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i cut my first botswanas...stay tuned 2011-02-10 - 10:03 a.m. Finished our taxes. Much swearing and cursing at the state of Louisiana tax site, which -- just like last year -- coyly refuses to acknowledge your spouse's W2 until you've screamed at it a few times. Does that ever work? Do they really think people will just shrug and say, "Huh, I wonder why I have such a big tax bill this year when I overpaid?" and then just go about their day? No, there's money involved. People will just curse and swear until the state's site finally accepts the W2 and acknowledges that -- oops, our bad! who knew! -- you do SO have a refund coming. So all they've accomplished is nuisance value. I can see that the plan is to trick the mentally slow into paying their taxes twice, once through their withholdings and then again because their withholdings aren't acknowledged...but c'mon, now. The mentally slow don't do their own taxes. This stupid-ass trick is a complete and total waste of everyone's time. Maybe it's too soon to be sure about my new method for superglue dopping, but I did the rough grinding on nearly half of the preforms in the picture up top -- and only one of them popped off the dop stick, a piece of Serpentine that was 1) rather fragile to begin with, and 2) isn't one of the stones where I put a small piece of tissue between the golf tee and the stone. I still don't quite grok what that tissue is supposed to do, but if it keeps the stone on the dop stick, I'll continue to use the trick. The Opal Machine had sprung a leak, so I did very little finishing yesterday. I did complete a tiny Malachite, but it wasn't very big to begin with and proved to have some hidden flaws inside, so it ended up even tinier than I wished. Bumpier, too, because I started to become concerned that I was about to sand away the entire stone. It did take a nice polish though. After DH came home and did a quick tune-up on the Opal Machine, I also did most of the work on two very fine Botswana Agate cabs. I've never cabbed Botswana before. Always afraid of ruining it, I suppose. I did a fat chocolate Botswana and a skinny white/gray that shows a wonderful "shadowing" pattern. They need a little more work, but I can already tell that they'll be spectacular. Not to brag on my own work or anything. These stones can take all the credit. I can tell that some of the Bloodstones will be jewelry-grade, too. Might finish some of them on the Opal Machine, instead of waiting to gather enough to fill a tumbler. All in all, sort of a gloomy day. Rain, rain, cold rain, although there was a spike of color where a male Northern Cardinal was sitting out on a bare tree branch to bathe in the rain. Pretty but brrrrrr! The news wasn't great about my sick relation, and this person had to start dialysis yesterday. Yeppers, that's your reward for decades of healthy eating, daily exercise, and following the doctor's orders to a tee -- some doctor gives you the wrong medicine and destroys your kidneys. Sigh. back - next All Rights Reserved, Copyright 2002-2017 by Elaine Radford