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Almost packed

Thu, 21 May 2009 00:39:59 GMT

Almost packed for Sapphire Joust. Hope to see lots of folks there. :)

Sage sez HI.

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 23:28:40 GMT

One of our more patient bunnies wants to wish everyone a Happy Halloween!

See, learning can be fun . . .

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:46:25 GMT

Computer science with A&J.

Felt and word games

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 01:18:10 GMT

One of my all time favorite Muppet bits.

A good Catholic joke

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 18:37:10 GMT

At Church last night for a Knights of Columbus function and the following joke was told:

When the new church was built we had a problem with mice, not wanting to kill them they were trapped and taken a couple of miles down the road and released.
2 weeks later they were back.
So an exterminator was called, and he fixed some holes and access, trapped the mice and took them to the other side of the river and released them.
2 weeks later they were back.
At this point one of the parishioners recommended they be baptized as members of the Parish. That way, she said, there was a really good chance we would only come back for Easter and Christmas.
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The whole room just fell apart laughing.

Pennsic and such

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 11:16:07 GMT

Home again and unpacked and headlong into the real world again.
War was undoubtedly the best yet, mild weather and a full camp made for a very restful week even with the pavilion drama. (my period pavilion destroyed itself in storage which I didcovered late in the game.) The mundane tent I camped in did really well and didn't annoy me nearly as well as I thought it was going to. The CPAP worked without a hitch, as did the teen i hired to haul it to charge and back.
The big news is I have a new household, after years of hemming and hawing (mostly on my side) I was taken into Wulfguard this war. Very moving all round, hopefully someone will send the pics soon.

Work continues to be work, but its not as bad as it could be.
Planning has started for Defenders in the spring (with myself as autocrat) I'm thinking late April but I actually have to dig the calendar out and figure that soon.

sew sew sew

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 01:29:35 GMT

More about the 12 ft square hole in the garage ceiling and our plumbing problems later...

I had started a project at Sapphire and got quite a bit done... (the business card is for scale)

And I had to restart it.. Well I didn't HAVE to restart it I just did. I went from 18 count fabric to 22 count and the difference is amazing,

It will have a lot more of the pattern on it and will be smoother over all. And I did go get a nice scroll frame for it.. so it turns out it wasn't so bad to re-do it after all . I may even finish the first one eventually...

Look Martha... it's another post....

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:09:35 GMT

Made it through the holidays, much evil was done to my bloodsugar on Easter itself and now I am back off candy again. Lent on Atkins was no fun at all and I am happy to be getting back in the swing of it.

The new cat (as yet unphotographed) is beginning to blend into the household, she is very definitely a momma's kitty and has decided my hip is a great place to spend the night.

Working on my next few classes for the shire. Work itself is going well, if you are an Oracle whiz, Linux geek, or system accountant and would like to work in Kearneysville WV I need to hear from you, If you know Oracle Federal Financials I need to hear from you yesterday :) itjobswv.com

No word on the Prof Layton sequel (Other than its called 'Pandora's Box', but as soon as I know.. you will know. Ive seen the trailer (in Japanese) and it is a MUCH larger game than the first, but that is all I have .. for now.

My poor computer keeps chugging along, than you for the various offers of help, short version is it needs a new power supply and a new motherboard. If it can hang in there a little longer tiger will have a barebones sale and all will be well again.

Another test

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:38:12 GMT

Because I said I would

Tue, 07 Aug 2007 20:52:33 GMT

Q. Can you cook?
A.

Q. What was your dream growing up?
A.

Q. What talent do you wish you had?
A.

Q. If I bought you a drink what would it be?
A.

Q. Favorite vegetable?
A.

Q. What was the last book you read?
A.

Q. What zodiac sign are you ?
A.

Q. Any Tattoos and/or Piercings?
A.

Q. Worst Habit?
A.

Q. If you saw me walking down the street would you offer me a ride?
A.

Q. What is your favorite sport?
A.

Q. Pessimistic or Optimistic attitude?
A.

Q. What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me?
A.

Q. Worst thing to ever happen to you?
A.

Q. Tell me one weird fact about you:
A.

Q. Do you have any pets?
A.

Q. What if I showed up at your house unexpectedly?
A.

Q. What was your first impression of me?
A.

Q. Do you think clowns are scary?
A.

Q. If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be?
A.

Q. Would you be my crime partner or my conscience?
A.

Q. What color eyes do you have?
A.

Q. Ever been arrested?
A.

Q. Bottle or Draft?
A.

Q. If you won $10,000 dollars today, what would you do with it?
A.

Q. Would you date me?
A.

Q. What's your favorite place to hang out at?
A.

Q. Do you believe in ghosts?
A.

Q. Favorite thing to do in your spare time?
A.

Q. Do you swear a lot?
A.

Q. Biggest pet peeve?
A.

Q. In one word, how would you describe yourself?
A.

Q. Middle Name?
A.

Q. Will you repost this so I can fill it out and do the same?
A:

Sweet galoping fuck.

Sun, 19 Nov 2006 13:59:20 GMT

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/30704?semperex-search

I haven't seen the happy little penguin movie.. but if this is what folks are saying on day 2 this is going to get interesting.

And here I was worried about the teeth on the sea lion.

Sheesh

Sat, 18 Nov 2006 02:33:43 GMT

You are The Wheel of Fortune

Good fortune and happiness but sometimes a species of
intoxication with success

The Wheel of Fortune is all about big things, luck, change, fortune. Almost always good fortune. You are lucky in all things that you do and happy with the things that come to you. Be careful that success does not go to your head however. Sometimes luck can change.

What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out.

Showers and sorries

Sun, 15 Oct 2006 01:53:45 GMT

The shower went well .. but went from a 2 hour thing to a 7 hour thing, I'm sure it comes as no supprise to any of you that the food held out, the play doh held out, and the cake got oo-ed.

However I was supposed to talk to a few of y'all today and that didn't happen. Will shoot for tomorrow :)

Must pass out now.

Thu, 12 Oct 2006 01:15:05 GMT

Something has possessed Pooks to drag out the Muppett Show DVD's, so we are slowly working our way through them, and getting very nostalgic for the time when staying up late ment 8pm.

I have the attention span of a gnat these days.

Got a new guy at work, and last monday he brought in a DRAWER full of Halloween candy, which the crew went through like fire through wheat, and we filled it up again THIS week. So I have between 12 and 20 lbs of sugar, gummies and chocolate less than 10 feet away at all times. This for the record is a bad damn thing :)

Playing WOW again in some faint and unreasonable hope of making 60 by Nov 22. I do have some sick time but I really don't see that happening, but I am making better progress this time around.

Throwing a baby shower this weekend for one of our friends, and that has me ging in several directions at once, We are the baby's godparents, frightening a thought as that is.

House cleaning continues.

Paperwork for a home equity loan went in today.

In short nothing much hot and fancy going on today.

The Weekend

Tue, 03 Oct 2006 00:37:46 GMT

Friday:
Came home feeling miserable, laid on the couch, tried to coax the cat to snuggle and passed out. Woke up for 40 seconds to Pooks telling the cat "Mommy MUST be sick if shes on the couch" and passed out again, woke up about 9:30 stumbled through to the library, Pooks tells me I was out pretty hard and suggests I go hook up the machine and call it a week.

Saturday:
Pooks made gumbo, It's a several hour event, punctuated by several naps on my part. His Gumbo is GOOD, but I can only eat the chicken out of it, the rest is too hot. Had a conversation with my mom wher I told her I'd like to know the news from home in a bit more timely manner, (There have been 2 weddings and a family renuion this summer that I found out about after the fact) Whereupon she tells me my aunt had gall bladder surgery 2 weeks ago. We talked it out, she promised to keep me up to date, And I promised to write my grandparents real live "stamp and envelope" letters more often.

Sunday:
Watched most of the second season of Dr Who, did grocery shopping, talked to work for 2 hours and had a nice long talk with my sister.
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And speaking of real live letters, one of the sites I print stationary form has FINALLY been translated into english! (from Japanese). The site is Cannon's (even though I have an HP printer)

Some of my favorite envelopes:
http://dyn.c-ij.com/english/greetings/browsing.page?lang=en&cat1=envlet&cat2=env&page=5

Stationary:
http://dyn.c-ij.com/english/greetings/browsing.page?lang=en&cat1=envlet&cat2=let&page=6

There is also pages and pages of origami papers (nice for folding or small gifts under the crafts links.

I wanna see the curve!

Thu, 28 Sep 2006 00:31:46 GMT

How White and Nerdy Are You?

Hrm :(

But then again through a chain of geek seek involving super slo-motion and whois I got to have an email conversation with Bermuda Swartz today... so I should get extra credit for that :P

New Theme Song

Mon, 25 Sep 2006 02:27:58 GMT

83% of the people I know now have a new theme song.

(warning sound)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ2sI-8VOQw

My vacation

Tue, 05 Sep 2006 02:11:28 GMT

Well hell.

It looks like the race season may be exceptionally short this year. You will recall the transmission seized on the last lap at Beaver Run packing weekend of war. We brought the car home and wrestled the transmission out (eventually dropping it quite literally) cleaned one of the spares up to find its shifting works looked 'iffy' cleaned and wrestled in (with a lot of sweat and cussing) the second spare, finishing on Thursday. No love, car went on the track Saturday and in second qualifying burped, tried to sieze again and started to smell like something had caught fire and died in it. This smell is traced to the back axle where the drive shaft meshes with it in the 'pumpkin'... Sigh. So in the middle of getting this figured out one of the other racers comes by ...sniffing. We tell him we got to go home, tear apart the parts car and change out rear axles. He yanks a thumb over toward his camp space, a move, as it turns out that translates into "I have a spare over there you can use, a son to help wrestle it, the spare jack you are going to need, and enough good advice so that you will be done and back on tires in 40 minutes."
Which is all just lovely, bless folks who want to help, trouble is it wasn't the only problem .. car went back on track on Sunday and a couple laps in, burps again and Pooks (driving on a loaned rear end) pulls off and takes himself out of the race.
Some further consult and everyone decides its the pilot bearing (A deeply hidden piece of chicanery that nests in the back of the engine, and entails taking drive shaft, transmission and clutch off/apart to get too... and at this point we are spent and call the weekend done.
We race home shower and FLY to just make Church. We decide f-it the car can sit till Monday, go out to eat at Avanti (a story in itself), where I get Pook drunk, drive him home and put him to bed. Feh. We go back this morning and spent the rest of the day semi vegging and picking up the house.

I am so ready to go back to work so I can relax.

And now for my next trick...

Wed, 09 Aug 2006 00:42:07 GMT

Ok, it's official .. I've lost my mind :)

I have my next project lined up and it's a doozy. I want to do a podcast. An SCA podcast. Just a little one. I already have some folks lined up, and a few more that I want to line up (some of you just found out ;) ) (and if anyone wants to volunteer, way cool)

And I finally got the domain, not the one I wanted but a close second. digitalfireside.com (there is nothing there yet) I've been working myself up to starting for a couple of weeks now, And I figured It's time to say something for a couple of reasons... the first being Pennsic is a great place to find stories, and the second being someone else is about 40 minutes from coming up with the same idea. :)

Here is the nickel tour:

8 weeks of once a week shows with stories, myth, history and humor(and music)from the SCA. I HOPE to get folks to recorded telling their own stories and what not, but will take mailed in recordings as well. (I'm also playing with the idea of recording over the phone, but that kind of one on one just sounds different).

Simple as that huh? If it goes well the 8 weeks could get extended, and I hope to have everything together to start posting in October.

I'd love feedback on the idea, ideas to make it work, suggestions on folks to tap, ways to get word out that anyone is welcome ..tapped or not etc. And if anyone has experience doing this kind of thing all the better :) Next on my list is getting some kind of release written up.

digitalfireside@gmail.com is live currently, and the web page should be up either during or right after Pennsic. As I said there is nothing to subscribe to yet, but when there is the domain will still get folks there.

No real content here.

Fri, 04 Aug 2006 01:09:21 GMT

From the folks at Nodwick.com

You really need to look here: (kiss the next 15 min or so goodbye)

http://www.llbbl.com/data/RPG-motivational/page_01.htm

And then Here: (super bubbly pop music with corsets)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?mode=related&search=&v=MGayqBinatw

And here: (really blinky Wierd AL)

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/horoscope

Sleep study

Fri, 02 Jun 2006 02:02:48 GMT

Well after years of snoring thrashing and generally not sleeping I went for a sleep study last night.

My apologies to every single one of you (and most everyone that reads this qualifies) that has slept near me or tried to sleep near me or tried to do ANYTHING with me sleeping in the general area.

I will know more once I get the official report from the dr but the tech that ran the test seems EXTREMELY certain that I was going to be on a cpap device "real soon now."

Updates as available.

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Random bits

Sat, 29 Apr 2006 00:53:26 GMT

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Tax returns finally came in .. so the breathing can recommence :)

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Domestic day

Sat, 15 Apr 2006 12:19:50 GMT

Today I get to play domestic.. and Easter domestic at that. I have real eggs to boil and dye, pasunkey to locate and put out. 3 dozen or so jigglers to make, lord knows how many bunny and ducky cookies to bake/decorate. And god help me im trying sugar eggs again this year (Since I had such good luck with the gingerbread houses).

And somewhere in all that I need to buy a ham :) Gonna be a fun day.

So if im off work .. why am I still on the computer?

Tue, 11 Apr 2006 17:09:21 GMT

1. Do you still talk to the person you had your first kiss with?
Nope, not in years. Wouldnt have a clue where to even find him.

2. What would you do with 1,000 plastic spoons?
Give them to the women's club for the friday soup suppers.

3. What did you do when you were in school in the 2nd grade?
I was very hyper about my penmanship... I got over it.

4. What is the best thing about your job?
It pays money.

5. Do you have a crush on more than one person right now?
Yup.

6. Are you against same sex marriage?
No, If you can find someone to cling to and give you peace, by all means do it.

7. Did you vote for Bush?
Nope

8. Where are you going on your next vacation?
Va Beach maybe.

9. Have you kissed any of your LJ friends?
Yup.

10. Are most of your friends guys or girls?
Mostly girls

11. Do you own any furniture from Ikea?
No, but I have a FUCK of a lot of the Walmart pressboard stuff.

12. Last book you read?
The Time Travellers Wife (And a fine book it is)

13. If you could have one super power what would it be?
Teleport.

14. Where have you lived most of your life?
Kentucky

15. What was the last convo you had about?
About buying a locksmith business (Him not me)

16. Where do you see yourself in four years?
Happier.

17. What's your favorite smell?
Iris and Chypre.

18. What is your favorite sound?
Rain on canvas.

19. Are you moody?
Yup, it gets way worse whenI dont sleep enough.

20. Favorite movie of all time?
Jaws, still.

21. Have you ever gone to therapy?
In and out since I was about 11, it only really helped once.

22. Have you ever played Spin the Bottle?
No

23. Have you ever toilet papered someone's house?
Nope

24. Have you ever liked someone and not told them?
Lots

25. Have you ever gone camping?
Semi constantly between the SCA and the SCCA.

26. Have you ever had a crush on your sibling's friend?
Only once.

27. Have you ever gone to a nude beach?
no

28. Have you ever gone streaking?
no

29. Have you ever had a stalker?
Yes

30. Have you ever gone skinny dipping?
yes

31. Have you ever laughed so hard you cried?
Lots of times, feels great.

32. Have you ever gone to a party where you were the only one who was sober?
Yep, thrown a couple that way too.

33. Have you ever been in love?
Yes, have been, am now, and very likely will be again in the future.

34. Have you ever felt betrayed by your best friend?
Yep, we got through it.

35. Have you ever lied to your parents?
yep, i think after a point you have to.

36. Have you ever been out of the country?
Nope, maybe Canada this summer.

37. Have you ever thrown up from working out?
yep

38. Have you ever gotten a haircut so bad that you wore a hat for a month straight?
No, but i got one in college so drastic my mom didn't know me.

39. Have you ever eaten 3 meals from 3 different fast food places in 1 day?
yep, more than I sould.

40. Last song you listened to?
Love song, Loggins and Mecenia (sp)

41. Have you ever spied on someone?
yes

42. Have you ever slept with one of your coworkers?
Yep, married him too.

43. Have you ever seen your best friend naked?
Yep.

44. Who was the last person who called you?
Co worker, saying he was gonna be late.. which accomplished nothing cause im not there today.

45. When was the last time you slept for more then 12 hours?
Last year after the car wreck and the concussion, and it was closer to 30.

46. Have you ever been arrested?
Nope, but I've been 'escorted' home a couple of times.

47. Most embarrassing CD you own?
Toss up between the 'Hampster dance" and "Its a sunshine day" (brady bunch kids singing.)

48. Have you ever stolen anything?
Yep. Mostly with good reason and at least twice by accident.

49. Have you ever had surgery?
Yes, Back surgery, and a rather large breast biopsy they had to put me under for.

Not working

Tue, 11 Apr 2006 13:33:38 GMT

Off work today to goto the Dr with Hubby.. wish us luck.

My Dr appt was last night, one blood test turned into several and at long last, I'm going for the sleep study to see why I

1) snore like a moose with consumption
2) Don't breathe with any pattern when I sleep and
3) Why for I tend to stop breathing a dozen or so times a night.

Plus liver, colesterol, and thyroid tests.. fegh.. more news on that later.

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In other news is this link:

http://www.turnyourhead.com/

Im SOO pissed I didn't think of it, and REALLY pissed I don't own a lathe and the skillset...this is a damn cool idea. It really does need to be a cup. Expensive tho.. must be a way around that.. harrumph.