Halloween '20
After receiving 6-8 inches of snow last week, it warmed up today and will be in the mid 60s next week. Ok. Wee Wilker 2 got the idea to request a new costume for the season and how could I resist the creative challenge? Could we (ie: me) create a costume based on a video game character with stuff we had around the house and in just a few days? Yes, just barely. The character is from the video game of the same name: Hollow Knight (does the main character have another name?). Using some EVA foam (ie: floor mats) and contact cement and hot glue and paint and caulk and mesh and plasti-dip and paint... just barely got it done but the kid was super thrilled to have it done just in time. Lessons were learned - although I'm still confused about how some cosplayers use a dremel-type tool to "sand" down their EVA smooth when mine just made it a different kind of undesirable texture. Maybe I'm using the wrong grit of sanding disks? posted by jeremy at 09:00 PM
2020, y'all
ok, who knows if this software that runs this blog even works any longer after eleven or so years away from it (thanks for making blogs blasé, big social media), but I got the urge to log in and see what would happen if I tried to make a post. it took some random tinkering around to make it work since the server software had certainly been updated a couple times since 2009 and I was surprised to see that some of the site was updated (apparently some of the back-end must link out to external servers).
I felt the urge to suddenly blog again because, well, it's 2020 and if you know anything about 2020 you know that it got decidedly eff-ed up this year. we've been in quarantine for almost eight months now with no firm end in sight due to COVID-19. we don't have a good national plan in place, I've been largely unemployed during this stretch, and its just exhausting dealing with it all (and all the people who do not take it seriously - since when did doctors and scientists become lower-regarded than cartoon witches?). I'm not sure what I'm going to be posting on here, probably just more random notes from life, like I used to do. we'll see. but it just felt like an itch I needed to scratch again. and really, blogs should come back in style. social media needs re-evaluated as its replacement.