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Martina and Hansi: Nerdforge

 If you like fantasy, art and crafting, you will love Nerdforge. Martina and Hansi work together to produce stunning works of art in many different mediums. There was the full set of armor—for a woman and her dog. I get most excited about the leather-bound books. Martina rebound her Harry Potter books and the result was magnificent. Martina does most of the presenting, but Hansi is always around providing a steady hand and skillful help.

You must go see them for yourself. The handmade houses, the murals, the self-challenges, they deserve to be seen, especially if you enjoy fantasy.

https://www.youtube.com/c/Nerdforge

120,000 Memories

 

We bought our Honda Odyssey when we couldn’t fit our family in our Chevy Venture anymore. That was 15 years ago when Jimmy was born. I get attached to cars, so I was sad to see “Madame Blueberry” go. The Honda is painted Disney Princess blue, so I called her Cinderella. I took Cindy in for serious maintenance recently and was surprised by the fact that we’ve put 120,000 miles on her. She’s never given me any trouble other than needing a battery replaced and leaky tires. I have so many wonderful memories of our family in that car. We are a long drive kind of family. My kids settle in and enjoy each other as the miles go by. I’m really proud of that. 

Forgive Us Gay Wedding Cake

 

don’t hold yourself aloof

we all die

unclutch the rules

it’s importtaint

your heart will have to break

the mask you hide behind

it’s containshun

it is killing us

As We Forgive

Sunday Pleasures

 

Good habits are seldom as easy and pleasurable as taking my gummy multivitamin. Vitafusion is wonderful and I prefer the general vitamins over the women specific due to flavor and texture.

A treat reserved to Sunday or a sore throat day is my can of anchovies. I discovered how much I liked them when a recipe called for 3 filets and the rest would have been thrown out. I tried them and fell in love. If you are prone to sore throat they are also good at coating your throat with salt which brings some relief.

Mt. Dew has been escaping its boundaries a little too often lately, but these little bottles are just enough on my better days.

Brian Lagerstrom: Let’s Eat This Thing!

 Pizza was my entry point to Brian Lagerstrom’s You Tube channel. My pleasure in pizza is difficult to overstate. Brian makes something like six kinds of pizza, and I bet he’d make more if you dared him. He makes lots of other things too, making home cook food that tastes professional, because he is a professional.

His beloved side-kick is his wife Loren who is always up for whatever, which is good because Brian gets up to a lot of whatever. Together they make the kind of couple everyone wants to be friends with.

This is an easily watchable channel, good for chilling out after a challenging day. 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn5fhcGRrCvrmFibPbT6q1A

Typing: Accomplished

 

My latest manuscript finally has a digital form. I’m terrible at typing, as you have probably noticed. However I’ve finished that dread task, and I’m ready to start querying. There are things I’m still fixing, but that will take comparatively little energy held against selling someone on my work. I tend to do things just left of ordinary so they are hard to explain, and even I am uncertain about how to value them. I think this will change the world, but how and to what degree I cannot say. I imagine literary agents want you to say.

Shitter

 

I could meet their highest expectations. 

if I would just clean the toilet. 

No need to write another poem, read another book, write another curriculum or invent another community project. 

If I would just settle down and clean the toilet, humanity would have everything it ever wanted.

From Me.

Lessofs!

I Know Better

 The call of nature is one ring I’d like to leave unanswered. The intrusion of bodily necessity on my day is mostly resented. When I am working I like to keep working before inspiration or concentration slips away.   I don’t like excreting things. They all smell bad. I don’t like having to ask people to excuse me so I can go do this disgusting thing. I do like the profound relief of having pushed it too long and finally finding the right circumstances to let it go, but this is not sufficient pleasure to make the day to day less onerous. 

Why are we discussing the unpleasant? I was told a person my age has to pay better attention to hydration. I’ve been told the same thing for most of my life. I’ve had nightmares about being unable to find proper facilities since I was nine. The two things clash. Fortunately, I make plans for these kinds of contingencies, and I’d been eyeing water bottles forever. The good ones are so expensive, and finding the right features for you can be frustrating. I’ve tried enough ones to know that a Tervis brand water bottle with wide mouth opening in a playful Disney character print would suit my need. The price however was still enough to make me put the bottle back on the shelf.

When my doctor said “Drink more water.” I was ready to pick it up. Unfortunately the Disney print had already been adopted, but the same water bottle was available in a butterfly print that speaks of transformation. I don’t know if it can really do the trick, but it can try.