Bastard's Notebook

Ok, the wife has asked what other stuff I want for the birthday. so I'm being helpful and posting links. Here's that last b-day post. And here's some more bits:

Ages ago, when I first fractured my hip while working in a haunted house, I ended up the whole affair with my own set of hospital scrubs (they'd had to cut me out of my own pants, so they supplied some of theirs). That old set finally fell apart a couple of years ago, which sucked, since they made such great pj's/doing nothing around the house pants. So help me, I want to get a set of them again. This time, in black. (Medium or large should be close to my size range.)

Two: A time machine, or some manner of finding enough time to complete all the stuff I'm in the midst of. That isn't going to happen, so how about a legion of stikfa workers to help speed things up?

Or there's all sorts of other things necessary to my bid for world domination. Like my own rocketship. Or a new heart. Or tea, since one cannot take over the world without it, or perhaps just a nice boardgame to pass the time.

Busy week, busy weekend. And it's only half over. Got to see mahariel and inaurolillium today at Brenna's Birthday picnic, which was, thankfully nice and low-key. Speaking of, the daughterling made out like a bandit this year: new trike and helmet, new toys, musical instruments, puppets, a pirate treasure chest, all sorts of stuff. Exhausting day of playing though. In fact, both kidlet and plaidbrat have been deeply crashed out from exhaustion for a couple of hours now. Me ion the other hand, I have stripes. On my head. Turns out our "emergency" sunscreen (which I needed to make use of at the park today on my shaven scalp) is sweat-soluble. Which means an accidental run of my hand across my head left some spaces rather exposed. So yeah. Relatively pale, except for where I've got some nice big red streaks.

So, what've I been doing tonight?

Posting News stories on DeviantArt.
And cleaning up the worktables. The damn stock tote's almost full again. Which, of course means only one thing. Time to fill another tote.

I also finally shot and shopped the pictures for one recent arrival- my stock samples from the League of Extraordinary Bastards! Check out the stickers!



Print quality's better than I expected, and a damn sight better than the original printings were. The adhesive seems to work well also- the sticker that I attached to Lenin's rear cargo pod has stayed firmly affixed, despite driving through the worst of the rain in the last couple of weeks. Anyways, definitely worth the purchase.

Other stuff to do tomorrow:

Hook up with bloodengel for a photo disc.

Find a new beanbag or floor pillow. Our old one suffered a potty-training related mishap, and needs replacement. (Any good suggestions for where to shop?)

Relax. Rest. Get ready for the trip of doom next weekend, which shall consist of me and a three year old driving solo to spokane to visit family.

Ladies, and gentlemen, I am officially drunk.

thankfully, looking over my friendslist, I'm not the only one.

More updates and pictures tomorrow, when I'm home from work and sober.

In the meantime, I have to be awake at 6am. That, is truly an indication of something wrong with the world.

Note to self: Working out in the morning good. Must start fighting mulletdwarf on a daily basis again.

So, tomorrow night's the beer/birthday night for myself. 8pm at the Tin Hat in ballard- anyone else up for joining us? It's just beer- it's not like it's going to bite. Admittedly, the lights in there are a bit brighter than those in most of the clubs, and the deafening music is actually scaled back a little to the point where conversation can actually be had, so you'll all actually have to see and talk to each other instead of posing gracefully, but hey, we all make sacrifices, yes?

Lemme know if you're coming though, so we can grab an appropriately-sized table, ok?

Time for the birthday beer report.


So far, 12 beers have been pre-purchased towards the evening, all of which happened on the first day I posted this thing. Wow. That also means that the camera's definitely coming with me when I go out that night. I may have to put in a couple other incentives though, just to see what happens.... maybe a table dance at 30 or 40 beers?

Anyways, if you want to buy me a beer for my birthday, and won't be able to make the actual celebration, just hit the button below.

For those who can and do want to make the party though, looks like it'll be on Friday, August 11th. Location will probably be the Tin Hat, in ballard. As for time, I'm still trying to figure that one out. Probably not until after 8pm at the least. Anyone interested?