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I'm Back?
Gee, it's been a while. I just got a new haircut yesterday, which is totally not the reason I'm back, but since that was the last thing I posted about I feel like I should at least acknowledge it.
For some reason the browser on my desktop started going completely nuts in a way that made me not want to keep a tab permanently open to each of ( Read more... ) -
Haircut!
[So I'm totally going to need a new default avatar photo soon, aren't I?]
Got my hair cut today. I'm more sure than in December that this one's going to work for me. I might not end up loving it (still getting used to it, obviously), but I think I'm not going to hate it and it's not going to constantly annoy me, so yay.
This is the result of a Deva ( Read more... ) -
Hivemind: Cylindrical Tins?
I'm looking for a relatively water-tight (needn't be perfect) cylindrical container, ~2.5" in diameter, and ~1.5-2" in height, opening at the top.
This is to contain shaving soap, both for everyday use and to travel. Plastic is ok, metal might be more fun in the long run, I don't much mind if it has brand names printed on it or mild stray aromas. ( Read more... ) -
Regency Men's Shirt collars?
Anybody have good images showing closeups of a men's Regency shirt, preferably without a cravat covering them, preferably from multiple angles? I'm having trouble finding what I'm looking for.
Images of a well-sourced pattern would probably work as well.
I'm hoping to make a detachable collar which can button over a modern formal shirt of the sort ( Read more... ) -
Nonverbal Consent
I think Parker [the older of my two ferrets] is learning how to negotiate consent despite being nonverbal [being a ferret and all]. Like everything she does, being the cutest thing to ever cute, it's adorable.
See, ferrets like to play quite rough, and since we brought Alec home and she has another ferret to play with, she's escalated the roughness ( Read more... ) -
Lenses: Background for the Confused
I can already feel the blank stares of the people who haven't known me in one of my prior lens-wearing periods and haven't discussed these things with any of the fairly small number of other people out there who use them. So here's the background on what's going on.
( Nifty things you can do to eyeballs using rigid gas permeable lenses... ) -
Well, Now I've Gone and Done It (Lenses, Day 2)
I voted with my impatience and decided to go ahead and do the lens thing. Even if this turns out to have been a poor choice, at least this time I won't regret procrastinating it for another year when I had a chance to do it.
Yesterday wasn't too bad. I awoke with kind of mediocre vision, but good enough that I could be fairly functional for an hour ( Read more... ) -
Found My Contacts!
Finally found my old contact lenses, which I've been searching for since Thanksgiving because I'd decided to return to wearing them, partly because my glasses prescription isn't strong enough anyway, and partly because I hate not being able to lie with the side of my head against something when I'm awake because my glasses interfere and it's ( Read more... ) -
Still agonizing over my hair
So I'm still trying to figure out what I want to do about my hair, and I'm finding it hugely stressful. I've accepted that my hair is pretty curly (and the extent to which it zig-zags rather than curling is significant, but doesn't look any different to a casual observer and probably doesn't make much difference in either how it should be treated ( Read more... ) -
That was weird
[Post about my thorough physical search by the TSA still to come when I get around to editing the quick thing I wrote in the airport when I didn't have good internet access to post...]
Wednesday, shortly before leaving to fly to NY to visit my family for the long weekend, I went out to check the mail and discovered a memo from my local housing ( Read more... )