Bola de las gomitas milestone
So, the RBB flew right past golf ball size a couple of days ago. Lately I’ve been telling myself that I’ll stop adding rubber bands when it gets roughly baseball-sized. At the moment, however, I’m trying to pause to admire and play with it the way it is, which is still rather smaller than a baseball. It’s about a couple inches in diameter - call it something like raquetball-sized. Somewhere just after the golf ball stage, it started to get noticeably more bouncey. At its present size it feels really good in my hand, as is fun as anything to chuck around and bounce off stuff.
So I’m thinking I’ll go back to adding more rubber bands after awhile, but I’d like to hang out with it like it is for about a week or so. The thing is, it’s surprisingly difficult to curb the impulse to add more rubber bands. I tried to limit myself yesterday by not bringing any rubber bands with me (I have a 1# bag from Staples at home), but ended up swiping a dozen or so from the office supply room and adding them to the ball. It’s weirdly addictive.
UPDATE: Sad to report, the RBB is experiencing some band snappage around the outside; I fear the last several bands added may have been stretched overly tight. I’ve had about three separate breakage incidents so far. The really irritating part is that each break has been to a band that’s still exposed to the surface, but partly covered over by other bands, making it very very difficult to remove the snapped band (especially without risking damage to other outer bands in the process. And I certainly can’t consider just leaving them in, not with their icky dangling loose ends. Oh, no.
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