The Patent Dragon's Zone of Soul Retraction

Back to work tomorrow - and yet again, my day took some time to start to my satisfaction. We had a partial power-outage following ANOTHER bout of stormy weather, but that was all due to a circuit-breaker tripping, not wind or falling trees - and right after that, the Christmas decorations absolutely HAD to come down...

I am only now getting my arse in a seat, to try and make some use of what little remains of my work-break. I'm already exploring options for my loooooong-overdue hardware upgrade - damn all these multi-core processors - and some other shopping may be done before week's end ...ooooh, new LEGO minifigures...

Now may be the time to start planning on, or in some instance complete, some of my major creative Mission 101 Tasks, such as

88 - Create usable stage/screen/cosplay props of three pieces of costume or equipment from my own projects
91 - Create a "personal goddess"
94 - Make a PD-worthy pair of boots from scratch!
97 - Build a diddley bow

- pity we're now short a craft shop...

Time, perhaps, to go looking for more leather and some faux suede, for two projects outside of the Mission "portfolio". Yes, I'm in the mood to make stuff - weather permitting.

Okay, I'm typing this up at work for a quick deployment - I just do not want to waste time juggling slug-slow LiveJournal pages...

ITEM! Ye gods, was trying to pursue the LJ error a total time-leech last night. Running trace routes, rerunning trace routes so you could actually cut-and-paste them - I really could do without all this right now!

ITEM! Expect occasional blog-posting "drop-outs" over the next two weeks. The broadband needs transferred - that's something to arrange first thing tomorrow - and I'm counting on it not being an entirely straightforward job. Something is BOUND to go wrong.

Assume writing will be taking something of a back seat for a week or so. I am trying to complete TDD-701 A Star Is Rising, having most of the last chapter to do as of time of writing, and I can still find time for pen-and-paper work, I'm sure.

ITEM! Oh, holy shit. I had the impression my comic collection was something in the range of 12 to 14 comic boxes in size - and I could fit most of it under my old computer desk - the metal-framed one.

Some hope. It's approaching double that. Some essential pruning just became a lot of pruning. The collection has to be halved at least - and gods be praised for the invention, and growing popularity, of trade paperbacks!

ITEM! Instructibles.com may just have yielded some VERY useful woodworking instructions, which may help me on my way to Mission 101 Task 94

94 - Make a PD-worthy pair of boots from scratch!

And so, the sun sets on another day, to dawn anew on Day One of Operation Herculean Task. Cover me, boys - I'm going in...

First Saturday in three weeks that I've had the opportunity to kick back, and properly relax... and we've got a last-minute house-viewing. That'll be the lie-in knackered, then, closely followed by a good dose of afternoon arse-up, and ending with "desperately trying to make up for the start of the day".

All of this will, of course, be preceded by a whole bunch of "fall asleep at the keyboard"...

I'm starting to think that "writing hour" may soon become a necessity.

On a lighter note... Found some very useful foam sheeting on eBay, but I'm wishing I'd ordered TWO sheets, given that I have two projects that would benefit from it, but Item 1 of Task 88

88 - Create usable stage/screen/cosplay props of three pieces of costume or equipment from my own projects

seems far more likely to reach fruition soon than

94 - Make a PD-worthy pair of boots from scratch!

- both of which need some careful preliminary design work, but Task 94 involves some extra issues, such as making/getting made some sole units.

Interesting (and busy) times ahead!