An open thread for personal stuff, continuing from here.
As usual for these threads: no trolls, no arguments.
Posted on February 7, 2014, in off topic, open thread. Bookmark the permalink. 1,059 Comments.
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You started it. You get to do the work. (Unless someone’s inspired. That won’t be me, the combination of heat and a crook ear means I’m more than usually limited in such areas.)
I’m happy to commission LBT for an image, if LBT would be interested in such a commission.
::blows raspberrry at mildymagnificent::
I’m happy to scrounge up stuff, and I’ll certainly get the group organised on the site (administration privileges muahahahaha) but given we’ve some really good artists here I thought I’d mention it first, in case anyone fancies the idea.
OOH I’M SEEING POUTINE DOING CRAFT STUFF OOOOOHHHH
Look at these kitty socks and mittens designs!
http://make-handmade.com/2011/04/09/cats-diagram-for-knitting-and-embroidery/
@katz
Congrats! :D
Yay, katz! Tell us more?
It is this story.
When can we read it? I already like the images! Particularly the one with Pasha sitting in the mud.
RE: katz
*note to self* Do not invite Pecunium over when you’re making quesadillas with guacamole and mango salsa.
My husband now badly wants to visit you, purely for this.
RE: Kiwi Girl
I’m happy to commission LBT for an image, if LBT would be interested in such a commission.
Did somebody say COMMISSION? :D I have Shadowthon going, but it seems to have stalled out, and I also have a prior art commission I need to get to, but I should be free within two weeks at max! What is it I’d be drawing again? Knitty things? Troll doll in a sweater?
LBT, I’m sorry this writeathon has been going so slowly. Your others were so successful that I don’t know why this one isn’t doing as well.
RE: katz
*shrugs* Enh, the writeathon giveth, and the writeathon taketh away. It may just be a case of that folks found me interesting at first, and now my schtick has palled. I still have two folks who say they will pay me, eventually, but there were only six story requests and two were from folks who only prompt, never sponsor. Just the way of things, I guess.
At least I’m now in a position where not having that money doesn’t mean I’ll die! So I have the luxury of taking it as a hit purely to the ego.
@LBT, I think I totally missed your writeathon announcement. I’ve been a bit scattered in my reading. :-(
RE: cloudiah
The promptcall has closed, but I extended the bonus writing counter through today, due to schedule fail. You’re free to take part, though!
Can I still sponsor?
You most certainly can! And if you do it today, it’ll count towards the bonus word count (AKA: more stories posted!)
Okay — for some reason the PayPal button wasn’t working, but I still have the email I used for last time. That should work, right?
RE: cloudiah
Definitely. And shit, if the button’s broken… let me check, maybe folks have been trying to sponsor and just didn’t tell me! *rushes to check*
It works in the sense it takes you to PayPal, but it’s not set up to automagically send money to you.
I am EMBARRASSED how I still managed to get that damn button wrong. You’d think after five writeathons, I’d be onto this by now… *shame* But it’s now been fixed, at least! I guess katz sent money to me a different way, or I’m sure she would’ve told me. <.<
katz, love those illustrations!
LBT – no, NO trolls, bloody ugly things! This is a logo for the Crafty SPINSTERS group we’re thinking of setting up on Ravelry. I was thinking of a kitty knitting. Actually I thought last night that a pic of Poutine knitting would be great, if katz likes the idea (and didn’t want to draw it herself?)
Kitty knitting (knittying?) sounds like it’d be fun to draw.
Great! How much to commission it?
Knittying, definitely. :D
Oh, sorry, I just paypal’d you the same way I’ve paid you for other stuff before.
How big would the image need to be?
And don’t worry, katz, it’s not your fault! I should’ve checked the button like I normally do; I must have forgotten this time.
*is now working on posting the story cloudiah sponsored*
I don’t think it’d need to be very big, since it’s just for a logo. Hang on a tick and I’ll see if Ravelry gives any instructions.
Oh, here we are: the badge needs to be 100 pixels wide by 60 pixels tall. Oh, and a banner – 468 pixels wide by 60 tall.
A banner could be fun – kitties doing different crafty things maybe? Knitting, spinning, crochet, embroidery maybe? Anyone got suggestions like other critters (NO TROLLS) or crafts?
Hmm, okay! $20 for the logo, and the banner, it’ll depend if it’s a bunch of different animals or what. I’ll do them same style I did the Feminist Borgcritters. (Did Argenti ever see the story katz prompted for that?)
There’s always the classic kitties chasing yarn!
Borgcritters, or the kitties on cloudiah’s blog (love that banner) would be lovely. Figure out your price and round it up a bit, and do it when your’e ready – I’ll create the group afterward, Ravelry like new groups to have their badges ready first. :)
Maybe a kitty knitting and another chasing the yarn! :D
Oh, OT: tell Sneak “visualisation WIN”. :)
Perfect! Knitting and chasing yarn is easy. Make it $25 and you’ve got yourself a deal.
And Sneak is glad the visualization is useful!
Cool! I’ll pop some $$ in at your site now.
I’m picturing one kitty playfully unraveling the knitting of the other kitty. XD
Me too!
I found a movie some Manboobzers might appreciate. It’s called Babakiueria, and it’s a satirical look at Australia’s treatment of its indigenous peoples – but you could easily swap out Australia/Aborigines for the US/Native Americans and get basically the same story, and I’m sure the same is true elsewhere. It’s about half an hour long.
(tip of the hat to Kate Beaton of Hark, A Vagrant for sharing it on Tumblr)
Wow. Stopped watching that halfway through, but it definitely does illustrate how bass-ackward the whole situation is. There’s my thing to ponder on for the night.
LBT: damn work, I can’t shove everyone else out of the way so I can thrust my NZ dollars at you, which you *know* look like real money, unlike Australian dollars (monopoly money) and US dollars (have you guys hear of 2-bit colour let alone 16-bit or 256-bit???) :)
Please do a link to your website so I can give you cash too. Or do I just clicky your acronym?
And I am just awed at the artistic talent here on manboobz.
my family has that onion chopper. I think it worked okay on some things, but then we got lazy and put cooked ham in it. Definitely not good. XD it didn’t break it, but it did mush up the ham and we had to clean it out.
My new glasses! I haz a happy.
Kiwi girl – ha, you want a real laugh? A USian customer who said they couldn’t tell one denomination from another in our money. IT’S DIFFERENT COLOURS AND SIZES HOW DIFFICULT IS THAT ::head explodes::
@kittehs
yay for glasses! :D
and, i’m having a small moment of panic. I got put on trazodone to help me sleep, but I’m getting lots of the side effects that they say you should talk to a doctor for, and I don’t know whether it’s something I need to do asap, or, like, not at 1 in the night.
Main side effect is breathing is being weird/ hard. Idk. Do any of you guys have advice?
(and sorry I’m taking up so much of this thread :/ Both good and bad shit has been happening around me a lot recently).
Yeah. I had one weak moment where I thought it would do a great job cutting tiny cheese cubes. Fortunately I had time to rethink and abandon this ill-begotten “plan” for producing cheese flavoured sludge before I put the two items together.
Is there an emergency department number or 911 with ambulance/medical number you can call, Marie? You do need to get advice straight away if the warnings on the meds aren’t clear, especially if you’re having breathing trouble. That’s not something to wait for.
Oh sweet, it’s always good being able to see properly. :) I need to book an optometrist for an annual checkup and to discuss the potential to get contact lenses /crossed fingers.
And hmm… that comment from the American was just weird. I find *their* money strange, like when I wonder why I have been given back so much change. Because I have only been there a few times and not for long each time, I have to read the denomination so I don’t embarrass either myself or the retail person. Why can’t eft-pos just be cross-country now, like ATMs are?
Marie, exactly what changes are happening to your breathing?
Apparently 1 in 20 people prescribed the drug get shortness of breath, if that’s your issue, see http://www.ehealthme.com/ds/trazodone+hydrochloride/shortness+of+breath
@kiwi girl
Checking that link now. thanks.
exact changes: throat itchy + tight, breathing hard. Idk how to clarify. Like, I can’t breathe in right, if that makes sense.
@kittehs
I’m trying to find out from my mom right now.
Marie, that could be an allergic reaction, get help now.
The general advice I’m seeing about trazodone is to call your doctor immediately if you have breathing difficulties with it.
Kiwi girl – yeah, the new scrip’s way different in the close-up range! I wasn’t using the reading part in my old glasses any more; my eyes had changed that much in two years. (Aged and decrepit eyes, waaaah.)
Yeah, I find US money hard to work around – the coins are the opposite of ours in what’s bigger/smaller and the bills are so similar. We were looking at some at work today and it looked like ours would after it’d been through the wash a hundred times.
I sniggered at your 2-bit colour scheme comment, btw.
Just looking at some pics of NZ cash, never seen it before. Pretty! Not as garish as ours.
Not to be alarmist, and it could be other stuff too, but only a doctor can diagnose the problem.
Good grief, my comment went into moderation – what on earth triggered that in a conversation about breathing, the colour of money and glasses?
Oh, wait, it was writing the other spelling of snickered. ::sigh:: … I know that word has to be in the mod filter because racists, but it is annoying not being able to write the way I actually laugh. :P
The general advice I’m seeing about trazodone is to call your doctor immediately if you have breathing difficulties with it.
Kiwi girl – yeah, the new prescription’s way different in the close-up range! I wasn’t using the reading part in my old glasses any more; my eyes had changed that much in two years.
I really like the way these ones look, though. First time I’ve ever thought I photographed halfway decently with specs on.
Yeah, I find US money hard to work around – the coins are the opposite of ours in what’s bigger/smaller and the bills are so similar. We were looking at some at work today and it looked like ours would after it’d been through the wash a hundred times.
I snickered at your 2-bit colour scheme comment, btw.
Just looking at some pics of NZ cash, never seen it before. Pretty! Not as garish as ours.
Strewth, that was the shortest ever mod queue. Sorry about the double post!
Me too. But mine are not discreet like yours. Mrmagnificent calls them my commie glasses – looking at the world through RED-framed lenses.
The colour in the piccie is not exact, they’re really a dark raspberry red. Not bright enough for scarlet, not deep enough for maroon. http://www.gavaoptic.com/product_info.php?pName=gafas-de-graduado-just-cavalli-jc521071&cName=just-cavalli-jc521&osCsid=
Thanks for the advice guys.
I’m trying to talk my mom into taking me to the emergency room right now, but she seems reluctant to go. idk I’m just kinda panicy. you guys are awesome.
Those are cool! I see what you mean, there’s almost a cranberry tint to them on my computer.
Reluctant? For crying out aloud, you’re having breathing trouble.
Is there an advice line you can call, at least, to talk to a nurse?
@kittehs
yeah, I’m super pissed at her.
I tried a talk line but it didn’t go through :(
Holy crap, those are superhero glasses!
Through the wash? Watch out for that. A friend of mine goes back to England for a minimum of a month every year to see her parents. Even she forgot the difference between the currencies one day and would have left some English pounds in her jeans pocket to turn into papier mache if her mum hadn’t stopped her. On the other side of the coin, you don’t have to worry about paper money being ironed whereas ours just melts and vanishes in the face of that kind of attack.
ok I finally got her to take me. See you all later.
/breathes huge sigh of relief and crosses fingers for Marie
Yay, Marie! Fingers crossed.
mildlymagnificent – oh, it’s not my own money goes through the wash; it lives in my purse (that’s wallet for you USians). I’ve seen this tragic ruined cash when I’ve got it in change, or at work.
Luckily all money is safe from ever being ironed in our house. :P
Well that’s a first, being ninjaed on crossing fingers!
Hope everything goes well for you, Marie!
Hi, Ally, how are you?
Marie, I hope/trust everything went well!
Seconding cloudiah!
@kitteh
Okay, I suppose. I’m currently trying to write a coming out message to the rest of the family (save for my grandparents). It’s making me very anxious so I’m procrastinating quite a bit, as usual.
In other news, my dad has apologized for his strange behavior, and according to my uncle he had an anxiety attack so severe that my dad doesn’t even remember what he said to people that day.
@kiwi girl, Kittehs, Ally, Cloudiah
Thanks :3 It went fine. My mom seemed more apologetic once we got in the car and started driving, so I’m hoping she was just being a jerk out of sleepiness earlier. (she is so not a night person.
Oh yeah, and the health part: The doctors gave me benadryl (sp?) and some weird stereroid for allergic reaction. They said it wasn’t too severe, but that it was better to come in than not. NEway, I’m feeling much better now.
@ally
Good luck with the rest of your family. And jedi hugs from me, if you want them. :3