dropped di home, and left for TBM, where i lamented the unfinished state of things, and picked up paper for today's printing, as well as a shovel, so i could dig my car out later; 7" of snow was forecast for today.
down towards screwball (via chai), i stopped on the way to meet up with john kinzie to drop off some bullhorn handlebars and di's new watecolor which he bought as a gift for his wife jennifer, and picked up from john some dianogah debris which was still at his house from when we used to practice there, years ago.
east on irving park to screwball, where i picked up four gallons of ink as the snow really started to come down. from there, i drove south on western ave to lake, and across to crosshair, where mat has his painting studio and new press. i loaded in the paper and ink, mat coated screens, and i set to editioning the dianogah prints mat made last week (partially as an exercise in getting his press set up).
mat went back and forth between burning screens and relocating the spray-out booth into an unused shower stall, a move which should have happened years ago.
mat's new press is great, bigger print area, more precise. very exciting.
we ran both colors on the spoon / sea & cake print, finishing around 4:30. i packed up quickly, and dropped mat near an EL stop, then took off north to try to get to TBM by 5:30 to meet john k for some drywalling.
on dempster, i stopped for another chai. when i arrived at TBM, i spilled the full hot chai all down my leg and the floor matt of the driver's side of the newly cleaned car. i was SO bummed out.
john arrived soon after, my mood improved, and we spent several hours installing drywall in the back office and the darkroom. by 9:30 i called quitting time, and we drove over to portillo's by old orchard for hot dogs.
left there at 11, it was super cold out, i went home, woke di up from sleeping on the couch, took her to bed. showered myself, and went to sleep.
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