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1. Fine, you bulgegobbling windholes, I am reading Homestuck now. (Why didn't anyone tell me that troll AUs were canon? Look, it's troll Indiana Jones! I am trying to figure out his quadrants but keep running into his issues. He had some good blackrom tension going with Troll Belloq until he got him killed, which is probably a recurring problem with Troll Indy; and Troll Brody tries to be a surrogate moirail for him but isn't really up to it. I suspect his thing with Troll Marion has been flipping black/red since she was a grub.) (Also, why did nobody tell me that nearly all the troll characters have disabilities?) (Also, has Homestuck fandom noticed that the humans' game has two girl and two boys - exactly enough for two closed romantic pairs - and the trolls' has 12 - exactly enough for two closed troll romance systems? Although of course neither of them wind up being closed systems.)
I am still finding it immensely frustrating to read, but somehow I can't stop. (I just got up to the original troll romance explanation and decided to stop reading and actually post something.)
2. Yard sailing! We haven't made it the past few weeks because we've been helping clear out the house of an elderly friend who recently passed, age 97 (I have so much newly-inherited crafting stuff) but we went today!
Our Lady of the Fields Catholic Church: a like-new Wacom Bamboo tablet (small) still in original packaging: $25 (this may end up going to Interrobang Studios as a backup/con demo item)
Bowie Lions club book & record sale: 50¢ each:
The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects by Edward J. Ruppelt, hc, 1956 (Science Fiction Book Club edition - somebody was selling several boxes' worth of SFBC editions from the '50s and '60s);
Strangest of All by Frank Edwards, hc, 1957.
25¢ each:
Satanism and Witchcraft by Jules Michelet, pb, 1963, which the handwritten epigraph on the title page "Too rhapsodic and somewhat short on precise fact.";
The Penguin Book of Chinese Verse, pb, 1962 (I just love the tiny 1950s and 1960s Penguin paperbacks as aesthetic objects);
Superman: the BEST of the ORIGINAL, paperback, 1966 (I already have Wonder Woman and Green Lantern books in this format, so why not).
Free:
Perspective Drawing by Ernest Norling, folio-pb, ~1936
Also from the Lions, for![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
stellar_dust to get first pick of, but I will take if she doesn't:
@25¢ Bonjour, Peanuts! and Peanuts á Vendre;
A Guide to Ancient Sites in Britain;
a 1946 Zephyr paperback edition of Lord Peter Views the Body, "not to be introduced into the British Empire or USA".
@50¢; COIN IDENTIFIER by Burton Hobson;
Greenland by Vilhjalmur Stefansson (the same guy who wrote the Ultima Thule book about Iceland that I was horrifying her archeology colleagues with last summer by reading out the bits about how Columbus got a map of America from the Icelanders and there were Irish monks living on Iceland when the Vikings got there).
Total: 12 books and 1 Wacom tablet, $28.75
...also I have been informed that library volunteers like me get to take withdrawn/sale books home for free if we want. NO. BAD. I DID NOT NEED TO KNOW THIS.
3. I paid my taxes online, e-filing for the first time since the federal government seemed to be pushing it this year, and I do approve in theory of paperlessness. And can I just say: NOT IMPRESSED, US FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. So not impressed. Especially compared to the MD state e-filing, which was so convenient and well-thought-out and went like a dream. I could start outlining in detail all of the things that are wrong with the federal electroning filing process, but really I can sum it up with the first one: there is absolutely no reason why the IRS should be contracting out all of its e-filing stuff to outside for-profit companies. D: It's secure web forms! With a little math in! The only hard part is handling the traffic load, and the IRS is probably paying for that anyway! If MD's state government - which is not known for being competent, well funded, or lacking in corruption, let it be said - can host its own efiling forms, I'm pretty sure you can too, IRS.
4. If you have ever wanted to know what 1000 paper cranes look like, here is a picture. Also there is a picture of a baby dalekling, and a field full of dandelions.
This is right before I sent them to the auction winner. There are 800 in strings of 25 (I know they're supposed to be in strings of 40 but I had my reasons when I started) and 200 loose. (Apologies for the bookshelf background, but there are no places in my room without bookshelves in the background.)
Here is the last dalekling. I will, finally, have the pattern ready for test-crocheting very soon, I hope. Probably sometime early next week, if anybody wants to be a beta-tester. :D
And Self-Portrait in Silhouette with Dandelions, just because I like the way it came out. :D
5. ETA: I knew there was a fifth thing: The brookerfic kink meme is doing that weird error where it screens comments even though it isn't supposed to. D: I need to prompt Brooker/Mitchell/Maypoles, dammit. (I'm a Doctor/Master fan, maypole dances have special meaning for me.)
I am still finding it immensely frustrating to read, but somehow I can't stop. (I just got up to the original troll romance explanation and decided to stop reading and actually post something.)
2. Yard sailing! We haven't made it the past few weeks because we've been helping clear out the house of an elderly friend who recently passed, age 97 (I have so much newly-inherited crafting stuff) but we went today!
Our Lady of the Fields Catholic Church: a like-new Wacom Bamboo tablet (small) still in original packaging: $25 (this may end up going to Interrobang Studios as a backup/con demo item)
Bowie Lions club book & record sale: 50¢ each:
The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects by Edward J. Ruppelt, hc, 1956 (Science Fiction Book Club edition - somebody was selling several boxes' worth of SFBC editions from the '50s and '60s);
Strangest of All by Frank Edwards, hc, 1957.
25¢ each:
Satanism and Witchcraft by Jules Michelet, pb, 1963, which the handwritten epigraph on the title page "Too rhapsodic and somewhat short on precise fact.";
The Penguin Book of Chinese Verse, pb, 1962 (I just love the tiny 1950s and 1960s Penguin paperbacks as aesthetic objects);
Superman: the BEST of the ORIGINAL, paperback, 1966 (I already have Wonder Woman and Green Lantern books in this format, so why not).
Free:
Perspective Drawing by Ernest Norling, folio-pb, ~1936
Also from the Lions, for
stellar_dust to get first pick of, but I will take if she doesn't:@25¢ Bonjour, Peanuts! and Peanuts á Vendre;
A Guide to Ancient Sites in Britain;
a 1946 Zephyr paperback edition of Lord Peter Views the Body, "not to be introduced into the British Empire or USA".
@50¢; COIN IDENTIFIER by Burton Hobson;
Greenland by Vilhjalmur Stefansson (the same guy who wrote the Ultima Thule book about Iceland that I was horrifying her archeology colleagues with last summer by reading out the bits about how Columbus got a map of America from the Icelanders and there were Irish monks living on Iceland when the Vikings got there).
Total: 12 books and 1 Wacom tablet, $28.75
...also I have been informed that library volunteers like me get to take withdrawn/sale books home for free if we want. NO. BAD. I DID NOT NEED TO KNOW THIS.
3. I paid my taxes online, e-filing for the first time since the federal government seemed to be pushing it this year, and I do approve in theory of paperlessness. And can I just say: NOT IMPRESSED, US FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. So not impressed. Especially compared to the MD state e-filing, which was so convenient and well-thought-out and went like a dream. I could start outlining in detail all of the things that are wrong with the federal electroning filing process, but really I can sum it up with the first one: there is absolutely no reason why the IRS should be contracting out all of its e-filing stuff to outside for-profit companies. D: It's secure web forms! With a little math in! The only hard part is handling the traffic load, and the IRS is probably paying for that anyway! If MD's state government - which is not known for being competent, well funded, or lacking in corruption, let it be said - can host its own efiling forms, I'm pretty sure you can too, IRS.
4. If you have ever wanted to know what 1000 paper cranes look like, here is a picture. Also there is a picture of a baby dalekling, and a field full of dandelions.
This is right before I sent them to the auction winner. There are 800 in strings of 25 (I know they're supposed to be in strings of 40 but I had my reasons when I started) and 200 loose. (Apologies for the bookshelf background, but there are no places in my room without bookshelves in the background.)
Here is the last dalekling. I will, finally, have the pattern ready for test-crocheting very soon, I hope. Probably sometime early next week, if anybody wants to be a beta-tester. :D
And Self-Portrait in Silhouette with Dandelions, just because I like the way it came out. :D
5. ETA: I knew there was a fifth thing: The brookerfic kink meme is doing that weird error where it screens comments even though it isn't supposed to. D: I need to prompt Brooker/Mitchell/Maypoles, dammit. (I'm a Doctor/Master fan, maypole dances have special meaning for me.)
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How on earth would you make a cup-and-ball toy out of tinfoil? I am all curiosity!
OKAY the universe keeps on trying to convince me I need to watch more Old School Who; why do I not listen? CLEARLY I NEED TO WATCH THIS EPISODE.