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Chemist. Crafty. Likes to play with string. (she/her)
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My brain: buffalo plaid wood, yes.
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In the tenth eepy & function movie you will go to space.
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HEB, man. Sometimes, in small tiny ways, Texas doesn't completely fuck things up.
www.heb.com/product-deta...
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I read this as "Tripping Balls to America's Parks" and wow that was a moment in my brain...
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Would any of the one page rpgs by Grant Howitt be suitable? I'm thinking of the Honey Heist games I've seen - pretty much maximum flexibility and light on rules with limited DM prep required.
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Congratulations, your children are now recipe blogs.
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But hold the syrup, please.
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Anyway, here's the finished stack of 8 shawls...and the ninth and final shawl in my backlog pinned into submission on the screaming green towels of blockening.
This one's Chaukor, and it's a rectangular stole that's been folded in half for blocking.
Now, to the bin of finished objects with ye!
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The Begonia Swirl was also an utter pain in the ass to block because of its construction. Asymmetric with a short neck edge to give the wide bottom edge maximum flutter.
I referred to this as the donut of doom after blocking, but it also looks like an incoming hurricane.
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And their smaller siblings: Geology, Dodo, Funfetti, and Begonia Swirl.
Begonia Swirl is made out of silk, and wet silk smells strongly of worm butt. Now you know.
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Corollary: *Before* reordering supplies, check the lab inventory and/or ask someone else if there is more stock stored away.
...I say, trying to find room for two more cases of centrifuge tubes in the cupboard already filled with multiple cases of the same centrifuge tubes.
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Every shawl can be spiky if you block it right!
I could have blocked it with softer waves, but I got lazy (and didn't look at the pattern page before pinning... >.>) www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
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Man, everything looks a weird color on the Blocking Towels of Retinal Searing™️ 😆
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Does it count if you constantly convert the actual book language into something else?
Franklin-Covey's 4DX "wildly important goal (WIG)" is only ever a wild-ass goal/guess in my mind.
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That gauge is throwing me. I've done a pair of knee highs with clocking in the past, but in a much larger yarn. The time invested in making these!
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Thanks! I am all the hydrating and otherwise fine but tired (as expected).
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As of 2024 I would have considered ~2 hrs to be about perfect for a YYC transfer during a non-holiday period, and generous for mid-afternoon on a weekday. Travel volume to the US is apparently down for now, but I don't know if anyone can predict where we'll be by summer as far as extra scrutiny. :/
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You've got the right word. US Customs has pre-clearance arrangements in most major Canadian airports. For YYC, bags are usually checked through to final destination, but you will have to clear "US" security and talk to an agent before going to your connecting gate in a separate departure area.
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Someone needs to remind the world that measles can still kill "survivors" 6 - 10 years later, and contracting it before the age of 2 makes delayed neurological complications a LOT more likely. www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
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"We see you just bought a vacuum cleaner, an appliance most people usually only own one of at a time. Here are 7 other vacuum cleaners we think you should consider also purchasing!"
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Orca Air Force! Orca Air Force!
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If only densely written academic papers usually included abstracts, brief summaries written by the authors, summarizing their findings with key points and data as a helpful aid to future readers.
If only.
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Damn right it is!
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That's some pretty sweet veneer, then. I've still seen less skilled people make good materials look worse. It's a beautiful piece.
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The grain pattern on the back of the cabinet is GORGEOUS! All in a row with just a little bit of wiggle. Then the fancy front? I have to say, that's some nice wood... 😏😍