May. 24th, 2010 10:37 am
Home again: scattered brain sort of post
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mizarchivistThis gets a bit long.
Trip to Ohio: A success. Inevitably they always feel a bit too short, but at least the experience was high quality. There were some decent pictures taken. I will deal with that later. Saturday's party was fun. I understand why Mom wanted me to go. She wanted me to experience fun with her fiends, as I do when she visits me. There were some fun people there, lots of food and music. The hosts' back yard: totally amazing- Japanese zen garden with koi pond. With koi. Lots! I spent the whole time with my friend Dale who met us there. Now normally at a party, I wander and don't really talk to just one person for the whole night. Not to say the two of us didn't talk to people together-- but it was the only time I had with him for the trip.
Paging the iPod Doctor. Dad ended up killing my only partially useful ipod, but supplied me with a fully functioning one before I left. It was very Dr. Frankenstein, really. I wholly spaced on synching it up yesterday, so I thought I'd set it up before I left this morning, except I was an idiot, didn't set my alarm and Matt woke me up 15 min. after I was supposed to be up already. Nevertheless, I set it up only to find that itunes thinks I want to put more than 30 gig on there. Now, I was brushing the upper limit on the previous machine, but I could do it. So I suspect it's trying to include unselected tracks. Maybe. To be determined this evening if I'm lucky.
Observations on books and reading: I admit that when I'm at home, I'm usually too distracted by Other Stuff (chores, craftiness, TV catch-up, gardening... you get the idea) to really just read. This is not such a problem visiting back home. I finished the latest for the (no longer Jane Austen) book club. As mentioned in earlier post comments: Skeletons at the Feast: the novelized retelling of a family that must go from Prussia/Poland to Western Germany at the end of WWII. There are Nazis. There are Russians. They kill anyone who doesn't kill them first. There are tales from the death camps. Almost everyone dies. I have to ask Karen why she thought this would be a good choice. "A little gruesome" doesn't remotely cover it. On the up side of finishing Skeletons, Mom let me borrow The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield. It starts off its 3rd person narrative with a young woman who's very bookish and lives/works in an antiquarian book shop. I wish I could figure out what decade its set. It would make it easier to visualize it all. I have the current timeline somewhere in the 1930s, possibly? Maybe a bit later. The flashbacks definitely feel pre-World Wars era. It's early yet- I may get a definitive clue. I like it so well I plan to suggest it to book club for our next.
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purple_terror and I rode all the way to the Bedford end of the Minuteman yesterday, then I finally figured out where one of the extensions is, headed towards Billerica. Who knew that path was so close to the Bedford Whole Foods! ... OK, many, and now us. That ended up being 12 miles. I did another 6 to Alewife this morning. Um, ow. I may take advantage of the bike rack on the bus home tonight.
Other bike. I think I may go to Diesel tomorrow. This means I can test out the fuel injector stuff before I give up and send the motorbike back to Galen. Is it really going to be 90 tomorrow? Oy.
Work. This marks the second week with the new assistant. He was playing it safe and inquiring if I wanted to regulate his tasks in some way. Nooo, not really. We're all responsible for getting our stuff done. It's just how we work. We mostly don't have much in the way of deadlines. At least now we have the documentation for him from now departed assistant.
Craft fair and art. Saturday! What do I do last night? Mess with skeletal cameos. The molds that I have really are horrid. They can't be soft/rubbery to transfer the sharp details. The two I made last night are... OK, but I know they can look so much better. However, in the time since I started looking in January- or last fall even? I have found a metric ton on Etsy. I will have a set if itty bitty ones in hair sticks plus an unmounted larger version plus a lot of cameo settings ... soon. Hopefully the settings before Friday so I can take them with me. It means I won't have much for this show, but if all goes according to plan, I'll catch wind of a future event while at the current one. Plus there's Arisia. And Etsy, although I feel bad adding my own skeletal cameos to the ones there considering my initial source for the mold. I justify to myself: My versions will not necessarily be like others'.
I say this (probably again): thank the godslifecollage is coming with me. Should be fun!
Future plans for art stuff- tea tin sized Tardis. I also will hopefully figure out pricing for standard sized Altoids tins. I have a crazy surplus. My ratio to making vs. selling needs to not be so uneven, for sure. I also have to figure out how to make the clearance work go away, hopefully find a plan for that before Saturday.
... right. work. things. Hi.
Trip to Ohio: A success. Inevitably they always feel a bit too short, but at least the experience was high quality. There were some decent pictures taken. I will deal with that later. Saturday's party was fun. I understand why Mom wanted me to go. She wanted me to experience fun with her fiends, as I do when she visits me. There were some fun people there, lots of food and music. The hosts' back yard: totally amazing- Japanese zen garden with koi pond. With koi. Lots! I spent the whole time with my friend Dale who met us there. Now normally at a party, I wander and don't really talk to just one person for the whole night. Not to say the two of us didn't talk to people together-- but it was the only time I had with him for the trip.
Paging the iPod Doctor. Dad ended up killing my only partially useful ipod, but supplied me with a fully functioning one before I left. It was very Dr. Frankenstein, really. I wholly spaced on synching it up yesterday, so I thought I'd set it up before I left this morning, except I was an idiot, didn't set my alarm and Matt woke me up 15 min. after I was supposed to be up already. Nevertheless, I set it up only to find that itunes thinks I want to put more than 30 gig on there. Now, I was brushing the upper limit on the previous machine, but I could do it. So I suspect it's trying to include unselected tracks. Maybe. To be determined this evening if I'm lucky.
Observations on books and reading: I admit that when I'm at home, I'm usually too distracted by Other Stuff (chores, craftiness, TV catch-up, gardening... you get the idea) to really just read. This is not such a problem visiting back home. I finished the latest for the (no longer Jane Austen) book club. As mentioned in earlier post comments: Skeletons at the Feast: the novelized retelling of a family that must go from Prussia/Poland to Western Germany at the end of WWII. There are Nazis. There are Russians. They kill anyone who doesn't kill them first. There are tales from the death camps. Almost everyone dies. I have to ask Karen why she thought this would be a good choice. "A little gruesome" doesn't remotely cover it. On the up side of finishing Skeletons, Mom let me borrow The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield. It starts off its 3rd person narrative with a young woman who's very bookish and lives/works in an antiquarian book shop. I wish I could figure out what decade its set. It would make it easier to visualize it all. I have the current timeline somewhere in the 1930s, possibly? Maybe a bit later. The flashbacks definitely feel pre-World Wars era. It's early yet- I may get a definitive clue. I like it so well I plan to suggest it to book club for our next.
Bike.
purple_terror and I rode all the way to the Bedford end of the Minuteman yesterday, then I finally figured out where one of the extensions is, headed towards Billerica. Who knew that path was so close to the Bedford Whole Foods! ... OK, many, and now us. That ended up being 12 miles. I did another 6 to Alewife this morning. Um, ow. I may take advantage of the bike rack on the bus home tonight. Other bike. I think I may go to Diesel tomorrow. This means I can test out the fuel injector stuff before I give up and send the motorbike back to Galen. Is it really going to be 90 tomorrow? Oy.
Work. This marks the second week with the new assistant. He was playing it safe and inquiring if I wanted to regulate his tasks in some way. Nooo, not really. We're all responsible for getting our stuff done. It's just how we work. We mostly don't have much in the way of deadlines. At least now we have the documentation for him from now departed assistant.
Craft fair and art. Saturday! What do I do last night? Mess with skeletal cameos. The molds that I have really are horrid. They can't be soft/rubbery to transfer the sharp details. The two I made last night are... OK, but I know they can look so much better. However, in the time since I started looking in January- or last fall even? I have found a metric ton on Etsy. I will have a set if itty bitty ones in hair sticks plus an unmounted larger version plus a lot of cameo settings ... soon. Hopefully the settings before Friday so I can take them with me. It means I won't have much for this show, but if all goes according to plan, I'll catch wind of a future event while at the current one. Plus there's Arisia. And Etsy, although I feel bad adding my own skeletal cameos to the ones there considering my initial source for the mold. I justify to myself: My versions will not necessarily be like others'.
I say this (probably again): thank the gods
lifecollage is coming with me. Should be fun!Future plans for art stuff- tea tin sized Tardis. I also will hopefully figure out pricing for standard sized Altoids tins. I have a crazy surplus. My ratio to making vs. selling needs to not be so uneven, for sure. I also have to figure out how to make the clearance work go away, hopefully find a plan for that before Saturday.
... right. work. things. Hi.
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Is it really going to be 90 tomorrow in Boston? I know it's supposed to be in the 80's here. Maybe it's a coastal effect that someplace so far north would be that much warmer?
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I heard rumor about the temp. I'm hoping it stays in the 80s.
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Tomorrow will definitely be an A/C on day.
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That is quite a lot going on