Finished a poker table a few months ago. I’m going to work on replacing about 70 feet of fence this weekend.
Still chipping away at my NaNoEdMo (formerly my NaNoWriMo)… The good news is that I’m finally on the hospital chapter, which is second to the last. The bad news is that it’s the section that is going to require the most revision, because I didn’t do any research for the first draft; I just made it all up out of my silly head. So almost every detail is wrong. Whoo.
And I found an online tutorial on customizing t-shirts. I’ve done a couple of stencils, and tomorrow I’m going to try them out and see how they work.
I have you to thank for my inspiration; I can deny you nothing. 
I’ll be sure to keep you posted on my progress. If it works out, I’d certainly be interested in publishing it—and I’m sure I’ll need plenty of help along the way.
Mostly just getting the boat in shape to launch and not have the yachties throw coins, expecting my kids to dive for them. I get a little uncomfortable when they do that.
I may remake the kayak rack to be more symmetrical, and I definiately need to add a rod holder to one of the kayaks but I want to finagle up a clamp-on instead of drilling a big hole.
I received a 1958 Elgin outboard over the winter which I hope to get purring again soon.
I am tying Deceivers and Clouser’s Minnows because the stripers have returned, and maybe I’ll have a chance to get out this weekend.
Working on a quilt for my sister, who’s got a decade birthday coming up at the end of June. I’m about a third of the way done with the blocks, so there’s a ways to go yet. Fortunately, she and I have a history of late birthday presents…
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LifeOnWry, when did Bristol start opening after Fourth-of-July weekend?? Bristol was satogata’s and my first date on a July 4 weekend, and we were planning on going back this year for our 10th anniversary. Since the timing is wrong (and since Molly and the Tinker are gone), we’re going to try Sterling in upstate NY instead. Still, I do miss Bristol!
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This year I built out my basement. Rec room with pool table, wet bar, and a bathroom with a sauna.
But the main project in my basement this year was my Home Theater. It’s a dedicated theater with two rows of seating (the back row on a riser), an 8’ wide screen at the front with a stage and proscenium, acoustic treatments, soundproofing (insulated walls with double layers of drywall on the walls and ceiling and a solid core entry door), a tray ceiling with rope light all around, computer controlled lighting, and a built-in equipment rack at the back of the room for all the A/V gear.
Three of my friends and I cross stitched together just about every weekend for almost a year not too long ago. Then two of us moved away for graduate school. Recently, one of the women who stayed found out she is pregnant with her first child. The rest of us have decided to do a joint birth announcement for her.
I’m doing the first third and then sending it on to the other gal who moved. She’ll do another third and send it to the gal who didn’t move and isn’t pregnant.
I’ve got to get cracking!
Aside from my writing (which I don’t consider a hobby, it is my second job), I’m knitting a bag out of this really bitching Japanese yarn. It’s patterned after a mail-carrier bag and I want to use a cut-up belt to make the closure strap. I am also working on a sweater for myself and a baby hat for a present, but I have gotten almost no work done on either of them. I will really have to pick it up on the baby hat, I’m seeing the mother in June.
I also recently won a lomo camera on Ebay, so I’m trying to learn the art of intentionally bad photography. Sometime soon I also want to start block printing again, I used to be really into it (I almost had a minor in printmaking but other classes interfered with it) but I haven’t carved a linoleum block in years.
I’m finishing the backstitch on this Teresa Wentzler carousel horse. I’ve completed the other three seasons for my sister, just have maybe 20 hours left on this one.
I also have a half finished hardanger pattern copied from the ex’s great grandmother. Very Scandanavian in design, all roses and arcs. I’m doing it for LilMiss - hopefully I’ll finish before she’s 20.
And I’m still slowly but surely putting my house to right. I’ve been stripping more of the woodwork - still amazed what colors people will paint their houses. Waiting for my nephew to finish replastering the living room. And I’ve started doing some landscaping. Nothing big, adding some flower beds and such.
I’m working on losing five more pounds of fat, getting lean and ripped. I’ve already put on lots of muscle mass, and this is what I need to complete my look.
I’m working on a big, fancy software manual for my employer, along with some robot control software.
I’m about to try breeding a pair of Chilean rose hair tarantulas. Not an easy task, since this speciies is notoriously difficult to breed.
I am a knitting muse. Nothing, eh? A solid chocolate statue of Vin Diesel then, and make it toot sweet. 
All kidding aside, I’d love to be posted on the progress and would be more than happy to test-knit if you need it.
P.S. Congratulations on being the first knitter from Mars.
Last year was the schedule change - it seems to me that I once knew WHY, too, but for the life of me I cannot access that area of my brain tonight. Molly and the Tinker were back for a limited engagement last year - no word yet on whether they’ll be there this season, but when I spoke to Brian (Tinker) last, it seemed like much of the bad blood between him and faire management was water under the bridge.
TELL me about it. I found Pepto-Bismol pink paint on the wall behind my stove. In the kitchen that had a yellow and brown floor.
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If you’re going to Sterling, drop me an e-mail–I’m there pretty much every weekend!
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Doing some freehand silk embroidery for a knighting tunic.
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Will soon be doing a fighting favour for my husband so he’ll SHUT UP about not having one.
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About 1/6th of the way through this cross stitch design.
[sub]I want to learn to knit so freakin’ bad![/sub]
email sent!
I’m converting my old rigid-frame 21 speed Fila Taos mountain bike into a single-speed commuter/town bike
the smallest gear in the rear gear cluster is cracked, it uses ancient, obsolete Suntour X-Press gears, deraileurs and triggershifters that are gummy and slow, so i figure i can yoink the front derailleur off, put a set of spacers and singlespeed cog on the rear wheel, disable the rear deraileur and use it as a chain tensioner, and have a nice, simple cruiser/commuter bike
i’m getting a set of street tires put on the rims, and have the gear cluster and spacers on order, for the moment i’ll simply ride it in a single gear and not shift it
what i’d really like to do is forego the rear deraileur/tensioner completely and just shorten the chain, but the rear bracket is a vertical wheel drop that’ll make aligning the chain a royal pain in the posterior, and i may have to use the deraileur, but it adds in a layer of complexity i’d rather not deal with
i already have a nice Trek 4500 mountain bike for the times i want a hardtail bike with shifters, the Fila was my first MTB, and i’d like to get it rideable again, and something about singlespeeds is just plain cool
I’m writing a short story with some explicit sex in it, based on a situation described to me by a friend. I’m also tackling some of my proto-novels again. I’m still working on my second bachelor’s degree, and thinking of taking up a project like knitting or jewelry making–they both look fun and the results are easily displayed upon one’s person or the persons of others.
Is it ever! I have, to date, written one sex scene that I really feel like keeping.
My proto-novels are fantasy, and it’s so difficult to keep things from getting silly. A further novel in the series is sci fi and fantasy mixed, and I’m going quite crazy imagining all sorts of nifty bodily modifications.
I am working on two Star Wars fanfilms, one is nearly complete called Jedi Heritage, the other is something I have been suddenly asked to help on because it’s due to screen in only a couple of weeks. It’s called Wrath of the Mandalorian. I do visual effects, and in JH I’m doing all of the digital stuff (laser beams, city backgrounds, spaceships, etc) and in Wrath I am just doing laser blasts, as the bulk of the other effects have been done by others.
After they are complete I intend to begin my own SW fanfilm, which is a comedy/parody.
I’m working a buttload of crap:
My take-home final for Marital & Family Therapy.
Finding a practicum site.
Losing 10 pounds ( I swear to og, I’m going jogging tomorrow morning!)
Furnishing a Sims house for a Caribbean Plantation-style Bread & Breakfast.
Some custom deco objects for the Sims.
Ah, just some things here and there…
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I have this really bitching Benrus clock from 1955 I am refurbishing. Not sure what exactly I am doing just yet, and the mechanical arms might not work in the end, but for-sure it will have a “ghost” LED screen illuminating the time through the clock face. Looks super cool.
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Building, as much from scratch as possible, an MP3 player or something similar. I have never done anything with circuitry before so it should be fun.
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Teaching myself many things. Since school is pointless and I have another year until an actual education, I am attempting to learn physics, topology, and the afore-mentioned electronics whenever I find time. I am not finding enough, let me tell you.
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Misc. projects for my mom. This includes digging a drainage ditch, creating a rock “wall”, laying a tile floor, painting, finishing up my garage-door install, replacing crap hardware, and various other small and not so small projects.
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Understanding consumer goods for the hell of it, which includes fixing anything that needs fixed. Around me now I have parts from a digital camera, GBC, clocks, and whatever else I can take apart.
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Trying to get back into art. It has been a good year since I last really did any art and it is starting to annoy me. Art is good.
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A useless project on Equatorial Guinea for Spanish I. Although I enjoy the art aspect, it really annoys me that I have to put up with these useless grade-school projects when I could be doing any of the above. Highschool != L337.
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