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It's just that my mind is rather heavily pre-occupied these days, obviously.
Had a fun, and... interesting, weekend attending and helping out with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
weisbrow's and juniperrampant's wedding. Short, sweet, and very to the point, the ceremony was. Heh. Setup and breakdown was something else entirely, but that story's been re-told sufficiently to those in the know (NB: nothing to do with the bride and groom, rather, relatives).
I also went out to Clinton and helpedgreenmanbear design and shop lumber for his new project, a weapons rack for all of his martial arts accoutrements. I'll be heading out there again next weekend to actually start building the thing. Budget constraints and limits on our technical skills mandated that we scale down his plans from clear grade lumber and simple wood stains with classical joinery, to construction grade lumber, paint, and hardier, simpler joints. Pending our success with the first one, he might consider making another one, full to our original plans, as a gift to his sensei when the time comes for taking on his black belt. That'll be fun. (Especially considering that as a gift a few years back I gave him this book, which we both drool over, periodically)
I'm still enjoying my Wednesday night, calling-in contributions to the horror game up in Lansing. I'm not driving it these days, as I downgraded myself to a poor grad student a while back (have I mentioned this?) who can't as easily afford the luxury of the gas for that trip every week, nor can I really afford the time. The second factor is paramount this month in particular, as my boss is running an 8 AM Thursday morning class on histopathology. Attendance suggested. (Umm... whee?)
And I'm heading down to Yellow Springs this weekend to see Anne, which is always a good thing. Of course we don't see each as often as we really would like, and that gets harder as the date for my graduation bounces around the calendar (generally farther and farther away, unfortunately), but we're planning to head up to her uncle's place on Grand Traverse Bay for the Labor Day weekend, which will be very nice. GAFIAting, I believe it's called.
Had a fun, and... interesting, weekend attending and helping out with
weisbrow's and juniperrampant's wedding. Short, sweet, and very to the point, the ceremony was. Heh. Setup and breakdown was something else entirely, but that story's been re-told sufficiently to those in the know (NB: nothing to do with the bride and groom, rather, relatives).I also went out to Clinton and helped
greenmanbear design and shop lumber for his new project, a weapons rack for all of his martial arts accoutrements. I'll be heading out there again next weekend to actually start building the thing. Budget constraints and limits on our technical skills mandated that we scale down his plans from clear grade lumber and simple wood stains with classical joinery, to construction grade lumber, paint, and hardier, simpler joints. Pending our success with the first one, he might consider making another one, full to our original plans, as a gift to his sensei when the time comes for taking on his black belt. That'll be fun. (Especially considering that as a gift a few years back I gave him this book, which we both drool over, periodically)I'm still enjoying my Wednesday night, calling-in contributions to the horror game up in Lansing. I'm not driving it these days, as I downgraded myself to a poor grad student a while back (have I mentioned this?) who can't as easily afford the luxury of the gas for that trip every week, nor can I really afford the time. The second factor is paramount this month in particular, as my boss is running an 8 AM Thursday morning class on histopathology. Attendance suggested. (Umm... whee?)
And I'm heading down to Yellow Springs this weekend to see Anne, which is always a good thing. Of course we don't see each as often as we really would like, and that gets harder as the date for my graduation bounces around the calendar (generally farther and farther away, unfortunately), but we're planning to head up to her uncle's place on Grand Traverse Bay for the Labor Day weekend, which will be very nice. GAFIAting, I believe it's called.
