evile: hey :)
SkyeDS: how do :)
evile: good. 1 day closer to the weekend & had a nice evening
w/friends last night. It's all good.
SkyeDS: I wanted to paste this thing my mother or someone sent me
once about being thankful for various things, so I go out on the
internet to find it, it's a rather well worn set of homilies, but no
luck
SkyeDS: Chuys' sounded like a blast. We always have a blast when we
go there in groups or otherwise
evile: hm. *shrug* not ringing any bells for me.
evile: Chuy's was great fun. Festive is in town for work & he came by
after his work-stuff was done. He has such a great talent for just
fitting in effortlessly with any group
SkyeDS: nods I remember
SkyeDS: my parentals have decided, after being informed next weekend
is good but this weekend is not, that they're coming this weekend
anyway
SkyeDS: I said, well, that's fine
evile: bizarre.
SkyeDS: you can hang with sonar0m till sineater gets home
SkyeDS: and sineater and sonar0m till I get home
SkyeDS: and then you can keep us company while we pack, and then
we're leaving
evile: heh. good for you.
SkyeDS: I appreciate that they bought a hay buggy (not inexpensive)
and that they want to come get me hay
SkyeDS: but I don't need hay
evile: hm.
SkyeDS: at the moment I don't need a hay buggy either
evile: oh well, it was the thought that counts....
SkyeDS: so when asked why this weekend and not next, the response
was, your mother doesn't have papers this weekend to grade and she
does next
evile: Ok then...
SkyeDS: ok, well, I have a weekend event between Lufkin and Beaumont
this weekend
SkyeDS: and only a day event in Waco next
evile: *nod*
SkyeDS: and these are group things, so I can't rearrange them to suit
myself (like papergrading)
evile: *nod*
evile: If she wasn't prone to carsickness, paper-grading can be done
in a car...
SkyeDS: she has her reasons and I have mine
evile: *nod*
SkyeDS: and I'm not going to feel guilty that I'm not dropping
everything
evile: nope. YOu've had your weekends planned out for months now.
SkyeDS: crafty project twixt now and Hallow's eve
evile: I've got about 3 of those.
SkyeDS: must make crest, 4 - 5" tall, cannot be stuffed animal, of
the following materials
SkyeDS: stiff leather, of fabric weight leather stuffed, of fabric
stuffed, of wood, and even of gesso. I personally and am planning on
using heavy weight leather. If you use fabric or lighter leather you
will probably want to make a wire frame inside of the crest to hold
the basic shape.
evile: sounds interesting.
SkyeDS: Alex is suggests rawhide
evile: durable, but hard to work with.
SkyeDS: well I will take all the suggestions, give them to sineater, and
let him and M figure it out.
SkyeDS: I just bought two 16 gauge steel Corinthian Greek helmets for
them
SkyeDS: not cheap
evile: *nod*
SkyeDS: could have gotten fencing masks much cheaper but these look
good
SkyeDS: I love surprise presents. And they were surprised :)
evile: good.
SkyeDS: Alexis said rawhide is easier to manipulate if it's wet.
evile: *nod* it also shrinks when you wet it.
SkyeDS: I'm wondering if magnets might not be easier to attach to
steel than velcro
evile: probably.
SkyeDS: put magnets on helmet, put duct tape and/or magnets in base
of crest
evile: *nod*
SkyeDS: attach lanyard permanently to crest, and then to helmet with
another magnet
SkyeDS: I'm already pretty sure that chin straps will have to be
added to the helmets, and that will require Randy's toys and help
already
SkyeDS: so the less we have to do the better
evile: *nod* You'll want the helmets to be as safe as possible.
SkyeDS: I should have just stuck to fencing masks
SkyeDS: but these look better - more realistic
evile: *nod*
SkyeDS: maybe I can talk sineater into making realistic
looking "horsehair" crests
evile: oh, that would be awesome.
SkyeDS: rampant vulgar unicorn *grin*
SkyeDS: I can hear Karen screeching now
SkyeDS: "this is a family event and those unicorns have hard ons!"
evile: heh.
SkyeDS: I don't see why it even has to be cut
SkyeDS: why couldn't it be a piece of leather with a device painted
on it
SkyeDS: then he could do whatever he wanted
SkyeDS: complex etc
evile: *shrug* No clue.
SkyeDS: anyway we both love reasons to go to Tandy and here's a good
one
evile: I was telling sineater there's a place right next door to Tandy
that does sewing machine repairs. My friend Mandi says they're good &
reasonable.
SkyeDS: maybe they could help me replace my broken needle and figure
out how to wind bobbins
evile: *nod*
SkyeDS: since it isn't self explanatory and I have the instruction
booklet for a machien that isn't mine
SkyeDS: don't ask how that happened, I don't know
evile: I hate my bobbin thingy.
SkyeDS: I thought I remembered how, but I remember how on Gramma's
machine, not mine
evile: too bad :(
SkyeDS: I'm sure it will be simple for a repair place
SkyeDS: they'll probably laugh at me :)
evile: I doubt they'll laugh.
SkyeDS: sok, I laugh at me
evile: It's bad customer service to laugh at customers.
SkyeDS: well, in t his case it would be laughing with me, not at me
SkyeDS: "she of the dumb questions" will probably be on my tombstone
evile: who knows, they might be able to find the correct manual for
you. :)
SkyeDS: that would be nice
SkyeDS: I have yards of lovely panne and burntout silk that I should
do something with
SkyeDS: I'm thinking tassel belt with the tassels from Ragi's old
garb, even though theyr'e very mix and match
evile: I have lots of fabric, but it'sn ever what I want for whatever
project I have in mind, so I go buy more & add it to the stash.
SkyeDS: and I could probably make pants and beledi or gawazee
SkyeDS: I have 9 yards of the most beautiful white burnout silk I
don't know what I'm going to do with
SkyeDS: it was pretty so I bought it
SkyeDS: burnout = see through pattern
evile: there's lots of patterns available. Even Simplicity has a
fairly inauthentic middle eastern/bellydance pattern
SkyeDS: oops, 9 feet, not yards ....3 yards
evile: *nod*
evile: I got all my silver & 'turquoise' jewelry in, but now I have
no idea what to wear it with.
SkyeDS: LOVE pretty shinies and sparklies :)
evile: me too. I just dont' have any clothes that go with my jewelry.
maybe I'll just wear plain black.
evile: Go opposite of showing body--do really extravagant
tribal/bindi makeup and funky nails & jewelry, and then wear
something very concealing for the body.
SkyeDS: I got very pretty bindi with my last two sets
evile: I'm thinking of picking up some cabochons at hobby lobby. I
already have spirit gum
evile: Festive doesn't get done with work stuff until 8pm, so I've
got time afte work to run around. Ulta & Hobby lobby --WHEE!
SkyeDS: fun! :D
evile: Yup. I like Having A Mission
evile: People are annoying me today. I dont' know if I am
communicating poorly or if there's just a bunch of Stupid that got
into the water supply, or WHAT. but it's pissing me off.
SkyeDS: :(
evile: First with the woman who has irrelevant crap to post in austin
poly yahoo group, then Jon. I post in onyxlynxx's LJ that I'm going to a
show this weekend, and Jon posts "are you going?"...um, no. I just
SAID I was going so that you would show up and be all alone and feel
bad.
SkyeDS: rofl
SkyeDS: speaking of polys with LJs
evile: I think "is anyone from Austin going, who needs riders, who
needs rides" was pretty darn clear communication.
SkyeDS: any idea who dreaming tree is?
evile: I also think "I'm going to Extravagasm" is pretty fucking self
explanatory.
evile: is it dreaming_tree, or dreamingtree, or ??
SkyeDS: first one
SkyeDS: has a friend named X and I was just wondering
evile: her LJ is friends only. I don't recognize the name, and the
user info is too generic to say if I know her or not.
SkyeDS: figures
evile: how do you know she has a friend named X?
evile: let's see, in her friends list I know, or have met: kaleon,
ladydreamtime, riversidepath, thewordnerd, ubiquity, and vixengrrl
SkyeDS: she's made mention in her posts of a friend named X
SkyeDS: which of course makes me curious
SkyeDS: since our circles do tend to be small
evile: *shrug*
SkyeDS: would mean X has been keeping some interesting male
company lately considering <shrug>
evile: X, last I knew of her, was shacking up with a young,
tattooed man. Which would not preclude her having a sexual
relationship with dreaming tree, I guess, but unless dreaming tree
ahs a lot of $, a house, or babysitting skills, X probably
wouldn't bother with her.
evile: and it's always been easier for X to use men for stuff than
women.
SkyeDS: oh well, the trouble some people get themselves into is
entertaining to watch
evile: X seems to prefer monogamy with cheating, rather than
anything openly poly. In her history most of her manufactured drama
was cheating and/or stealing men from other women.
evile: and in order to do that successfully, one must first create
the illlusion of monogamy & exclusivity.
SkyeDS: well, if what I suss might be happening really is, and it
isn't coincidence, he should know better
SkyeDS: and if he doesn't I'm going to laugh until I die
evile: what do you think is happening?
evile: with whom?
SkyeDS: with kaleon, possibly again?
SkyeDS: quite possibly
evile: Oh. Think he found X again?
SkyeDS: might not be the same X of course
evile: hm.
evile: so you think he and X are having a thing and X is also
having a thing with dreaming tree?
SkyeDS: no
SkyeDS: just that dreaming tree has a friend named X a nd I was
wondering if twere same
evile: so I am not seeing anything laughably trainwrecky yet...
SkyeDS: wouldn't be if they aren't one and the same
evile: He and X can do whatever tehy want, more power to 'em, and
I don't care.
evile: Of course, he doesn't hardly have a pot to piss in, not even
a car, so why would she bother with him?
SkyeDS: dunno
evile: I mean...at least kaleon isn't a druggie, child abuser or
molestor, so I really wouldn't mind if he ended up with X, at
least the kids wouldn't be exposed to whatever.
SkyeDS: I still think it would be funny, after all the water under
the bridge
evile: *shrug* dont' care.
SkyeDS: not what he'd do to her, what she would do to him
evile: His choice.
SkyeDS: yep
evile: rather an out of the frying pan into the fire situation, IMHO,
but...whatever. His life, he can do what he likes.
SkyeDS: his penchant for that is amusing
SkyeDS: but then I'm easily amused
evile: He thought he had a bad thing with you, well at least you were
honest-- I am poly, here is my life, accept it or go away.
SkyeDS: apparently now I cheated on him
evile: With X, she'd be making elaborate gestures of unending
love, devotion, and fidelity, picking his pocket, and goign to spend
the money on drugs for her unknown-to-him lover.
evile: and leaving him to babysit her kids.
evile: there are ways to be dishonest & cheat in poly, but I think in
this case it is more an instance of what he chose to hear vs what you
actually said.
SkyeDS: that would be putting it VERY loosely
SkyeDS: in that he'd have to completely not hear anything and claim
that I slept with sonar0m without his foreknoweldge
SkyeDS: meaning I would have said NOTHING
SkyeDS: but I wouldn't put it past him to claim t hat
evile: *nod*
SkyeDS: anyway, it was just idle curiosity - of which I have enough
to kill 9 cats
SkyeDS: and, apparently, whomever filed the suit won half the money
in the CMA treasury after all
evile: yeah, i suppose it would be interesting to be a fly on the
wall for all of that
SkyeDS: and that's how the ESA was founded
evile: heh. Interesting.
SkyeDS: now that I'm getting old(er), and have panoramas to look back
upon, people are funny
evile: yeah.
SkyeDS: not too long ago kaleon was digging at me because sonar0m is so
young
SkyeDS: at least he isn't jailbait, one of kaleon's new ladyloves is
not even 16 yet (that makes her 10 years younger AND jailbait)
evile: wow.
SkyeDS: and then of course the whole thing with X criticizing my
poly practice and then what she did
SkyeDS: Cady taking a shot at me a very long time ago and then losing
her hubby
evile: X likes jealousy games, she'd never be honestly poly.
SkyeDS: interesting things happen if you just sit back and watch
instead of meddle all the time
evile: *nod*
evile: He's probablly more emotionally compatible with someone that
age...but the law is pretty sticky about such things.
evile: Come to think of it, J[godddaughter] turned 14 this year. Nevermind
about him dating X. bad idea.
SkyeDS: ROFL
SkyeDS: mfiao
SkyeDS: so he's got one poly/pagan friend, who may or may not know me
past his rantings, and that's what he translates into "every poly &
pagan in Austin who knows her hates her"
evile: *shrug* you know that's not true, so why does it matter?
SkyeDS: it doesn't
SkyeDS: but it makes sense
SkyeDS: I like when things are true to pattern, as long as I know
what the pattern is
evile: and, if dreaming tree were anyone, I'd know her. I've been
hanging with the austin polys for, what, 2 years now?
SkyeDS: I have no clue who she is, so I don't know if I know her or
not
SkyeDS: I have a reputation, not completely deserved, so she probably
has heard of me, if not met me
evile: well, she's not anybody in Austin Poly.
SkyeDS: but one poly/pagan does not "every poly/pagan in Austin" make
evile: and neither is he. So nobody in Austin Poly thinks anything of
you that they didn't think of you by meeting you.
SkyeDS: except when you put it in the Drama Exponential Expansion
box :)
evile: heh.
evile: If it makes him happy to rant to his invisible imaginary
friends about what a cunt you are...so what.
SkyeDS: when I get bored I read Friends of Friends in ever widening
circles
evile: *nod* me too.
SkyeDS: so I ended up with dreaming_tree going through you, onyxlynxx,
lady_dreamtime, etc
evile: judging by her friends list, she's not much of an entity in
the GWNN/Voyagers scene, either.
SkyeDS: sometimes I do feel a little limited
SkyeDS: like, if I go to polys, or gwnn, am I going to run into
someone I don't want to
SkyeDS: be it him or someone he's prattled to
evile: his 1 friend, who doesn't go to austin poly dinners, either?
yeah, tha'ts likely.
SkyeDS: but I don't have much time at the moment anyway. and when I
do have more time, I'm more interested in going back to singing
karaoke with Aeris.
evile: ladydreamtime likes karaoke too. so does hojo.
SkyeDS: and when I do start doing poly/pagan/bdsm stuff, it isn't
like I'll be alone, or that I couldn't handle myself if I were
SkyeDS: I'm a big girl now
SkyeDS: I have my own spark of the divine flame, thank you very much
evile: yup
SkyeDS: the little circles on LJ are also interesting
SkyeDS: for example, dreaming_tree knows ubiquity and wordnerd
SkyeDS: Christopher Alex and sineater have a shared friend
evile: *nod* or at least they read one anothers LJ.
evile: she has been on the poly austin yahoo group since march and
has never posted. http://profiles.yahoo.com/grayestrain
SkyeDS: the internet makes the world bigger and smaller all at the
same time, interesting paradox that
evile: *nod*
SkyeDS: so I'm cruising along, hopskipjumping from poly peeps to
renny peeps to pagan peeps along these interesting LJ pathways
SkyeDS: and end up running smack into a path I really need not to
follow even out of morbid curiosity
SkyeDS: and he still isn't over it
SkyeDS: wtf
evile: he posting in other peoples LJ's about you, too? Or just his
own?
SkyeDS: both
evile: wow. poor guy.
SkyeDS: get the fuck over it already
SkyeDS: you keep saying thank god I'm free
SkyeDS: well if you keep posting about it you sure the hell aren't
free
evile: *gently*...if you keep looking at his crap, are you free?
evile: (and letting it upset you)
SkyeDS: I knew when I ran into it I shouldn't have
SkyeDS: doesn't upset me, actually I thought it was funny
SkyeDS: although then I felt guilty because that's mean
SkyeDS: and I'm not mean
SkyeDS: I did, I knew better, when I looked at the friends list
evile: what is that thing.."turn away from taht which opposes the
good in you"?
SkyeDS: but, in that she's friended with so many of your friends
(ubiquity, wordnerd and ladydreamtime) I don't know, it got the best
of me
evile: well, ubiquity is a total friend slut, so I dont' know if
that's a valid connection at all.
SkyeDS: she has a sex filter set up too. alot of people do
SkyeDS: I'm not even brave enough to post, filter or no filter
evile: well, no rule saying you have to. Do what feels comfortable
for you.
SkyeDS: was disconcerting to have that come across my concentricity
(and yes I knew better)
evile: *nod*
SkyeDS: anyway, his friends list is short, and now that I've seen it,
makes it easier to avoid those persons
SkyeDS: I haven't got many LJ friends, and half of them haven't
friended me mutually (I don't know if they know I friended them or
not, I didn't tell them)
SkyeDS: but I have enough that reading their friends
SkyeDS: and then their friends friends
SkyeDS: is quite time consuming
evile: I rarely check my info page to see who has friended/unfriended
me.
SkyeDS: me either
evile: maybe 1ce a month, if that.
evile: thewordnerd re: dreaming tree: "I've never seen any rants in
her LJ at all; she doesn't seem the type to rant about others in that
forum, at least."
SkyeDS: that's good to know - for whatever it's worth
evile: *shrug* worrying what non-entities think of you is pointless,
but sometimes happens anyway.
SkyeDS: I have my hands full with what people who do know me think
anyway
evile: true dat!
SkyeDS: mostly I was curious if the circle were small enough that her
friend X was the x we know
evile: there is an LJ I would probably read like a dog going to its
own vomit...sad to say.
evile: If she had one, I'd be lookign at it. sad/sick/sad.
SkyeDS: ?
SkyeDS: who X?
evile: X, if she had one and I found it.
evile: so, glad I haven't run across it in friends-of-friends, if it
exists.
SkyeDS: well, you know it's a possibility
evile: yeah, but I don't wanna know.
SkyeDS: I hear ya
evile: it was bad enough finding her fotolog.
SkyeDS: what was in it?
evile: I'd resisted looking at that since July or so, but looked
again today just to check her freinds list there to see if any of
them matched LJ names I knwo.
evile: it's just photos. You get to post so many free photos per day,
and people can comment on them and whatever.
evile: Wierd, she hadn't updated since last I looked, except for
recently, too. ick.
SkyeDS: I wouldn't have been surprised if there had been disturbing
pics
evile: I think it's like LJ in that you can set freinds groups where
you post more explicit photos
evile: http://xtallys.yafro.com/
SkyeDS: I like yahoo fine for pics right now
evile: *nod*
evile: and you can set up friends views there, too.
evile: (the only thing I dont' liek about my new photo gallery, I
can't figure out a way to do private albums or friends-only albums)
evile: So far I have critters, magpies & sweetie:
http://www.freaks.net/eek/gallery/
evile: well, it's 4. Time to shuffle paper.
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