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Woot Off!
To all my friends who keep track of such a thing.

WOOT OFF!!

Current Mood: W00t!

This looks like fun, wish I could go.
Hey Friends of Mine Who Live in the DC Area....

Just found out about an event going on TODAY that looks really cool. The Handmade Mart will be in downtown Silver Spring and looks to be basically a street fair for crafters. I'm booked today for the full time of it all but I'd SO go if I had the power.

If anyone goes to it, let me know how it was.

Current Mood: wistful

Team Greykell Fundraiser Again
Well so apparently

whimmydiddle keeps her LJ locked so people can't go look at the flyer.

Hopefully you can see the flyer over here at photobucket

Hugs and Howls....

Current Mood: cranky

Team Greykell Fundraiser
Hey there World!

If you have the ability to get yourself to College Park, Maryland tomorrow (that's Thursday) night, then DO so for the Team Greykell Rita's Fundraiser. I don't care if it's been chilly the last couple of days, it's time for you to go have a cool tasty treat!!

Directions and info are over at

whimmydiddle's LJ so BE THERE from 5 to 10 PM tomorrow night. Wear your pirate garb and hang with Whimmydiddle and myself and hopefully a host of other people who are dying to partake of Rita's ices. (They tell me I might even get to do some scooping!)

Hugs and Howls....

Current Mood: hungry

Happy Birthday
I may forget to wish my husband a happy birthday this year, but I'm NOT gonna forget one of the the only other Grey"s I know personally.

Happy Birthday

truegrey from "that Other Grey!"

Current Music: gloom and doom and dark despair...

School's Out for Summer
Finished my last final on Friday and will go in a couple of times this week to play with the lighting crew, since we've gotta strike Dracula, but I'm just hanging out for the fun of it. I'm done with school for another year.

Picked up

kdsorceress from college at the beginning of last week and have the whole family complete until Niko graduates next week. Then he'll head off with that Royster kid to help build houses for a week or so.

Baltion's coming up this weekend. I'm gonna be working techfandom for most of it and am debating about whether or not to put costumes into the masquerade. Probably not, although I'm working on a REALLY good one for Dragoncon. More on that as the sewing begins and you hear me cussing up a storm trying to get the head to work (is that tantalizing enough? If not, just start singing "bad horse, bad horse." and guess from there.)

Hopefully I'm back on LJ for a while, I'm trying to make some sort of web schedule in my head so I check pages, update and then move on to the fun stuff rather than skipping straight to the fun stuff.

Hugs and Howls....

Current Mood: sleepy

Wootoff!
Like it says in the subject. There's a wootoff going on.

Woot.com

More Wisdom Teeth
Today it's Alys' turn to have her wisdom teeth out. Or so we hope. The date was carefully chosen to interrupt as little of Long Reach High School Choir's singing as possible and she started up with a cold a couple of days ago. This morning I sent her off to school, hungry and thirsty (no food or drink allowed before removal) and coughing up disgusting phlegm. Last night Rick thought she'd be fine for surgery, but I'm not so sure about today.

Guess we'll find out later this morning when I bring her in and let the doc decide.

At least after this we'll have a little time off before we get that Katperson back from college and have HER wisdom teeth looked at (and probably removed *sigh*)

Also, a reminder for those who missed my last post and are planning to be bored early tomorrow morning, I'm planning on heading over to Montgomery Mall by 9 AM (hopefully earlier if I"m being the slightest bit efficient) and walking the 8 mile MS walk to Glen Echo. I'd rather not do it alone (although it's been pointed out that since I'll be carrying a ham radio with me, I won't be going it alone!)

Hugs and Howls....

Current Mood: happy

Wanna Walk with me this weekend?
Normally, Team Greykell walks in two short spring walks every year. Lots of you have done the Antietem battlefield walk with me in the past... but that was last weekend when I was chaperoning a high school music trip to Boston.

The OTHER walk that some of you have done with me is the Potomac MS walk where we park at Montgomery Mall, catch buses to the start point, walk down the C&O canal for about 8 miles and end at Glen Echo Park where they feed you lunch and bus you back to your start point.

I'd like to do that walk this Saturday but I"m not really up to walking alone and all my regular walking partners (except one I haven't had a chance to talk to yet...) are busy and unavailable. I really want to do this a lot because I'm finally ham enabled and the Montgomery Ham Radio club is short on people to work the event. I could just go and work as a radio person, but why not walk?

So if you're interested in doing a nice leisurely 8 mile walk (I'm not a fast walker at any time, and I"m way out of shape for walking at the moment, so I'm not gonna be moving fast) with a Greykell who will be toting a big heavy ham radio and trying to figure out how to chatter on it when needed, then LET ME KNOW! The registration times for the walk are staggered from 8 AM - 10 AM and the route closes at 2 PM. I'd like to start as early as possible because the Shock Trauma Gala is that evening and I"ll need to be home and showering by later afternoon.

Note: Team Greykell does not fund raise for this event. We just callously show up and walk and eat the snacks they offer at their rest stops while doing nothing to support the MS Society. (Actually I buy their tshirt every year for 125 bucks, but that's it!) so don't let fear of having to do any fund raising keep you away.

If you have my phone number. Call me if you wanna go so that we can plan as quickly and possible and I can edit this post for any other future walkers.

Hugs and Howls and sorry I've been so silent... I do twitter from my phone occasionally so if you need banal tiny tidbits of my life be sure to drop by there twitter.com/werewulfmom.

Current Mood: lonely

Aieeeee
Niko's having his wisdom teeth out tomorrow. I still need to fill his prescriptions and of course find the pre-op instructions. Hopefully I'll have it all figured out before taking him to the oral surgeon tomorrow afternoon.

Current Mood: busy

Being Human
WOW!

Just finished watching all 7 episodes of Being Human (remarkably EXCELLENT BBC3 series about a werewolf, a vampire, and a ghost who all live together in Bristol. Luckily for me, the show's been picked up for a second season although unfortunately I'll have to wait until it actually gets filmed, then shown, and then grabbed off the interwebz by some cooperative soul.

Find it! Watch it! (I have them all if you can't find them elsewhere.)

Hugs and Howls.... and sorry I've been missing for so long. As so often happens, school and life get in the way. (and TV *grin*)

Current Mood: enthralled

Woot Off!
For all my friends who bother to keep track of such things, there's a wootoff going on right now at woot.com

Current Mood: massively jetlagged

A good day and Leverage WTF
Today I did all my morning stuff and then came racing home to scoop up Rick and drive him to Gaithersburg (from which he was getting a ride with Bruce to a gaming con this weekend.)

Being as how I was going to Gburg, I figured what the heck and gave my college roommate a call the day before to see if she'd be free. Life must be going well, because she took the day off so that we could hang out.
I had forgotten how gosh darned cute Pete was. Next up I tried to show her the pilot episode of Leverage, but the burned DVD I'd brought wasn't recognized by her dvd player.

Sadly we moved on to Dr. Horrible and a couple of the Educational Archives and then went out to do some errands. When we got back I just couldnt' stand it anymore and had to buy the first episode of Leverage for her on itunes so that we could watch it. I accidentally paid the extra buck to order her the HD version (which came with the standard version as well) and we settled in to watch it.

It's not the same. I mean, DISTINCTLY. It was like watching a director's cut of a movie you really love, you'll be going along watching the movie and suddenly you'd go, "hey! where did THAT scene com from, and OMG it explains SO much... why did they cut it out?"

There were at LEAST 5 scenes I counted in the itunes version of The Nigerian Job (pilot episode) that are not in the version that I taped off the TV on the first night it showed. I just finished watching it yet again from when my DVR taped Tuesday's marathon and the TV version is definitely different.

So now what? I was completely committed to buying the DVD when it came out, but now I"m wondering if I should just buy the show on itunes since i already know it has the extra bits. Of course I'm certain it would be on the DVD as well, but a quick internet search shows no pages remarking on the differences between the episodes and so I don't know how I'll find out for sure.

So that was weird, but it was cool hanging with Z.

Hugs and Howls....

Current Mood: confused

It's that time again!
WOOT OFF!!

That is all....

Current Mood: tired

The new phone books are here.... I"m SOMEBODY now!
Hey all,

As some of you have noticed, I've been busily studying to get my ham radio Technician license because I was offered a great deal by one of the Maryland MS Society radio folk... get my license and he'd give me a long term loan of a radio so that I'd be comfortable with it by the time of the MS Bike ride in June and so that Team Greykell would have it's own Radio person in pirate garb rather than some random person assigned to us who didn't "get" the whole Team Greykell Pirate thing.

Well Saturday morning, I got up early and drove out to Laurel to the testing place. I knew a few of the people at the test because I had taken part of a licensing class (although I didn't manage the whole class and did most of my studying alone.) The test was pretty easy, there was only one question that I thought "HUH???" and I'm pretty sure I guessed wrong on that one, but I did great and they sent me away with the little piece of paper clutched in my hand that said that my new call sign would be appearing on the fcc.gov site before too long.

Well as of last night, I'm the real thing. You may now address me as KB3SEY for the near future.

Now I've just got to get my hands on that radio and actually get on the air!!!

Current Mood: accomplished

Life the Universe and Everything
Still sick but nearly done with it I hope.

I was supposed to meet my online Twin who I have never come face to face with, this weekend. This has fallen through spectacularly and now the next possible attempt would be next August near our mutual birthday when he will be in West Virginia and I will probably be having a party with ten thousand people at it. I am a little bit sad about this.

Cool Team Greykell news. The poster and brochure image for the DC Challenge Walk has just been released and it's got Anjanay and ME on the photo. It's a quite charming photo of a very emotional moment for both of us. Keep an eye out for the poster, I'll certainly put one up in the house when they send me one.

Also, I've been studying frantically for my Ham Radio Technician exam. Took some of a class yesterday but then left that early to spend time with the fabulous

leemoyer. I'm doing mostly okay with the ham stuff. Luckily most of the electronics is stuff I learned when I took my lighting class last year. Gotta memorize a lot of other stuff that will be easier to remember once I've GOTTEN my license and am using it, ah the irony.... The joy of getting the license though is to give Team Greykell another ham operator to use for Team Greykell rest stops. I really want PIRATE RADIO *hee hee... get it?*

Lighting: Tomorrow I head over to HCC to an exciting few hours of bench focusing! I'm told that it's boring and not at all fun, but definitely on the list of things I need to know how to do, so I'm on it.

Hmmm, guess that's it for now. Life is generally fun these days aside from the being sick part. Looking forward to spring semester at HCC where I'll be taking all practicum and open entry courses since I'll be going to New Zealand for a couple of weeks and can't take regular classes. At least it'll finally get me into the theatre practicum classes that I've been avoiding (ridiculously silly of me, since I've probably volunteered for more hours this semester than I would need if I was doing a regular practicum)

Current Mood: sick

Can't really complain
I sort of promised myself that when I was really sick and miserable I'd make a post in LJ so that I could keep track of what's going on with myself and so here I am. (Not the everyday little sniffle type things but when I'm really truly miserably sick.)

I would whine a lot, but after checking entries, the last sick entry I find is December 2007. I knew it had been months since I'd had anything major, but I"m not sure i believe it's been a year.

Still sometimes you have to appreciate having a disease that makes your white blood cells work overtime!! Apparently they've been doing their job for a while and I havent' really noticed.

Hugs and Howls....

Current Mood: sick

Watch the Dr. Horrible DVD
Go to the special features. Go to the Making of Dr. Horrible featurette. Watch the last one of the three.

About 4 minutes and 10 seconds in you will see ME!! (and Barb, Tom and Dan) singing the Bad Horse song to a Dr. Horrible at Dragoncon.

WHOO HOO!!! I've knocked another 2 seconds off of my 15 minutes of fame list!!!

Current Mood: ecstatic

Light Update!
So I woke up exhausted yesterday from about 20 or 30 dropping light dreams. Sometimes I caught it, sometimes I went after it, sometimes it played out the way it had in real life.

Got up and headed back into HCC to do whatever for a couple of hours and my job of the day was to clean all the glass from the broken lamp out of the light fixture I'd dropped. Next (and I admit this made ME feel better) I was to take apart an undropped light and examine it carefully against the one I dropped and see if I saw any differences... cracks, dents, etc. When I reported that it really looked just fine, Eric the elecrician had me put in a new bulb and plug the sucker in.

It works!! I managed to drop a Source 4 from 2 plus stories up to the hard floor below and break nothing but the bulb and the yoke.

And I slept like a baby last night...

I have photos that I'll try and put up sometime.

Hugs and Howls....

Current Mood: happy

HEAD!
That's what you're *supposed* to shout instead of "OH S#!T" when you drop a Source 4 36 degree EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE lighting unit from the top of a genie lift way up high in the studio theatre at HCC.

*sigh*

Shockingly they sent me back up in the genie lift to bring down the rest of the lights and hardly killed me at all. They say they'll take it out of my pay which would be great but unfortunately I'm a volunteer.

*sigh again*

So if you're gonna drop a big heavy lighting unit from the top of the genie lift, I highly recommend that you do it somehow so that it lands straight up and down on the c-clamp managing somehow to bend the yoke completely out of wack and to smash the lamp (bulb) to smithereens but to also somehow not manage to break another single piece of the unit. It'll take a while to clean the shards of the lamp out of the unit, but as far as we can tell, once the yoke is removed and replaced the light will have completely survived the experience. Reflector, lens and all seem to be completely unharmed.

Colour me relieved.

And I hardly got picked on at all by the lighting crew, but not a rite of passage I would have chosen to go through if I could have avoided it....

Current Mood: relieved