Let’s face it… I’ve been a bad blogger. Almost 2 years for a real post, right? Right about here I could entreat some excuses and whatnot, but the truth of the matter is that after I started the job, finding time to do the things I liked began to take over the time for things I used to do.
The first year at job, I worked an stupidly absurd amount of overtime. On a light week I worked my 40, then worked 25 hours of OT…. those were my light weeks. I did that for the whole year… for the weeks when I worked more OT, I would shuffle home like a zombie and just sit in my chair… staring blankly at the TV.
For some pictures from the last year… check out my Facebook photo pages . Some highlights include:
- An absurd amount of LARPing photos
- Photos from my hikes at Robin Hill Park near my house
- a Picture of me and the Fonz
- Pictures from when I was in highschool (pegged jeans… check….. big hair….check)
- pictures of beards and beard propaganda
Facebook became a sort of sub blog. It was far easier to post snippet statuses then to write whole posts. And… let’s face it… with an average 13 hour work day, a snippet was all I could manage. I’m pretty sure I was communicating in grunts and pantomime. There may even have been attempts to use mind powers to speak telepathically…. which may or may not have ended in people thinking I was just looking at them funny or trying to fart.
I’m not going to promise that I’ll write on the old schedule of Mon/Wed/Fri… because I would hate to end up a liar (again)… but I do promise I’ll try to write more often. Sound fair?
Jenn said,
May 21, 2010 at 1:20 pm
OK, this is really weird, I have a cousin who graduated from your high school in 1992. It really IS a small world after all!
Donna said,
May 22, 2010 at 1:25 am
Nice to see you on the blog again.
Melanie Pieterkosky said,
November 5, 2011 at 11:51 am
Hi
Cape Town, South Africa is having it’s first Discworld con in May 2012 and Pterry will be there (*fan-girl squeal*). After making Death of Rats for my daughter’s birthday others have asked me to make more and sell them along with my own DW themed stuff. I was wondering if you had a royalty system in place, or if I can buy the patterns from you or just send you a % of the profits. I would also be interested in your Swamp Dragon pattern, assuming the first one I make looks okay:)
On another note: I put pipe-cleaners in the legs and arms so they are pose-able and also used them to make teeth. I then used white pearl shaped beads strung onto thick wire and sewed that on as the backbone and tail, giving it a spine feel.
Thanks for the pattern, it made my daughter’s day,
Melanie
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150331373746362&set=a.10150112501511362.273973.525276361&type=3&theater