In This Issue

* While the Smoke Clears – Labor Day & Hard Drive Crash
* Copper and Crackle
* Piepenburg Patina - Which Recipe is Correct?
* When in Japan...
* Wet Blanket or just call the Fire Department
* Raku Links
* Workshops - Arizona 
* Pottery Business Available - Utah
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* While the Smoke Clears *

Hello All, 

I hope you enjoyed the Labor Day Holiday (at least all my 
US subscribers). This definitely marked the end of summer 
in my neck of the woods. The weather almost immediately 
turned cool and windy which makes it much nicer to Raku.

One of the reasons this newsletter is a little later than 
usual is I had a hard drive crash. Well not so much a 
crash as a slow death. I started getting "blue screens" in 
Windows that mentioned errors accessing memory or disk 
addresses. Not good. I quickly start migrating files to 
CD before I had a complete failure. In the mean time I 
also started searching for the best deal on another laptop, 
I figured the hard drive was just the first thing to go 
wrong. I have two young boys which has lead to my old 
laptop being dropped a couple of times while running. Need 
I say any more?

Well I did find a new machine at a good price and set about 
the two or three-day task of installing software and 
restoring backed up files. Thankfully I'm almost back to 
normal now (or at least my PC is)

So here's a reminder for you all.

Back up your files!

I was lucky. If my hard drive had died quickly instead of 
its slow death I would have been in a world of hurt.

As always, I look forward to your feedback, suggestions, 
questions, and article ideas at: editor@garyrferguson.com 

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"I must thank you for all the great recipes. I was a bit 
stuck for new recipes. I'll be here for thirty years 
trying all these out." - Simon D. http://www.rakuglazes.com