because i can, of course

I’m doing taxes – actually, I’ve been doing them all weekend, I’ll be doing them all day today, and I’ll be doing them tomorrow. I’m doing most of the math on this:

Original Odhner Mechanical Calculator

Why? Because I can, of course. But it’s not all taxes, I’m also working on Something’s Coming (2014), in the evenings – seriously, this tax bullshit is a four-day full-time job and that’s just to get things together enough to go to the accountant – and I’ve got a mandolin part charted out, and reminder notes.

Mandolin part!

I did a test recording on Sunday, and made a couple of changes. Between taxes and water heater replacement today, well, hopefully I can record it tonight. PROGRESS! :D

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sailing the salish sea

More photos from the Vancouver Island trip! I have a few more photobombs to lob at you before I’m done, and this is one.

I’d never sailed BC Ferries before – even going to Vancouver Island has been a Seattle ferry or Kenmore Air trip. So this was a new experience. BC’s ferries are a lot bigger than Washington’s. And a bit more expensive, but also… don’t get me wrong, I love our ferries? BC’s are nicer. The trips are longer so that makes sense, of course. But still. Seven decks, quite tall, multiple restaurants, business cubbies so you can work, it goes on a while.

It was typical Cascadian sunshine on the way out. This is from the forward restaurant, run by White Spot – nothing crazy, but a nice buffet:

I went up top to take some outside photos. It wasn’t too windy when we left, and only light rain. The light rain part mostly stayed, but the wind – hoo boy. Seriously, I came ’round a corner on the top deck out of shelter I didn’t realise was shelter and literally almost got knocked over. The rain hurt. I’ve been in typhoons before, and this wasn’t quite that bad, but damn.

I swear to you this photo is in colour.

Lonely Island

The trip back five days later was very strange. Somebody had angered Ra, apparently, and he was looking down with fury. Still, makes for interesting high-contrast photography, I suppose.

Big Tower

That wall on the left? That’s the wall I walked around and into the SURPRISE WINDS that almost knocked me over. Again, it provides shelter; Anna and I hid under that tower for a while to escape Ra’s gaze:

Not Entirely Successfully. Fortunately, we are not vampires.

Less wind than before, too. I’ve said it before, but I love taking panorama shots. It’s genuinely 75% of why I wanted a newer phone than I already had. Widescreen is awesome.

Yep. Them’s Islands.

Some foolishly risk Ra’s wrath

I tweeted this next one – BC Ferries picked it up, replied, and retweeted it – and I should probably say something about our doppelgangers heading into the time loop vortex around Vancouver Island and how we’re on the other boat or other-dimensional versions of us are because they have to replace us or we can’t leave or something but eh, I don’t have time, the Sleestak get cranky if you bring it up, and I have taxes to do and music to make. I just like the picture. :D

Hi Opposite Boat!

Anyway, back to work. Bigger versions of these photos on my photostream, like before.

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Final days for TWO projects you should support

Everybody listen up and pay attention! There are two artistic projects going in to their last days and both are on target to make it, so if you haven’t gone and pitched in already, GO NOW!

First is Heather Dale and Ben Deschamp’s Celtic Avalon album-tour-video project. It’s musical and educational, and they’ve just added SJ Tucker to the project, making it even more awesome than it already was. They’re down to less than a week and are very close, but not quite there. Heather Dale Band fans, SJ Tucker fans, Canadian music fans, you are on deck. If they get over in the next couple of days there will still be time for the only-once-already-successful people to jump in for stretch goals.

eta: They have a fan who will match donations today! Make twice as much support!

Second is the Inspector Spacetime/Doctor Who parody film which has not just Travis Richey and Chase Masterson and Robert Picardo and Mayim Bialik but the actual Seventh Doctor, Sylvester McCoy, in it. I talked about this before; they’re a little over halfway through the project period and are about three-quarters of the way to funding. It’d be great to get them over the top this week so all the people who don’t jump in until the project is already funded actually jump in, so they can do extra stuff.

They have the prequel already posted, it’s long, it’s good, you can see it at their IndieGoGo project page. If you’re not already in, go watch that and decide. Sylvester McCoy’s not in that clip – he shows up in the next scene, I’ve already seen the animatronic, it’s good – but Robert Picardo is. G’wan, you wanna.

eta: Woah, made IndieGoGo front page! Awesome. :D

Okay, enough screwing around online for me. Back to taxes.

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