Botheration! Snow!

[akirlu]

...or the interconnectedness of all tasks.

I have a very colorbright necklace mostly laid out on the bead board, and this morning I noticed some dislodging of the layout that strongly implied feline intervention. So, I figured I would go ahead and string it up today, so as to eliminate the danger of more weasel- kitty-help. But in contemplating the design, I decided to switch from just stringing it on SoftTouch with a clasp on it, to doing a continuous strand thing, a la Coltrane, knotted on silk.

I could *swear* I bought some silk thread spools for necklace knotting back when the local bead shop was going out of business. At least some large-size spools of the nylon. I can just about taste them, I'm so sure I got them.

But can I find them? Not a sausage.

So in hopes of uncovering them, I've been pottering away at my various bins and bags of beads and findings and wire and such, organizing them a bit (by which I mean grouping things like with like, and extracting all the unrelated random bits that got shoved in to the nearest container when I was in a hurry to tidy, which process tends to make some parts of the work surface and storage bins more organized, while radically increasing the entropy in other parts of same. Sometimes I think all I do is move the entropy around. This is extra tricky in a place too small to allow for an entropy room). So now my work desk is messier, and I still have no silk thread.

Around noon it started snowing. At that point, I hadn't yet given up hope of finding the thread I was looking for. Then I figured it would stop soon enough, and I could go out to a bead store. Then I figured I hadn't looked hard enough for the thread. Now I'm wondering if I want to venture out anyway -- driving on snow is actually not bad, once enough of it accumulates--if the bead store is even open in this stuff. Sigh

Good thing I had already given up on the idea of going up to Bellingham this weekend.

Comments

[stevegreen.livejournal.com]

Hi U. Snow? The UK's had to make do with relentless wind and rain.

By the way, when's the deadline for your next Ch*ng* column?

[angeyja.livejournal.com]

So in hopes of uncovering them, I've been pottering away at my various bins and bags of beads and findings and wire and such, organizing them a bit (by which I mean grouping things like with like, and extracting all the unrelated random bits that got shoved in to the nearest container when I was in a hurry to tidy, which process tends to make some parts of the work surface and storage bins more organized, while radically increasing the entropy in other parts of same. Sometimes I think all I do is move the entropy around. This is extra tricky in a place too small to allow for an entropy room). So now my work desk is messier, and I still have no silk thread.

I am surfing fine silver tonight. Not your mother's silver or you're mostly seen wiring silver. I never wish frubbles on folks. But this made me smile. ;) Wish us luck. Freezing rain here.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Snow indeed. Not very heavy, but pretty steady.

As for Chunga, you'd have to ask Ramdu what's up with that -- the guys have been talking about a themed issue, which might not have any straight news in it -- but I don't have any idea what the status of that is. You'd think they would want to bring out an ish for Corflu, but I am but a humble stringer for the mighty Chunga empire, so I hesitate to speculate.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Eventually hied myself out into the snow to get silk, beads, and burgers. We've returned safely so now I'm ready to string...

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

Our next ish is indeed a Celluloid Fantasia themed ish. It will not be out for Corflu. Amdu is the driving force behind this particular ish, so I dunno for sure whether we'll have a Tangler this time or not.

We'll we see you at the pubmeet, since you aren't in Bellingham?

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Well, winter wonderland permitting, we do plan to go to the pub, yeah.