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solarbirdSilly:
My friend Joby is having a massive concrete pour at his house near mine. This project has been huge and huge and huge and also huge, because all the houses around here are on hills, of course, and all the retaining walls had fallen over on his house's lot. No, really, all of them. Plus, the sidewalk was damaged by a truck and needed to be re-poured, as did part of the front walkway and... well, it's a lot of concrete. He said the total after tomorrow's pour will be right around 27 cubic yards. I think.
Anyway, he asked me to come help right after I got back from Norwescon and I said sure, and knew there were a huge lot of people showing up, so I giggled and asked whether anybody had done the programme book. And he said no, of course, so I made one. And name tags. I showed all this to him this afternoon and he thought it was really funny so hopefully some of the other people will also get the joke. It was fun to make and didn't take a lot of time.
Bad:
We at the house have collectively had to tell one of our housemates that he needs to find another place to live by the end of May. A lot of things have gone badly over the last couple of years and, well, everybody had kind of come to the conclusion that it was time for him to move on. (Also, there were financial issues, as![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
annathepiper and I had been kind of letting him owe us his rent most of the time for a while, but it's gotten too badly out of hand. Plus, he really has kind of fallen out of the household. I think he's gotten depressed and I've tried to get him to see a therapist or a councilor or something but that hasn't worked yet, and it's just become too much of a burden for too long.
So that pretty much sucks. But at least there's going to be an end to it now, which is good.
Good:
I've gotten my studio mostly cleaned up for the next round of sculpture, and I have the beginnings of another largish-scale piece that may be called All the Moons of Mongo but I'm not sure. There may not be art in it but I think there is. That gives me four pieces in various stages of progress, so hopefully I'll get at least two of them to turn into art. Really, though, there's a lot of getting going again that I've got to do!
I also found this by accident and even though I don't even play guitar I'm afraid that I want it. Combined with the right attitude, honestly, you just couldn't get any more punk than that - well, not without being Shirley Temple Black's daughter, anyway.
Kind of both good and bad:
Anna's laptop screen's hinge broke. She bought a broken laptop off of eBay and replaced it, and the new hinge broke six days later. (That's the bad part) But! This hinge had a patent number on it! And I was able to find the maker, who is willing to replace the bad one for free if we send it in to their QA department so they can figure out how it broke like that. (I sent pictures. They didn't like what they saw in the pictures.)
So. That's me right now. ^_^
My friend Joby is having a massive concrete pour at his house near mine. This project has been huge and huge and huge and also huge, because all the houses around here are on hills, of course, and all the retaining walls had fallen over on his house's lot. No, really, all of them. Plus, the sidewalk was damaged by a truck and needed to be re-poured, as did part of the front walkway and... well, it's a lot of concrete. He said the total after tomorrow's pour will be right around 27 cubic yards. I think.
Anyway, he asked me to come help right after I got back from Norwescon and I said sure, and knew there were a huge lot of people showing up, so I giggled and asked whether anybody had done the programme book. And he said no, of course, so I made one. And name tags. I showed all this to him this afternoon and he thought it was really funny so hopefully some of the other people will also get the joke. It was fun to make and didn't take a lot of time.
Bad:
We at the house have collectively had to tell one of our housemates that he needs to find another place to live by the end of May. A lot of things have gone badly over the last couple of years and, well, everybody had kind of come to the conclusion that it was time for him to move on. (Also, there were financial issues, as
annathepiper and I had been kind of letting him owe us his rent most of the time for a while, but it's gotten too badly out of hand. Plus, he really has kind of fallen out of the household. I think he's gotten depressed and I've tried to get him to see a therapist or a councilor or something but that hasn't worked yet, and it's just become too much of a burden for too long.So that pretty much sucks. But at least there's going to be an end to it now, which is good.
Good:
I've gotten my studio mostly cleaned up for the next round of sculpture, and I have the beginnings of another largish-scale piece that may be called All the Moons of Mongo but I'm not sure. There may not be art in it but I think there is. That gives me four pieces in various stages of progress, so hopefully I'll get at least two of them to turn into art. Really, though, there's a lot of getting going again that I've got to do!
I also found this by accident and even though I don't even play guitar I'm afraid that I want it. Combined with the right attitude, honestly, you just couldn't get any more punk than that - well, not without being Shirley Temple Black's daughter, anyway.
Kind of both good and bad:
Anna's laptop screen's hinge broke. She bought a broken laptop off of eBay and replaced it, and the new hinge broke six days later. (That's the bad part) But! This hinge had a patent number on it! And I was able to find the maker, who is willing to replace the bad one for free if we send it in to their QA department so they can figure out how it broke like that. (I sent pictures. They didn't like what they saw in the pictures.)
So. That's me right now. ^_^
