These are some little figurines that i keep at the table with me at all times.
There's a wizard, a zebra in a dress, a large penguin, a whale, a shark, a starfish, and Dan the crab. Sometimes there is a fish salt shaker.
Like most people, i tend to have moments of boredom. I consider these aquatic pals to be my Boredom-B-Gone. Except for the wizard. he's terrestrial. but he could be aquatic IF he wanted to be.
So these are three different stacks i have made over the past week. They're harder to stack than they may appear, but i'm so proud of them that i'm going to put them up online anyway despite the damage it could do to my already itsy-bitsy readership.

a classic balance on a cup and a med case. the shark and whale are missing from this one, but you can see the starfish balancing behind the zebra and Dan hanging off his arm.

a pyramid of sorts! look, i even signed the picture! Dan is, of course, the star here, taking center stack.

perhaps the most daring stack of all? This column took quite a while to build and stabilize. i feel really bad for the zebra. Hey, you can get a really cool look at the place mat i recently bought.
Wow, this post makes me look like a five-year-old.
i'm gunna go hide in my yurt.