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Question for the masses: how do you handle long-term projects, both in the planning and the funding setup? Looking at doing something radically different, as the present system sucks, and looking for ideas from others as to what works for them!

DRESS AND MAKEUP:

Part of what people do in any form of skating is to draw attention to themselves and their actions on the rink. This usually requires careful attention to what they’re wearing - hair, makeup and costuming.

Makeup - well, when I was an actor in high school, it used to bother me a good deal to have it on for the dress rehearsals and ( Read more... )

Since I’m now the designated Doer of Laundry, I’m trying to deal with a backlog of stuff; I think I have everything downstairs and sorted out, it’s just a matter of going through huge amounts of stuff - and the interruptions in the sequence.  Mere wants this smaller bunch done right away for her first day of school (tomorrow, for the 7th grade), ( Read more... )

The big items of getting the taxes out and getting a pile of documents out for the refinance to the lender is over with; I don’t, at present, have a scanner that can handle legal-sized paper, and I killed a lot of time trying to figure a clever way around that. My clever ways all sucked, and Susan ended up taking it over to Office Depot for ( Read more... )

If you’re going to a Scottish Rent-A-Kilt place, you have to swear to wear underwear with it.

“Though Scots like to prance/About in their kilts wearing nae pants/Fir the next punter make it fair/Dinnae firgit to wear a pair.”

and this gem:

During the First World War, some Sergeant Majors reportedly used mirrors tied to the end of golf clubs to look ( Read more... )