Just as a heads-up, I will be attending RainFurrest this coming weekend! It's rare for me to go to cons outside of northern California owing to financial/job issues, but I'm geting some logistical support from krdbuni and landed a few side jobs that earned me the money for airfare ( Read more... )

Transcribed from last night's voice notes:I'm usually not very good about holidays. But today, to celebrate the Solstice, I walked uphill to watch the sunset -- alone with the spirits and birds ( Read more... )

RIP, Woolly Bear.


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Happy Pi Day! I marked 3/14 1:59:26 by texting a few fellow geeks. My boss was also amused ( Read more... )

I would not exactly say I have had an auspicious start to the con.

Thursday I dealt with some crises at home (including some USPS shipping problems with the Baxil mask, and the death of two of our clown loaches), mostly thanks to kadyg, who has been eight sorts of awesome. I arrived at the con at about 1 am and crashed hard ( Read more... )

I got an IM from a friend telling me how good the Baxil mask is already looking, mid-commission.

And you know, he's right.


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I'm still alive here, though winter is kinda kicking my ass. We just passed through a week of snow, rain, and hail (in that order), and this morning it was so cold that there was a layer of ice on the inside of my windshield. This is a maddeningly frustrating experience, more so if you never grew up in a state that froze ( Read more... )

Gah, I wish the English language had a word for this.

I feel like a dog on a leash. There's an energy almost buzzing under my skin today. A restlessness, a need. It's like being horny, although it isn't a sexual urge.

I want to fuckin' create.

The immediate impulse is to blame it on one of my muses. But the muse is asleep, because I don't ( Read more... )

Dear universe,

Okay, I admit it, you got me.

I know you were saving this one up, waiting for a day when you knew my brain would explode because I'm running on less than two hours of sleep. Last night's frantic editing on the bastard love child of Sorceror, Universalis, and Wraith* must have been the perfect opportunity ( Read more... )

I've safely returned from the Pacific Northwest*, and I'm too jet car-lagged to do the trip justice. In my infinite wisdom, I told my boss I'd be back to work Monday. So I crammed in as much trip as possible right up to the last minute, and got to spend a long day driving with little recovery time afterward ( Read more... )