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Thursday, November 12th, 2009
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8:26 am - Settling in for winter
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Reclaiming. Using the fireplace for the first time this season, and I'm pretty sure we never got to it last season. Color-flaming Duraflame in there, and big handfuls of fireplace incense on top of it to cover up the chemical smell a bit. I have no idea why we have a case of these in the laundry room, but we seem to. Random mellow bits of my music collection coming out of the Zune dock, laundry in the machine, webwork on the laptop on the couch and a novel that I've been meaning to read for forever.
We haven't actually used the downstairs den much in the last while. It kind of ended up as a dump space for a bit, and the lighting isn't quite right and it took a good bit of work to make it useable and clear the six spare cats worth of hair down here left form when my old cat took over the space entirely for the year or two before she passed away.
I can't justify pouring myself a glass of wine at 8:30 in the morning. Maybe hot chocolate in a bit.
But in the meantime, flickering flames. I used to watch the Yule Log broadcast on WPIX every year at Christmas, the whole thing, hours and hours. My family thought it was weird because, well, I was staring at a fire on a TV screen for 4 hours, listening to recorded Christmas carols, and well, we were Jewish. But I was kind of an obsessive kid, and well, there's something about a fire. The current setup of the den means that the fire is being reflected right in the center of the dark screen of the television down here, the one I don't think I've turned on in months.
Is it crazy that I'm feeling at home in my home for the first time in forever? I think maybe it's a good sign for a productive winter.
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(7 stings | sting me! )
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| Monday, October 26th, 2009
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12:36 pm - Crowdsource shipping today
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All ordered decks will be shipping today, and hopefully will get to you in time for Samhain!
We did get a few extra decks, so if you'd still like one and didn't preorder, you can send $21.50($18 + $3.50 S/H) via PayPal to sales@makeincense.com, and I'll get one right out to you.
Enjoy!
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(1 sting | sting me! )
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| Sunday, October 18th, 2009
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9:34 pm - Trying to jump the posting hurdle
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![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) lediva and I went to see Bonerama, a New Orleans band with 3 trombones up front, at Sullivan Hall in the city on Friday night. Nicest crowd in a standing-only venue that I've been at in a very long time -- people pulled me up to the front because I was short, and my claustrophobia never kicked in because people were being really quite good at allowing personal space to each other. The band was selling their EP on a flash drive on a lanyard, which you could bring to additional shows and they would load more recordings of their live shows on it. lediva got her old mute signed. We got back to my place at 5 am.
Then I slept. A lot. lediva is a champion sleeper, but I usually can't manage to stay in bed much past 9 or so no matter how hard I try or how tired I am. I was shocked to wake up and see that my watch said 1:30. The rest of the family was at Furfright, but we just ate stuff and drank wine and went to the mall for a bit and played video games. I'm not sure if this was really needed or if I just kind of lost a day in there somewhere, but taking some downtime with lediva was probably a good thing. It's funny, when you have a long distance relationship and limited time together, and when you both like to be busy, it's tempting to just schedule and do a lot of stuff during visits. But sometimes it's really just nice and needed to be instead of to do, which doesn't always happen naturally in LDRs.
This week's got some webcoding I am kind of dreading and hopefully some oil blending on board. I got just enough beeswax out of my hive to make a few containers of solid perfume, and I've got a box of oils that I'd really like to spend some time going through. Some oils get better with time, and some...really don't. But I can't justify buying anything new right now.
I am not happy about the early snow. I went to check the beehive today, and the feeder was flowing faster than the bees wanted to go in there, so there was a pile of syrup-drowned bees inside. So sad.
It feels good to share a little of life here. I should remember to do that.
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(3 stings | sting me! )
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| Thursday, October 15th, 2009
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3:00 pm - Sythyry moving day
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I just finished putting together the new home for bard_bloom's slice of life World Tree drama, Sythyry's Vacation. If somehow you are reading me, but haven't checked out Sythyry yet, you really should.
Also, if anyone wants any work done on a WordPress setup for themselves, get in touch. I could use more freelance webwork. :)
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(sting me! )
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| Friday, October 9th, 2009
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8:16 am - Last day to preorder Crowdsource Tarot
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(Sorry to be so commerce-focused here lately. I'll get a personal post up again soon.)
I'm going to go ahead and place the order for the Crowdsource Tarot printing tonight, so if you were thinking of being part of it, please go ahead and send payment today. (Link below.)
We're not planning to print a lot of extra decks, so after today the price will go up to $18, and you'll probably have to pay the much higher shipping rate that Game Crafter charges for a single deck.
Thank you all for being part of this!
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Crowdsource Tarot - Dead Tree Version
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In order to make this work, give you the price we want on this, and get them in time to anyone else who does divination at Halloween, we're going to take paid preorders between now and October 9th. Each deck is $15 + $3 S/H within the US (If you are outside the US, drop me a line and we'll figure it out.) Please either click the button below, or send PayPal to sales@makeincense.com with the words “Crowdsource Tarot” in the title.
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(4 stings | sting me! )
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| Thursday, October 8th, 2009
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9:56 pm - Wanna sing more!
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Anybody know if there's any chance of getting 'Tis No Deceit to come to Intercon J, or barring that, to somewhere else that I could get to at some point?
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(1 sting | sting me! )
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| Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
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12:59 pm - Hey, old fen on my flist?
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Anyone know/have a plausible theory on the origins of the phrase "dead dog party"?
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(7 stings | sting me! )
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| Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
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9:51 am - Physical Crowdsource Tarot Available Now
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bard_bloom and I decided that we'd like a physical version of the Crowdsource Tarot, to use at our traditional Samhain divination sessions. So I went and found a way to get card decks done print-on-demand, and I put on my layoutcritter hat, and made something real and shuffleable that can be laid out on a table, thrown across the room, or whatever.
We just got the sample deck we made back and, well, it's kinda awesome. So we've decided to make this available to those of you who might enjoy it.
The 86 card deck has the descriptive texts, together with the upright and reversed meanings, on full color, laminated, poker-sized cards. The card colors correspond to the colors of the rainbow, which map to the chakras, which map to the extended version of the Maslow's Hierarchy, which map to the suits of the Crowdsource Tarot. The “Yes” card is the wonderful symmetrical design by chipuni, and the backs feature a detail from an abstract painting created by bard_bloom's grandmother.
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Crowdsource Tarot - Dead Tree Version
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In order to make this work, give you the price we want on this, and get them in time to anyone else who does divination at Halloween, we're going to take paid preorders between now and October 9th. Each deck is $15 + $3 S/H within the US (If you are outside the US, drop me a line and we'll figure it out.) Please either click the button below, or send PayPal to sales@makeincense.com with the words “Crowdsource Tarot” in the title.
Please feel free to pass this around. Thank you so much!
(ps As always, barter is possible and cool. I still need you to make the arrangements by October 9th, though.)
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(7 stings | sting me! )
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| Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
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11:35 pm - Advice from healer types, please?
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I've just removed my wedding band (yay, Windex method!) due to worry that my finger would swell after a bee stung me right below the spot the ring hit my finger. I got the stinger out quickly and the bite seems to be a non-issue. But my finger's really deformed from compression under where the ring was, since I had those rings sized down after I lost a lot of weight in 2001, and have since gained all of that weight and then a bit back.
I don't expect to be losing that weight again any time soon, so I'm going to go ahead have the ring resized. Any advice on speeding my finger along toward recovery so that I can get a good measurement for the resizing (and also have a finger that looks okay)?
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(3 stings | sting me! )
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| Thursday, September 24th, 2009
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10:49 pm - Boston Area Peoples!
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Going to be in town Saturday to see Never After. Anyone else I know going to be at that show?
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(4 stings | sting me! )
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