Here we go—

• 20:02 @bardicbelle: Oooooh. #
• 21:36 @nfagerlund: God Nick, that is too heavy. DON'T MAKE ME THINK. #
• 21:36 @nfagerlund: Also, think of this—there are kids with driving licenses who have never seen, nor will see, Wayne's World. Take that. #
• 23:02 Anyone have good sources for ordering custom wrapping paper? #
• 05:11 @bardicbelle: Fancy and pretty! #
• 08:36 Merkley honk gatherers at Powell & Milwaukie: get your damn football banner out of the effing sidewalk, you dick monkeys. #
• 11:24 @sarahdopp: Nobody at work believed me, since there wasn't an article. But now I've proof! We're all very super excited. #
• 11:52 @Matt_Sheridan: Wait, so the first was the "Next to Last Starfighter"? #

Dude, dudes.  For serious.



Vote Sock Dreams! Socks!  Wonderful staff (so biased, but you know it is true)! Socks again!

Quoting amandathegreat directly here: "And if you've never shopped at Sock Dreams, then what on earth is wrong with you? SOCKS, PEOPLE. YOU NEED THEM."

Do I know you?  When you order from us I so write random things on your order.  It means love!  And sometimes I draw pictures, if I can wrangle more than the teal or purple marker from co-workers.

Locals! Ballot is due next Tuesday.  Make us popular, we are tired of eating at the quirky kid table.

States of progress, originally uploaded by B_Zedan.

The "salvage" pieces, the patterns and some other things some folks may be seeing are all part of a whole, I swear.

Here we go—

• 20:52 Time for the girly mix: Blondie, Persephone's Bees, Scissor Sisters and the soundtrack to Marie Antoinette. Shit, and some t.A.T.U. Whynot. #
• 12:02 Oh, my turn-around time is significantly better than your new design team? Well shit, who woulda thought? The phrase is: "tough titty". #
• 12:39 @bardicbelle: Omigod, until you go?! EXCITEMENT. #
• 13:06 @bardicbelle: Gah, annoying. Personally, our driver's side window doesn't roll down. But not everybody has our classy excuse. #
• 13:44 @bardicbelle: Dude, excitement nonetheless. (I have no sense of time) #

Variations on another pattern, originally uploaded by B_Zedan.

It's a horrible realisation that even the best craft and tech blogs out there repeat article ideas as often as lady mags. And there are innumerable identical tutorials on how to create a repeating pattern, but Design*Sponge's how to at least does it by hand. Which is infinitely more fun (especially when I'm normally making ultra-simple vector based patterns).

And one from yesterday.

Here we go—

• 18:42 Pizza delivery: real bacon, salami, zucchini, garlic, thin crust. Worth the charge to deliver to the 'burbs. #
• 19:45 @MagnoliaPearl: It was. The delivery charge to you would be astronomical, though. #
• 09:55 @Iron_Spike: Visually document this genius idea, please! #

Score, originally uploaded by B_Zedan.

Pretty, pretty things. To be used in nefarious projects.

This weekend is (hopefully) going to be project-y, especially since I'm playing with goggles again.

Here we go—

• 20:01 @Iron_Spike: Mushrooming is the most fun ever. Go for chantrelles, if they're local to you. #
• 20:02 @Matt_Sheridan: Skeletal. I got a decent haul of pretties actually. I've only found one complete sand dollar before and it was dime-sized. #
• 20:02 @michaeljpatrick: I am shaking my head bemusedly. #
• 22:12 Dangit. Accidentally started uploading the full-size images from beach trip. #
• 13:22 Oh awesome, spilling coffee. #
• 13:23 @Iron_Spike: Are places like that even open Mondays? From most small businesses I see, Tuesday is the start of the week. #
• 15:06 @chavtasticjinx: I spilled on my desk, thank goodness for the small-footprint flatscreen they gave me. Ruined some scrap paper is all. Whew. #
• 15:25 God, I've been drinking someone else's coffee since lunch. #

Lacy, originally uploaded by B_Zedan.

After flushing the transmission on the pickup (the old stuff was opaque black, as opposed to the clear ruby that crap is supposed to be), we went on a drive along the Northern coast. I only got a couple of non-driving pictures, because around here (and for me), the coast is 50% the drive, 40% crap you find at the coast and 10% the sand and junk itself.

I found some cool stuff. Picture later. Pictures of the drive are in a little set.

Here we go—

• 18:39 Had the transmission fluid flushed on the truck, the old stuff was opaque black. It'd probably been there for years—now runs like a dream. #
• 17:21 We've been driving around the Northern coast, found a whole sand dollar. #