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feb 22

Well, a secret code worked for one thing but not another but I'm happy with the thing it worked for.

I have a couple of things to buy and get that over with.

Half decided to do for some other screen captures what I did for some previous screen captures then tidy them up later as I have to remember my totem is the squirrel and I just exist better knowing I have it somewhere.

Not really feeling ready to write again which is fine as I have stuff current Little Walken can do that future Little Walken will thank her for.

If you're the type who has to put their shopping cart literally right outside the bathroom door and someone who weighs over 500 pounds is trying to get out while someone with a mobility device is trying to get in...

Really would have liked to hibernate yesterday instead of spending the better half of the third day in a row in the car but there are times when you have to be an adult and adult your way thru life and do all your doings so you have the whole weekend to not have to do anything until Monday when you'll do a thing that needs regular business hours anyway.

Someone at Apple tell me if a new regular iShiny is coming out because if not I'll go get a purple one because the one I have is not going to last forever.

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feb 21 actually, was too tired to care

And being reminded why I don't have crotch goblins or visit this place more than once every 20 years because... Last time they had a sawfish. There was no sawfish this time.

Will still be going to that doll store, it's just that it opens later in the day and is closer to us. We spent as much if not more time in traffic than at the actual aquarium and half of that was rolling over unwatched children with my rollator.

Tamzyn's album is here https://www.tumblr.com/tamzyn-eats-stuff/776052574758551552/tamzyn-eats-the-aquarium-of-the-pacific?source=share she worked quickly and was only grabbed at by one small special needs child. But yeah, if it's crotch goblin territory I don't take a doll, I take a replaceable mass produced plastic dinosaur.

Still it was over all a good day and nice to be able to take a special trip, afford to enjoy it, and not have any concerns outside of taking pictures for a couple of hours.

And as nice as it would be to label some of these things so people know what they are I also son't want to train any AI. But if you're visiting somewhere with a cephalopod remember they're curious creatures and might come closer if you have a distraction for them.

How do we know she's not a budding paleontologist? And I say she because to my knowledge male octopuses have a special longer tentacle for making baby octopuses which that giant pacific beauty didn't.

And the basic difference between seals and sea lions, tho not exact, is sea lions have the external ear flaps and seals don't. Thus in my searching for a sea lion charm, for plushie reasons for my charm bracelet, I could never find the right one with ear flaps. My Seamore (sp) is distinctly a sea lion. But I got a pressed penny of one yesterday so all I have to do is drill a hole in it and that promble is solved.

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Aww, babies

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feb 20

Finished the screen capture task of over 100 things yesterday before going out and doing real life on a beautiful day and coming home with fabric (including some Disney haunted mansion ghosts the only print from that I'd want) a big ol' tote bag with art stuff on it for my art supplies, some other fabric, and a book on crocheting bugs, all on sale.

Also learned that if you do the thing where you open your screen capture with just the space bar and highlight any text on said screen capture you can then copy the text and paste it in to a place of your choice you can paste text. So there's some possibility at doing an old school Project Gutenberg on some things.

I know some of y'all know what I'm meaning of back in the old pre scanner days of ebooks where it's obvious someone at Project Gutenberg typed the text of some of those books.

Look, I am a Cure fan, I have the audacity to sit there with a pregnant giraffe on mute in one window while shows that would give Robert's birthday a run for their run time played on the other. Don't think I won't do it for longer things, broken up in to reasonable chunks, because I will.

At least I can get ASIT on CDs.

More go outside plans for today. Writing might start tomorrow between busy work for the busy work.

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It’s not that you shouldn’t under estimate me when it comes to making photo copies of a library book, you shouldn’t under estimate me doing my whole damn library.

If buying isn’t owning then screen capture isn’t stealing.

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feb 19

Still on the busy work I can get done before I have to go outside today. Will have time to contemplate what might happen if something becomes far more irritating.

I paid for the couple of movies I had on your video part, and when you no longer allowed me to save them off line I never used that again, did I? Don't under estimate my ability to drop the rest of you. Or as much as I can if that becomes the only place to find certain titles but still it's going to be a hell of a drop in services.

Now, welcome to my TED (not TEDx) talk on why people become media pirates from someone who worked in Hollywood. If I had purchased an analog copy of his book, Robert Shenanigan and Barnes and Boarders wouldn't come to my house to take it back. And I'd have an analog copy if I already wasn't in a position where I needed to get a reasonable control on the amount of items I owned and my disabled ass wasn't going to move all those books again. My digital books now outnumber my analog books. Most are non fiction interests or references for my writing, I have a lot of biographies and memoirs, and some pleasure reading. I dare you to pry A Stitch In Time out of my brain. But I can't just read them when they come out because of my brain injury, and I can't just borrow because some books I have to read again, or read parts of again, because of my brain injury. And since it seems like you want to punish us who have rightfully bought and paid for digital books you leave us no choice but to...

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feb 18

Resist those Tubi badges, they are not proper compensation for exposure to the flesh hat. Stop wiggling and pulsing in the corner of my screen.

Well, while I found a quick way to means to a bunch of ends it will still make plenty of busy work for me in the future but I paid for those books, Andy and Brent and Elvira and Robert Shenanigan have my money, I've never once returned one, and some of them can't really be found anywhere else.

But you know what, I can also play buying isn't owning. I spent 40 years not being the Golden Child, I think I can play never buying another book from Kindle again.

My generation grew up with cassette recorders with radios and TVs with VCRs. You don't want to know how many potatoes we'll live with just to have it.

Went outside yesterday, learned there is a jellyfish t shirt to look for when I go out tomorrow.

Nothing much else as I'm in the midst of making a point to someone. It might only matter to me but it'll be worth it in the end.

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I want to know what those demanding multiple free airline seats for free because they're too fat to fit in to a single seat would do if they were on that airplane that flipped over?

That post about planes falling from the sky the moment Trump cut airline inspectors has certainly come true, hasn't it? It's turning in to crash of the week time.

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So, Lord Bezos dares to test my determination as a persistence accumulator of things and my desire to never ever buy a fucking Kindle again?

Interesting this would be my 10,000th post but here we are.

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feb 17

Not that I wouldn't sell that vintage Barbie dream house but y'all would have to come pick it up and give me at least $$$ for it so my Ferengi advisor won't be upset with me, would trade it for the yellow motorhome as altho I loved the one I have quite well the bitch who used it after me didn't take care of it as well.

But that's neither here nor there.

And no, it wasn't Jeff. It's never Jeff.

Mixed going out and doing real life chores with practicing shuttle lace. It took me a bit to remember how to do the stitch. I wish when I was learning how to do it in the first place I had the book I have now because it has several ways of going at it which would have saved some I don't know if its the autism or the brain injury frustration.

I also have lace bobbins. I've wanted to do bobbin lace since the 1990s when I checked out a book from the library, which I bought the moment it came on sale, and tried to make something to use as the book its self is quite helpful in how to DIY bobbins out of an amazing array of objects that I either had too few of or no way to easily get at the time. ~takes a Repressitall~ I think I got my kit around the turn of the century if not a bit later and I've made a few simple things.

It's one of those situations that half the time the lace bobbins and other things have been packed away somewhere in a closet or storage mixed with being so fucking depressed or carbon monoxide poisoned that creating things just doesn't come to mind.

And we'll just say as traditional as it is the stainless steel shuttle can be annoying when the bobbin doesn't want to move. But I remember buying that when the Joann in the town we used to live in but moved a good hour away from, which is closing and I plan to go to tomorrow possibly for the last time, moved to its current location and it was less than $5 for a stainless steel shuttle, some extra bobbins for it, and a bunch of size 80 thread. Not that I finally figured out how to tat until about 10 years ago at the most.

If your Joann hasn't been redone or condensed to a shiny new location it will probably be closing. The one we live walking distance from will now be the only for a good 100 miles I suppose.

It's the employees I worry about because no one deserves to loose their job because of corporate shenanigans.

We can go to Michaels and Hobby Lobby for crafty crap, Joann is supposed to be fabric, and fabric people want, not all that licensed and ugly Pride stuff. Go to the GTFO rack, it's all licensed stuff no one wants on fabric (outside of like novelty fat quarter bundles) and who signed off on this ugly POS you should jest keep it to general rainbows and hearts and love is love shit.

You wanna know what sold out and I was glad I got any of it? Jellyfish. Lovely colorful jellyfish. And the night garden with the luna moths. And dino nugget colored yarn. And yarn bowls shaped like skulls.

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feb 16

So what happened is when I got my first Mac I had to replace the way I plugged my stereo in to it because there was no more aux line in jack so I ended up with the aux/headphone plug on one end red an white audio/usb plugs on the other end. Not that I ever use it headphone jack out USB in on the same device or anything in conjunction with video screen capture.

I just have to remember to tell it line in microphone when I do.

Fuck you app that wants to charge me to change format on something I already paid for. Never under estimate my patience to live record something 12 hours long. You don't know where I'm coming from.

On one hand I found out Andy Robinson reading A Stitch In Time isn't exclusive to one audio book seller or another. So pick your poison but for the love of Gashir listen to the man read his slutty fan fiction and do impressions of other cast members.

It's like Jeffrey Combs reading Re-Animator https://archive.org/details/jeffery-combs-reads-hp-lovecrafts-herbert-west-reanimator No one else is going to do it better right now.

I'd still like to hear Sid read some but we do have their other stuff so we're lucky in that aspect.

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Almost started writing yesterday but as I have a current project that needs slight monitoring for time I'm taking the opportunity to check out some of the videos on my phone. I put some pilot episodes on there, which is how I started but couldn't finish Dead End Paranormal Park.

It's not about make Scooby Doo with two chicks and make one trans and one autistic, it's about the writing and the characterization. You aren't keeping me. I looked up the story to the pilot. Would have made an okay movie but I can't see how they got 20 episodes of this without it being dull and repetitive.

Yeah, we know the Scooby formula, it's about how is it being done this time and why. Guy in a mask, Papa Nihil, or demons, there was always something unique to each episode of Scooby.

I know it's older than them but I could see in DEPP where all the things I find annoying in Helluva Hotel Circus could come from but via someone without story telling skills.

There's more development in five minutes of someone examining light fixtures in the backrooms.

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Someone from Gen X tell me if Dead End Paranormal Park gets better or is it just half assed Scooby Doo clone but stick a chick in it and make her autistic and trans?

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feb 15

Going to have to do a 12 hour thing the hard way if I can't find out where the fuck the files are on the puter. It just feels like I'm missing something.

Sorted some more fabric yesterday but I still feel it's unsorted and unorganized to a degree.

General feelings of being unorganized and not able to able and shit like that right now.

Still have more fabric to do but I literally have to do something else for the sake of my back.

As I wonder where the fuck to put that Barbie Dreamhouse, I have a later one that hasn't been together in years, I also half wonder about selling it because I also have vintage cases for the mod girls.

Did find some Francie hangers and vintage Barbie and Ken clothes inside which more than make up for what I paid for it so anything I get for the house would be profit.

Meanwhile all it's doing is adding more clutter.

Decided to wash my hands of something else that's cluttering up tho.

Any mistaken purchases done while living at the shit shack are the results of carbon monoxide poisoning.

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This doesn’t count as a doll so I’m still in the no buy club!

Don’t even know what all is inside it or how complete it is or what year its from.

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feb 14

We told you to see Makini while he was still cute and darling.

Pretty soon he's going to be as big as Corky.

For those of you keeping track, Makani is the one who would rehearse behaviors and perform them without being signaled. Trust me, there's a video out there where he performs a breakspin while still a toddler and looks so proud of himself.

We also celebrate Andrew J Robinson in this house and if you need a 12 hour audio book of Star Trek slash fiction why not get a copy of A Stitch In Time Read by the man himself?

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Got all my fabric in the same place at the same time and aside from the slightly overstuffed Halloween bin and the "castle quilt" which needs to be dealt with there's really just 2-3 of what I'd call "regular" fabric to sort. I am tempted in a way to get a batch of same sized boxed to put it all in but I also have an anti rows of cardboard boxes thing going on because that's how my grandsmother lived.

I think I'll be okay if I put the fabric for certain projects in smaller bags in the bins as well as take pictures of what's in each bag so I can have them on my phone and puter to get me more inspired to do things with them.

No real hurry as the square quilt still needs to be quilted and the roses bed cover is still being stitched. I've already slept under the squares one tho. The roses won't have any batting, I'm just going to put a backing cloth of some sort on them.

I have several large pieces of "geisha" print fabrics, and the neko cats, that will work as backing but I might offer them up for sale first. So if any long time readers are looking for cotton prints with geisha on them let me know, they're all about 20 years old or so.

The weather will dictate if we go out today, I have some reference pics to print for my art, the smothering unit has some stuff for the Life Ruiner. I still wonder if somehow she's still going to end up with a present for my birthday because I only have past experience to go on.

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feb 13

Putting together the Harry Potter potions classroom to put on a shelf. I don't think it's over packer enough. The whole thing could fit on a sheet of US letter or A4 paper. Yeah. Definitely won't fit the surprise ball stuff. That's why Michaels sold out of those cauldron shaped shelves. And I have a coffin shaped one form Joanns to fill too.

Finally found a reasonable mandrake online so I bought it. As for the other two rare ones now that I know what the hack is I can look for that. I still have some extras, there are two I haven't even opened, and I played with a couple others. My biggest thing will be getting out my resin molds and draining the cauldrons in to them so I don't have to worry about them leaking in the future, but no hurry.

Going to at least try to get the fabric bins in the same place at the same time today. It's cold and damp and my back knows it. Would have done more sewing if I didn't pace myself because I know how my pinching muscles can be.

Got as far as putting misfits on the puter so I can skim thru for just Robert's parts. I watched some of it before and really don't care much about any of the characters but I want to at least see Robert's parts.

Skimming to just Brent's parts worked for Picard. Don't think I really missed anything there. Not that I wouldn't put it on again when I need noise while I'm working on something.

If I'm left alone with my thoughts for too long they turn intrusive and bold you think they need any help telling me negative things.

Outlive the spoiled Golden Child in the family. Force them to deal with the fact the one they threw under the bus picked themselves up and made something of themselves.

Still don't know what I'll be writing next but I'm already feeling the pull to get in to one story or another.

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no spoilers

Someone tell the guy in the Daddycop episode of Miraculous Ladybug that Bjorn Andresen called and wants his look back.

Unless Dorian Red Gloria or Robert Plant call first.

Incase y'all need something to look in to before we find out who he is.