By Booker B on 3/25/2009 9:49 PM

I'm pretty happy.

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By Booker B on 3/21/2009 1:18 PM

I have stood there in my jammies, coffeeless, cleaning up the mess for the last time. Stupid coffee maker is gone gone gone.

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By Booker B on 3/18/2009 7:26 AM

Today's Moment of Weirdness:
Got email from my brother about the neice appearing in a musical this weekend. Normal family business & whatnot it was (well, as normal as things can be in this strained and disjointed excuse for a family). But then at the end, for the first time I've ever seen, he signed with his initials, all lower case & shit.

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By Booker B on 3/15/2009 7:27 PM

These lines get quoted all the time. Lots of posters have been printed and whatnot. The words are widely known, frequently quoted with approval, and just about universally ignored. It's a sad sentiment, I guess. It's true enough on the face of it, and quoted often enough, that it could be dismissed as a platitude. But that would be a mistake, I think. It talks about a place of acceptance that's maybe easy to understand (sort of) and real in a quite direct way. It's one of those plain truths that need elaboration, if at all, only in their effects, but not in the reasons behind them.

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By Booker B on 3/15/2009 11:57 AM

Finally got some time to work on the quilt. It took a long time to outline all the veins on the wings. Can't say I'm a huge fan of applique, although I don't regret trying it. The wings are made of a three-layer sandwich of organdy with black crinoline over the top, then a layer of water-soluble stablizer.

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By Booker B on 3/10/2009 7:37 AM

The great period details from very early Craftsman times were covered under a couple layers of green paint. But it was only a couple layers!! How hard can it be to strip that off??

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By Booker B on 3/3/2009 9:57 PM

Update: Things are stuck down.

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By Booker B on 3/2/2009 7:58 AM

Caption: After a long hike in the dessert, Tom observed this disk-shaped flying object hovering over the dessert floor. Moments later, it was gone. Thinking about the UFO later that night Tom passed off the sighting as a symptom of dehydration. The next morning Tom's tent was empty.

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By Booker B on 3/1/2009 1:22 AM

I'm just back from my first FC show in a year. Damn, the funk was so much the goodness.

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