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sethrakReading various blogs and news websites about the unrest in Egypt. (I recommend to your attention the running-updates on Mother Jones: http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/01/whats-happening-egypt-explained#Feb1 )
Reading various blogs about the latest fail involving Penny Arcade and some of their fanbase about the notorious dickwolves comic.
Unfunny_fandom has a good link roundup: http://www.journalfen.net/community/unfunny_fandom/6995.html
This tumblr account, linked to by unfunny_fandom, has a good timeline for easy grokking of the overall fail: http://debacle.tumblr.com/post/3041940865/the-pratfall-of-penny-arcade-a-timeline
Trying to find primary source material for the alleged EPA regulations that will force dairy farmers to treat massive milk storage tanks the same as tanks that store petroleum. So far, my google-fu has only found conservative websites railing against this latest liberal fuckery, dated recently, and non-partisan MSM news sites in areas with lots of dairy farmers, dated last summer, wringing their hands in a calmer manner. The EPA's own website has links to a short notice of the proposed rules, dated last summer, and some pdf files detailing them. Nothing that states what the current status of such rules is or isn't. I don't even know. ::sigh:: I do know I'm not wading into a Facebook debate without primary source material to base my assertions on.
I am SO glad the weather is improving enough tomorrow for schools to reopen. Mark is driving me mildly nuts. Also, i went to a lot of trouble to sew his mittens to some ribbon I had lying around, as a makeshift mitten-string, and want to test it out.
Dav, seeing me with a lapful of sewing supplies and the coat on our bed: What're you doing sweetie?
Me: Fixing Mark's mittens so he can't lose them and the school can't claim they're too busy to look in his backpack for them. Need me to move to the library so you can go to bed?
Dav: Nope! Good luck!
::some time later::
Me, entering library: Yay me! They're done!
Dav, mild look of disbelief: ....no way!
Me: Yes way!...and what do you mean, no way?!
Dav: You actually did it? How's it look?
Me: ::shows him:: What's that supposed to mean?
Dav: Um, I didn't think the ribbon would hold up...
Me: Eh, I wasn't sure it would either, it's so narrow. And I didn't have a lot of room to work with, because the mitten cuffs are so small. But the stitches are rock solid! :D
Dav: Wow, you actually did pretty good.... Just don't be too disappointed if he ruins it in the morning.
Me: Yeah, he is awfully good at destruction, isn't he? ::sigh:: Well, it'll do for tomorrow, and worst case scenario, I just have to buy wider ribbon and try again.
I am still miffed at his disbelief I was able to sew the mittens to the ribbon. I've been cross-stitching for how long, after all? The stitches aren't pretty, and bear little resemblence to real cross stitchery, but they get the job done. Their only limitation is whether Mark decides he really doesn't want them there.
Reading various blogs about the latest fail involving Penny Arcade and some of their fanbase about the notorious dickwolves comic.
Unfunny_fandom has a good link roundup: http://www.journalfen.net/community/unfunny_fandom/6995.html
This tumblr account, linked to by unfunny_fandom, has a good timeline for easy grokking of the overall fail: http://debacle.tumblr.com/post/3041940865/the-pratfall-of-penny-arcade-a-timeline
Trying to find primary source material for the alleged EPA regulations that will force dairy farmers to treat massive milk storage tanks the same as tanks that store petroleum. So far, my google-fu has only found conservative websites railing against this latest liberal fuckery, dated recently, and non-partisan MSM news sites in areas with lots of dairy farmers, dated last summer, wringing their hands in a calmer manner. The EPA's own website has links to a short notice of the proposed rules, dated last summer, and some pdf files detailing them. Nothing that states what the current status of such rules is or isn't. I don't even know. ::sigh:: I do know I'm not wading into a Facebook debate without primary source material to base my assertions on.
I am SO glad the weather is improving enough tomorrow for schools to reopen. Mark is driving me mildly nuts. Also, i went to a lot of trouble to sew his mittens to some ribbon I had lying around, as a makeshift mitten-string, and want to test it out.
Dav, seeing me with a lapful of sewing supplies and the coat on our bed: What're you doing sweetie?
Me: Fixing Mark's mittens so he can't lose them and the school can't claim they're too busy to look in his backpack for them. Need me to move to the library so you can go to bed?
Dav: Nope! Good luck!
::some time later::
Me, entering library: Yay me! They're done!
Dav, mild look of disbelief: ....no way!
Me: Yes way!...and what do you mean, no way?!
Dav: You actually did it? How's it look?
Me: ::shows him:: What's that supposed to mean?
Dav: Um, I didn't think the ribbon would hold up...
Me: Eh, I wasn't sure it would either, it's so narrow. And I didn't have a lot of room to work with, because the mitten cuffs are so small. But the stitches are rock solid! :D
Dav: Wow, you actually did pretty good.... Just don't be too disappointed if he ruins it in the morning.
Me: Yeah, he is awfully good at destruction, isn't he? ::sigh:: Well, it'll do for tomorrow, and worst case scenario, I just have to buy wider ribbon and try again.
I am still miffed at his disbelief I was able to sew the mittens to the ribbon. I've been cross-stitching for how long, after all? The stitches aren't pretty, and bear little resemblence to real cross stitchery, but they get the job done. Their only limitation is whether Mark decides he really doesn't want them there.
