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Work In Progress
Oct. 11th, 2018 09:49 pm
A High-Grade Universal Century (now "old" pattern) Hyaku-Shiki that had been on my shelf too long. I assembled it last week for a Skirmish session, and after next week it'll get a new paint scheme.
Somehow I may have reconnected my Journal with Facebook again. But I don't know for sure.
Plan To Scan? Well...
May. 20th, 2017 04:05 pmWent to a seminar from Artec 3D on Friday afternoon. I'm very impressed with their machines--but I'm so far behind on the tech that I'd have to spend loads of money to get caught up again.
Scale Model Dilemma
May. 18th, 2017 02:13 pmA very long time ago, I received a bunch of built-up 1/72 airplane models--including FIVE F4U Corsairs. (One Airfix, two Heller [now SMER] and two old-production Revell, to be specific.) They were all in bad shape and poorly built to begin with, so I stripped the paint off, carefully disassembled them and started looking for alternative parts.
My search is a little more serious now.
If High Planes did a detailling set for F4U-1(A), F4U-1D, F4U-1C and/or FG-1D, I'd be all over them. As it is, I may just get some F4U-5N sets from them, "impossible variant" be darned.
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Squawk Ident
Apr. 2nd, 2017 02:05 pmFreeWill Is All And Nothing
Mar. 2nd, 2017 11:52 amIn his book The Horologicon, Mark Forsyth gathered "obscure but necessary" words that he dug out of old dictionaries. One of his discoveries is a perfect fit for you right now. It's "snudge," a verb that means to walk around with a pensive look on your face, appearing to be busy or in the midst of productive activity, when in fact you're just goofing off. I recommend it for two reasons: 1. It's important for your mental and physical health that you do a lot of nothing; that you bless yourself with a healing supply of refreshing emptiness. 2. It's important for your mental and physical health that you do this on the sly as much as possible; that you avoid being judged or criticized for it by others.
And, as G. David Howard put it, the only hard part about doing nothing is knowing when you're finished.
So What Happened After That
Jan. 18th, 2017 02:48 pmNo sooner did I make my previous post as my brother-in-law reminded me of something that I had forgotten. As a result I was able to get my data off the old hard drive. Not all of it, but enough of it to put me back in business--and I can transfer more of it if necessary.
Now I'm wondering what programs I should get to replace the ones I "lost", as I've gone from Win10 32-bit to Win10 64-bit. Complicating matters is the fact that this computer is now old enough that I ought to plan on an upgrade sooner rather than later. I don't like this obsolescence thingy very much.
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Test Post, New And Improved?
Jan. 11th, 2017 04:11 pmFreeWill Has An Impacted Wisdom Tooth
Dec. 28th, 2016 06:27 pmWalk your wisdom walk in 2017, Sagittarius. Excite us with your wisdom songs and gaze out at our broken reality with your wisdom eyes. Play your wisdom tricks and crack your wisdom jokes and erupt with your wisdom cures. The world needs you to be a radiant swarm of lovable, unpredictable wisdom! Your future needs you to conjure up a steady stream of wisdom dreams and wisdom exploits! And please note: You don't have to wait until the wisdom is perfect. You shouldn't worry about whether it's supremely practical. Your job is to trust your wisdom gut, to unleash your wisdom cry, to revel in your wisdom magic.
Some say that wisdom is wasted on the wise. My sister wants me to apply to be a teacher, but I don't have all the credentials and would need to return to school again--if I can find one that can teach me what I need.
Grounded, Sorta
May. 27th, 2016 09:09 pmMoonshine is on Injured Reserve; the brakes again. They haven't gotten completely unreliable but there were times in my drive today that I had to push the pedal all the way to the firewall. I also had a couple very close calls/narrowly avoided collisions with other vehicles. So the car is going to stay in the carport till I can get it to our mechanic.
Meanwhile, if I have to go anywhere I'll borrow Dad's Nissan pickup truck.
FreeWill Sells No Wine AFTER Its Time
Jan. 7th, 2016 01:53 pmA bottle of Chateau Cheval Blanc wine from 1947 sold for $304,000. Three bottles of Chateau Lafite-Rothschild 1869 went for $233,000 apiece. The mystique about aged wine provokes crazy behavior like that. But here's a more mundane fact: Most wine deteriorates with age, and should be sold within a few years of being bottled. I'm thinking about these things as I meditate on your long-term future, Sagittarius. My guess is that your current labor of love will reach full maturity in the next 18 to 20 months. This will be a time to bring all your concentration and ingenuity to bear on making it as good as it can be. By September of 2017, you will have ripened it as much as it can be ripened.
My New Year's Resolution is to get some projects going on Amazon Studios. More about that after I recover from my current case of head crud.
FreeWill Comes Undone
Oct. 20th, 2015 03:49 pmSome unraveling is inevitable. What has been woven together must now be partially unwoven. But please refrain from thinking of this mysterious development as a setback. Instead, consider it an opportunity to reexamine and redo any work that was a bit hasty or sloppy. Be glad you will get a second chance to fix and refine what wasn't done quite right the first time. In fact, I suggest you preside over the unraveling yourself. Don't wait for random fate to accomplish it. And for best results, formulate an intention to regard everything that transpires as a blessing.
I had a dream the other night that I had a job--and was fired from it. Situation normal...
FreeWill Looks Up From The Want Ads
Aug. 26th, 2015 02:48 pmThe sun and the expansive planet Jupiter are currently making a joyful noise in the sign of Virgo, which is your astrological House of Career and Ambition. This does not necessarily mean that a boon to your career and ambition will fall into your lap, although such an event is more likely than usual. More importantly, this omen suggests that you will influence luck, fate, and your subconscious mind to work in your favor if you take dramatic practical action to advance your career and ambitions.
It so happened that I applied for a position at Cirrus' new operation at Knoxville's major airport overnight. Jet Set, me? Who knew?
FreeWill Gets Industrious
Apr. 7th, 2015 08:38 pmThe English term "engine" refers primarily to a machine that transforms energy into mechanical power. But its roots are in the Old French word engin, which meant skill or wit, and in the Latin word ingenium, defined as "inborn talent." I'd like to borrow the original meanings to devise your horoscope this week. According to my reading of the astrological omens, your "engine" is unusually strong right now, which means that your cultivated skills and innate talents are functioning at peak levels. I suggest you make intensive use of them to produce maximum amounts of energy and gather more of the clout you'd love to wield.
I do want to start writing again. I just hope I have some good opportunities.
"The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison." That quote is attributed to both Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky and Russian author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Regardless of who said it, I urge you to keep it in mind throughout 2015. Like all of us, you are trapped in an invisible prison: a set of beliefs or conditioned responses or bad habits that limit your freedom to act. That's the bad news. The good news is that in the coming months, you are poised to discover the exact nature of your invisible prison, and then escape it.
I'm sure it's work-related or monetary in nature.
FreeWill Puts It On The Page
Nov. 5th, 2014 10:13 pmP. G. Wodehouse wrote more than 90 books, as well as numerous plays, musical comedies, and film scripts. When he died at age 93, he was working on another novel. He did not suffer from writer's block. And yet his process was far from effortless. He rarely churned out perfection on his first attempt. "I have never written a novel," he testified, "without doing 40,000 words or more and finding they were all wrong and going back and starting again." The way I see your immediate future, Sagittarius, is that you will be creating your own version of those 40,000 wrong words. And that's OK. It's not a problem. You can't get to the really good stuff without slogging through this practice run.
I didn't even think about NaNoWriMo this time around. But my problem is that my long spans of quietude aren't long enough for actual work. They come to crashing halts when the furnace fires up.
Event Horizons
Sep. 22nd, 2014 12:19 amContinuing to imagineer the Gundam RedLegger, and threw myself a hurdle I didn't need. A couple years ago, B-Club had a series of resin Gundam bust kits (as linked in a previous post) and I was particularly interested in the one for the GP04 Gerbera. While Gundam fans know that the GP04 eventually became the Gerbera Tetra in 0083, the bust design appears to have a lot more in common with the Alex Gundam of 0080--with some improvements that aren't seen in other Gundam family designs. So it lent itself very well to my project--if I could get one and if it was hardware compatible with the pieces I already had or could get.
And I can't find one for sale...on any side of the Rim.
My alternatives in the same product line include the Prototype Zeta #1 and the GP00 Blossom, but I'm not as excited about either. The Blossom isn't much different from the Zephranthes/Stamen family which followed it, and the Prototype Zeta just looks too strange and implausible.
My more practical side is trying to tell me to just build what I already have. It may come to that.
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