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December Meme – Day Nineteen – Knitting

Dec19

The Meme

Today’s prompt is from [personal profile] kelkyag: Knitting

Oh, man, I haven’t knitted in so long. Children are walking and talking who I had Big Plans to knit baby clothes for.

And it’s a pity, and something I ought to rectify, because knitting is very soothing. It calms me down, gives me something to do with my hands, and takes some of my attention so that I can spend the rest of it focusing.

On my list of things I really want to knit:

Shahin’s wristwarmers, in large part because I want to use them in the Kickstarter.

A girl-stuff pouch for my purse, because, well, girl stuff. <.<

Something for a friend’s kid before said kid heads off to college.

The two hats I have planned for other friends, before they’re 80.

And, in the dream-big realm, I really want to knit myself a Douglas Adams/Dr. Who homage towel shawl blanket.

Maybe start small? I think I have a dishcloth on the needles, or there’s always the 13-foot scarf I was knitting for a friend. I got through 6 feet of it…

*flexes fingers* I’m allergic to wool, so knitting for me is almost always cotton or linen. I’m just beginning to get a feel for bamboo, but it is so different from cotton…

Maybe I’ll knit myself a set of pulse warmers first.

🙂

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More thoughts on Mellama’s IconDay6

Dec18

http://itsamellama.dreamwidth.org/96968.html

Okay, so I was thinking – the last giraffe call (http://aldersprig.dreamwidth.org/819607.html) made enough for an art!

And Mel has art options in her tipping thresholds.

Sooo… there’s a lot of “more please” stories that came out of this Call. Ideas? I was thinking either the young princeling/his older Mentor; the ace prince & his ace rescuer, or the princess with her Very Very Angry Captive

http://aldersprig.dreamwidth.org/tag/giraffecall

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Jumping Rings: A Story of the Circled Plain Chapter Thirteen (Choose)

Dec17

“Agree. Or don’t. You have to be agreeing to it, Taslin, you know that. They can’t force you to take a Patronage.”

“But they can make my life very difficult if I do not. They can make everything unpleasant. They can lean on the owners of the pit. They can Patronize someone else and encourage them to hurt me, or just hire people to attack me.”

“That’s illegal.”

Read On…

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Landing Page: Vas’ World

Dec17

Vas’ World
They had trained for this scouting mission for over a year; they’d trained in the space service for years before that. But they were still unprepared for everything they found on the new planet.

Vas’ World is a soft sci-fi story of planetary exploration; like the exploration, this setting is still in the nascent stages.

Icon by [personal profile] meeks.

Best places to start:
Naming Names
The Sea and Sky

Stories include:
(The Vas Cycle)
Naming Names
Observe and Report
By the Wall (LJ [Donor Perk]
Contemplating the Wall
Siege
Horseback
Fighting for Dominance
Elevator
Coming Up (LJ)
Wound (LJ) (Donor Perk)
Greetings (LJ), to [personal profile] eseme‘s prompt
Harvest (LJ)
Further Exploration Reveals… (LJ)
“I said, Further Exploration reVEALS,” (LJ)
Reveal SOMETHING? (LJ)
Dream (LJ) Malia’s Vision Quest

(The Becky Cycle)
Care Package
Rescue?
Kisses
Introductions
all four available in Tales for the Sugar Cat e-book!

The Sea and Sky (no xpost), of the origins of this planet.
Vinting Love (LJ), after Sea & Sky
Harvest (LJ)

The Planet Called “Oh, Fuck, We’re Screwed.”
Holy Fuck, It’s Snowing
First Thanksgiving

Read my short story “Xenonegotiation,” set in the pre-history of Vas’ World, in the April Issue of EMG-Zine!

Worldbuilding
February Worldbuilding Q5
February Worldbuilding q21 (LJ)

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December in Alder, a partial summary

Dec16

What Follows is now available in print!

Feedback Requested
December Theme Poll

Fiction
Arrangements, a continuation of Live-In – modern/IRL ‘verse
The Border, a continuation of Itty Bitty Package and Courier Duty – Space/Colonies/?? ‘verse
Next on the Tour, a story of Science!
Cali, Femdom, Catgirls in Tír na Cali
Discoveries on the Colony
A Physical Detail, just a minor thing (a writing exercise)

Serials
Jumping Rings – Chapter 12 – Choose
Edally Chapter 17 – Hit First, Reassess, Hit Again
Edally Chapter 18 – When Making War, First Make Tea

December Meme
The Meme Post
Day One – TV
Day Two – Garden Plans
Day Three – Snow
Day Four – Farmville
Day Five – Plotting Methods
Day Six – Fire, Fire, Fire!
Day Seven – Budgeting
Day Eight – Obscure Factoid
Day Nine – Doug
Day Eleven Rolling the Dice
Day Thirteen Favorite Games
Day Fifteen Shopping places?

Fiction!
The Powers That Be, a continuation of Visiting the Family thru Still in the Family, in Aunt Family
Rumors about the Family, a story start for the Aunt Family
The Cat’s Paw, a continuation of Cats & Grannies thru Family Secrets & Cat Secrets
Warm Visions & Warm Family

Moving On To Number Eight a storybit of Addergoole Yr 22

The Annual Sacrifice, a story of Dragons Next Door (or at least a teaser)
When the Time Comes Around (Turn, Turn, Turn), a story of the Stranded World

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December Meme – Day Fifteen

Dec15

The Meme

Today’s prompt is from [personal profile] eseme: Favorite places to shop for the late shoppers

Urrf.

This is trickier than it sounds for me, because my shopping is so specific to the person. My mom asked for a cast-iron pan for christmas, for instance, and my dad asked for a lined polarfleece pullover. One of those we buy locally, the other via massive online searching.

Let’s see, though.

Barnes & Noble, of course, especially if I’m in a hurry. ThinkGeek, SockDreams, and Lee Valley for quick go-tos for online/catalog shopping. Etsy 😉 And, of course, Amazon.com.

We generally do a first run of our local outlet mall, but since we don’t have a proper mall in our area, most of our shopping will end up being online – in addition to the above list, there’s also LL Bean/Eddie Bauer. Oh, and Spice House.

To round out the list, we also like Uncommon Goods, for that little something unusual.

And that’s… about it. Where do you shop?

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December Meme – Day Eight

Dec8

The Meme

Today’s prompt is from [personal profile] aoifes_isle: Obscure factoid that everyone should know.

I went with an obscure vocabulary word!

Obscure factoid that everyone should know.

fungible
adjective
Definition of FUNGIBLE

1: being of such a nature that one part or quantity may be replaced by another equal part or quantity in the satisfaction of an obligation (oil, wheat, and lumber are fungible commodities)

So, this word was a revelation to me, in the context of budget items are often fungible. Not personal budgets, as discussed yesterday, but, say, the budgets of major corporations, charities, governments.

If you give a college a grant of $1m only to repair roads, then they can shift every cent in their repair roads budget, up to $1m, to other categories. So you are, in effect, funding, say, the Making Centaur-People lab by your roads only donation.

If I win a $50,000 gift card only for groceries (they happen, really), then I have $50k I don’t have to spend on groceries. See? Fungible.

It’s a neat word, and a good one to apply when people are debating public budgets.

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