Have we done anything productive today?

[barb dwyer]

Paid the rent.
(so depressing had to have a lie down) 

Tracked a pkg on USPS.

Otherwise... glued to the computer today.

Everything else can go tomorrow.

[D.Oakes]

Went to Harrisburg on the train, bought my bus tickets to New Orleans, just missed the next train back home by minutes so had to hang out up there for 3 hours.  So stupid me decides to go check out Strawberry Square, I heard it was this cool place.  Needless to say I was the round peg in a hole full of squares....and the irony was, the bulk of the stores were closed and out of business...yet they still flocked to their idol of consumerism.  And then I checked out a really neat bakery, a bit pricy, but the food was good and the employees were very friendly. 

[Arceye]

Angus -
that's exactly what I'd do!
Wondering how you'd know that?

I've spent many a broke Hogswatch
(a/k/a/Christmas-New Years)
that all my friends received from me
was home made herb blends for cooking
in recycled herb jars!

I am a FIEND about saving tiny bottles.

Some holidays
all the presents they got
was 'presence'.

Barb,. may I say that you remind me so much of my ex fiancee? She was poor as a church mouse, but so interesting. She has gone on to being the caretaker for a friend who has property in Corfu, one day I have to get the money together to go over and have a natter.

[DreamHazard]

Cleared out my room and took the desk out, I'm now using a rather strange arrangement involving a bedside table and a bookcase. Room's a lot cooler now, due to the extra room and my desk being on the window sill

[Drew P]

I'm usually productive everyday..to some extent.

Today=packed for this weekends photoshoot-a 25th wedding anniversary.
        = Glued the last side of a frame on for a project-a friend asked if I would 'steam up' a Memory Board for her. It's just a tad steamy w/a little Art Nouveau tossed in. But I'm probably just 75% done and I've been at it for months.
        =Finally cleaned up a vintage cigarette case to use as a business card holder-been months since I got it.
        =Contacted a Realestate agent to see a property

[Arceye]

A friend visited looking very down in the dumps, so after giving him a shoulder to lean on, I cooked us some battered chicken which seemed to be appreciated.

[darkshines]

Well I have had a crazy couple of days! I went to London yesterday as part of "orienteering" for working at this 1950s thmed diner. Well I, and several others, managed to get food poisoning, and when I was 10 minutes late to training today as a result, I was given a snarky and rude remark by my boss. Needless to say I shall not be working there.


I rang a helpline for people who want to start or expand their own business, and that sounds promising. They give you help in every way possible to get you a business plan, help finding premises, money etc, so HOPEFULLY I can start getting the wheels in motion there.

I just HATE working for other people! I had my own market stall back in Suffolk, and in Birmingham, and I loved it, but since coming to Cardiff I have bounced from one shitty unsatisfying job to another, being permanantly jaded and depressed. I know people like my stuff, as when I do events, fairs and such, I sell, and I sell alot. People like to touch and try on and talk about things you know? To have my own stall or premises again would be a dream, especially in the town centre as there are NO alternative/gothic/steampunk stores in the whole of Cardiff (maybe Blue Banana? Would you count them?).

On top of having food poioning and having to go to the doctor for other, far more female *ahem* tests today, I feel like crap. Everything is getting on top of me and I am suffocating. One week my etsy will do amazingly, the next week I won't sell a damned thing. One week I am happy and things are looking up, the next wek I being shot down again. I don't know how we are going to get to Lincoln or pay for our hotel for the Asylum, unless I just go horrendously overdrawn and hope I make a big sale to cover it. But then that is a catch 22 because the bank are not going to give me a small business loan if I am constantly overdrawn!

Urgh, it makes me feel really emo. I feel like being a sulky teenager and listening to Radiohead really loud and painting my room black.

[Angus A Fitziron]

Shifted an old fibreglass dinghy through Freecycle, then had a bonfire tonight of a pile of old rotten wood. Two steps closer to two big projects, my new workshop and the potting shed. (The Potting Shed is not really for potting, more for garden gastronomy and thinking in!) I also had an idea for another project whilst supervising the fire with a pint and a comfy garden chair...

[barb dwyer]

Went up to the college
and got all the little nickie-nackie
papers signed- t's crossed and I's dotted
and printed out - now it's just
buy some books and start on MONDAY.

SO I *did* accomplish things!

[James Harrison]

I put some more of the finishing touches to my dissertation, namely

- put the photographs, maps and plans in;
- proof read it to bring it within 22,000 words (it is now 21,864- ish);
- took the front matter a little further- adding contents and lists of tables and figures

This leaves:

- one photograph to be either sharpened up or replaced
- the addition of page numbers
- adding a preface


And then it's done!  I've been writing it for the past two months...

[Major Wolfram Quicksilver]

Today has been quite busy so far:  Sorted my recycling, did three loads of laundry, paid two bills, got some groceries, sorted out some 'firepower' for a friend for this weekend's 'Post Apocalypse Zombie Holocaust' party at Bosworth, rode a motorbike for miles to do some car-hunting, test drove two, put a deposit on one, came home and then took two pairs of trousers to be shortened.  Got to cook dinner, look at car insurance sites, then get organised for tonight's Lincoln Steampunk meet.

Phew!  I'll be ready for beers tonight!

[Maets]

Been working hard on a new equipment shed.  Walls are up, main trusses up, tomorrow roof trusses and sheathing.

[D.Oakes]

Finished a gun mod for a friend of mine, delivered it on my new bike, came home, fell asleep, dug an old story out of my pile of notebooks and am considering what to do with it. 

[barb dwyer]

Cleaned the apartment and put it back together
after having half the place moved
to create the banner.

Then I got out my jacket
and began laying out
where to put the fuseable web
to hole the seams and liner in place
for a TON of stitching.

Felt like progress after a crap week.

[darkshines]

Today I made a teacup pin cushion, listed a LOAD of new animals and brooches on auntielindacraft, finished my hoework ready for my second day of training at my new job and did some careful negotiating on swapbot!

[Argus Fairbrass]

I finally managed to convince the council that I don't in fact owe them two years council tax. Narrowly averting a bailiff with a court order from cleaning me out.

Finished repairing my monitors and set up the home studio properly with my new kit intergrated (it works yay) Managed to figure out the dark art of my new plug in sampler and start on the folder of sounds for my Steampink audio meisterwerk. It seems that's ticketyboo as well. Finally made a dentist appointment  but that is a good thing really.

Finalised my uni re application after spending half the morning on the phone getting my account re activated. I start the 2nd year semester again next week.

Still have to deal with Student Finance  , but it sounds like the Uni is not going to charge me for intercalating last year after all (which is nice)

Still a mountain of things to do in preparation so I'd better get on with it but yeah, not bad so far.

[barb dwyer]

(9pm Mountain time)

Just getting in from building the
Liberal Studies Homecoming float.

Nothing worth of the Rose Bowl,
we're talking a 14' trailer and a truck,
but it's a small town
so we don't need much.

Many kids wanted to just stop participating
there was another debacle today
that is going to have repercussions
(another incident of rewriting the rules)
so there's going to be big time changes
and all kinds of drama
next week.

I talked them into sticking it out-
I mean, there was only this
 and one other 'activity' ...

they finally 'got it' when I said
that all this isn't making *us* look bad-
the more they do -
the worse *they* look.

so we wound up having a very nice time
painting, gluing, and such...

but I am one TIRED old woman right now.

it's a GOOD tired, but ...wow.

[Garret Iron]

Polished the brass work on an old clock, mowed the lawn.
Went for a drive just to see some new scenery. Quite a boring day!
Oh and I also did some writing and practiced my German.

[Lady Ava]

Cleaned the house
Fitted a corset
Went to the Pet Shop
Trained Crust the Bunny some more before her big move upstairs!
Hoovered the whole house
Washed up twice
Cleaned out every pet.

PHEW!

[Wormster]

So far today I have:

sorted my "day to day" caving kit, (in preparation for a trip tomorrow)
relocated an important bit of caving kit to its correct tacklebag,
washed a muddy rope,
done the washing up,
started on the clothes washing,
surfed the aetherweb,
and had several cups of coffee.

Hopefully SWMBO will appearing soon, on her way home from taking her son to Uni, this is a bonus for me as I have been trying to keep "The Black Dog" from nipping at my heels.

[lilibat]

Finished the crown for my fairy costume so all the accessories are done.




Also did some unpacking & cleaning but that's boring.

[barb dwyer]

Lilybat - that's lovely!

[Flightless Phoenix]

I agree it is delightful!

I had a productive day:

Started my Masters
Narrowly avoided an argument with my supervisor
Found out how to get into the bodleian library- i'm outragously excited about it!
Went to a meeting to get to know all the other Postgrads and threw wine over myself...sigh

[Arceye]

Finished the basic shapes for the three mudguards for my electric trike. Sawing, filing, belt sanding, making swarf- It's what I love doing, just don't have the stamina to do all that I want.

Next, mounting brackets, the challenge being to mount the lights on the same brackets, to make the job neater and simpler.

[barb dwyer]

Went to my friend's house
and picked up my jacket.

Am now laying out the buttons
deciding which one I like best.

Other than that -
I went to class.

Got the bar set pretty low for this week.