Last night I went to dinner with a friend—I won't say where, but if you want a recommendation for a good Japanese restaurant in Farmington Hills, let me know, because it was a fine dinner. At one point, there were was us and another couple about our age nearby. The waitress, a very friendly and welcoming young Japanese-American woman, started asking about the election. She was just about to become...

Yay, another milestone reached - shadow_stallion posted the 30000th comment in my journal earlier tonight: This is a good excuse to do some comment stats. Top Commenters on schnee 's LiveJournal 1   schnee 14584 +1926 2   quoting_mungo 904 ±0 3   iksarlove 619 +14 4   saints_goddess...

This sounds like one for altivo . If it weren't for that pesky Atlantic! It includes centaur art by Naive John. His gallery is worth a look.

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Poonies become yarn Originally uploaded by Altivo Back on July 22 I posted about dyeing cotton poonies yellow and blue. I'm now about half finished with the job of spinning them and plying the resulting thread into a lace weight yarn for knitting. Here is a photo of the Bosworth book charkha I am using to spin the dyed poonies into thread. Two strands of the thread are then plied together...

Been a while since I've done this... Top Commenters on corelog 's LiveJournal (Self and anonymous comments excluded from rankings) 1 altivo 923 2 duraji_synth 550 3 hgryphon 507 4 marzolan 486 5 farhoug 480 6 cnipur 479 7 daikitsune ...

Dyed cotton poonies Originally uploaded by Altivo These rather bedraggled looking cotton poonies (punis) were dyed last night by dipping them in solutions of Procion MX fiber reactive dye with sodium carbonate and salt. They are still just slightly damp as the photo is taken, but hopefully will be dry enough to spin by tomorrow. Colors were selected to fit blue sky or water, sunlight, white...

Snerked from altivo : The Big Read says that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. 1. Look at the list and bold those you have read. 2. Italicise those you intend to read. 3. Underline the books you LOVE. 4. Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read only 6 and force books upon them ;-) 1. Pride and Prejudice...

Somehow it's 21:55 now. I seem to have been all day editing and sorting photos, and I'd already started the job last week. Wow. Slen and I booked last week off work to celebrate our unbrother Paul coming back from Ireland, go on loads of day trips and generally have ourselves a time. Well, the whole part where Paul was supposed to be with us didn't go according to plan , but Slen and I managed...