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Tonight wasn’t personally productive. I spent most of it scripting a process to fix some problems a friend was having with his online store. Basically, he gets a bunch of model numbers and puts it into Excel and then imports it with some utility for the online shopping cart system he has. Problem is, some [...]

Feel free to let me know if you’re sick of hearing about this stuff. I’m in the mood to upload pictures and it’s kinda what I got to work with. I learned a new weave tonight. It’s called Half Persian 3-in-1. What does that mean? Well, it’s a member of the Persian family of weaves [...]

I finished my first chainmaille project. This small bag (that I’m probably going to keep dice in) uses 672 16g 1/4″ rings and 1 16g 5/16″ ring (that one being the “queen ring” – the one at the very bottom). I’m considerably happier with this one than I am with the other that I was [...]

It snowed up here last night. It was snowing as I was heading home last night at 8:00. Most of 95 had a decent amount of snow on it. For a stretch, traffic was backed up behind some salt trucks. At a certain point, they pulled off an exit (likely to salt the other side [...]

I’ve been making steady progress with the chainmaille stuff. About 2 weeks ago I completed a small bag out of 16g 3/8″ rings. I didn’t like it – the rings are just too big and make the bag look sloppy. I decided to switch to 16g 1/4″ rings and make a second bag. It’s not [...]

When you call someone that cares about you, please don’t start the conversation with this line, “How deep does a cut have to be before you need to get stitches?” It just makes them worry about you. Changing gears a bit… it’s been a long time since I’ve had stitches (excluding the stitches when I [...]

Today wasn’t too bad. Was steady but not crazy at work. It was nice not having to get up until 9:00am too. Very nice. Picked up some rubbermaid containers for my maille on lunch. They’re not *exactly* what I’m looking for, but not too far off the mark. After getting home, I talked to Pat [...]

I’m absolutely exhausted today. I got up at 6:00 because Marria had to get some fingerprints done for INS. We drove into Boston, I dropped her off at the door and drove around for an hour looking for parking. As soon as I found something I walked over and she was just leaving *UGH*! So [...]

So my hours for this week have changed. On Wednesday I’m working 9-5 and Thursday and Friday I’m working 10-6 each. I was asked to come in at 9 tomorrow but Marria and I have an INS appointment at 9 so that’s not going to happen. I can tell that I’ll be a zombie by [...]

So, after the last update I continued to work on that one weave I was doing. It ended up getting pretty big and I ended up extending it a bit today as well. I had the crazy idea of joining the ends together and making a pouch. I did the first part and made a [...]