Made my first rattan sword today. It reminded me an awful lot of Captain John, my first LARP character. As I recall, I sucked at sword making back then, too. That's a bit harsh; I did okay with this sword (although I still can't lay long piece of tape without it wrinkling like elephant hide). I need to add on the lanyard, but that's not hard to do ( Read more... )

So here's how it's going...

( Personal, read only if you want to. )

This one's tough for me, so bear with me, folks.

( Personal stuff. Skip if you want. )

Did anyone catch Kings on NBC last night? If not. WATCH. It is teh awesome. Reminds you that the Bible is really good literature independent of the God thing.

Watch for the bit where Samuel anoints the head of David with oil. It's really neat.

I really, really hate it here in Cleveland. I hate the cold, I hate being so far away from friends. I'm working as a furniture salesman for La-Z-Boy, which I'm grateful for because it's a good paying job that's not going anywhere, but seems light years away from my Zottiare L'Encroyable soul ( Read more... )

We've had 70 inches of the stuff since the beginning of January.

70 inches.

I hate snow.

I want to go home.

Great heavens!

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Two points per piece of footage you can identify. What an amazing fan job!

My car is working just fine - no broken seals or any such thing ( Read more... )

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As soon as I can, I'll post a picture of the other me...

So my car started belching huge amounts of smoke, and then stalled out.

From what I can gather, I suspect I'm looking at a broken gasket head.

I suspect the car is toast.

Yay.