Science update and more
Aug. 3rd, 2005 08:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwendolyngraceGene Kranz is my hero:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/03/opinion/03kranz.html?th&emc=th
Any man who gets to be played by Ed Harris in the movie version has a plus sign already, but damn, he's always been cool all on his own, too.
"All progress involves risk. Risk is essential to fuel the economic engine of our nation. And risk is essential to renew American's fundamental spirit of discovery so we remain competitive with the rest of the world."
Right on, man.
Last night I finished Howl's Moving Castle and now I Really, really want to see the Miyazaki film version. Diana Wynn Jones, darlings. Go read it now.
Over the weekend I sewed like a maniac and came out with my first kesode, a long undertunic, and a short undertunic. None of them are perfect, but at least I will have underwear for the war. Unfortunately, the sewing machine I borrowed from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
etakyma is not cooperating, so I had to go to her house to sew. I will probably reprise this behaviour this weekend, too, in the hope of making hakama and an obi and maybe a new outer tunic or try my hand at the mesopotamian that TRH's are going to use during their reign. If nothing else, it will be cool for war. Watch it rain and be cold, just because I'm preparing for hot weather. Yeah.
Merg. Too much work to do this week. Too much time spent playing online. I didn't check LJ at all over the weekend (because I was sewing!) and friends was at skip=210 when I came back on Monday. Yikes. The joy of fandom with new canon.
Wallet search: I'm still looking for a new wallet. The kind I had was from Wilson's leather, and they aren't making them currently, apparently. It was a bifold, with a window pocket on the back for driver's license and all. The foldover itself had a small pocket, which was perfect for health insurance cards and so on. Then the main wallet part was just a front, middle, and back section, each of which would hold several cards or bills (folded in quarters), and a zipped change purse in between the middle and back, which I never used.
I've found simlar items at Target and Kohl's, which I didn't really like but they were a little less expensive, and at Filene's, which has a zipper around the back instead of a foldover, but which is leather and a deep shade of purple. But is a purple wallet taking the purple too far? I keep thinking I might find something at the outlet mall in Grove City or something if I just wait a bit longer. Meanwhile, though, I have nothing convenient in which to keep my stuff.
Also, I need a new checkbook cover and I can't find one with the little tab thing that holds the register open to the right page. Bleh. I guess next time I order checks I'll pick one out.
This getting all my stuff together again sucks.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/03/opinion/03kranz.html?th&emc=th
Any man who gets to be played by Ed Harris in the movie version has a plus sign already, but damn, he's always been cool all on his own, too.
"All progress involves risk. Risk is essential to fuel the economic engine of our nation. And risk is essential to renew American's fundamental spirit of discovery so we remain competitive with the rest of the world."
Right on, man.
Last night I finished Howl's Moving Castle and now I Really, really want to see the Miyazaki film version. Diana Wynn Jones, darlings. Go read it now.
Over the weekend I sewed like a maniac and came out with my first kesode, a long undertunic, and a short undertunic. None of them are perfect, but at least I will have underwear for the war. Unfortunately, the sewing machine I borrowed from
etakyma is not cooperating, so I had to go to her house to sew. I will probably reprise this behaviour this weekend, too, in the hope of making hakama and an obi and maybe a new outer tunic or try my hand at the mesopotamian that TRH's are going to use during their reign. If nothing else, it will be cool for war. Watch it rain and be cold, just because I'm preparing for hot weather. Yeah.Merg. Too much work to do this week. Too much time spent playing online. I didn't check LJ at all over the weekend (because I was sewing!) and friends was at skip=210 when I came back on Monday. Yikes. The joy of fandom with new canon.
Wallet search: I'm still looking for a new wallet. The kind I had was from Wilson's leather, and they aren't making them currently, apparently. It was a bifold, with a window pocket on the back for driver's license and all. The foldover itself had a small pocket, which was perfect for health insurance cards and so on. Then the main wallet part was just a front, middle, and back section, each of which would hold several cards or bills (folded in quarters), and a zipped change purse in between the middle and back, which I never used.
I've found simlar items at Target and Kohl's, which I didn't really like but they were a little less expensive, and at Filene's, which has a zipper around the back instead of a foldover, but which is leather and a deep shade of purple. But is a purple wallet taking the purple too far? I keep thinking I might find something at the outlet mall in Grove City or something if I just wait a bit longer. Meanwhile, though, I have nothing convenient in which to keep my stuff.
Also, I need a new checkbook cover and I can't find one with the little tab thing that holds the register open to the right page. Bleh. I guess next time I order checks I'll pick one out.
This getting all my stuff together again sucks.
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Date: 2005-08-03 02:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-08-03 02:59 pm (UTC)Purple wallet
Date: 2005-08-03 02:39 pm (UTC)Re: Purple wallet
Date: 2005-08-03 03:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-08-03 03:19 pm (UTC)Let me know if you find anything though, we seem to be looking for the same thing!
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Date: 2005-08-03 06:23 pm (UTC)I am assuming that my picking her book up on a whim from a used bookstore and your reccomendation are a sign, and I am just letting you know that I'll obey and get all of her books.
Did you hear that, universe? I'm taking the hint, and there's no need to expend any more energy preparing super weird and unusual signs for me.