I've had a lot in my head, but not necessarily been writing stuff down, so let's see how this goes. This is a post driven by the notion that I've not posted in a while.
Work-
Baby-
He's great!
So:
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On the subject of images, my day 2 back at work has been occupied primarily with my backlog of sorting and renaming my digital pics dating back to 2006 when I got my first digital camera and immediately stopped using regular film. I have always intended to make hard copy, but I also am not interested in copying every last little one, as such. Now I can use Snapfish to create the whole finished album with all the captions n' all. I'm setting up a folder in each year's folder that has best of best. My naming structure automatically puts them in chronological order, taking away half the work later. (90% of the information in here is crazy obvious for anyone who has spent more than 5 minutes around me, I realize- the archivist is acting archivey at her historical narrative!)
Similarly to the cobbler's shoeless children, I find doing this work to be a low priority when I'm at home. Once I'm into it, I'm hyper-focused until there's nothing left to sort. That usually means being forced to be in one room for an extended period of time. Therefore this sort of thing happens when I'm traveling, when I was stuck in the hospital I did a lot- and occasionally at work. Since I'm stuck without a regular project until we have everyone back in the office (tomorrow), today was tailor-made for this activity.
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lifecollage came for lunch, which was excellent. We crammed about 2 hours of conversation into 45 minutes. Having our occasional lunches means the world to me, so being able to have that back is a serious plus to being back in the office. My inbox is already sorted. I didn't really have anything major waiting for me like I would have if I was just gone on vacation for a week or so. quiet_elegance is still working on finding his next gig, which may be complicated by the bit where there's a holiday next week. He's having a somewhat hard time dealing with the grind of constantly being under-employed. Except when he's not. There have been a few weeks where he worked a full week with some overtime, then went to teach out in Millbury 4 nights of that week. It will be OK, but not yet. In the meantime, he's focused on a quick gig for ahf and caulay. That will roll into supplies for mzkero's project, which is the basis of our carpentry/kid care swap, so kind of really important. 
purple_terror 's present to quiet_elegance this year : a new snow blower. It seemed good tactics to give it to him last night. Once I clear it with q_e, I may be trying to find a new home for a fixer-uper smaller snow blower. More details on that later. quiet_elegance has been in Las Vegas for a union conference-y thing since Thursday. He doesn't do a lot of travel and even less on his own. I think the last trip he did solo was when his grandmother died and I couldn't go to the funeral. I, being a creature of habit and patterns, am not used to this sensation of him being gone. I am usually the one gone. It's very different. Next time, I'll make sure he packs the phone charger, as not getting to have a sedate conversation with him has been heightening the weird. Yesterday was technically his birthday. Not that he celebrates it in December any more - as I may have mentioned in previous years. He chooses to do so in June when it's grilling season and his nearest and dearest can manage better an actual birthday present that's not lumped or diminished by Christmas. He picked this trick up from my Dad who just hated December that much the year he turned 39. So, he was 39 for 3 months.evila and shut_it_already yesterday evening. I'm doing some custom work for Mz. SIA, so she pointed to beads at Michael's. I ended up spending 3/4 of my meagre Christmas bonus. But, I have the prospect of several sales in the next 2 weeks. I got caught up in the fantastic options they have in "forged" and "natural" metal findings that I want to use for steam punk projects. I got a hideously designed cameo that I can use as the base of another mold for more elegant and steampunky works. Hee! Still no luck getting size 0 circular needles, though. I have to go to a knit-specific shop for that, but I am lazy. It can wait. rintrahroars pings and requests a set thanks to the Mall of Shadesong, then shut_it_already makes some requests for some tins and some custom jewelry. I brought in jewelry to my gym and traded with the owner for one month free pass. He also suggested I bring in some stuff to sell in the front hall for these last days before Christmas, which I will run home and set up to bring in for tomorrow. Rain ->pour = happy crafter.shadesong link above. 
drwex for taking on the camera work caulay and I went to hear them at Club Passim tonight. We ended up sitting with an acquaintance and her companion by complete serendipity. Still quite lovely, although the opening act did little to nothing for me. They'll be back on Oct. 4 (a Sunday) for their CD release party. That disk will be purchased, but unlikely for me to attend. ![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
quiet_elegance made in couch form and find enouch cushioning to make it habitable, so it could easily be a secondary movie watching venue (yay laptops) or craft space, etc. Like I said: habitable. The thing of it all, is that in order to share my plan properly, I'd need diagrams, which I don't have in this medium. But I suspect really few people beyond me care enough, so we can assume smiling and nodding is happening, and I'm cool with that. 
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