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glitch25Definitely spring.
Between the warm spells, the rain, and the fact that so many things seem to be in motion, I'm struck by how different it feels to not be nesting.
We've started an herb garden that we're tending indoors for the time being. We'll turn them into deckboxes once the temps stop dipping.Lots of fresh stuff that we normally buy. It will be nice to have them on hand in a fresh capacity. I'm also looking forward to finding ways to preserve any leftovers we may have either by drying, oil packing, or freezing. It's been a fun venture so far, and it is very satisfying to see work towards that end pay out in obvious and notable growth. Literally. :-)
Music is coming around again. Not in piano form, oddly. I've had to remember to sit down at the actual piano and keep up with some of the things I've been working on. Instead, I've been learning the bass in little bits. I don't recall if I mentioned in previous posts (and am obviously too lazy to go back and look) but I finally gave in and picked up a Kala U-Bass. It is essentially an acoustic bass ukulele that is modeled and plays very much like a traditional bass guitar using special polymer strings that enable a deep tone with such a small scale. It's been fun to play with and I'm learning a lot. As with other instruments, I continue to find my musical theory lacking, but I'm happy that both my ear and my general feel for music and what I'm realizing has been a love of good bass lines for so long are paying out for me. Along those lines, I've been dipping my toes in participation and collaboration for an online group I'm part of that creates covers of music based on weekly themes. It's been fun to do it, and it has been helpful as both an outlet, and as incentive to learn something new with the instrument.
I've also been struggling through my propmastery stuff in building things for the latest iteration of the Rites of Eleusis as performed by Eleusyve Productions. Nothing like standing at the glue/adhesive aisle of several stores and shaking my head. :-) Also, I think by the time I'm done, I'm going to have so many spare maille scales that I'll have to open a side business making jewelry. :-D
Still blowing through chunks of Skyrim. I just picked up Fallout 3 and New Las Vegas too. Waiting to finish up Skyrim before I go down that hole. But I'm happy to have them. Skyrim continues to be challenging in some ways, and not in others. I remember leveling up in prior iterations of Elder Scrolls games and finding that most of all the usual challenges never really leveled up with me. Which is to say God mode was kinda inevitable. In this game, I keep getting my ass handed to me no matter what level I am, and I'm finding that I really have to stay on my toes to survive in some cases. It's good. :-)
Lots of other side projects and things. Always looking for new concert/show stuffs.. and movies.. OH.. speaking of movies and things of the like, I'm working on building out my media server with stuffs. I set up an old laptop on a shelf near my collection, and its dedicated role is to rip movies and upload them to the media server. It's been working so well that I've gotten to the point that I need to look into the next storage solution :/ Guess that's kinda the nature. I'm not compressing the media for Reasons, so I knew this was inevitable. I need to create a dedicated storage box and migrate the collection to it. And then I plan to repurpose the original server as a database for some things I've been wanting to do. Also working out options to set up a site-to-site VPN using more of the same router I just set up for myself recently (a Ubiquity Edgerouter Lite) to do some media sharing, remote backups, and access to the aforementioned database applications. Should be a fun time.
So, busy busy. :-)
We recently had an employee sale here at SanMar, and I was reminded of the piles of tshirts I already have waiting to be chopped up into strips to use as material for my T-Shirt Latch-hook Rug. I should work on that one. It's a bit rough on the hands though. But the spots I've done feel so damn lush. So good on the toesies. Once we get the seedlings outside, the table will be free up, and I can break out my cutting mat and pick up a rotary tool to make quick work of those tshirts.
And then there is the cleaning, reorganizing, and so much other related stuffs.
Not enough hours in the day. But I'm working harder to maximize time I can. Not always successful, but I'm learning not to beat myself up about it. That's helpful. :-)
How are things for you?
Between the warm spells, the rain, and the fact that so many things seem to be in motion, I'm struck by how different it feels to not be nesting.
We've started an herb garden that we're tending indoors for the time being. We'll turn them into deckboxes once the temps stop dipping.Lots of fresh stuff that we normally buy. It will be nice to have them on hand in a fresh capacity. I'm also looking forward to finding ways to preserve any leftovers we may have either by drying, oil packing, or freezing. It's been a fun venture so far, and it is very satisfying to see work towards that end pay out in obvious and notable growth. Literally. :-)
Music is coming around again. Not in piano form, oddly. I've had to remember to sit down at the actual piano and keep up with some of the things I've been working on. Instead, I've been learning the bass in little bits. I don't recall if I mentioned in previous posts (and am obviously too lazy to go back and look) but I finally gave in and picked up a Kala U-Bass. It is essentially an acoustic bass ukulele that is modeled and plays very much like a traditional bass guitar using special polymer strings that enable a deep tone with such a small scale. It's been fun to play with and I'm learning a lot. As with other instruments, I continue to find my musical theory lacking, but I'm happy that both my ear and my general feel for music and what I'm realizing has been a love of good bass lines for so long are paying out for me. Along those lines, I've been dipping my toes in participation and collaboration for an online group I'm part of that creates covers of music based on weekly themes. It's been fun to do it, and it has been helpful as both an outlet, and as incentive to learn something new with the instrument.
I've also been struggling through my propmastery stuff in building things for the latest iteration of the Rites of Eleusis as performed by Eleusyve Productions. Nothing like standing at the glue/adhesive aisle of several stores and shaking my head. :-) Also, I think by the time I'm done, I'm going to have so many spare maille scales that I'll have to open a side business making jewelry. :-D
Still blowing through chunks of Skyrim. I just picked up Fallout 3 and New Las Vegas too. Waiting to finish up Skyrim before I go down that hole. But I'm happy to have them. Skyrim continues to be challenging in some ways, and not in others. I remember leveling up in prior iterations of Elder Scrolls games and finding that most of all the usual challenges never really leveled up with me. Which is to say God mode was kinda inevitable. In this game, I keep getting my ass handed to me no matter what level I am, and I'm finding that I really have to stay on my toes to survive in some cases. It's good. :-)
Lots of other side projects and things. Always looking for new concert/show stuffs.. and movies.. OH.. speaking of movies and things of the like, I'm working on building out my media server with stuffs. I set up an old laptop on a shelf near my collection, and its dedicated role is to rip movies and upload them to the media server. It's been working so well that I've gotten to the point that I need to look into the next storage solution :/ Guess that's kinda the nature. I'm not compressing the media for Reasons, so I knew this was inevitable. I need to create a dedicated storage box and migrate the collection to it. And then I plan to repurpose the original server as a database for some things I've been wanting to do. Also working out options to set up a site-to-site VPN using more of the same router I just set up for myself recently (a Ubiquity Edgerouter Lite) to do some media sharing, remote backups, and access to the aforementioned database applications. Should be a fun time.
So, busy busy. :-)
We recently had an employee sale here at SanMar, and I was reminded of the piles of tshirts I already have waiting to be chopped up into strips to use as material for my T-Shirt Latch-hook Rug. I should work on that one. It's a bit rough on the hands though. But the spots I've done feel so damn lush. So good on the toesies. Once we get the seedlings outside, the table will be free up, and I can break out my cutting mat and pick up a rotary tool to make quick work of those tshirts.
And then there is the cleaning, reorganizing, and so much other related stuffs.
Not enough hours in the day. But I'm working harder to maximize time I can. Not always successful, but I'm learning not to beat myself up about it. That's helpful. :-)
How are things for you?