Monthly Archives: October 2003

Twitch!

Posted on October 31, 2003 | Leave a comment

I’ve got this recurring tic at the corner of my eye. It’s been happening on and off for about a week now and it’s starting to drive me nuts. I think I could incorporate it into a Halloween costume if I really wanted to. Something along the lines of Herbert Lom’s character from the Pink Panther series of movies.

I’m sure it’s stress related. The wedding is only 9 days away, and we’re in good shape for everything we need, but it’s still a bit stressful. On the other hand, I know there’s someone out there with the firm conviction that all muscle twitches are due to some mineral deficiency, and right now they’re nodding their head and saying “Potassium! That’d cure it. Go eat a banana right now! Go take a look at this web site, that’ll prove that I’m right!”
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I Missed the Fame Bus.

Posted on October 30, 2003 | 4 comments

Well, it looks like I missed out on a chance to be part of a Salon article on “Groom Blogs.” I’d gotten an e-mail about it a couple days ago, but it got shuffled off to my slush pile. Probably just as well. I don’t really consider this a “Groom Blog” any more than I consider it a “Photography Blog” or a “Wine Blog.” Being a groom and the related wedding stuff is just an extension of the stuff that I usually blather on about. Getting married is a huge and important part of my life, but not going to make it my sole writing subject.
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Free, or at least cheap

Posted on October 29, 2003 | 2 comments

A friend of mine needs to borrow a laptop for National Novel Writing Month, so I’ve been tracking stuff down to put on the old PowerBook 5300 that I got from Wegener Media… It’s very much a bare bones machine. 1 GB hard drive, 32 MB of RAM and a little PowerPC 603e processor chugging away at 100 mhz… Not exactly the world’s speediest machine anymore, but it’ll work for word processing, and it’s been tricked out with external monitor support and ethernet…
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A hill of beans

Posted on October 28, 2003 | 1 comment

I’m vaguely depressed, or at least mildly distressed, from last night’s dinner. My fiancee and I popped over to the brewpub near the Dojo for dinner last night and discovered that their excellent three bean vegetarian chili is off the menu…
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Bored Kid Bags

Posted on October 27, 2003 | 1 comment

We’ve got an idea for the wedding reception. Something nifty and simple that’ll (hopefully) keep any little kids entertained while all of the grownups are milling about being boring. We’ve been calling them “Bored Kid Bags”, but they may turn out better as little boxes or something. We figure there’ll be less than a dozen kids there, so we put together twelve simple little activity kits. Each one has washable crayons and blank paper, a little matchbox car, instructions on how to fold an origami cicada…

And a sock puppet.
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Blood-Orange Wine Label…

Posted on October 25, 2003 | Leave a comment

I just had to go with a slightly modified version of “Vampiress” as the font for this one… Even if making it into wine has caused it to change to a paler shade, there’s just something inherently creepy about blood oranges.
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Apple Wine Label!

Posted on October 24, 2003 | Leave a comment

Thanks to a slow work day and a longer-than-usual lunch, we’ve got a design for the apple wine!

This may not work if your browser can’t display .PNG files correctly, but here it is:
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Plus this also gives me a chance to link to that grated magnum opiate, the HTML edition of the Principca Discordia. If you’re a bit behind on your Greek mythology, it’ll explain the whole golden apple and “kallisti” reference. Or not. It’s a fun read anyway.

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On the Way…

Posted on October 24, 2003 | Leave a comment

Well, I put an order in at E. C. Kraus for some more winemaking hardware… A six gallon primary fermenter, some bottle-neck shrinkwrap dohickeys and a case of little 375 ml mini bottles for gifts and giveaways. One of the things that my Fiancee and I have planned for post-wedding relaxation is the bottling of the apple wine.
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Daytime Moonlight

Posted on October 23, 2003 | Leave a comment

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Nothing too special about this picture except that it was taken at about noon.

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Fall Painted Maple Leaves

Posted on October 22, 2003 | 1 comment

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Sometimes nature looks unnatural. Or at least unreal.

I used rubber stamps of various fall leaves to decorate our wedding invitations. I tried using a variety of different colored inks on a stamp pad until I came up with a sort of gradient from green through yellow to red-orange… I think they worked pretty well. They looked more believable than this, and it’s an actual leaf…

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