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Burpengary East http://www.cmweller.com 12656 posts

1:57 AM

I tried to get back to sleep for half an hour… Alas, sleep is not coming to me.

It’s going to be a long and interesting day, today, folks.

My feet hurt from yesterday. So excruciatingly that I don’t want to get out of bed.

The sleep headphones do work, but I neglected to charge them, yesterday. Turns out the batteries are only good for one night. Yay. Not.

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Building Bitzer part 7 More incredibly advanced techniques are revealed herein, my dear readers. If you are using Fray Stoppa for anything,...

Building Bitzer part 7

More incredibly advanced techniques are revealed herein, my dear readers.

If you are using Fray Stoppa for anything, please:

  1. Use protective gear. The cautions on the bottle recommend full hazmat gear. Alongside storage in a lead-lined bunker 20 miles below the surface of the Earth, after use.

  2. Don’t breathe the fumes

  3. Keep loved ones away from this stuff

  4. Make sure it’s sealed between uses

Seriously, though, this stuff is REALLY toxic. I got a

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Building Bitzer part 6 Adding the brooch backing was a relatively simple process, when compared to refining the front! The brooch backs cost...

Building Bitzer part 6

Adding the brooch backing was a relatively simple process, when compared to refining the front!

The brooch backs cost $2.49AU, which is one cent cheaper than the horrible tiny thing I’d have had to disassemble from a dollar shop. Remember, kids, it pays to look around and compare prices and options.

I had the shakes fairly bad, which made lining up the brooch back while I sharpies the dots in a little problematic, but as

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Building Bitzer part 5 My long-misused jewellery-crafting skills got a workout this afternoon as I turned a substandard necklace into a...

Building Bitzer part 5

My long-misused jewellery-crafting skills got a workout this afternoon as I turned a substandard necklace into a pretty nifty brooch.

I thought the chain would also be cheap and nasty, but no-o-o-o-o… It turned out to be some high-strength previously undiscovered amalgam of tungsten carbide or something as it was an incredible pain in the anatomy to try and break one link.

Even my trusty side-snips [pic 3] barely made a dent in them, but once that

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Challenge #00604 - A239: One Stormy Evening in a Spaceport Bar

You’ll make it in five days, boosting six points past emergency max the whole way. If the engineer’s been doing his job, the engines won’t blow until you hit eight. Quite safe.

Plasma from Hyperspace leaked with every ship that travelled through a wormhole. And when it reached a certain density, or a one-way wormhole ‘popped’ into a two way passage, electrons discharged through it in a pattern that still baffled mathematicians everywhere.

And for those caught in Crossroads

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Challenge #00603 - A238: Bad, Bad Intel

I may be small, but I screw up big because I’m standing on the shoulders of GIANTS.

The dangerous mammals were clustered in one area. One area full of volatile chemicals, dangerous levels of electricity, and heavy concentrations of methane and pathogens.

Hundreds of them gathered in the night to observe some ritualistic activity that involved rhythmic gyrations and consumption or production of the above substances.

They were a threat to the Mo'fathan Empire.

Which was how Kirxaan the Mighty opened

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Building Bitzer part 4. I found the hat once upon a Halloween in a dollar shop and thought "Ooo! This looks like fun to play with!" And so I...

Building Bitzer part 4.

I found the hat once upon a Halloween in a dollar shop and thought “Ooo! This looks like fun to play with!”

And so I am.

Not shown is the really tacky rectangular buckle that, thanks to the simple fact that it’s plastic, we cut off with side-snips before I could document it. If I find a similar, pre-buggered hat, I shall photograph it for educational purposes.

The white feathery thing was a hair comb, purchased the

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Challenge #00602 - A237: Don't Panic!

“I’m not panicking, I’m watching you panic. It’s more entertaining.”

This was the first time she’d been locked in a room with a human. While it did bring people watching to new and increasingly intimate levels, it did rather limit the options, should said human start lashing out.

As it was, this one seemed to like saying ‘okay’ a lot.

“Okay… Oh….kay. Okay, okay, okay. Okay. Okayokayokayokayokayokay… Ooooohhhhhhh&

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Challenge #00601 - A236:

“The point is, you haven’t let the lack of Seconds stop you. Or the rules. Or respect for reality, as far as I can tell.”

Shayde still wore Public Property Grey, but this time, her footwear was a pair of Hazard Yellow thongs. Indicating that she was both off-duty, and a potential danger to the public. Someone had given her a silver fan brooch, indicating that she was also offensive without training.

“I take it you’ve

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