Sorry about delay. Under construction.

Things are in limbo

Apologies ( if anyone reads these ),

I had food poisoning the other day and it was lingering today too.

Project fencification is still a go, pretty much within expectations though not without delays from a variety of sources. It's taken 2 different Home Despot stores and a visit every other day to get what we needed, as well as going to another fence supply store tomorrow !
I hope to have it all wrapped up tomorrow evening and can get to a couple other projects.
*I am still not feeling well, so this will be pretty short.

Karen and I have been working on different sewing projects, I'm stitching up my hoodie and found some excellent wool fabric which I hope to make a double sided vest with. I am making apple sauce in my crock pot, soon to can that up into little jars. Wednesday Steampunks is well attended and we are hoping to have some events coming up.

I am very excited for NANO to start.

Must go, need rest.

NANO 2015 IS NIGH !

Well here we are again,

The NANO is coming, health is pretty stable though it's pretty costly in terms of hours each day it's taking up. I'm not actually sick, there is no infection so I am still holding to a dust / pollen issue and that the rain will handle that soon. 

Working on the novel and I have about 6 chapters and 25 scenes outlined so far, I have another week to hammer out the chapters and some more scenes, I'd like around 12 or 18 chapters given the way this story is starting out, and probably about 4 to 8 scenes per chapter if the pattern holds.

Meds arrived on Friday, meds, meds, meds.

Had a nice evening tonight, Friday was great fun with pick up games of board games and the gang hanging out.

Been away for a while.

Been sick, And had a lot of things taking up time and energy.
Health is pretty normal here.
Hoping to land some regular work soon,
got a couple of small projects in the works, and a few fallen through.
Hoping soon to have stuff all worked out soon so I can move onto more projects.

Steampunks was great fun,
Katie M's birthday was today and we all enjoyed her rice crispy treats.

Lungs are mucky, cannot decide what that's about.

All but finished on the CAD for the house for the upcoming NANO,
youtubes to follow.

Had lots of fun with Karen the last day or so, hope to have her project done soon too.

Weekend update; mixed results

It's been a taxing week

The lungs have been pretty lame lately. Lots of crap to cough up, Cayston machine acting up too but cannot readily replace it. *One of my friends is allergic to Cayston / should be sending me his machine to replace my failing unit.

     I've had to cut a number of work days, and that's got me vexed.
Applying for regular work too; nothing good has come of that yet, hope remains.

Writing project is still underway though I am getting pulled toward other projects from previous years.

   Helped friends move this weekend, that was really exhausting and awesome.

Got to see the Wiener dogs, even if it wasn't nearly as long as I'd hoped for.

Exp with making sticky rice, very nearly a total success.

Plans for next week: Find regular employ, continue working as hard and fast on other projects as possible.

Take Karen to the cool Indian place, dump run? Build fence?

Yup. That's about all I've got for now.

Wednesday post; delayed due to beer and friends

Wednesday was a success!

Well, mostly a success.

     So my Wednesday was pretty much a wash, the eye apt was in fact yesterday and not Tuesday as they'd called to tell me Monday. Then it turns out they told me to be there an hour earlier than I needed to be. Hung out, looked at frames / played with phone. Eye dilation; a weekend of horror stories it turns out; my eyes do not get all weird and whatever nor was I motion sick as a result.
     In fact: even though I was certain there were some problems that would crop up, it turned out to be worrying for nothing as my eyes have still tested as "perfect" and the photo of the inside / back of the eyes was excellent quality too and revealed there are no problems for me to worry about there. 

    Turns out: No glasses for me.

    Went home and made some tea, turned on Gotham and laid on my bed for a few hours while my eyes got rid of those blasted drops they put into you. Now it wasn't "Real Oregon Rain" yesterday, but it was wet enough I did not want to spend the rest of the day outside in it. My lungs have been pretty congested lately sometimes doubling up on treatments to keep things clear and it was no exception when I got back. I'm thinking environmental stuff is at work because since water started falling my breathing has been less problematic. OR it could be that I vacuumed my room out and it was exceedingly dusty. ( See : CF patients with fans and open windows ) there is carpet throughout the house, I hate carpet. Give me good honest hardwood any day. Hell stone / tile; bamboo ! 

     My culinary masterpieces continue to keep me well fed while I'm without food stamps, and that's next on my list of things to do; reapply and continue rolling out job apps. In the meantime piecemeal labor for friends and wood working are the marching orders. Sold my Cadians off, and we shall not know their like again.

     The other day ( Tuesday ) Karen came over to work on her Titanic themed / era dress for the Time Traveler's ball which is Sat, and due to weinerdog related obligations I am unable to attend this year compounding my sadness as I would have finally had something worthy to be seen in. I suppose this means that I need to just keep working on my costume supplies. There are lots of things I"d like to build now. 

Projects for my Steampunk costuming needs:

GAITORS: Black Canvas or leather

HATS ( several different styles ) I want to rebuild my "Tall hat" but make it more resplendent among other things.

GLOVES ( a couple of different types )

SCABBARD w/ dagger / bayonet holder built in. Wood clad in either tough canvas cloth or leather.

Thinking about some adornment for the scabbard too. 

Eventually I want to build a sidearm, and a couple of different long arms for various events, they should be beautiful and very excellent working order. 

That's about all for now.

Got some writing project work to do in free time at night. 

Sorry about the delay,

It's been an eventful week, 

Well sort of.

I've been trying to get as much work done as possible, many set backs. Had some bouts of issues with my lungs and things. Went and saw my GP for the first time ( I haven't had a GP since I was kid ) that went okay and I am overall quite happy with their office and staff, even though I had to explain what CF was and how it affected me in pretty basic terms. Learning to make Pipes, from the old man.
     Did some yard work, house projects, got the dryer replaced at the house, working on the dishwasher next, the replacement of toilet seats.

    Onto more interesting things:

 This weekend we held a very nice tea and potluck / Halloween card making at the lodge hosted my Mrs. S' and Judy. Though I was slow to get into the card making I am very pleased to say that I would like to do it again atleast one more time before the month is over.

   My writing projects are kicking in, and at this point I am very close to being ready to start hitting the chapters and other major components into place with Ywriter5' I'll probably dink around with it before we get too close to Nov madness. And I'm filled with more and more desire to write more and more things, this is a dangerous thing as you're no doubt aware. Must keep the primary project and see it completely worked out. I'd like to have an actual manuscript to show someone this year, then I can go back and start working out some of the old stories and projects with a firm and fixed method to keep it all handled. 

    Karen and I have a project or two to work on in the next week and two weeks I hope it will be fruitful as many people seemed to have an interest in these.

    Need to get "real job" thing and money that happens regular like.

Starting Cayston this month ( which is awesome )

*My machine is damaged and can only run on batteries now? ( less awesome ) need to get it replaced.

Well the write in is tomorrow, unless no one commits to come then I'll cancel it and head home to rest.