Hands of a sturgeon

[ksmith]

A few years ago, I bought a jigsaw crab figure from an artist at Wiscon. It's a neat-looking work, but you have to be careful because pieces could easily slide out of place and then you'd be left with a pile of, well, pieces.

So there it was, standing atop a CD container, which in turn sits atop my file cabinet in my office. This cabinet is pretty firmly ensconced in a corner, hard by a bookcase. Nothing is going to be moving anytime soon.

So I'm hunting for my Cowboy Junkies CD with "Common Disaster", and check that particular CD case...which won't open and won't open...

...until I pull the door and it slams down, the shock of which sends the crab figure over backwards. Imagine the sound of the various pieces as they fly apart, bouncing off the back of the cabinet and the wall before scattering to the floor. Behind the cabinet. Hard by a bookcase. Which ain't going to be moving anytime soon.

I hate it when that happens.

Comments

[belasco.livejournal.com]

You remember the "puzzle rings" that were so popular about a decade ago? I got two of them, very nicely jumbled in my "old jewelery" box. I think about putting them back together every other year or so, but I seem to resist the impulse sucessfully.

[hoosier-red.livejournal.com]

This is one of those times when having a Reducto-Beam would so come in handy. . .

[pbray.livejournal.com]

:-(

Commiserations.

I have a jigsaw sea monster sculpture I bought a few years back at a con, probably from the same artist. It sits on top of my computer desk, and anytime the desk is jarred the teeth fall out. A hard bump and its Humpty-Dumpty time, though fortunately I've always managed to retrieve the pieces.

I've thought about simply gluing it together.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

I've thought about simply gluing it together.

The thought occurred to me After the Fall. Better late than never, I guess. I think glue is in plans.

I also have a small wolf made by this woman. The hind leg seems to work its way out from under no matter what I do.

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

I assuming this is the same artist who licensed the right to do tree-and-dragon cut-out sculptures. We cleverly have ours on top the old radio in the living room, where pieces can fall behind when a cat jumps up to Inspect -- which happens about once a quarter.

On the up-side, I've gotten real good at putting it back together.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Glue.

I figure that sometime over the long Labor Day weekend, I will be laboring to pick up the pieces. Uh-huh.