Sep. 4th, 2025 09:19 pm

First Class

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Calvin the Dog went to his first puppy class today with Julie acting as his primary handler. Some progress was made there and tactics provided, so that was all good.

Then we got home and Calvin promptly peed on the floor once and pooped on the floor twice.

*sigh*

Win some, lose some.
Sep. 4th, 2025 06:34 pm

wheel wheel

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Taking a break from MUD coding.

Latest singles preparing for a 3-ply "leaf" yarn!



This one is also slated for Local Astronomer Knitter Friend. :)



This book has genuinely been my favorite read all YEAR. It's so engagingly written (I love technical/craft instructional books), wry moments of humor, but incredibly clear explanations of the engineering of a spinning wheel along with the MATH.
Sep. 4th, 2025 11:02 pm

Another Night, Another Moon

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Not quite full moon but a nice clear sky for London, so I dug out my trusty 500mm mirror lens and a 2X converter and put it onto my micro 4/3 camera, so effective magnification was about equivalent to 2000mm on full frame 35mm. At some point I really do need to sort out a tripod that I can use from my bedroom window, which is fairly high up, for this one the camera was resting on a pillow on the window sill and probably not completely motionless. This is uncropped and has not been edited in any way.



Larger versions here

https://www.flickr.com/photos/150868539@N02/54764983482/in/dateposted-public/

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The malevolent Hierarchs are dead. The only way to learn about them is archaeology. The only thing worse than archaeologists not finding the relics of evil sorcerers is finding relics of evil sorcerers.

Queen Demon (The Rising World, volume by Martha Wells
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Sep. 4th, 2025 02:11 am

reel WIP

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Music reel. :3 Thoughts/feedback welcome (although I'm still learning industry norms for composition/orchestration); I graduate in 2028 but figure I'd hit the learning curve accreting a reel starting now.

Note: it's the norm for people in composition/orchestration to have audio-only reels (unless, I suppose, you have some gigantic AAA-videogame or Star Wars-level movie credit you have permission to show off as a video clip!).
Sep. 3rd, 2025 09:51 pm

Two Down, One to Go

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I recorded replacement vocals for two of the three tracks for "Amy & Me" tonight, leaving one to go. Yay, me!

Recording the final track won't happen tomorrow night, because the priority mission is taking Calvin the Dog to his first puppy obedience training lesson. I have my fingers crossed, recognizing that no miracle will happen in one lesson. Right now, I just need the puppy to stop terrorizing my younger child...

One of the other things I did this evening was to remove the X-Touch Extender that refused to power up at all when I was in the studio on Monday and replace it with an open-box X-Touch Extender that arrived today. Happily, it has powered up correctly and is doing the things that a working piece of gear does.

I am still not sure what part inside the older piece of gear went wonky, but it is surely not something that I have time to look into right now, because I have an album to finish. :)
Sep. 3rd, 2025 07:53 am

Days of What

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I know I had something that I wanted to mention... Ah well.

It's honestly kinda nice that the work-week is half over already. Last night wasn't bad at all, either, just normal-busy with a few bits of bad timing. I ended up taking a few bits of a model kit (Starfall) in because while I don't mind gently reaming a single tight hole with my hobby knife now and then, fourteen of the same part is kind of pushing it for patience and safety. So I found an appropriate drill bit in the big box and just quietly took care of all of that between calls. ^^;;

I'm in a couple of gunpla discord servers and in one of them, a handful of people are basically playing tariff-chicken and reporting back. Current (and more research is needed) studies suggest that if a holy grail pops up on Suruga-ya in the $100-150 range, or an order around that amount is made, fees+tariffs pretty much negate the free shipping. Obnoxious but not horrific.

[community profile] bitesizedcleaning has their Annual September Stampede running right now. I haven't actually started on it, but I do want to give it a try. Flat surfaces... ^^;;

Oh, now I remember - I don't think I even mentioned this, but there was an anime convention last weekend a couple of towns away. I didn't go because it was a first year con, looked messy, and the single-day badges were something like $60. in this economy?! Anyway, some Youtuber guest of theirs was running a non-sanctioned predator sting and while a couple of people were arrested after being confronted, one of them was carrying a (completely legal) gun. I guess that while the police and con-ops were cooperative, they were also very much like 'uh, don't actually do this and we didn't think it'd be during con hours what the actual fuck'. So yeah I do not have words for how catastrophic that could have been and I am very glad I didn't go.
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a.k.a. I haven't had time to code anything yet lol.



cf. [personal profile] telophase's once-upon-a-time of sketch featuring BUSTY BLONDE CHERIS with her SPACE FERRET. (I still have the pic, [personal profile] telophase, not sure if I have permission to reshare or where there's a link? XD)
Sep. 3rd, 2025 10:23 am

Good news

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Both of Premee's cats have been found and returned.
Sep. 3rd, 2025 07:47 am

latest spinning WIP

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Sorry about the laundry in the background. Meanwhile, it's not even 8 a.m. and it's too hot already to stay outside. Nice sunny day means at least the laundry will dry quickly?!
Sep. 2nd, 2025 11:22 pm

Cubs Win!

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And the Cubs won tonight's game over the Braves by a final of 4-3.

When I stopped to use the toilet on the way out of the park, I left my open scorecard sitting on the shelf above the trough. The fellow next to me commented that it was an ugly scorecard in the sense that the Cubs had scored four runs in one inning and done essentially no hitting during the rest of the game. I allowed as to how this was true, but a win is a win. He agreed.
Sep. 2nd, 2025 09:48 pm

Clicky

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The grocery store had a small rack of clicker-style Sakura Gelly Roll pens; I immediately bought a pack. (I will probably buy more.) Of course, being very used to normal Gelly Rolls, I keep trying to yank the 'cap' off them. ^^;; I'll get used to it... (I hope.)

I am not entirely sure, but last night might've been the first time in my years that we didn't even get close to finishing shop start-up. It was bad. It was not personally terrible for me; I was busy but never overwhelmed. But overall, yeah, machines hate long weekends. Or, perhaps, also do not want to go back to work after them. ^^;;

Of my international Kickstarters/Crowdfunding, one just went 'oh fuck US shipping dunno what I'm gonna do but I'll let you know', one said that a few weeks back, and I've not heard a peep from the last that I can think of. (That one is a ways out, though.) At least two other int'l projects are launching this month. I don't know what options will even be. (I wouldn't blame the one smaller one for just excluding US backers altogether.)

I picked up a September Bingo card on [community profile] lyricaltitles. Much like last year, I expect the fun will be picking songs and I won't actually manage to write anything.
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Sep. 2nd, 2025 11:46 am

DIY loom weaving WIP

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I had some leftover of a single I'd spun and decided to be cheap and DIY a loom to explore weaving it in a smol format. Still in progress but this will be going to [personal profile] eller. :3







Cardboard, polyurethane clear coat (to stiffen it up a bit. I used an X-acto knife and Japanese push drill because I had them around.
Sep. 2nd, 2025 07:02 am

Dispatch from Vienna

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I haven't been writing much about Lisa's trip because parts of it were not that great, but as we head into the last couple of weeks, I'm happy to report that something has gone well. Lisa asked if I could get her a hotel reservation in Vienna, which is convenient to Munich. It turns out that IHG has two hotels in their Garner brand (relatively new brand, Europe only, and I think they're using it for their acquisition of existing hotels unlike the new-builds like Holiday Inn Express). After some study, I found that I could book a room at the Garner across the street from Vienna HBF for a lot fewer points than the ill-starred HIX in Lucerne. (IHG thankfully refunded me the points from that stay.) Lisa reports the hotel is nice — much nicer, including nicer staff, than that one in Switzerland. She's visiting a local railroad museum and other attractions, and sounds happy.

She may do one more trip before flying home in a couple of weeks. She has an ambition to visit the smallest country in the world that does not have a railway station — at least an active station attached to the rest of the adjacent railway network. We'll let you know if that turns out. Meanwhile, I'll leave you to puzzle over which country we're talking about.

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