Got my new Shofar today. Genuine antique kudu horn. It's gorgeous! It's side-drilled instead of end-cut, so it's much harder to blow, but I think I'm going to plug that with a dark epoxy and polish it up some, (it's completely in the raw- cleaned, but uncoated, undressed, and unpolished,) then cut a sounding end into it. I don't think it'll be ( Read more... )

So, found some tartan wool on e-bay for a steal of a bargain, and Shadow ordered it for me. It looks good, though it's not the colors I had hoped for. It's black on red, a variant of the Leslie family tartan. (Not that that matters, since family-related tartans is strictly 17th century and later anyhow, but it's fun to pay attention to it, anyway ( Read more... )

She rested while I showered, and when I came out, let me give her a bit more valerian and then even let me lay the heating pad across her hip without getting mad at me for messing with her! Then- I just looked back over to see her get up, climb the end table carefully as if to test her nerve endings, then back down, to curl up on the heater. So it ( Read more... )

I'm not really surprised, but it's still annoying. They're hassling me again. They sent me paperwork, and gave me a month to fill it out, but within a week, they were calling again to hassle me, and I told them that I had the paperwork, and they'd get it when I'd filled it out. Now they're calling me every damn day again. When they ask for me, I ( Read more... )

Woke up around 7:30am to the wife stomp-rushing about because she was running late. napped off and on until about 7:45, when Fiz slipped trying to jump up onto the pillow beside me. I thought only her pride was hurt, because she wandered off desultorily toward her litterbox. Dosed for another 10 minutes or so, and woke up to her returning to the ( Read more... )

My new drum just arrived, and I couldn't be happier! It's deep and rich, and solidly made, with an extremely high quality skin. (Admittedly, it's goat. The only calfskin drums I found were something like 44 inches across...) If I had realized they were selling instruments from Mideast Manufacturing, I would never have bought from them, and of ( Read more... )

at the generous request of HLS sylverstone, it appears I'll be attending An Tir's September Crown All Carte... Ergo, me, my instruments, and my tourney chest. No vehicle, no tent, no sleeping gear but for a cloak (and with luck by then, a kilt ( Read more... )

Moped around for several hours trying to commit myself to something- anything- constructiv-ish, and failed, all the while trying to think of some appropriate herbal remedy for my mope, and then suddenly it hit me. I needed: A HUUUUUUUUGE hug from Shadow, and massive mainlined chocolate. Hugs accomplished, and I've established a chocolate I.V. drip ( Read more... )

As my day passed and the inner drear worsened I came to realize the source: Horomones. Dammit. I hate horomones. Always muckin' with a girl. Realizing it doesn't especially help though, since I'm just as powerless to change the feelings, and they feel just as bad.

Dammit.

I sat down just now to apply a little judicious boot to the seat of my own pants. See, I just opened a fortune cookie, (mostly stale leftover of our last take out...) to read the following: "You will have good luck and overcome many hardships."

Now, optimist that I usually am, I should read that as: You have the strength and will to overcome the ( Read more... )