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Goodbye, my friend
I'm posting this here, despite being on Facebook more often. Facebook is the land of tiny status updates, and, honestly, this deserves more room ( Read more... ) -
Time to be crafty...
I've decided to replace the mobile altar (aka "the Porta-Pagan") that I had back in college. Essentially, a tall wooden box with reasonable storage space and some handles. (No carrying straps, but this will do.)
But now I need to decorate it...and I'm at a loss for what to do with it. I'm thinking of a dark green, with a black tree of life on the ( Read more... ) -
[Armor] Snagging my new materials
Dropped a note to my friend in Canada who works with the thermoplastic. For the heavy-duty LARP stuff, he uses the 1/4" stuff. ::sighs:: Naturally, it's the more expensive. By (go figure) a long shot ( Read more... ) -
[Armor] Dusting off the forge (so to speak)
After a several-year hiatus, I'm back to working on the samurai armor. I pulled out the boxes, dusted things off, and took a fresh look on things. Here's where things stand:
- Thigh plates (haidate): Completed. (Hurray!) I stitched on the last bits last night. I'll need to test it when the whole suit is complete to see if I need to add ( Read more... )
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Dear conservatives...
I've been reading a lot, and listening a lot, and I've reached the following conclusions:
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Writing: Snap, crackle, pop
One of the main character that I'm writing about has PTSD. I'd figured this for a while, and had been working the angle that this society doesn't really have a good way of handling this. Which is a problem, because it happens a lot for them ( Read more... ) -
Recert success
I got my first CPR/first aid certification almost 20 years ago. There's a lot of history involved in that. On the ambulances at 16, EMT 2 years later, recert just before leaving college, even a year dispatching as my first post-college job ( Read more... ) -
Weighing in on the TSA
I've flown a couple of times since 9/11 - from business day-trips to DC (TSA does *not* know how to handle RSA SecureID tokens) to days-long flights to Florida with 7 month-old in tow. I've been "lucky", in that I've been able to go through the regular metal detectors without too much problem. Others, not so much.
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Writing: Whodunit?
Or, perhaps accurately, howdunit ( Read more... ) -
Writing: Details
I'm going to need to set up an icon for this stuff, eventually ( Read more... )