WELL, THAT WAS FUN

This is not really pottery related but I will say it effected my ability to surf around, post and look at pots for a while starting last Friday. Though I will not mention the specifics, after a “scheduled update” one of the large anti-virus services that we have installed, everything on the computer just went haywire, the very definition of; “well, that was fun”. The problem was that we were signed out of all of our various accounts and couldn’t log back in, webpages would or wouldn’t load or reload depending on their mood and in this melee of swearing, desk pounding and resignation things just got worse. We did literally everything we could do to try to mitigate this issue including searching out viruses, malware, file corruptions, etc. and went so far as to reinstall the OS. Nothing solved the issue.       

After three days we threw in the towel and paid for a one-time incident support from our PC’s manufacturer. The appointed time arrived and of course because of our computer issues, making contact with the support technician became a Three Stooges routine through no fault on the techs end. He was polite, very knowledgeable and after assuming control of our PC started checking through just about every possible corner of the hardware and software and checked into the deepest oubliette, seemingly buried beneath the flotsam and jetsam of years of internet browsing and use. Since you read the beginning (?) of this post, you can probably surmise that it was not a file corruption, nor malware or virus, not a hardware issue either as we suspected but rather was the routine “scheduled update” from the anti-virus that threw havoc into our digital realm. With the help of the tech who reconfigured this and that, here and there, cleaned out places we didn’t know existed, the computer is now back to normal if that is a thing, having expended the third of its nine lives or is that just cats? 

As a way to tie this back to pottery, illustrated is a Ko-Mino mizusashi by Ando Hidetake. This is neither my photo or my pot and truthfully, in general it is a bit more formal than I prefer but this piece really works for me. The facets are just irregular enough and the neck/ mouth add some movement as well and the lid just looks like it is resting and waiting to be picked up. The lugs seem just right for this form and the contrast of the yellow toned glaze and the natural ash across the base just all work in tandem to create a rather attractive and appealing pot. Now I just need to figure out how to get it here.