Our friend Kate came up from Cork to do family things, but we got to keep her overnight because we’re lucky. :) I obliged her to get her 10,000 steps for the year in a *second time* this year, the poor darling: we went hither and yon and to the Botanic Gardens for a picnic (and ended up on the evening news! if only for a moment or two! :) I’d ( Read more... )

I thought I’d said, but maybe I didn’t!

I closed out the Arthur Guinness Projects popularity vote contest with 2976 votes. The leader had just under 4500, and I’m pretty clearly in the top 10%. I think I might have been #6 overall.

So now we wait. :) The judges will be announcing their decisions sometime in September, but I don’t know when exactly ( Read more... )

at 10:30am i had eaten, bathed, played some x-box games, watched a bit of tv, moved 9 boxes of baby clothes downstairs, unburied the wardrobe in the front bedroom (but in doing so, buried the computer desk), emptied two boxes, and fallen on the stairs wrenching my shoulder and thumb badly in catching myself.

the good news is i’ve moved on from ( Read more... )

*bemused* You know what really useful item I have here? A signed, limited edition, *still shrink-wrapped* leatherbound edition of the Starblaze Donning ‪#‎Elfquest‬ GN #3. 30 years old!

I also have a not-shrinkwrapped copy of it and of #4, and 2 copies each of the softbound editions, and as usually happens when I notice these things, it’s hard to ( Read more... )

If Swan River Press & I get ‪Arthur Guinness Projects‬ grants we’ll have a joint celebration party to celebrate. You’re all invited. :) Vote for us!

My project, the Last Days of Ancient Sunlight, and

Brian’s project, the Swan River Press!

(x-posted from The Essential Kit)

We had a family barbeque on Saturday, which was lovely. (BBQ for, not of, the family, for the pedantic among you.) Ted even made baked beans, which om nom nom. :)

I failed a third time to make decent ice cream, which is really pissing me off. I pride myself on my ability to make dessert, but custards are apparently not my strong suit. I have been ( Read more... )

I believe The Last Days of Ancient Sunlight may have just shot into first place in the arts category on the Guinness site, with just under 500 votes now. o.o

In the meantime, the Swan River Press project thinks it’s going to catch up to me, but I will generously allow him a second place, er, placement. :)

I have gotten my inbox down to under 80 ( Read more... )

So far I have made one amazingly successful batch of vanilla ice cream, a frozen chocolate mousse, and a crystalized lump of strawberry blah. This is *not* my usual kind of treat-making record, and I’m perturbed by it.

OTOH, I made these chocolate chip meringue cookies with leftover egg whites, and *they* turned out amazingly. Meringue is supposed ( Read more... )

I am told that I should actually post this here daily as well as on Twitter and FB, so I’m doing as I’m told: this is your daily reminder to vote for the #LastDays project! Click here to vote!

And while you’re there, how about voting for my friend Swan River Press’s newly submitted project? It’s just a click and it’d do him a lot of good! Vote for ( Read more... )

Guys, you guys are amazing. The ‪#‎LastDays‬ project is halfway to catching up with the #1 voted arts project, in like two days. I’m going to have to do something nice for you. A third chapter of MANNERS & MAGIC?

https://www.arthurguinnessprojects.com/arts/last-days-of-ancient-sunlight

(x-posted from The Essential Kit)