We had a small "Welcome back, MafunDi" meeting at my place yesterday, where the word small only describes my living room, not in any way the meeting. It was nice seeing the lion again after so many months. We were 10 furs last night. A lion, a tiger, a jaguar, two wolves, a dragon, a jackal, a rat, an arcani and a silver fox. Luckily they all ( Read more... )

I hate fall. It's a time of death, darkness and cold. Everything about the fall is uncomfortable for me. I know it's only making room for new things to come after the winter. And I know I could look forward to spring rather than dwell in a presence I don't like. It's just... This summer has been so short... On hot days I go to work in short pants, ( Read more... )

I'm not going to rant about the Deutsche Bahn. I'll just make a note of the fact that they screw up on an average of 50% of the trips I make ( Read more... )

Lupo told me about MyMovies the other day, and after looking the service over, I immediately started to install several instances of the server and the client software, borrowed a scanner and started to archive my DVD and BD discs. It looks promising. It will not replace my own database, but it's a very simple and efficient way to gather data and ( Read more... )

I had a couple of friends over yesterday for hanging out, food and watching a movie. I made 2 kinds of pasta, one hot, the other "cheesy", and I was very happy to see 7 people eat food that would be enough for at least 12. We even had an ice cream afterwords. Boy am I glad I managed to get my entire workout program done before everyone came ( Read more... )

A couple of weeks ago I started my regular workouts again. For one thing, I feel I should lose some weight, though everyone tells me I look fine. Point is, I can't get some of my pants on again, even those that I could just pull down my waist a year ago. I'm not talking about much, just a few kilos, but those are the ones that have always been hard ( Read more... )

I've been making progress lately. The last major change was the ceiling that I put in only days before EF. I also got some LED-Pars and since this week, I have a programmable DMX-Mixer with easily accessible scenes.

To be continued...

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Now then... EF is over, so is my holiday, a camping trip to the Edersee with a couple of friends, and now even Herbstcon. Over a month of traveling, meeting friends and relaxing is over now. Naturally I haven't managed to sort out the pictures I've taken yet. And of course I haven't made any updates to my journal ( Read more... )

It's been a quite productive week. I've finally managed to get to work on my theater again. I've cut the edge protection for the steps, made the last step for the first row, and started woodwork construction for the ceiling. I've ordered 24 GU10 socket spot lights and made several trips to hardware stores this week. It's fun to finally be back at ( Read more... )

I hate winter. I hate gray skies, cold, rain, mud ( Read more... )