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melmac78 · 3 days
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A Doctor on a space station near Bajor and a celestial temple that creates a stable wormhole.
This wouldn’t be bad except a Cardassian Tailor by the name of Garak would insist he’d rather chat with Dr. Bashir…
No: he’d probably want me chatting with him too given my unusual history. (Though knowing Garak he’d probably think I’m a Cardassisn Spy altered to look human. Only joking… naturally.)
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melmac78 · 5 days
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Well… I’m going to need to figure out a way to get my mail to run normally on the iPad.
I found my notes for the last chapter I needed to write for an old Greatest American Hero/MASK cross over … and notes for its sequel.
I also found my Tracy’s on the Lexington story, but I’m leaning on changing the Hood subplot and maybe getting Fischler the bad guy instead as I can make the serious aspect into an experiment gone wrong. It’d also explain why the Lexington gets moved….
But they’ve been fun to read again.
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Though why they have me dreaming of rescuing Dr. Bashir from a shuttlecraft invaded by the Founders creating floodwaters - in space (Deep Space Nine) and then turning Captain Scarlet into a Mommy Long Legs (Poppy Playtime) I’ll never know.
(Please don’t ask… it would’ve had some sense if I had Dusty with Backlash in MASK in the mix).
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melmac78 · 5 days
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I normally don’t do a lot of antique/vintage buying, though I love looking at said stores.
These were bargains though, and cool for me personally.
The first is a set of calibration weights, and this set reminds me of the ones we used in metalsmith/jewelrymaking class in college. They even have the fraction weights inside, and a literal scruple coin.
The pendant is a Lioness Club pendant, which was an offshoot of the Lions Club. The club is now simply Lions however.
It is as specifically a perfect attendance one. (I’m currently a Lions member, and have been a Rotarian at one point. I honestly am more at home with Lions).
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melmac78 · 5 days
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That’s great news. Small steps lead to many miles… er, kilometers.
(TBF, I use miles a lot because 13.1, a half, is about 21.082 km… makes it look far longer).
Hubby update
He has managed to walk - with an A frame - using his prosthetic ... from the front room into the dining room! I'd say that's a good 15 feet!!!
Maybe thats a little exaggeration but still. He managed.
On
His
Own
After that, he had to stop and use the wheelchair to get back.
But still ...
... he is doing so very very well indeed!
I wish I'd taken a video but I was more focused on making sure he didn't lose his balance and topple over
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melmac78 · 5 days
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King cobra band.
Good arm and hand therapy after a fall.
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melmac78 · 5 days
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There’s breakfast pizza and burritos…who’s he to say what is/isn’t breakfast?
Plus… spray cheese is as salty as the sugary stuff you might eat. Is Gordon moonlighting as a mascot/costumed character?
(No… seriously I could rate how much I may have over done being a costumed character based on if I wanted nothing, spray cheese or ramen/pot noodles, last too I really overdid it).
Being judged by the Squid for my choices of food: "That's not breakfast." "Don't eat that raw." "That's too much sugar this early in the day." ect, ect.
Like bro!! You eat cheese out of a can!!
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melmac78 · 7 days
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If anyone ever wanted to understand me… well… you can’t.
Left is a pendant inspired by Brad Turner, a cartoon character in “MASK” that was on back in the 1980s and more popular in comics in the UK. It’s his uniform in the solid colors and an interpretation of his mask power “Hocus pocus” in diachronic.
I have a full MASK agent set and at least one Venom one, and why? a. I like the show (all time favorite cartoon - I see TAG is mix of it and puppetry, and is my fave that category) and b. Was challenged to make fused glass unisex same time.
The funny thing is Hondo’s second outfit is very oddly colored so you’d think it’s Gloria’s instead. Ironically though I think hers can pass off as the original Hondo outfit
The right is a Sanrio pen I purchased today because I like Hello Kitty and My Melody, and even now it’s harder to find My Melody.
If one must know… I’ve of late been put in boxes, and if I step out I’m wrong.
But I’m not a toy in a box: if I like it I like it: girly, masculine, doesn’t matter.
Will say though the outside attitudes are why - back in 1989, I was the only female to win a history award in my grade.
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melmac78 · 7 days
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Yeah, American Biacuits and Gravy is two biscuits (muffins/scones) with usually flour based (the white kind) sausage gravy, complete with sausage pieces. It can be with brown gravy though, and I’ve personally had some done with mushroom gravy.
Even here in Texas we have folks confused on the food item.
When I did the overnight program on the USS Lexington back in ‘12 or ‘13, they served this fit breakfast, likely to represent chipped beef of toast, but more likely to be more palatable to the younger groups attending the program. (Double with the SOS term for the toast one).
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the way this was handled
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melmac78 · 7 days
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Van de Graff generators … everyone over it when I had my hand on it because my hair actually could take a static charge well to stand on end.
We had a fellow though accidentally put the metal rod used to show the sparks on the sphere though, so I got a shock. Helped but laughed a lot after.
Unmute !
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melmac78 · 8 days
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“Better to Remain Silent and Be Thought a Fool than to Speak and Remove All Doubt”
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Not me: a couple of folks in our town who are leaders.
Just done childish crap going on and pettiness. Nothing I haven’t dealt with before though.
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melmac78 · 11 days
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Actually… no. It isn’t a pointless talent.
Not if you’re me - someone who transcribes Santa Letters - and has learned how to read text on a paper every direction to speed up typing.
It works well… except a face down paper.
No coal from Santa either.
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melmac78 · 12 days
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I was very happy how this turned out, though I had a weird large air bubble in the bottom I fixed adding more gears and a coin miniature. (All my other gears were covering up the bottom turtle, even the smallest. Plus, a mini coin is tradition in my gear pendants.)
It is the last of the metal flowers though unless Tandy’s website still has them in stock.
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melmac78 · 13 days
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Found objects pendants. The suitcase key I don’t see anymore (at least a perfect sharp rectangle… edges usually rounded), and has a strange texture I think reflecting in the pic.
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melmac78 · 14 days
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Or… you’re me and I’ve had to rewrite areas because I wrote it in AP* style so it reads literally news.
Double going by importance hierarchy (most important lead, then least last.).
News hierarchy isn’t too bad… unless you inadvertently put important descriptions in the least important part.
*(please don’t get me started on the one time they tried to get me writing Reuters style too at school…)
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What i made instead of writing.....
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melmac78 · 14 days
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Won my first ever toy from a claw machine.
He’s one of those that hugs your neck.
Was happy with him too because the ticket claw game was acting up (unexpectedly popping open to drop tickets before scanned), so as his ticket value cost was as much as what I won in that ticket game, I told the workers I was OK with no extra play.
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Ash is… OK with him, if confused. This is funny because she likes the other ones I’ve gotten. (Maybe his face is shaped like hers?… 🤷‍♀️)
Made me wonder what John’s first prize was and if he kept it or gave to a Tracy brother or another kid who got gamed by the store.
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melmac78 · 17 days
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This edition (Thursday) marks my 260th paper here.
That’s five years of weekly papers.
If I counted specials like Christmas and Graduation separate, it’s 272 as I’ve done five each of the those plus a Best of Town awards section and one for Amendments.
It’s going to be an interesting one for sure… lots of sports and photo stories, kind of ironic when I moved here from a job that was primarily photography.
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melmac78 · 18 days
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A bit Penelope inspired… flower millefiori and either gears or birds.
I have one for an old key in the next day or two. Won’t be tonight because Mom’s up here and we’re spending the day together.
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