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| Friday, December 18th, 2009 |
brokenallbroken
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4:48p |
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| Thursday, December 17th, 2009 |
agoutirex
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9:09p |
And we're out like a light!
Leaving for parts foreign for the holidays, so I might not be around much for the next week. Happy holidays all you mooks! |
brokenallbroken
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8:43p |
Woo! Red wine! Now I have to wrap presents...this could be bad. Current Mood:  drunk |
shutaro
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6:44p |
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| Wednesday, December 16th, 2009 |
agoutirex
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7:02p |
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| Thursday, December 17th, 2009 |
cngsoft
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12:30a |
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| Wednesday, December 16th, 2009 |
edgyspice
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3:26p |
Dear self, moar sexy dreams about David Tennant, plz Yours, ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) edgyspice |
kayla_la
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3:05p |
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sonderjen
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3:55p |
Fucking ADS
I am so fucking tired of these goddamn Best Buy ads on Livejournal. I DON'T HAVE THE MONEY TO GIVE EVERYONE IN MY FAMILY A GODDAMN HD TV. |
kuniopt
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7:03p |
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brokenallbroken
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10:37a |
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wruf
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11:24a |
Oh my god, it's drizzling in Coventry! Wow! I can see it out of my window RIGHT NOW! Current Mood:  shocked |
| Tuesday, December 15th, 2009 |
brokenallbroken
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8:45p |
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kayla_la
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6:48p |
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| Monday, December 14th, 2009 |
atomicat
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11:46p |
 Passing along via jblaque: T hrough no fault of her own, hannahsarah is having a very tough time making ends meet this holiday season, and she and her young daughter are on the razor's edge of being evicted their apartment on the 18th if they can't make rent.
Unlike so many other needy (nonetheless worthy) folks on LJ, Hannah is not asking for any sort of hand-out to help her through this (although I'll be sending a small donation tonight, anyway), but if you guys can visit her online shop and take a look at her hand-crafted works, perhaps there's something there you'd like to buy for yourself, a loved one or a friend. You steampunkers will be especially interested in her work.Yeah, nice stuff! I love the mix of delicate machinery, brass ornamentation, and crystal. Procrastination! After this post I will get to those pictures. It's true of course, the more choices you have the harder it is to make a decision, and there are a lot of pics! That's good ones of course. Get rid of the good ones leaving only the great ones, there are still a lot and the choices are still hard. Tonight I'll concentrate on the practical technical side, getting the best stitches out of those pics from the 23'rd. They're the most promising I think for larger prints, but if there are any anomalies they will show! Not cheap running off large prints and a "Whups! Missed X" can be very costly! Changes! My bud Theo is separating from his wife for an undetermined while. Their lives, their business, but it's friendly and they're both working intelligently to make things happen in the best of ways. Now how rare is that these days! In any case he will be moving up north and staying there while things are sorted out both internal and external. I have to separate the bad and the good and take each for what it is. The good is that he will be up north with me and his last two visits have shown that we can both get a tremendous amount of creative work done in each others' company. I will take that and encapsulate it. It is it's own thing. |
| Sunday, December 13th, 2009 |
brokenallbroken
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1:36p |
FROG
It's so nice that Disney is making Disney movies again. That was...does Beauty and the Beast/Lion King/Little Mermaid count as Old School? It was NewOld School. We need to figure out about seeing Avatar next weekend. Current Mood:  happy |
| Saturday, December 12th, 2009 |
brokenallbroken
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8:35p |
Second load of laundry is in the dryer, laundry is folded, dishwasher is running, Travis' table routine > 1000x(Mandy's table routine), greenbirds says Raley's is on her way home from the bus stop, and O HAY GUYZ, I MADE A COOKING!! I did it the real cooking way too: I looked in the pantry, I looked in the freezer, and I put together some shit I thought would go well. No recipe. I think it would have been better if I had used something skinless or taken the skin off the thigh first. At the very least, that way the herbs would have touched the meat. But, it was edible and I got the chicken cooked all the way through (first time, no put-backs, HAH!). Now I must scrounge up dessert. Current Mood: pleasedCurrent Music: SYTYCD |
brokenallbroken
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6:50p |
Wot I dun todae
2 loads of laundry Shoveled driveway & walk showered What I did not do: Get dressed Fold laundry Watch more than two routines on this week's SYTYCD What I am doing now: worrying about needing to go grocery shopping & the snow is coming down hard again Not great, but not bad. Especially considering I've only been up 4 1/2 hrs.* I am particularly worried about the snow. Neither of us has a 4WD, and I lost a chain Monday night on my way home, so I suppose I really oughtn't tempt fate. [sigh] I knew I should have gone this afternoon; silly me wanting to wait for greenbirds to get home from work, since it's her month to buy. We're out of breakfast & cat crunchies. Fortunately they still have a dish full, but we're short enough on glop I don't want to keep doubling it up to compensate. And I was going to buy myself an electric blanket that actually works today too. :( Perhaps we can walk to Raley's & at least get milk when greenbirds gets home. I hope I can still get out to see Princess and the Frog tomorrow. *This is not me being lazy, this is me going to bed at 4AM because our GM started a big fight scene at midnight and nobody could make a damage roll higher than 8. Current Mood: worried |
brokenallbroken
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1:39p |
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issarlk
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4:41p |
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cngsoft
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2:31a |
¡Atrasadísimo! - Behind too much time!
¡Ahhhh, qué desastre, he descuidado LiveJournal durante cinco semanas! ¡Me he perdido cientos de entradas y tampoco sé qué escribir!
Ahhhh, what a disaster, I neglected LiveJournal for five weeks! I'm behind hundreds of posts and I don't know what to write either! Current Mood:  crazy |
| Friday, December 11th, 2009 |
edgyspice
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3:21p |
"what do you think of pointillism, creep?"
Christ, CNN has turned into a series of YouTube videos. Where the hell is the actual news? The budget tells me I can participate in the art show I got accepted into, but only as long as I don't have, you know, a Christmas. Can't really afford to have my work printed up (all my recent stuff is digital) and made ready for hanging, so...oh well. I have a feeling I got accepted just because their show was billed as having a hundred artists, so they needed to fill their quota. Also, my artwork tends to sell about as well as two-day-old sushi, so it hardly seems worth it anyway. |
kuniopt
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7:05p |
Writer's Block: Forever young
As far as I'm concerned cryogenics is a real technology. However most trials showcase that a lot of factors are not viable or at least its keeping the human being somewhat stable and actually within itself are still away of reach so I wouldn't go for it. |
ariamech
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10:00a |
Writing Exercise: Gruderian Prayers
A set of prayers native to the Holy Order of Saint McGruder, AKA the Umerim Order that Pip's a member of (there's quite a few in the Umerim faith, considering how many saints they have floating around, but the Knights Ricardus, Mysterians, and Ladies of the Feather are the only ones who've been named yet, and I have no idea what the LoF even do). For the uninitiated, or those who simply can't keep up with the mountains of worldbuilding sothacid and I churn out each week, the Gruderians are teachers, protectors, and undead hunters who are famous for developing their own martial art. The Gruderians are also responsible for running the Inquisition, which exists to try and determine the difference between a valid splinter group and a bunch of dangerous cultist crazies, and is also responsible for punching people in the berries if they try to use Umerim doctrine for decidedly uncool purposes. They do, indeed, kick ass for the Lord. Umerimaiy itself is sort of like Deist Christianity and sort of like Santeria and sort of a lot of things; it's a monotheistic faith with a possession-by-otherworldly-divine-beings bent that's generally pretty easygoing and interested in making the world a better place, but still has tons of weird religious paraphernalia. UMER is viewed as a loving parent who pushed the Big Bang button and has been watching all the different sentient species work their way up from unicellular creatures, though is often too busy trying to fix bugs in the universe to be able to directly intervene. Ever wondered how to transpose the concept of "created in God's image" when your fictional world has dozens of sentient species? I have, and that's why I can remember the history of multiple imaginary religious figures (you in the back, I heard that) and not where I left my car keys. So without further ado, here's some stuff I wrote, in all its unedited glory. Invocation of Righteous WrathLord who is God, whom we call UMER with our worldly throats, I say to You that I must do the Work with great rage this day. Do not protect me from my anger, O God, but aid me in enduring it; I must master fury so that I have the strength to destroy and correct, but I must strive to never drown in my wrath. Let me burn when I must burn and remain cold when I must remain cold. I need no protection from my anger, but grant me the wisdom to know when I am forgetting the nature of joy, for my efforts are naught but impotent flailing if I cannot delight in the world which You have given Your children. Invocation of Studious MindLord who is God, whom we call UMER with our worldly throats, I say to You that I must do the Work with clear thoughts this day. Do not protect me from my doubt, O God, but aid me in understanding it; I must be cautious and skeptical to excise mistruths from the world, but I must strive to never become entirely blinded by disbelief. Let me study when I must study and be still when I must be still. I need no protection from my doubt, but grant me the wisdom to know when I am forgetting the nature of joy, for my efforts are naught but impotent flailing if I cannot delight in the world which You have given Your children. Greater Prayer of Saint McGruderUMER, my Lord God, creator of the heavens and the earth and all that lies above and below and within and without them, I beseech You hear my requests for guidance: guide my hand that I may pull away obstructions, guide my tongue that it may speak only truths, guide my thoughts that I may know and remember, and guide my heart that I remember to delight in the Work. As You are the teacher of the stars and the stones, allow me to teach Your children more of the world which we were granted in the moment of Creation. Let me bring to the world wonder at Your works in their infinite mystery, and wonder at the works of Your children in their fathomless complexity, and wonder at the ways that both are so very like one another. Let me clean the earth of those who should rest but do not, for they are either trapped and in need of succor or seeking to cause harm to Your children; give me the strength to lay them to rest once more. Mine is a heavy burden of knowledge and vigilance, O God, and my back bends nearly double, but I know none labor as tirelessly as You. Grant me the will to be like You in thought and deed. Grant me the love to continue the Work. Show me my flaws that I might correct them, for though no one soul is perfect, it is right to strive to be as God. Lesser Prayer of Saint McGruderO God, keep me from killing these idiots before I’m done teaching them.* * No, really, the Lesser Prayer is actually in their prayerbooks. Saint Chester McGruder was kind of irritable at times, even after being martyred.Finally, a lovely quote from drinky_lemur on how skepticism can encourage folks to be better people: "The value of anything measured against an infinity of nothing is priceless." Current Mood: pious (also sick)Current Music: Bruno D'Andrea - Na-no Na-no |
atomicat
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6:29a |
Y'know, there's those things that you know you're going to do but know can be put on hold for the right time and occasion. "Living on Indian time" seems to me to have the opposite flavor of "Hurry up and wait" which is all to dominant an attitude in our culture. That being said, here are some words that asakiyume penned for some pictures of mine. They sat patiently, unread, until now. And now in my own time I will read them and look at the pictures. Or perhaps I will turn down the heat on this curry stew I'm making, scratch Gracie a bit, and then read them. All in good time. Wash me away
and drown me, I beg you
let me feel this tug
Golden fire so bright
and yet so chill: a desire
that will not warm
The horizon calls
come, come, but the reeds whisper
linger here a while
With each wingbeat
stitching sky and sea together
the shoreline birds
fragile hoarfrost
on the icebound lake
radiant with light
unearthly swans
children of the deepest chill
gather on the lake
a distributed soul
this cloud of birds
flung at the sky
soft, so soft
the sun reaches out
to caress
Thank you so very much. It's incredibly flattering to have someone meditate on your work and fuse their own talents with it. Weld words to the images, accentuate, interpret... caress... whispered words with warm breath, breathing life into the static. (see, I can do it too! *lol*) Thank you once again. And when the time is right, when the pool is still, I will read, look, and read again. Isn't the dance interesting?
I sold a picture the other day! Woohoo! It was this one except printed darker and with much more saturation, the version mounted on black foam-core on the lower left in this picture here. Can you see it? It's just below the long stretch panorama of the birds taking off. Price? Hundred and fifty! Yep, a three digit sale, serious business! |
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