to be traded to buffalo the proof is there. We just need to sign him. I say we could make a deal for him next year or ! if blackhawks win the cup again this year he will be much much more attainable. Think about the damn power we would have on all our right wing lines. Crazy. Put Ennis Hodgson Kane line. Freaking brilliant. The try to master a line with Van and some others two amazing two lines that just make a killing. Even with the cap going down 6 million we still have plenty of room for him. I just wish Stafford if we don't trade him can get back his damn mojo like a couple years ago when he scored 30 something goals. He needs to work a lot on his game. He even admitted to have done absolutely nothing in the huge off season that totally trashed his game. I don't understand why any team needs to wait or take a break at the end of the off season. Teams are playing extensive huge playoff games and we are all sitting around. Those teams are becoming more developed and defined. I think there should be a mandatory 1 week exhausting grueling develope period. Then you can have your off season. Just like Weber and Ott who repeated him there needs to be a culture change, that would definitely be some where to start. I don't know how the players could say no. If they were in the playoffs they'd be doing the same even more honestly. I just want to see them do better. And maybe them having that horrible developing period at the end would jump start for some off season training on their own a little harder than they normally would. And it would just erase their memories of the regular season woes and let them all feel exhausted and maybe enjoy their off season more. Just a thought in my head. Plus the training period would be over before the first round was even over. I'm talking like again, like again, like the miracle on ice when they had to just keep going. Back and forth. Something as physically and mentally exhausting as that. Something they will just hate. I mean teams that win the stanley cup get bonuses I don't understand why we don't get like the complete opposite of bonus like that. 

This week I discovered that brushable polyurethane is not a good material to work with if you want to paint it. My initial tests looked good, and the paint seemed to adhere. Unfortunately I quickly discovered that the paint would still rub off rather easily. My first undercoat was almost entirely removed during when we were working on the mechanism in the studio.

After putting the first coat on I brought the snake skin into the studio so we could test it on the mechanism. This revealed serious problems for our group. The skin proved to be too inflexible, making it impossible for the mechanism to function with the skin over it. This was partially due to the expanding foam in the core, but seemed to be mostly due to the less flexible urethane skin. We spent the best part of 2 days working on the mechanism trying everything we could think of to get the system to work. We ended up trying so many 'contigency' plans that I lost count (somewhere around plan 'H'). Along the way we decided we needed to cut the snake into sections rather than have it as one piece. That was a difficult day for me. Having spent hours experiementing, planning and forming the snake, I now had to cut it into pieces.