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2. So today was the first Saturday in, like, a year, that I have had a Saturday morning free for yard sailing. ...I think I have lost all of my resistance. I'm not going to start tracking it every week again, but here's what I bought today:

$1 four chocolate chip cookies
$.50 lemonade
$2 a kite-making kit, a Master of the Universe puzzle, 2 CD sets, an SG1 novel and 3 books on local history and/or folklore.
$.25 a blackwork embroidery pattern
$1 a delta-wing dragon kite
$10 two Rainbow Looms, several pounds of bands, and a Tupperware organizer
$3 two plastic file boxes
$2 a Golden Guide to birds, an Audobon artbook, a Smokies cookbook, and a Tarzan comic from 1966
$.25 Dynaflex Pro gyro ball

total: $15, plus Mom bought me a chili dog and half a strawberry shortcake for lunch.

3. I think there was other stuff I was going to post about but I have forgotten what, oh well. I think I may have decided on what I'm nominating for Lost Library but you should all go back and answer that poll anyway.

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Which SG1 novel did you get?

Uh, idk, I haven't actually been reading them, it was for my sister and she took it away already. It was one of the ROC ones, not the Fandemonium ones, iirc.

Ah. I don't remember if I read any of the SG1 ones, but I did meet Sabine Bauer who wrote a few SG1 novels. She was pretty fun and very nice. I may pick up her books and see what she did w/ the characters.

And - as I'm typing this, I remember reading one tie-in book that was so horridly boring - it was also, essentially, a bad retelling of the episode 'Politics', iirc. Kind of turned me off reading the tie-ins.

Yeah, my understanding is that the Fandemonium tie-in series (SG1 and SGA) is pretty fun - they had a couple fanwriters writing for them and some good SF authors too - if you don't mind the enforced het-only shipping in them. They've been kind of hard to find in the US, though (or at least were at first) and I decided I didn't care enough to seek them out. They put out a few before Fandemonium got the franchise though and I understand they were pretty bad.

I'm surprised they even went with the het-shipping at all. A lot of tie-in novels don't want the writers to violate 'canon'. So relationships are typically frowned upon... or they have to be split by the end of the book. (Which, I suppose would allow for the het-shipping.)

The tie-ins for the original movie weren't much better.

I think the Fandemonium ones are actually developing their own ongoing continuity, canon shipping included? (Like the SW ones, or the later ST ones where Spock and Saavik got married). I could be wrong though, like I said I haven't actually read any.

My understanding is that the tie-ins for the movie went... very different places than the show.

Supposedly the tie-ins for the movie were following the story idea of the movie writers - Emmerich and the other guy - so the aliens were only supposed to be Egyptian based? IIRC, the movie doods really hated (and ragged on) the direction of the tv show. But, I dunno how they thought a tv show could exist and function w/ such a limited 'bad guy'. The mythos in the series was a good expansion. The tv show only got a little wonky when they started branching out too far. (And I didn't understand the Ori storyline at all.)

I think I sort of understood the Ori storyline at first? but then it just got... confused. Too much mythos load at that point, I think.

Oooh, what was the blackwork embroidery pattern? Something traditional? I've seen some beautiful designs, but I am just not precise enough, I am afraid.

It was a chessboard/sampler with a different fill pattern on every black square - so not very traditional, I'm afraid. (Also I found out after getting it home that it doesn't have instructions for all the fills - some of them are cross-references to a book - so it's not as cool as I'd hoped. but for twenty-five cents I'm not out much.

I've done a little blackwork, probably not anywhere near your level of precision! (Basically I took a two-hour workshop on traditional blackwork and then embroidered a, like, fourth-level dragon curve in basic blackwork when I was bored.) But I really like the effort vs. niftiness of result with blackwork vs. other embroidery I've tried so I'd like to do more.

Ah, I've seen similar types of samplers to that, but not with blackwork. It's a shame some of the fills are missing.

I am not very precise, I am sorry to say! I belong to the school of thought that loads up the needle with wool or floss and slaps it on the fabric, really, though I would love to have the patience to do tiny stitches. I think a dragon curve would look amazing in blackwork, so I agree that the finished product would be well worth the effort.

Yard sailing! I'm planning on hosting my first one this coming Saturday.

You *really* cleaned upon great prices, especially the kite-making kit etc., the books, and those cookies.

The kite-making kit looks really cool! It's got supplies for nine different designs (mostly just tissue paper and bamboo skewers but still pretty cool.) I wish I were in a place where I got to play with kites more often, truly.

The book prices were actually fairly typical for yard sales around here? Like, you will see them higher, but usually $.25-$.50 for paperbacks is what I still expect to see, so I rarely buy any for much more than $.50 a piece. They were some really neat books though! Local(ish) history stuff is always super-cool. The rainbow looms I paid more than I probably should have but I still have dreams of making & selling lanyards so I went for it. The real find was the Dynaflex ball which is a super-fun way to do wrist-strengthening exercise and I've never seen one used before at all, much less for that price.