Monday, December 31, 2012
Sunday, December 30, 2012
Slushy Christmas
Pictured to the right is a gad pump that was knocked over by a car when it started snowing. Apparently ice is slippery. You will not that it has been propper up and is being held in place with half a roll of duct tape. Red Green would be proud.
Bellow is a grey and sickly slush man. He has been made in one of the South Side's most precious of places, a parking space. You can't read it from the picture but he is holding a sign asking people not to knock him over. It is very heart warming. That is if you ignore the fact that small children have to beg for the lives of their snow men.
Well just checking in. Be safe out there and keep your sticks on the ice.
Saturday, December 29, 2012
Kittens N'at
She did ask for pictures of the kittens. So here are pictures of the kittens. Well three of them anyway. The other two like to hide under the chair.
They are just at the start of the getting into things that they should not be getting into stage of life.
By the way if anyone out there wants a black kitten we have many to choose from. They are cute and affectionate. There is one that has a strange shoe fetish.
He is still cute but you have to check your boots before you put them on.
And to the people that complain that I do not speak with a yinzer accent I said the word N'at out loud when I typed it.
Friday, December 28, 2012
Thursday, December 27, 2012
Redding Up
I am in a funny business. So yes I naturally make fun of things. Granted the yinzer accent is a joke unto itself. Anyone that would willingly wear a mullet in this day and age is a walking joke.
The person also stated that I did not put any Chris Brown videos on the old blog. I am not sure why I would. I do not put and clips of Wagner Operas on my blog for the same reason. I do not like them.They asked me if I did not like rap.
Not being a Chris Brown fan I did not know that he was a rapper. So I visited the good folks at You tube and listened to some of his music. I am not sure that I would call him a rapper. I would certainly call him formulaic. What ever he is it is clear that he only records what his producers tell him to. He is a programmed performer regurgitating someone else's words.
I may not love everything that Ice T and Dr. Dre said still it was what they were feeling. They are flag bearers of the pain and hurt that they feel. I think that they may have made the same music if only a handful of people had bought it. I am pretty sure Chris Brown would have been a knitter, basket weaver or anything else if obscene amounts of money could be made at it.
I think the most telling part of if someone is a defining member of their profession is how the next generation looks at them. With just a wee bit of research it looks as if Dr. Dre had something to do with bringing Eminem along. I was not able to find a story about Chris Brown doing that for someone else. Will the next generation of rappers be rapping about Chris Brown, I doubt it. The next generation is rapping about Dr. Dre.
I think it is fairly obvious that I am not a huge fan of the rap. Still, like everything, some of it is good and a lot of it not so much. Maybe someday Chris Brown will not be in the not so much catagory. That day is not today. I leave you with a video Chris did with a Japanese Rap group. I will let you judge which is an artful socially important video. We have a heartfelt thanks to a mentor or an adamant statement that Chris like rear ends.
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
Lost Juggling Balls
Be safe out there and keep your stick on the ice.
Monday, December 24, 2012
Happy Christmas and Kittens
Anyway this is mommy and her kitten under a chair. Well it is fairly obvious what is going on here. The Wife is away visiting her family and she asked me to put up some pictures of the kittens. Well the little critter squirm around and very few of the pictures are clear. I suppose if i were using a better camera they would some out better.
Also it appear that the primary purpose for blog is also to put pictures of one's cat on the internet. So here are cat pictures. I suppose that my blog does not have as many cat pictures as it could.
The mother is named Cuckie. She was given to me by a couple of the kids in the Clown Brigade. They named her and insist that is how you spell Cookie. The babies do not have names. There are five of them and they are cute as you would expect kittens to be. Anyway These are four week old kitten and they are just starting to crawl around and steal my yarn. So eventually these little yarn snatcher are going to need a home. If you live in Pittsburgh and would like a fur ball leave a comment.
Be safe out there and keep you stick on the ice.
Random Clown Stuff
I am messing around with the idea of putting an online version of the newsletter on the Brigade's blog. I would just have to figure out how to do that.
Also on the Clowning Front we are going to be performing in a Roller Rink on Thursday. It is basically a balloon fest. Still it should be fun.
Well be safe out there and keep your stick on the ice.
Saturday, December 22, 2012
The French
I have always thought of the French of refined and cultured people. This makes me wonder why are the visiting this blog, Maybe I am sort of like a Jerry Lewis of the Blogs. Not really all that funny but for some reason the French enjoy me.
Well I suppose I should have some programming for my French viewer from time to time.
This is Ricky Gervais trying to teach people English. The subtitle are in French.By the way if you are going to learn English it is best to learn it from the English. Americans think people with English accent sound smart. A Chinese person who sounds like Cooter from Dukes of Hazard will get into trouble.
Really this vid is a bit pointless. Still if you are reading this blog then you are all about that pointless.
Be safe out there and keep your stick on the ice.
Friday, December 21, 2012
Unmoderated Stuff
On other front I have just been watching the Silence with Douglas Henshall. It is a gripping little story about a deaf girl who sees the police murder someone. She is also personally struggling with a cochlear implant and parents who different ideas about what her life should be.
All four episodes are on the Net Flix. They are a great afternoon. They are also a wonderful cross section of UK accents
Thursday, December 20, 2012
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Christmas in Pittsburgh
Be safe out there and keep your stick on the ice.
Monday, December 17, 2012
The Pointless Christmas Gloves
It is like someone the sees a mountain and thinks they need to get to the top of that. There is no good reason to be up there. There are no new mountains to climb. If I want to feel what it is like up there and can sit in a bath of ice water and look at a picture book. The same is true for knit gloves. First off there are too many young people in my life to wear knit gloves. At least half a dozen times a winter I find myself the target of a surprise snow ball assault. So I carry an nice insulated water proof set of gloves. I would not walk around in a knit coat. I would get wet in Pittsburgh.
Still the gloves are symbolic of Christmas in general. They are something that we do not need to do and still do it anyway. I am fairly sure Jesus would rather we do some volunteering instead of going into debt on his birthday.
Well just checking in. Be safe out there and keep your stick on the ice.
Sunday, December 16, 2012
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Two More Ermeys for the world at large
Anyway back to the Devil Sticks. As I type this they are drying out. The end are glue together and then you let them dry and put the decorative tape and grip tape on them. Before I finish this post I hope they will be close enough that I can tape them up for a picture. Also with these particular stick they will have the head mongrammed. I do not know what they want on them so they will be monogrammed at the COAI meeting on Monday. The picture here is them with in complete ends. If they get finished at the COAI meeting I may put up picture of them.
Also just for fun I have put there map location of where this post was made. I am not sure why this feature is there. Maybe is makes it easier for loonies to hunt blogger down and kill them.
Well be safe out there and keep your stick on the ice.
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Tweeties
Variety Show
This is an episode of the Slammer from last year.
We have been kicking around the idea of having a variety show as a fund raiser for the Brigade.
We are going to give the old Brigade Newsletter another shot. This will be the third attempt at it. We usually start it off and loose interest throughout the year. I may work on putting together an online version of the newsletter. If anyone is interested out there I will put together an email list thing I suppose.
Well be safe out there and keep your stick on the ice.
Friday, December 07, 2012
Unmoderated Stuff
Thursday, December 06, 2012
Random Buss Posting
Tuesday, December 04, 2012
Yinzer Rocket Science
Sunday, December 02, 2012
Typing
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Looking for New Blogs
I have been looking for some clown blogs. Most of them are inactive. Wouldn't it be a shame if I am the only clown in the internet blogging. Well there are a couple I have found that I am keeping an eye on. One the guy claims that he does not have to juggle do balloon animals or even wear make up. So he is a truck drive that claims not to need a truck. Well if I like any of these I might start a clown blog section on the old blog.
I came across one named Johny the clown this is about a skinny woman with an eating disorder trying on clothes.
There is an Abstinence clown blog that I am not going to share the address to because it is offensive and useless.
Monday, November 26, 2012
PPD Hates You
So I called the Mayor's Office to complain. I then received a call from Commander McNeily. She said she had no intention of ticketing the cars. I asked her if it was because her squad cars break this very same law. She claimed this was not happening. I told her I had taken several pictures of police cars on the side walk. She did not care. Also the police station is within sight of the blocked sidewalk.
It is amazing that the police are not incumbered by following the law themselves. It is no wonder the general public in Pittsburgh appears to be trusting the police less and less. The city knocked down three houses so that this station could have enough parking for their cars. When this picture was taken there were fifteen empty parking spaces in their lot. Still this bit of sidewalk is closer to the door. Also the new sidewalk is now cracked where the police are parking their cars. Of course the good people Pittsburgh are going to be paying to repair that.
You have to wonder. If the police can lie to the public when it is obvious they are wrong what else are they lying about? Why does it take three armed men to take down an unarmed teenage? Why do the police jump into a car during a traffic stop? Why is the police force mostly white males?
If you see the police stopping someone take their pictures. You need to do this especially if the person they are stopping is black and male. The Pittsburgh Police have a habit of trying to kill them for being black. You might be saving someone's life.
Sunday, November 18, 2012
Space 1999 on MST3K sort of
Enjoy,,,, if you can
Thursday, November 15, 2012
MST3K
Here is a random one I was watching in the background yesterday.
Mighty Jack
Be safe out there and keep your stick on the ice.
Friday, November 09, 2012
Go Round Remix
Sunday, October 28, 2012
Top 10 Things Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson Didn't Say
10. We need more cup holders on the Shuttle
9. Star Trek Enterprise is my favorite show.
8. I need to ask Snookie to the White House the next time the Obamas have me over.
7. Neil Armstrong was a wuss.
6. I need to be more like Vanilla Ice.
5. I have to ask Honey Boo Boo to do an internship at the Hayden Planitarium.
4. I need to ask Bill Shatner for hair advice.
3. Cory Feldman is my Hero
2. Brian Green is the Captain Kangaroon of Science.
1. Stephen Hawking is faking it for a better parking space.
Saturday, October 27, 2012
Sandy Frank
One thing I do think I should do eventually is an internet Clown Movie thing like MTS3K. I think we should try and do all the Sandy Frank Movies.
I also read somewhere that at 81 years of age he go into a fight with his wife where they were both charged with asault.
Green Clown Scarf
Be safe out there and keep you stick on the ice
More Bus Blogging
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
On My Way to Practice & a Brilliant Idea
My next project is to try and figure out how to get my blog to play music. I think people that people who visit here should have a random assortment of music. It would be what it is like to be in my head. I am not sure anyone wants that. Still, this is my blog and rambling is a big part of it. I think this blog should be an assault on all the senses much like my existence is. Making it smell like random cookies and pierogies and then slapping you in the back of the head will be harder.
Also if you are a person that wears 3x clothing there are somethings to avoid, like tube tops and hot pants. The thing that bothers me is the waste. Nowadays everyone is wearing pants that have thing writing on the rear end. Most of these have a single word like Juicy. This is a terrible waste. If you are a 3x person you need to have a poem by Robert Frost in forty pt. Time New Roman back there. For one it is a more effective use of space. Two you can think people are reading the poem instead of looking at you but in horror that you are wearing spandex warm up pants.
It gets even better. If you are a 4x or 5x you can publish chapter of classical literature back there. You would have to wear you pant in a certain order so that your readers will be able to keep up with the story. Still, I think it is viable sacrifice for Mark Twain. For some reason I think he would be the most abused by big people sitting on his books literally. Mark Twain literally means six feet. And if you have six feet in your back field you should be helping indoctrinate people in the classics.
Monday, October 22, 2012
Still Leeanring the New Stupid Format
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Small Things
Tuesday, October 09, 2012
Profanity Laced Messages
I have reread that post and at no point did I claim to be an everyman. Everyman cannot juggle breath first or walk on stilts. So I have always thought of myself as special. Well that is what my mother would tell me before she would load me on the short bus to school every morning as a child, but I digress.
I did erase the response because besides being rather rude it used the f bomb seven times. I think there were only five sentences so that is a bit excessive.
The reason I bring this up is that ther person posted another message gripping about the fact I did not publish their message. it's my bleeding blog I can publish what ever I want. More importantly kids read this things. There is no need for that kind of language.
So there you go. You are right I am not an everyman. Not because I special, mainly because noone else wants to be me.
Be safe out there and keep your stick on the ice.
Also I am a clown not a person should look to for political advice.
Thursday, October 04, 2012
Support MST3K Archive Project
This is Gorgo one of my personal favorites.
Monday, October 01, 2012
Someone Loves Me
So just to keep score I have be robbed or assaulted at the bus stop seven times. So hugs to punches punches are winning by six. Feel free to hug me if you see me.
Be safe out there and keep your stick on the ice
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Fictional Real Person
On the moral front he wrote several books. So I have little trouble guessing where his moralities lies. This issue that I am having is what kind of man was he. I can figure that he did not cuss and I can get a feeling for what his speech pattern were from his books.
I simply do not know that I am doing the man justice.
Still as I ponder him I wonder how many people out there know who he was. Is he famous enough that people would recognize if my character is a good representation of the real man?
Monday, September 24, 2012
Cleaning Up
I still like the over all format with the three columns. It gives me the space to put up all kinds of junk. Oh and by the way here is a random Ramstien Video. I am not sure what is going on here. Still there it is.
Well that is it for now. Yes I know that was mostly pointless. Still, that is where things are at the moment. Be safe out there and keep your stick on the ice.
Sunday, September 23, 2012
Random Stuff
It is a viscous cycle. Well I suppose I cannot blame them for paying attention and getting better.
There is some interesting stuff on the COAI front. Two of the young people in my group will be joining the education committee for the COAI's local chapter. They have each taught or assisted with five or six lessons so they have already been helping with the committee.
The interesting thing is that these young people do not have a vote in how the Tri Rivers Ally of the COAI does things. A couple of them realize this is unfair that they pay the same dues and cannot vote. Also three of them have taught lessons this year when half the members locally prefer not to help with teaching new clowns. They have faith that eventually they will be treated fairly.
The rub is that the bylaws committee has been suspended for the rest of the year. So there is no chance this issue can be fixed at this point. Well it can be but it would require bringing them up in a general meeting causing chaos. Yes, talking about bylaws in our meeting causes horrible fights. This is the reason the Bylaws committee was put together in the first place.
Also the Ally has been in bad way the last couple years. Membership is shrinking and it has been hard to find people to do shows. Also when ever something new is tried it annoys half the existing people in the ally. So we do not want to change to accommodate new people. It is tough road to navigate. Actually it is a road that cannot be navigated. Someone must be annoyed while things get better.
On the blogging front I am trying to make an effort here. I am not really sure if anyone cares about the random junk that I am throwing up on this thing. Still, it is something to do.
Be safe out there and keep your stick on the ice.
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Village of the Giants
Be safe out there and don't get stepped on
Thursday, September 13, 2012
No Good Comments
Sunday, September 09, 2012
Danger Death Ray
Mike and the Bots take a run at this classic
Be safe out there and keep your stick on the ice.
Friday, September 07, 2012
There are just not Words
This was great. Be safe out there and keep your stick on the ice.
Saturday, September 01, 2012
The Projected Man
Shows like this make me want to have shows like this.
Friday, August 31, 2012
Neil deGrasse Tyson
I also run a clown troupe and I would not let people teach astro physics during our meetings. OK Dr. Tyson might have some very interesting takes on what is happening during juggling practice. Ok so besides Dr. Tyson, Dr Hawking and a reanimated Albert Einstien it would annoy me. Any where here is a picture thing with a quote from him. Well at least the person who made it thinks it is his quote. Sadly Dr. Tyson does not have the time to waste reading this drivel to confirm or deny these things.
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Monday, August 27, 2012
Giant Spider Invasion
Would it be an invasion if the spiders were normal size
Be Safe out There and Keep Your Stick on the Ice.
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Monday, August 20, 2012
Not that it matters but I have started playing the sim city on the facebook. Sim City with the actualy city was the only video game I have installed on my computer. I will putter around with and see what it is like. Well I am not really sure why it was important to ass this entry. Still there it is.
Saturday, August 18, 2012
Neil deGrasse Tyson Stuff
In the defense of the Mayan they were never claimed to know when the world would end. It is goodballs in our time who said this.
Monday, August 06, 2012
Friday, August 03, 2012
The Thing That Couldn't Die
More fun from the good people at Mystery Science Theater 3000
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Knitting in the Office
Restarting the Clown Brigade's knitting group has been a bit rocky. Finding a place to meet was a bit of an issue. Still, using the office is as good a solution as any. It is just that we will not be able to have the public show up. Still, it may be a blessing just have the ability to knit among ourselves. The strange things that clowns have to knit are not always understood at regular knitting groups.
So we will see how it goes. Maybe we can post in Pittsburgh Knitting when we have a stable date and can invite the public.
Be safe out there and keep your stick on the ice.
Monday, June 25, 2012
Stay Family
Friday, June 15, 2012
Right now I am calling this book the Junior Time Lords. I hate this title more than any other title I have come up with. It fits the book but it is stupid. I have been thinking of calling it the Herald of the Last Fleet Lord. It is better title but it minimises the contribution of the other characters. Well it is something that I will have to play with. Maybe after I get it in good shape I will let the girls from the troupe read it and see what their suggestions are.
Well be safe out there and keep your stick on the ice
Horses Should not Dance
Well I think we need a President that has some grip on reality. The Dancing horse looks like Dukakis in a Tank. Well there it is. I just hope he does not strap his horse to the roof of his car.
Monday, June 11, 2012
Homestead Town Meeting
There were a couple of good ideas that centered around community watch and putting more people on the streets. The bottom line is that if kids are acting up you have to do something to keep and eye on them and keep them busy. Drug Dealers do not want to hang out with a bunch of people They want to do their business in a quiet corner. If your town does not have that out of the way place for them they will go somewhere else. They are like electricity, they will take the path of least resistance. When the community has a bunch of people watching the bad guy and giving the kids in the middle something to do the drug dealers cannot thrive.
This is not rocket surgery. The rub is if your town can get along well enough to deal with the issues. We shall see.
Be safe out there and keep your stick on the ice.
Saturday, June 09, 2012
Duck Hollow Fire Stuff
Well to fix this we have started a new facebook group and have gone about inviting people from scratch. It is as you might exspect a pain in the neck. Still there have been a couple folks who have been very help in creating a new group. There are a handfull of people that have responded to this and said they are going to show up. I hope that we make a good showing so that they come back next time.
By the way this first event will be this Friday at 9:00PM at the Duck Hollow Fish Area under the Homestead High Level Bridge.
Friday, June 08, 2012
On the up side of things There is interest in the Duck Hollow Fire Arts thing. The first meeting of this group will be the 22nd. So that could be a very good thing. IF you are into poi or juggling fire we will be at the duck hollow fishing area at 9:00 PM so be there or be square. Yes I am old
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Arby's is better
Well clown stuff is still plugging along. The knitting group has met once and will meet again. We are going to meeting at the subway at station square. It is not the first place that you think of for knitting in Pittsburgh. Still it is a great deal more comfortable than you would think. They have nice plushie chairs and don't play terrible elevator music. I will take and post pictures of our never meeting.
Also on the fast food front. I continue to be amazed how bad the service is at the down town McDonalds. I went to the Wood St location and was standing in line. A staff person was scooping crud out of the french frier. They when took the strainer and smacked it around inside a garbage can. They then stuck it back into the frier and repeated the procedure. I asked the person is they were beating their scoop inside a trash can. They replied that they were. I turned around and left. I want to the Arby's next door. I wanted a cherry turn over. I asked them for the cherry turn over and they said they were out. The lady at the counter apologized and asked if I would like an apple one. I replied that I never had one and asked if they were any good. She gave me one for free as an apology for not having the cherry ones. I am certain the McDonalds would have just told me I have to have the Apple one or leave.
And yet for some reason the McDonald's is always packed and Arby's does not have the same crowd. Granted this one is physically smaller. Still the service is so much better and the staff is actually nice to you. If the Arby's had wifi I would never go back to the golden arches.
Well this is me checking in., Be safe out there and keep your stick on the ice.
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Bus Posting
Idiots with Fire
Monday, May 14, 2012
Clown Polotics and Blogger Gets Even Worse
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Knitting and other random stuff
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Why
On other fronts life is puttering along. The clown Brigade continues as it has with few changes. One of the young Brimages is become quite a good little clown. And it is just in time we have had some requests for shows ans will need her help if we are going to fill them. Young Miss Wilson has been sick and requires prayer. So please add her to your lists.
WEll I am just checking in . Be safe out there and keep your stick on the ice.
Wednesday, April 04, 2012
Back at the Hive
Odd how some of the old faces are still around. The kids are gone. The might be still selling some beer here. For what ever reason the place is not as happy. I am not sure that i mind. It is just something that is different. They are making more food here and it smells like three kinds of terrible. It is not bad enough to make me leave but it might keep me from coming back. On some level I miss the pizza bagels and terrible egg salad. Actually the egg salad sandwiches were not that back. In face the last time I think I had one was five years ago when I was here.
The only up side is the lack of cigarettes. At least I do not think anyone is allowed to smoke in here anymore. Well I don't know. Be safe out there and keep your stick on the ice.
Tuesday, April 03, 2012
More Randomw Stuff
Also I had a Quaker Steak and Lube shrimp basket recently and was really disappointed. The shrimp were all bread and the fries were just the charred ends of the potato. Now I assume i got the bottom of the bag on these two things and that is why there were so bad. Still for ten buck one expects a better meal.
I have my torches in my bag along with parafin to celebrate the anniversary of our clown brigade this evening. So goos time will be had by all tonight. I will see you all next time and maybe with some nice pictures.
Monday, April 02, 2012
Spring and Shows
Well just checking in and trying to be a better blogger. Be safe out there and keep you stick on the ice.
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Writting Stuff
Well that also means that I have not been working on the first book for the last month. This book is a pain because I have to write about the Japanese Navy. I know very little about the modern Japanse Navy. Actually it is currently the Maratine Defense Force. So not technically a Navy. In the future where the book take place it is a Navy again.
It is relatively easy to write about the American Navy. I think I know enough about it to be convincing. For the most part the customs and tradition of the United States Navy are part of American culture. In many ways the Japanese Navy is changing a great deal. At one point the thought they would have an aircraft carried was unthinkable with the modern MDF. Now they have a couple jump carriers.
The Navy that I am writing about is 150 years from now and has star ships. Will the Japanese Military be entirely past the events of the Second World War by then. Will it be a more militaristic nation then? Who know? No one can know.
This is what bothers me. Of everything in the book the least realistic thing may be the Japanese Military. Well I will have to just keep reading what I can and figure it out. The chances I can find a Japanese Sailor in Pittsburgh and have a long conversation with them is not good.
Well I am not sure how to solve this to my satisfaction.
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Random Physics Ideas
Saturday, March 17, 2012
The Green Stuff
One thing i have noticed it annoys some drunk people if you are not wearing green. According to the internet, that is never wrong, Pittsburgh is about 22 % Irish. So a fifth of the city has a right to celebrate. If you eliminate kids and the elderly you get around 12 percent of the city can celebrate. There is more than that staggering around defecating of St. Pat's memory.
Anyway I am on the bus coming back from church and someone demands to know where my green is. It told him on an old casserole in the back of my fridge. I actually do not think I own very much green stuff. It is not one of my favorite colors so I do not buy clothes that are green. Anyway back to the drunk. Someone else on the bud was sober enough to realized my comment was snarky
The guy then starts cussing up a storm he tells me his father survives the potato famine, I think he meant grandfather or great grandfather by his age. He got up and then fell down smacking his head off one of the seats as he went down. That was the first person I saw scooped up by the paramedics today. The other was at Station Square and looked like he walked into something. I did not see it but his buddies were loudly telling everyone how he was running across the street and his the metal telephone pole.
Well that is my report from the festivities. I know you were riveted.
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Not Much Going On
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Once again unto the Beich
It looks as if it starts around six o-clock so we will all be there with our strange stuff on ready to warn the world about the March.
I hope to see you all there. Mainly because I cannot see you on this thing now. Be safe out there and keep your stick on the ice.
Monday, March 12, 2012
Google Annoys Me Amoung Others
I mean why must they nickle and dime me? I can understand if they are going to give me a service and they want to charge me for it. Heck I would pay a reasonable price to use blogger without the constant begging for a little bit more information. I do not have that option to the best of my knowledge.
I do miss the old blogger without all this foolishnes.
Also it would appear no one is reading this at this time. There are no comments from people who are willing to say who they are. Still, people keep sending anonymous comments that never get posted. If no one is reading this blog why are people trying to advertise on it. I am sure you could make buck if you posted something on the yarn harlot.
Well if you are anonymous and advertising pills or something else it will not get posted here. And I am not posting anything with a link unless it is to another blog or something that I might find interesting.
Be safe out there and keep you stick on the ic.e
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Knitting update
Well I will keep working at it and see if I can come up with something better. Now you may be saying to yourself. Why don't you crochet them. Well I am not such a fan of the so called hooked art. I have it in my head that this can be don with the knitting so I am going to try and figure it out.
Sunday is the ice skating trip with the church and I am wearing my skates as I type because I have not worn them in a long time and want to make certain they still fit. They appear to fit. I am sure that mattered to everyone out there in the interweb land.
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
There is actual honest to goodness knitting prograss in this entry. And on top of that once again i am knitting something odd.
First off is a little sewing. I am making balls for juggling. he is a lovely basket full of sewing jugggling balls As you may not they are not round. these are balls for people that are learning how to juggle. And cubes are the best thing for people that are learning how to juggle. First and foremost when you drop them they stay where you drop them. if you drop a ball it will go whee ever it can roll. this may not sound like much. Still, if you are jugling this gets annoying when you are running all over the place looking for your balls. Make up your own jokes if you must at this point.
The other thing that was have been trying to do is sew round balls. I have tried a four segment style and a two piece style modeled on the base ball. It is a real pain to make them round. I am not be good enough with the sewing machine to do this. even so I am giving it a show with some scrap fabric from a bag making project. Neither came out round.
Well as stated the sewing them round is not working. So i am trying knitting them round. This is my first attempt at knitting a round ball. It was too loose to hold the stuffng. As I type this I have a half finished balls make with a smaller gauge set of needles. hopefully it will hold the stuffing better. the stuff is wood fuel pellets that are used in wood burning stoves.
As you can see it is round. It also does not take foreever to knit. The down side is that knitting one of these take the same amount of time as sewing three cubes. Well when i get better I will put up a completed set that looks nice.
Be safe out there and keep your stick on the ice
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Rabbit
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Thursday, February 09, 2012
Rambling Some More
Once again I am blogging on the bus while I am enroute to somewhere. In this case I heading to Homestead for our regular Tuesday Practice. We have a couple of the young folks coming along on the juggling and stilting. The balloons as always are going well. nce again I am blogging on the bus while I am enroute to somewhere. In this case I heading to Homestead for our regular Tuesday Practice. We have a couple of the young folks coming along on the juggling and stilting. The balloons as always are going well.
On other blogging fronts I have started a blog just for my singing activities with the Trinity Choir. I found it very interesting to be nominated and elected as President of the Choir. Of course this is an administrative post. So I will not be making any creative decision. I would not have accepted if that were the case. Frankly there is not much for me to do unless we are rewriting bylaws and that was done last year. I suppose if the weather is really bad I have the authority to call off the meeting. Still, with this mild winter that has not been an issue. Anyway this blog Notes From My Choir is about my adventures with the Gospel Music.
I have continued to work on The Last Great General. I am pleased with the progress of this book. Working McRandal into it has been difficult. On some level I just want to leave him out. Still, the events of his time are directly tied the events of this book. One would think that he was somehow involved in the events of this book. I am not sure if the part I have him playing in these books is in character for him. I will have to kick that around some more.
On the up side I figure there will be three books in this story arc. They will deal with in these books is in character for him. I will have to kick that around some more.
On the up side I figure there will be three books in this story arc. The first will deal with Evangeline’s origin. The second will deal with the Yamato’s origin and the third will dal with how Brengle got mixed up in all of this. Since they have lost Mason her origin will be spaced out over all three books. One of the up sides of this series is the way we are only dealing with a hand full of ships. In the later books there are so many ships and I do not think that I am doing any of them justice. The Sarah, Yamato and Tojo Maru get a great deal of attention in the first book. We also get to see how the Excaliber comes about.
Well I have rambled about all of that enough about that. Be safe out there and keep your stick on the ice.