You will not find out what that text is about by clicking that link. Sorry! I'm just helping with a project.
What's the last thing you crafted, constructed or created yourself?
Why, I'm so glad you asked.
The shirt is just an iron-on transfer, which isn't all that interesting in a crafty sense, although I did have fun designing it. The prerequesite from the in-game item description was that it say "You laugh at us because we're all the same. We laugh at you because you're all different." I added a row of little faces below each line--one set all identical and in goth makeup, and the other with different features and expressions.
The buckler was the really fun part. Phif gave me the seed of what to make it with, and then I let my inner six-year-old loose at Michael's. I was pleasantly surprised to find sheets of black felt big enough for my purpose. The front and back are each one of those, turned into an oval; between the two is a sandwich of batting and cardboard. The white belly is a smaller bit of felt. The beak and feet (which you can't really see, but are cute) are this great orange craft foam, which comes in smooth sheets for gluing together. More felt for the tongue, and the biggest googly eyes I could find. The wings, which you can't see, are just big right triangles from the black felt with batting inside and velcro to keep them wrapped around Phif's wrist.
As for me, I went as a Knob Goblin Elite Guard: viking hat, another custom t-shirt, and polearm, with black jeans and boots. Neither of us won anything, and rightfully so--there were some really awesome and elaborate costumes present--but it was a lot of fun.
I was going to go on to talk about my weekend and whatnot, but after three days reading Vox is the last thing I have to do to be all caught up on websites. So frankly, I don't give a damn.
What's your middle name? Is there a story or history behind it?
Rose, and not in particular. Other potential names on the list were Juliet and Antonia.
If you could write a book about anything, what would it be about?
If I knew that, I'd just write it, wouldn't I?
We finally set up the printer on Monday so that Phil could print out a bunch of paperwork for the job he started today. (Err, yesterday technically.) He seems pretty happy with the first day--here's hoping it stays that way.
We're going to KoL Con in a week and a half. I wasn't really sure if I wanted to, but it's not much trouble to go (we're driving there), and it gives us a chance to see some people in southern California on the way. Also, I'm helping Phificks with his costume. There was one piece of it which he wanted but didn't know how to make, so I offered to put it together for him. It was a lot of fun and gave me the excuse I'd been waiting for to buy a hot glue gun, which I promptly burned myself with twice. Nevertheless, it's awesome, and I'll post a picture of it after con when it stops being a secret.
I've been playing a lot of Travian lately. I'm strong enough now to beat up a couple of my littler neighbors for their lunch money resources, which helps a lot with advancement. My current goal is to expand the range of troops I can build, so it will include pathfinders (scouts who can tell me about a village's defenses) and ... I forget their name, but really fast troops that can carry a lot. I also started an alliance, the Rorschach Squids (because where else do Rorscach inkblots come from?).
After a summer of neglect, I'm finally getting around to clearing pictures off the camera. (Yay, nice big memory card!) It's mostly cats, as it always is--around 180 shots of them, I think, of which four or five made it into the best of. There were also a lot of miscellaneous things, including the hot dog pizza at right. I remember making them and thinking that they were aesthetically pleasing enough to justify taking a picture of, but I had nothing to do with the picture afterwards, so I thought I'd at least post it here.
I wish there were a way to post pictures directly from the web into Vox. Obviously that has the potential for abuse--maybe you could prove you control the webspace by uploading a supplied test picture?
That's all I can think of right now. I'm tired, but I need to figure out why the camera is being fussy and make it stop so I can sort through the videos (I finished the stills) and then sleep. Of course, by the time I'm done I'll probably have sent off a fresh raiding party in Travian. It's fun having those going constantly--every hour or so I get a big boost of resources.
Edit: The camera was being fussy because its batteries were dead. Good reason! I forgot that we already knew they were low, and were just letting them run out completely to keep the batteries from crystalizing and losing capacity. (I know very little about that phenomenon, but I'm sure Wikipedia and Google can tell you more.)
What is your browser's default home page set to?
Submitted by Kelev T. Cat.
about:blank. I cannot STAND it when I open a browser and have to wait for a page to load when I'm going somewhere else--and if I were always going to the same place, I'd just leave it up.
What books are on your nightstand?
Um, if you consider a speaker to be a nightstand (in that it stands next to my side of the bed), my sketchbook is sort of half on it and half fallen off because of kittens.
Apparently this interface doesn't play well with Opera. That's disappointing. I've been using it over Firefox recently after I realized that doing so halved my lag problems at least. Stupid memory sink. But not everything supports Opera.
I've been playing Travian recently. It's pretty neat--standard resource collection and city building, but it uses real time construction delays as a progress valve instead of a daily turn system. I like that. For example, I just upgraded one of my clay pits, which was about ten minutes in which I couldn't have developed anything else. Now I'm out of clay from the construction, but I'll get 17 units of it per hour instead of 14, so in about five hours I'll have enough to do my next upgrade. That'll probably be a crop field upgrade, which will take about five minutes and a decent chunk of my resources, but will allow me to support the people working the new clay pit (and the miners I'll be giving jobs to shortly thereafter).
There's a choice of three tribes: Romans, Teutons, and Gauls. I run a Gallic village called Pandafix. (It was originally Pandafish, but I thought I should make it more Asterix-y.) Teutons are a bit stronger offensively, Gauls defensively, and Romans roughly balanced. The plan at the moment is to get my resources coming in at a good clip, build up some strong defenses, and then prod a couple of my neighbors to see if they fall over.
If you want to try it out with an interest in allying later, you can find me in the northwest quadrant of server seven. I won't attack you if you tell me it's you (assuming you don't attack me).
What's the nerdiest thing about you?
My fiancé. 8) Hands down.
What albums are in heavy rotation for you right now?
I almost never listen to albums, as opposed to loose songs, but I did happen to play two yesterday: In Your Eyes, by Amit Apte, and Amplivate, by Kid Beyond. They are quite different from each other, and I recommend them both.
Whoever picks tags for these things is fired, though. "Heavy rotation" but not "music" or "album"? Sheesh.
How well do you know your next-door neighbors?
Not at all. Sorry, not a very interesting one. The Vox Hunt today would be pretty easy, but I'm lazy and can't think of anything really inspired (only obvious stuff like Phil and the kittens or maybe the nice yarn I bought the other day).
Man, this entry is so pointless, I don't have anything to tag it with.
Take a picture of something under construction.
I'm going to interpret this question fairly loosely, but if Vox Hunts and QotDs aren't for free association, what ARE they for? At right is a recent addition to a family under construction.
My mom has been in Rhode Island for about six months now, taking care of her parents. (At the beginning of that period was a very rapid shift for them between being adequately self-sufficient to needing full-time care.) She has been very lonely with no one to cuddle; long story short, enter Sophie. She is, we are told, a cocker spaniel, and smaller than that picture makes her look.
My grandmother, in whose house Mom and Sophie both reside, does not know about this yet. I'll be interested to see how that turns out.
I changed my journal design to one of the new ocean ones. Given that the name of this journal is Relsquid, it would be as logical as it is incorrect to expect me to have picked the squid one. I liked the turtles better.
I also like tortoises, like the giant one at left! I don't know who that is or where this picture is from; someone just pasted a link at me (and I'm pretty sure he just got it from random Googling).
Besides, it's called Relsquid because I had recently stopped using my idling-nick "relsquidle" on Zirc in favor of avoiding nick penalties in #irpg, but I liked the fusion of "Relsqui" and "squid" so I used it here.
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