Yesterday was very hard. I’ve had too many funerals this last year. But today I’m up early, got the recyclables to the curb, got the tax reports done, and we’re ready to go to Nationals. We’re taking our notepads to do design work during the resurfacings, and we’re hoping to get some patches put together. There’ll be the usual offerings of really neat skating outfits for persons who don’t stand taller than 5’2″, skates (I’ve got great ones, and don’t need any); and really bad food laden with onion salt to disguise the mystery meat. But we are not going to buy tons of stuff this round, and we’re bringing food in the car, which will be in the parking lot. E-co-no-my and common sense, and no buying stuff!
Feeling better today…the ankle's on the mend.
by CJ | Jan 15, 2010 | Journal | 19 comments
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PB & J on whole grain bread, or even better, home-baked bread so you know what is in the bread.
How is your hand doing? I hope the applications of heat and ice are helping.
(My surgeon cleared me to go back to practicing kendo again. One step at a time, easy on the knee.)
I have gotten over any embarrassment and now ask if I think something has ingredients I’m allergic to. Better to look a little foolish than end up in the local emergency room.
Glad to hear the ankle is better….how about the hand? Hope it isn’t too stiff.
Almond butter can be nice change if PB gets overdone.
Have fun at the Nationals 🙂 😀 😆
(Good news about the kendo, joekc6nix! 😆 )
Also, there’s always Nutella (yummm).
My wife and #1 son both swear by both Nutella and sunbutter (sunflower). You can even get the sunbutter in creamy or crunchy formulas now that we have a Wegmans grocery 🙂
– S
Ah, Wegmans… 🙂
have fun !
Sunbutter sounds yummy!
I have a problem with soy. It’s in everything now
and I can’t cook much from scratch anymore. It
ranks pretty high as an allergen,right up there
with nuts. I love sunflower seeds! What is Nutella?
Hazelnut butter with chocolate. It’s one of the things I try not to keep in the house, since I know very well what my weaknesses are, so I generally get it on crepes with strawberries and bananas.
Besides, once it gets into the house, it goes into the mouth, so there is no KEEPING about it!
From the jar straight to the hips.
Patches = ship patches? How about offering t-shirts with the patch designs printed on them in the right places i.e. on the chest and/or on the shoulder. I reckon that would be both very cool to look at and somewhat discrete for those who would prefer not to alarm people with their geeky tendencies… 😉
Nice idea!
I downloaded the Close Circle flyer at work this afternoon and made up 75 copies on a warm and friendly but definitely “hey look at me” pumpkin-coloured paper. I’ll put them out at the Arisia Sci Fi convention here in Boston tomorrow.
I’ve finished what sewing I can for tonight on my Edwardian Lady Astronomer costume (vaguely steam punk but the Aetherscope/kaleidoscope alas won’t be finished). I’m hoping I can use a small broach to hold together the Edwardian walking skirt I’ve sewn as learning how to do a button-hole, even if only one, will take a bit more time than I would like tomorrow morning. This is the first time I’ve “made” a costume for a con: I’m feeling kinda daring.
Thank you so much! and we all should see pix of the costume! Sounds great!
I love the idea of ship patches, but how about producing the patches themselves as well? Then we could sew them onto jackets and stuff. May be a bit tricky finding a supplier though….
Finding a supplier isn’t difficult, it’s getting the money for the setup fees, then the patches themselves. I did it one year for my kendo club, cost $120 for everything for 50 patches. A big chunk of that was the setup fee, but presuming that more than 50 patches will be needed for all of us, it’s going to cost a bunch of up-front money.
Ah yes… set-up fees! I used to deal a lot with labels, and small production runs. Think of needing 300 4-color labels, when the production company tells you that they will give you a price break at 3000. As they put it, we spend several hours setting up the presses and making sure the different colors align correctly. After that, actually printing the 300 labels was “press the on button and immediately press stop”. But it explained why they were so ungodly expensive!
Or setting up the embroidery machines if the patches are cloth embroidered. The threads have to be the correct colors, the needles have to line up properly, and the screen image has to be identical to what the customer ordered, and the final product has to match the customer’s order. My ex-wife has one of those lovely machines, although not for large production runs, but more for applique work. Think $3800.00 USD for the machine, and $2100.00 USD for the software. That doesn’t include the computer you need to interface the software to the machine, either.
I can’t remember the name of the company I dealt with, I just know they were in El Cajon, CA, When I was stationed in San Diego, we lived just south of El Cajon, and I know we’d drive right by this place, even though I don’t remember seeing it.