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14-07-2009
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At 11:41 am, - arghfhh:
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WTF
COVERED IN ANTS
WHERE ARE THEY COMING FROM
EPIC WAGON TRAIN OF ANTS BETWEEN A SPOT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE BATHROOM FLOOR AND THE CAT FOOD DISH IN THE KITCHEN
WTF???!!!!
current mood:  distressed
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(6 wanderers | Vade mecum)
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07-07-2009
02-07-2009
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At 6:12 pm,:
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unrelated things
1. The phrase "a tall drink of water" -- I think I've mostly heard this used about men, but when I googled it the results I got were mostly referring to women. Anyone have any enecdotal evidence?
2. I decided to participate in ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) startrekbigbang. I'm not really sure if that's a good idea or not. I mean, it seems like fun, but I'm not a big fan art person, and my drawings of star trek characters (save those in snippet style) have been pretty bad so far. On the other hand, I haven't been drawing at all lately, and I have to make myself get back to it somehow. I'm sorta concerned for a couple of other reasons, the first being that there are about 3 times as many writers as illustrators signed up (I actually went through and counted how many in the art post were just doing mixes) and the second being that I don't draw straight up porn. I mean, with 15,000 words there's bound to be something else to draw, but I don't want to disappoint the author.
3. I have like 4 or 5 pieces of knitting that I need to photograph but I just haven't been in the mood. When it's hot outside, taking things outside to take pictures seems like SO MUCH WORK.
Maybe I'll scan and post some crappy ass drawings later. Maybe. Jeff and I might be going to a show tonight. I'm clearly ambivalent.
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(7 wanderers | Vade mecum)
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05-06-2009
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At 4:37 pm, - 2-fer:
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Yeah why not
Kerussk pointed out the last one should say "ghost ride the ship" and not "ghost ride the whip." True. Clearly I burned up all my brilliance on "rock out with your spock out" which at least one other person has said anyway.
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(1 wanderer | Vade mecum)
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03-06-2009
02-06-2009
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At 8:26 pm,:
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My sister is trying to talk me into drawing someone ghost riding the enterprise.... probably sulu.
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(4 wanderers | Vade mecum)
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At 5:12 pm,:
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My sister and I are having too much fun with new star trek. I want you to know that she made me use reference for the enterprise because my drawing wasn't good enough. SRSLY
eta: My mom pointed out spock should have been doing his live long and prosper sign. As we used to say back in 1995... DER-HAY!
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(3 wanderers | Vade mecum)
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01-06-2009
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At 11:40 pm,:
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... ok, I also drew Uhura and Chekov, but they're not dancing.
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(Vade mecum)
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06-05-2009
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At 10:44 am, - a boombox is not a toy:
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Been having a rash of strange dreams recently... in one of them ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) trwhiplash was making an eel and ketchup casserole and would NOT shut up about it. But for the past week or so I've been having dreams about losing hair. ( Read more... )
I included this picture so this wouldn't just be a post rambling about my dreams (which, honestly, aren't that interesting.) Might as well complete this navelgazing with a little more: 1. I have been feeling shitty. Apparently ,when the guy in the ER told me I would feel bad for a few weeks, that meant the kidney stone would STILL BE PASSING. I had to take a vicodin one day last week and for the past few days this week I've just been feeling like complete ass. I'm tired of this crap. 2. I think I'm slowly getting my artistic drive back. I mean, it hasn't been gone, I've just been into spinning and photography, but the urge to draw is slowly coming back.
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(5 wanderers | Vade mecum)
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04-05-2009
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At 3:41 pm, - this is a cautionary tale:
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So you know how I went to the ER for that kidney stone a while ago?
The hospital bill is like more than $6,000 plus the doctor's bill and a couple other things that are still pending. Because of the insurance, that 6k bill is like $700.
Ok, so I don't have the world's best insurance-- my mom has WAY better insurance. But this ER visit could easily have cost me like $7500
Moral of the story is, if you don't have health insurance, it's kinda worth it. Even the dinky ass insurance that I am currently paying for.
current mood: holy shit
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(5 wanderers | Vade mecum)
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30-04-2009
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At 10:18 am,:
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I'm about a million miles away at the moment so I'll keep this short. Here is a yarn. Check out the original size on flickr, I think yarn that close up is really cool looking. It will also show you why Amy thinks this yarn feels like steel wool.
If I weren't completely out of it I probably would have thought to put a coin in for scale but I didn't so...whatever.
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(Vade mecum)
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27-04-2009
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At 2:00 pm,:
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I haven't posted recently, but I've had a lame couple of weeks.* Last sunday I went to the ER with insane abdominal pain that I was CONVINCED was appendicitis...turns out it was a kidney stone. After that I felt sorry for myself and spent the week playing Sims 2 (yes, I realize I'm about 10 years behind the times with this one.) Now I am working on updating my website. Read: Combing through old stuff to do the 2005, 2006, 2007-2008 pages and feeling sorry for myself, so it will probably be a while before an actual update occurs. I also want to prune down the comics page again** and make a layout for funsize that isn't terrible and UPDATE FUNSIZE but in order to do that I need to draw something....
yep.
*Except I did work a decent amount. MONEY
**I have some conflicting feelings about this. I've sort of prided myself on my website being a more or less complete archive of stuff I've posted on it, to the extent that there's a small page of drawings from 1998 and some REALLY old comics. But that stuff is so old it's just bad. I half want to get rid of it and half want to leave it.
What'll probably end up happening is I'll get rid of most of the stuff on the comics page and leave funsize and the best of page alone.
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(2 wanderers | Vade mecum)
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16-04-2009
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At 4:57 pm, - Picture 339:
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I finally brought home and took pictures of the first thing I made in weaving class. Ok, first and ONLY so far... anyway, this was done like 3 weeks ago, but I had to cut it off the loom, then I left it at class and it was spring break, etc...
Mistakes and all, more kinda bad photos on flickr. Because of the white I was lame with the white balance and some of the pictures are dark.
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(2 wanderers | Vade mecum)
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14-04-2009
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At 2:38 pm, - this post is for my sister:
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 Well, I kind of dropped the ball on the updates for this onion thing. Anyway, all I've done since last time is continue to forget about it. I washed and rinsed the samples then set them out to dry. The merino fleece I took out right away, the other stuff....I forgot about until last night. It's still not dry. It's sitting out back getting tree crap in it as I type. The merino sample that sat in the oven is the most successful, though, so here are some pictures. I'll probably eventually do a followup with the other samples which started out darker (ecru, fawn, and brown) and probably won't show much of a change without side by side comparison, if at all.
I don't think the samples are any worse for the wear for sitting out wet for a couple of weeks, but they have accumulated a certain amount of tree crap from sitting in the backyard.
HOW MUCH CAN I YAP ABOUT NOTHING? Long story short: MISSION ACCOMPLISHED, OK?
I was hoping for a better result than last time, and I got it. The pictured example is the roving that actually went in the oven.
So clearly the key is not to just let it sit in the sun, it has to get warmer than that. I bet summer sunshine and a simple solar cooker setup would work. Or a crock pot. Check out that strange orange color! There are little bits of REALLY orange color that I thought were, like, onion crap... but I think the dye must have gotten low in the jar and accumulated in those places, or something. I have no idea. I am not scientific. Compare with this sample which is the exact same wool except I didn't put it in the oven, and it was in a jar with something else... the ecru roving, I think. Much duller color, pretty boring. See the white peeking out behind it, though? That's the original fleece color. So the dye really did work -- it's just not very thrilling.
Although perhaps grammaravenger is thrilled. She really wanted more onion posts.
As a photographic aside -- the dime isn't there for scale, it's because it's really difficult to focus on the merino fleece. I kind of want to get a crazy macro lens for taking yarn pictures. How unnecessary/excellent would THAT be? Someday.
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(Vade mecum)
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12-04-2009
09-04-2009
07-04-2009
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At 1:49 pm, - Picture 066:
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Sup. Here's some yarn. (Left: plied border leicester, right: singles romney.)
Also, there are a couple more onion photos. I sort of left the jars out in the sun and forgot about them. The onionskin marinating jar got knocked over and I didn't top them up so they all got pretty low and one of them has this sticky black goop on it (must be dried up onion crunge is all I can think of.) So, I decided the experiment was over and now I'm washing the onion stickiness out of the wool. Final dried photos and thoughts in another few days probably.
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(Vade mecum)
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01-04-2009
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At 2:18 pm, - Picture 055:
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I'm doing another onion skin dying experiment.
This time, with the help of jigofspite, I collected a bowl full of onion skins (me: red onions, amy: mostly white) and for the last day or so I have been soaking the onion skins in hot water to get the color out. I INVITE YOU ON MY JOURNEY OF ONIONY DISCOVERY!!! See the flickr set onion experiment for more thrilling info (including, surprisingly, photo captions and notes.)
Ok, this isn't a very scientific experiment. To begin with, I don't have very much vinegar left. Also, I was originally going to put all 4 jars in a shallow pan and stick them in the oven, but these 3 are too tall for me to feel comfortable putting them in the oven without taking out the oven rack, and at that point the oven was already hot (I made chicken nuggets for lunch) and didn't wanna. So, the dye water was hot from being microwaved to begin with, so I set these out in the sun and there's an additional small mayonnaise jar of merino in the oven-- I took a picture, but you can't even SEE the wool in the picture. (A good sign?)
My plan is to let these sit for a while and top them up with the leftover onion juice (it smells) until I get bored and/or momslice can't stand my funny business anymore.
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