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Burpengary East http://www.cmweller.com 12166 posts

Birthday Embuggerance

Miss Chaos is turning eleven in a little over a week. Her fondest wish is to see Steam Powered Giraffe. That's more than a little beyond our means, right now.

The best I can do for her is to fill her iPad with as much Steam Powered Media as I can.

Her second prize, "purple sparkles", is going to manifest in some hand-crafted jewellery. As soon as I find something suitably purple and sparkly. Fellow relatives are welcome to find as many purple and sparkly things as they can.

I know for a fact that it takes too darned long to get anything over here from the SPG website [you're welcome to try though!].

Nothing has progressed in the international findings race. It's a weekend. If anything's shifting, it's going to be a miracle. Monday's the day to look for further bulletins.

This weekend, Mayhem and I are going to be working on Chaos' birthday gift and one of his school projects. He has to cook something and film it.

But first, we have to:

  1. Unfuck the kitchen
  2. Gather a complete list of ingredients for both pastry and filling
  3. Practice a little :D

And then it's on like Donkey Kong.

It's a five minute video, so the magic of editing might help there.

I am going to be a busy little Nutter.

Challenge #01207-C112: Little and Fierce

http://squigglydigg.tumblr.com/post/141864716252/squigglydigg-control-yourself -- Gallifreya

Lewis was relatively easy to calm down. What there was of his fury ebbed quickly and his rational mind prevailed. And Vivi could always restrain him until he saw logic and reason.

Arthur lost count of the number of times that Vivi stopped Lewis from turning some unthinking lout without a brain-to-mouth bypass into grease.

She would begin with physically restraining him. Holding him back from the kind of confrontation that would end

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Challenge #01206-C111: Funny in Context

Someone could have been seriously hurt... But they weren't, so it's funny -- Anon Guest

Rael had could not recall, exactly, why they were in locks and docks. The gravity there was less than reliable in most places, and Shayde was one who seemed to use it to her advantage without any effort whatsoever. Rael had significantly more faith in the safety tether than his own ability to "hang on in time".

Almost all of the humans who worked there for extended

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"Drink it Freddy": the non-alcoholic drinking game

Mayhem and I came up with a stroke of genius, this morning, and it all came out of a bottle of beverage that had been hanging around inside the fridge for a month.

This shit is not due to go off for a year, so we came up with a non-alcoholic drinking game.

To play, you need:

1 shot glass per player
1 stack of trivia questions [Optional, colour spinner if you're using Trivial Pursuit cards]
1 beverage that was clearly a

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Challenge #01205-C110: Unlikely Angels

Betcha Wander's licensed to perform weddings -- Anon Guest

There were a lot more refugees, these days. Seas of people from all sorts of planets, all walks of life. Many of them were camped in line to get enough Orbble Juice to skip to the next galaxy. Some were hoping for enough to just get to the next planet.

Wander was not handling it well. The worst thing in the world was being just as helpless as all the others desperately waiting

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The race is on!

Five of my nineteen parcels for EGDB have cleared China's customs. One's in Sydney, which means it could be here any day now. And, interestingly, it's the one I was stressing the most over.

I have discovered that "left the warehouse" is code for "we're not actually tracking it yet" - which is annoying me a little. With luck and fortune,I should have most, if not all, of my gear here by June at the latest. Then I can work out

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Challenge #01204-C109: Family Comfort

Pick a squad pose

http://croxovergoddess.tumblr.com/post/141221250180/croxovergoddess-my-draw-the-squad-memes-so -- Anon Guest

[AN: This is very much not my strong area. And I'm not drawing anything, I'm writing it. I chose pose #9]

The Spine preferred to malfunction in private. He didn't like his robotic siblings see him fail. He was the sensible one. Their guardian, when things got strange. He kept Rabbit from flying off into her fantasies... mostly... and introduced Hatchy to the world that had changed around

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Beloved is turning into a Fogey!

I actually heard these words issue, unironically, from the lips of my lifemate. "Back in my day..." whilst complaining about how technology was too easy to obtain for either Mayhem or Chaos.

Love, you purchased every single one of those things for our kids. You did it with a song in your heart. You did it with an eager spirit. And now you're complaining that the kids are too casual with them and don't know the first thing about basic tower maintenance.

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Challenge #01203-C108: In-a Museum, With-a Doctor, While-a Crisis Unfolds

When will people learn that the only good Cyberman/Dalek is one that's been totally disembowelled and checked every day? -- Anon Guest

The cavernous space echoed with their footfalls. The exhibits were corpses, or empty armour. Relics of things that destroyed. All within glass cases. All on little plinths. All with informative plaques with information about what they were and where or when they had come from.

The Doctor knew them all.

He added random information to the displays. Telling stories

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Good things and bad things

I woke up to the news that someone I dearly admire was recently sexually assaulted by the TSA in order for the common public good. Apparently flying whilst transgender is equivalent to hijacking an aeroplane and flying it into a building 9_9

I wish I could make it better, but I'm genuinely powerless.

The TSA does absolutely nothing to protect America from Terrorists. What it does do is make travel inconvenient for everyone.

And worse - it happened in Texas. The

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Challenge #01202-C107: Self-fulfilling Prophet

From a human to a pre-industrial sophont (fantasy realm? With a bit of tweaking, might work for Shayde):

My people fought an apocalyptic war that only ended when the impossibly ancient still-warm remnants of a star's death were used to destroy whole cities in a more final way than simply sacking and burning them - or even salting all their fields as well - to stop things like this. Then, we spent generations trying to stop ourselves from continuing it. Turn away

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Continuing hunting

The place where I had once found the big bargain grab bags of assorted beads is called Bargain Place. Thanks to Google, there's only two of them that I know of.

One's in Garden City. The other one's in Strathpine.

I have one more chance, as I know of it, to get these grab bags. If they still exist. And considering the epic amounts of running around I did yesterday... I don't really know if it's worth going there [1 hour round

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Challenge #01201-C106: It'll Be All Right on the Night

The issues of having a head that is not technically attached to one's body -- Gallifreya

Walter Workers were scrambling around like mad things. Lots of boxes were being searched. And Hatchworth was stumbling around without his head.

"This always happens, every time we t-travel by freight!" Rabbit complained. She wasn't so much helping as contributing to the overall mess by throwing the rejects over her shoulder.

"Shut up, it was cheaper." Steve was rapidly working on his phone like he wished

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I've learned some things

In my forays towards having my own business, I've learned a few things. And in my forays towards actually losing some weight again, I've learned a few other things.

First: The exercise part of the activity app on the Apple iWatch is a piece of ableist shit.

Why? Well because it only counts exercise as something above a brisk walk. This automatically excludes the elderly and the chronically ill. Thanks a bunch, guys. I'm now resigned to having that green circle in

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Challenge #01199-C104: Statuesque

1) http://nonasuch.tumblr.com/post/141566220050/having-grown-up-in-dc-statues-of-various-dead The statues that come to life

2) Pick another statue, ideally in a different country -- Gallifreya

[AN: This takes the overlap down to 15]

1)

Everyone had agreed that it was the right wings' turn. Well. Everyone in power agreed that it was the right wings' turn. Nobody had listened to the common throng since the last revolution. And since then, those in power had successfully made certain that they would remain in

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