Going forward is a matter of ordinariness. —Dogen Zenji

I just returned from part II of gocco class at sfcb. Teacher "Ivar" is a quirky duck and though he knows what he's doing and is definitely a gocco expert, his heart is surely not in teaching. Now that's no excuse for my lack of attention to detail as shown by my poor registration due to rough handling and time anxiety, but hey, it happens (to me often!). I'm frustrated by the registration process on the gocco, but I'm sure it's simply operator error and lack of patience. I should also lighten up since this is only my second attempt at gocco'ing. My first screen was missing the "s" in ordinariness, that sucked and the plausible explanation was that the registration guides were blocking the screen burn. After polling and determining that "ordinarines" was not an actual french word meaning "ordinary," I bought a third screen and re-burnt. I thank Ivar for giving me half price off the sfbc mark up. I wish I had had more time to re-ink and re-print all the sheets, but alas... If I were in my art barn studio I'd be up way past midnight wasting tons of ink and paper while searching for the perfectly registered print. It's probably for the better that I only had three hours. So what have I learned? That I should really take my time and focus on each print so the registration is perfect, otherwise why bother!? No new lesson there, just same old — same old. Attention to detail and clear focus are always the key qualities to a job well done. Too bad just having a good time doesn't make a perfect print.