"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in Art Projects & Making Things, Imports from old blogs, Sewing on May 31st, 2004
My new skirt, second in the “What to do with 1yd of 60″ machine embroidered cotton pique” series. I felt my wardrobe would be enhanced by the addition of a skirt bedizened (verily, bedizened) with cartoonish, mercerized depictions of fruit. I actually have quite a few tops that will go well with this skirt, whimsical […]
Posted in bike commuting, Food & Snacks, Imports from old blogs on May 28th, 2004
I have been as a ravening shrew lately. Okay, so I don’t literally eat more than my weight in food every day, but damn, I have been just a bottomless pit. I guess my metabolism is getting a little hyper from my regular bike-commute, or maybe it is all the coffee I have been drinking, […]
Posted in Imports from old blogs, Work/career (vague as to avoid doocing) on May 28th, 2004
Okay, I just had to repress an evil impulse once again. A man called in for information about completing his inspections for a mausoleum at a cemetery site, and we determined that one of the extant problems, while not a dangerous one, will take some time to fix. He asked if he could speak to […]
Posted in Imports from old blogs, Super-Short Entries, Utter Silliness on May 28th, 2004
My campy impulses are on the verges of getting the better of me these days. Just lately, I have had the burning desire to call everyone daaahling, and possibly roll my eyes and flutter my lashes, Mae West style. Somehow, I suspect this would be misconstrued as unprofessional flirtatiousness, so I am trying to restrain […]
Posted in Food & Snacks, Imports from old blogs, Words I Like on May 28th, 2004
I woke up this morning alternately thinking “ratatouille” and “gulch.” Gulch is explainable. In my friend Rob’s space-opera-esque D&D game, our party recently rescued a kidnapped child who was being held hostage in an old mission in a mining town called Yuri’s Gulch. At one point during the game, we were selling supplies to the […]
Posted in Art Projects & Making Things, Imports from old blogs, Sewing on May 27th, 2004
Throwaway entry, but I made a new shirt over the course of the last couple of days, and I am really happy with how it turned out: And here’s a closeup of that trim piece: The little bow and dangly button-cherry arrangement came about because I accidentally nicked the fabric when I was clipping the […]
Posted in Imports from old blogs, Work/career (vague as to avoid doocing) on May 27th, 2004
I heard some great news today, though this is pretty much strictly of Kansas City-area local interest. Finally and conclusively, the Hotel President renovation is getting underway. The project manager from J. E. Dunn called in for information regarding the installation of an exterior hoist for transporting construction materials up and down the outside of […]
Posted in dumb things I have done, Imports from old blogs, Work/career (vague as to avoid doocing) on May 26th, 2004
From the Department of Oh Holy Crap That Is Disgusting: I had a travel mug from one of the various Corporate Campaigns of Gung Ho Insanity from my previous job. I actually have several, but only one of those mugs is relevant at the moment. This mug, being capacious and minty-green, is an excellent mug […]
Posted in Imports from old blogs, Words I Like on May 26th, 2004
in·e·luc·ta·ble ( ihn ee-luh k tuh -b l) adj. Not to be avoided or escaped; inevitable: “Those war plans rested on a belief in the ineluctable superiority of the offense over the defense†(Jack Beatty). [Latin in luct bilis : in-, not; see in-1 + luct bilis, penetrable (from luct r , to struggle out […]
Posted in beer and/or homebrewing, Imports from old blogs on May 26th, 2004
My voice is still a little wonky, but only people who actually hear me talk on a regular basis would know anything is wrong with it. I have my sense of smell and taste mostly back. I think I may have my sense of taste back enough to have a beer this evening, which pleases […]