A few weeks back, at the larp where I spent the weekend relaxing in the forest in Viking costume I started a nålbinding project out of some thin brown wool I had found at a second hand store. I decided that since I was dressed as a man a nice manly sort of project would be a useful bag of the size one might carry home a rabbit or two from a ( Read more... )

Last week in Choir we started learning a new song, Waltzing Matilda. I am embarrassed to admit that in the five years I spent in Australia I never learned that song. Now, five years after leaving, I am finally learning it. However, it is new to everyone in the choir, and so didn't exist in our midi archive, so I couldn't listen to the tune on my ( Read more... )

I have done a variety of short posts here in the week since returning from my Lofoten adventure to visit northernotter, but I haven't made the time to record the highlights of that trip, so I will now see how much I can remember ( Read more... )

I have finally finished doing the data entry for how many hours I spent on projects for Nordanil. I will share the list here, because you guys are the only people who will really appreciate it. (This list doesn't count the hours on the things I already had before I signed up for the event, like my tunics and trousers, only one of which was made ( Read more... )

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I made it into the office this morning, where I managed to work my way through the first sub-section of the suggested edits to the results section of the paper. Hopefully I will go back tomorrow (ok, later today if one wishes to get technical about it) and do the next part. However, reviewer #2 (the one who was enthusiastic about offering edits to ( Read more... )

Today was reasonably productive--I managed to finish putting away everything from the event, did four loads of laundry, and spent a fair bit of time on projects ( Read more... )

This morning I completed the last major task for my report: burning the dvd with the data, reports, 3D model, and geochem graphs, and packaged it up in a box along with the samples and paper copies of the reports--all ready to turn in to my colleagues at the mine. Yes, it would also be nice to do a paper for publication, but that doesn't need to ( Read more... )

I just replied to a letter from a friend in Norway, who made the lovely tablet woven trim I bought at the Geology conference back in January. She had asked what project(s) I am working on these days, and, since I typed up a full list/description for her, I decided I would paste it here, too, since some of my friends like hearing about such things ( Read more... )

Back in October a colleague asked me if I would be willing to make a pair of Viking trousers as a gift for her brother, and said she would pay me for my time. Therefore it was necessary to actually keep track of how much time I spent on the project, so I set up a spreadsheet to track it. Since I had gone to the effort of setting up the spreadsheet ( Read more... )