Sep 15
I just got back last night from a little trip back to Indiana to visit with the family. We didn’t really do anything terribly exciting, just visits with the family… although we did take a little hike in Spring Mill State Park in Mitchell. Spring Mill is a nice little park. There are a couple of caves you can visit as well as a virgin forest that was preserved back in the 1800s and is simply beautiful… especially since there are so few places now where you can see truly old tulip poplars, oaks, and beeches. Links to some photos are after the jump.
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Sep 06
It’s been a while, but I’ve finally broken my string of project disasters with the fused glass. To celebrate, I’ve made a small piece for my mother’s birthday (shhhhhhhh… don’t tell her!). It’s just a little trivet with an abstract flower-style pattern. Pictures after the jump.
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Sep 04
I haven’t written much about Second Life since I first mentioned it here. I won’t say much about it now, since I’m a bit pressed for time, but I wanted to post some pictures from last night. It was my birthday recently, and my friend Brenda decided that she needed to buy me a tiny bunny avatar as a present. "Tinies," as they are called, are little (mainly animal) avatars you can use and that people in Second Life have created (not Linden Lab, incidentally… this is all user generated). They are very small and maybe come up to a normal avatar’s knee (hence the name). They are terribly cute and funny (especially when you find that people now make clothes for tinies and special animations like dances). I’m posting some pictures from our shopping trip from last night after the jump… good, silly fun!
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Sep 04
Just a quick note to let you know that I’m setting up a space over in Flickr for my photos. In future, I’ll be posting pictures there and not directly here (although I’ll be linking to them from here). Flickr is rather easier to work with than the Wordpress stuff I’ve tried for managing photos, plus it does tagging of photos and slideshows.