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Ars Memoriae, Beth Bernobich
I received this book back in February as part of its tour, read it promptly, and lost it under the pile of stuff on my desk. Not too hard to do with a slim volume like that, but it deserved better.
Ars Memoriae is set in the same world as Beth's Asimov's story, "A Flight of Numbers Fantastique Strange," with Ireland as the power that came out on ( Read more... ) -
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First of all, refreshed the tessen icon with a picture of the most recent batch, of which I now have only two left.
I guess I need to get some more started!
iai - Great class this week in that I'm feeling connected through my cuts more often than not, though it seems to be doing some funny things outwardly. It'll even out ( Read more... ) -
Spring
I practiced outside yesterday ( Read more... ) -
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So far I've sold and shipped two tessen, and I have an order for one naginata. I've also got serious inquiries about 3 naginata and 2 kodachi. And a standing order for a purpleheart bokken, when I get some purpleheart in, and another tessen.
Here are the all the tessen I had on-hand on Wednesday.
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"So, what is the thing I'm doing called?"
I've been neglectful of my LJ in regards to the weapons-making career for which I am apparently destined. Facebook* is just too easy to update, and going through the extra steps to post something here at times is just too much. I'm lazy ( Read more... ) -
Full Circle
I was at work yesterday cruising through some easy repairs, about to dig into a probably-software thing, when C came back and said he was about to head to lunch and needed someone to take over-there was a customer who was in a domestic violence situation and whoever went needed to be prepared to spend some extended time ( Read more... ) -
Kagami Biraki
This evening I need to think and jot down many notes from practice yesterday and today.
I'm a very, very happy Buckaroo.
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Today I am leafing through my brand-new copy of the catalog from the Metropolitan Museum exhibit, Art of the Samurai. As I doubt I'll get back there before the exhibit closes in a few weeks, it's the only way for me to see the other items that rotated in after my visit early on.
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Likely Screwed
I am hoping to cajole Mother Nature into easing the storm just East and early, so as to give me a clearish, if roundabout path to NJ tomorrow. It's not looking good. If tomorrow's training is scratched, that sticks me with four whole weeks between sessions, which is not really a thought I want to entertain right now. As in, full-on denial not- ( Read more... ) -
Bad News for Mr. Kitty
Something wasn't sitting right, so I googled "feline melanoma prognosis."
In contrast, all five fatal cases had neoplastic cells infiltrating the entire iris stroma and were seen in the blood vessels of the scleral venous plexus. These findings are consistent with the proposed route of metastasis, which is either by direct extension or by seeding ( Read more... )
