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New Craig Album!!
Whoo hoo!!

Just got the mail (okay, I just sent

tolkienkookad out for the mail) and what's inside but the first all new Craig Taubman album in a boatload of years!!

I'm proud to say that I'm one of the many sponsors to help get the album made and I suspect it will be worth it... but I was so excited that I came here to post before I listen.

I love Craig!! His music makes me happy on so many levels!!

Visit craignco.com for some idea of whom I speak!

And to those who have watched my enthusiasms for random stuff wax and wane over the years. I first discovered Craig (in Craig 'n Co. ) back when

kdsorceress was 3 or 4 years old. I've been to I think every concert he's performed within about 250 miles of Columbia including the entertaining weekend when I trekked up to NYC and saw him in three different concerts in 2 different states. Craig doesn't get over to this coast often enough, (nor does he get to Chicago all that often worse the luck) but every show he's ever done, from little tiny 45 minute long kid concerts at the now defunct Zany Brainy to fabulous full length Friday Night Live services at assorted Jewish temples in the area is just FANTASTIC!

He's awesome! Check him out.

NOW... off to listen to my new album.

(edited to fix a broken html tag)

Current Mood: giddy
Current Music: Holy Ground by Craig Taubman

Chicago
So I spent a couple of days in Chicago with Rick. It was great, the town is nice, the weather is cool and comfortable and the area that his bachelor pad is in is all around liveable. The bachelor pad itself is kind of generic. For those of you who lived up in Boston back when I did... it's basically that "If you lived here, you'd be home now" set of apartments. For the Marylanders, it's kind of like the giant apartment buildings over at the corner of 29/University Blvd, only with concierge services and better security.

We got up at 4:30 AM to get to our 7 AM flight on Wednesday morning, arrived around 8:15 local time and grabbed a rental car. I convinced Rick to splurge on a GPS unit which made a huge difference for me in my getting around. Rick's apartment building (The Pavilion) is only about a 5 minute drive from O'Hare airport, so we dropped off the luggage, made a few lists of stuff we intended to accomplish and then headed off to Rick's work so I could see the place.

It's a nice building. Somewhat small but the company purchased a huge parking lot behind the builiding which they might expand onto soon. Rick's office is HUGE and beautiful. He LOOKS like a physician executive behind that desk. I'd be intimidated if I didn't know him. And since a goodly number of the other folks in the building and floor are hosted in tiny cubicles, it looks like he's the Man!

I spent most of Wednesday shopping for stuff that Rick's furnished apartment didn't furnish and a few hours on Thursday wandering around houses in the Park Ridge area with a realtor we had recommended to us. Stuff I learned... Park Ridge is an awesome neighborhood! It's very small towny and has a ton of different kinds of houses instead of the relatively all the sameness of Columbia. (I spotted the house with the big stone gargoyles in front of it right away... I want to be THEIR neighbors.) Houses are pricy but that's true back in Columbia, and I think we can get a good place for a good price if we take the time to look around. The best thing is that there were at least 3 houses I would have been happy to buy that day. So I ASSUME that there will be houses I like for sale when we're actually ready to go and buy one.

Meanwhile, this is my dream house... (if the listing is still there) in case you want to see where I'd LIKE to go and live!!

Guess that's enough for now, this entry has taken me close to a week to write. Sort of like the ANTI nanowrimo concept (write as little as possible in the month of November!)

Hugs and Howls....

Current Mood: tire

Woot Off!
Seems early to me, but suddenly there's another woot off going over at woot.com!

you might have heard it here first.

So Many Things!
Yeah I know, I SUCK at keeping up an online journal.

So a few things from lately.

Yeah yeah, I know.. I dissembled. I told folks I was going to a wedding "up New England way" which was actually in Rehobeth Beach Delaware. I figured too many people all going to Rehobeth might have given away the surprise of the surprise wedding a bit too early. Luckily

whimmydiddle and

chickenhat have gone ahead and let folks know after the fact so I can stop making up stories. It was a fantastically beautiful wedding. A nice windy and chilly day on the beach which was perfect for me. I got the pirate ship box kite up in the air for the first time ever and if I ever get all my photos off my camera then I'll post a few (I still haven't gotten all my DRAGONCON photos off my camera, so I'm moving slow.)

The Challenge Walk was amazingly fun as always. Team Greykell fielded 10 walkers (one signed up during the walk to join our team!), a host of rest stop volunteers, 2 - 3 bike SAG people, 3 ham radio folk, 2 - 3 SAG drivers, a medical volunteer and basically had our fingers in just about every pie going that weekend. We did our "practice walk" on Friday to bring the Challenge Walk back up to the 50 mile it used to be and then about half of us headed out to Manassas to spend the night at my old high school friend Russ's place. Got up the next morning and enjoyed fabulous weather the whole weekend.

Other highlights: I was asked to give a speech at the opening ceremonies... the president of the DC chapter of the MS Society, the president of the NATIONAL MS Society and ME! Being me I wrote a very simple and stupid song to the tune of Row Row Row your Boat, handed out about 30 copies to random people in the audience before the opening ceremonies and then led people in song. The MS Society was amused enough that they then ended up having me lead everyone again at the pre-finish before we walked on to the Capitol Building... this engendered a little franticness cause I had to remember the words *grin*!! Team Greykell shared the largest team award, we won an award for fundraising heaps of money, we won best Team Gear award thanks to

kugelblitz's fantastic tech shirt designs and to our "shoe bags" which are normally just plastic bags from the grocery store but being me, I'd invested in skull and crossbones mini duffels for the walkers. Oh and I won the Shining Star award which is kind of a Lifetime Achievementy kind of thing with the MS Society. They were talking about the award and mentioning that it was going to someone who helped out with the Challenge Walk behind the scenes and that everyone knew them and that they were always helpful and cheerful and generally awesome and there I was going "hmmmm, who in the heck can it be?"

Then they mentioned that this person also was a pirate and I was kind of "WHOA!" So that was a big surprise and kind of a cool award to win. We didn't win the Best Rest Stop award and I"d be bitter about it except that the award went to Oryx and the Critters for a Cause and that was pretty cool as well.

Lots of other stuff has been happening in my life lately but I figure I'll stop this one here and hope to actually post again more often....

maybe....

Hugs and Howls!

Current Mood: dizzy

Argggghhh!
There is little in the world more frustrating than waking up on the couch around 3:30 AM and crawling up to bed only to realize you've forgotten your stupid shot.

BACK downstairs, dig one out of the fridge, hang around with a syringe stuffed in my armpit trying to warm it up. Then to add insult to injury (or would that be injury to insult?) it was one the relatively few blunt needles that hurt like a sonofabitch when you force it through your skin (Sorry shot-phobics.). Now I'm wide awake and my leg hurts.

I'm ready for the cure to MS now. Let's get with the program!

Current Mood: grumpy

Anyone get Sports Illustrated by any chance?
I know it's a long shot, but Rick's copy of last week's Sport's Illustrated didn't show up. It's apparently some important Football preview issue. We got this week's issue on schedule today but I didn't see last week's in the couple of corner stores I checked and said "oh well." Turns out it's IMPORTANT and Rick's all distressed that it didn't come.

Anyway, if anyone out there has a copy of the issue and could make it come my way sometime soon I'd probably get extra wife points.

Hugs and Howls....

PS: I'll be really surprised to see if anyone has this... I don't have a lot of sports fans in my friends list.

Current Mood: curious

Musings and Weekend Plans
So I'm sure I'm not the only person who does this, but when I meet someone I think is cool and want to know better, and I know they have or have had an LJ, I tend to go off and read their entire LJ. This is odd and interesting and gives you a weird snapshot of people. You know them at this point here . and then suddenly you're reading about their life way over here . <-------

So I'm in the midst of a friend's journal and am watching the train wreck approach and it's really hard to read. I think I need to go back and read my own next and see if I can see bad stuff trending so clearly.

Heaviness over and on to lightness...

This weekend is INCREDIBLY booked up with stuff, but in and amongst the party I'm going to Saturday, I am ALSO having a video night. It's Cartoon Rodent Night... we'll be seeing Despereaux and Ratatouille (and both movies are coming with

aramintamd so anyone else I spoke to, you're off the hook) and then if we still have enough time afterwards we'll watch Flushed Away. Now by enough time, I'm gonna point out that Team Greykell has a training walk Sunday morning at 7:30 AM in Rockville, that I need to get to, so I at least need to go to bed early enough that I can get up and get out there in time for the start. Anyone who wants to join us on a 10 mile walk should let me know.

Also, just to mark your calendars, we'll be doing an 11ish mile walk the following Sunday out here near me on the BWI trail around the airport. Also 7:30 start time.

Hugs and Howls...

Current Mood: introspective

Post Dragoncon: Back to Reality
And so I'm thoroughly back home and reality is setting back in again.

I missed one lecture on Friday for my math class and I'm feeling terribly frantically behind. (This is not made better by my spending most of the afternoon surfing the internet looking for pictures of the Dr. Horrible Live show and my costumes rather than working on math.)

The dreaded con crud is finally crashing down on me. I've been snuffling all day and I'm definitely coming down with it. Of course the worst part is that I haven't unpacked yet and all the zinc and sudafed are packed somewhere in my two suitcases.

Today was a good day (aside from being baffled in calc class). Wandered in to the scene shop to see what was going on and was just in time to help set up a temporary stage in the Horowitz Center for some jazz performance. Then we headed back and spent a couple of hours cleaning the scene shop. We're between builds at the moment and the cleanup was DESPERATELY needed. I actually spent more than an hour sweeping up sawdust and crap and came out covered in sawdust.. yes it was a two shower day!

Met Marsha for lunch and then headed for home where I had an entertaining time chatting for a bit with my cuter, younger, male namesake

truegrey and then watched the newest episode of Legend of Neil. Go watch the whole series if you (like me) spent too much time playing the Legend of Zelda when it first came out. It's fantastically fun. Ummm, but not the slightest bit work safe, so watch it at home when the kids are in bed.

Rick's off in Santa Barbara until tomorrow, we've been having an odd tag team marriage lately, possibly in practice for the staggered move to Chicago. He was in Sweden until last Friday, I left the day before he came home for Dragoncon, he picked us all up at the airport Monday night and then flew to S.B. on Tuesday. He's actually home for the weekend but then heads back out again to Chicago with a car full of random stuff for his bachelor pad (and some assorted stuff for Niko that didn't make it to college with him.) I wonder what October's gonna be like? That's the month that he usually travels like mad. *sigh* At least Rick is doing the Challenge Walk with us this year. He'll be crewing the whole weekend, although won't be available for the extra guerilla walk on Friday (cause he'll be on a trip NATCH!)

Enough for now, I've been remarkably talkative lately and should probably consider cutting this for my friend's lists.. but I can't remember how and I'm too tired to look it up. Sorry friends.

Hugs and Howls....

Current Mood: sleepy

Dragoncon Sunday and Monday
Wow I've been having a really good time (and by good time I mean I've been sleeping a lot to recover from Dragoncon...) keep having random chats with friends online and waking up a few minutes later to find out that several hours have passed.

So Sunday morning, I woke up after sleeping in to my heart's content (that means I woke up around 8 or so instead of around 7 or so) and very leisurely began my day. I think I didn't actually leave the room until around 10:30 or 11:00 AM but I finally wandered around with Barb and got to see the Zoo exhibits with all the stars hanging around autographing. Barb and I had watched a panel with Cristine Rose (Ma Petrelli from Heroes) and she came off as incredibly cool, so we got in line to chat with her. INCREDIBLY nice lady! I'm now a big fan, and impressed with her acting since I really dislike Angela Petrelli with a vengeance. Afterwards we stepped sideways a bit and chatted with Louise Fletcher. Also very nice. Barb bought a pin up picture of her from when she was Nurse Ratchet in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (it was apparently a xmas present to the crew or something) and got it autographed. We also finally managed to get to the downstairs dealer's room where I actually bought something (some nice feathered earrings to replace the ones my cat chose to eat one day.)

We wandered around a bit more and spent some time taking pictures of Essay and her 7 Deadly Sins group. Ryan took off to get coffee and I got to hold the BIG GUN for a while, which was incredibly fun since people really like big guns. Eventually I headed off and changed yet again into the Pink Pummeler outfit to head off to Thriller dance practice. I had INTENDED to practice a lot on my own before the con, but Secret Project #6 (Bad Horse) ended up taking almost all my time up to the con, so I counted on practice at the con to get me up to speed.) It worked out pretty well, I spent about an hour with a teaching group and then moved to the group that was doing it at speed with the music and did it 3 or 4 more times before I headed out to grab something to eat before going back to the Sheraton for the record breaking attempt.

7 PM it was time to try to break the record. It was in the big ballroom where we do Dr. Horrible Live and those of us with numbers in the upper 1000's were a bit worried we weren't gonna make it into the room but luckily when I finally got there they were practicing not doing the actual dance for the record breaking attempt. Because we were funnelled in so late to the room I actually ended up frighteningly close to the front of the room, about 3 rows back all the way to the left. I've not seen myself in any of the videos yet, but I'm still looking. If you find someone with bright pink boxing gloves in any thriller videos, let me know *grin*

After the Thriller attempt I ran to the food court to grab food and then up to our room for our annual masquerade watching party. We figured out a few years back that it's a lot more fun to watch the masquerade from our hotel room on DC*TV rather than watching in the ballroom which is crowded and hot and you can't see very well anyway. I got to see a couple of my Tribe kids who came quickly through the room but then we just relaxed and watched the show. Pretty short this year and most of the really good costumes have been seen before but I enjoyed it. The hosts were incredibly annoying at first, but they grew on me. DC seems to regularly have celebrity hosts and I don't really know who these guys were, but I must say that they were intense geeks, there seemed to be no fandom that they didn't know about and have some sort of in joke to relay.

After the masquerade, we decided to bring Bad Horse out for a trot around the Marriott. This time Dan went in the front of the horse and this time we had some chemical cold packs for me to stuff into my clothes. Made a HEAP of difference. I didn't have to bend down as far with the taller Dan in front and the cold pack was nice, although the fan is still the trick. One thing I am positively doing with Bad Horse is to rig up a couple of fans that I can attach to the head stabilizing strap and have whirring at me all the time. We rode up and down a couple of escalators and wandered around stopping every couple of yards to be in pictures and then when Dan was tired we headed back upstairs. I was completely wired so I put on my Bad Horse cowboy outfit to head back out into the world and also to check in with my new friend James who I'd heard was wearing an amazing costume, but (being as how I was busy being a horse's ass) I didn't get to see. Was amused to find out that two more of my friends from the Prydon academy were part of the amazingly great Invasion of the Body Snatchers group (all in black and white clothing and makeup and complete with pods) and got to chat a bit before moving on. Barb and I also met up with one of the Dr. Horribles that we had delivered a letter to last year and he thanked us for the letter and insisted on getting a photo with us. That was kind of cool. Stayed up much too late admiring other people's costumes and then headed off to bed.

Monday morning I woke up panicked because I had a ton of packing to do and also because I was trying to organize my photos for the Whedon Track photo scavenger hunt. It turned out that I'd gotten a lot more things on the list than I thought I would so I figured it was worth trying to turn them in. This became complicated because I was completely incapable of meeting up with Ziggy to hand off my photos. Finally gave up and headed off to meet up with Ryan and Essay to say goodbye. *sniffle* They were hanging in the Walk of Fame and I was in my Pink Pummeler costume and well... the line for Felicia Day wasn't tooooo long. So now I've got autographed Pink Pummeler gloves... she even wrote "Penny" on it in case I couldnt' read her handwriting *grin*

After I got the autograph (and a copy of the Guild Season 2) I headed off to the room to finish packing up and get out of the room. My poor roomies were trapped there waiting for me since it was past checkout time and presumably our keys had been turned off. I got there and we packed it all out and then I dropped by the Whedon track once more to say some goodbyes. Eventually we packed Cassandra and Bad Horse (as well as all of Dan's stuff) out to the curb to wait for Dan to bring his car back and afterwards we went back to the concierge to rescue our own stuff and off to the airport. We got there a couple of hours early, but it was nice not to be worried about being late and Tom carried on one of my bags so I didn't have to pay an extra 30 bucks for it. Luggage is getting REALLY expensive on domestic flights these days... and of course that means everyone carries on all sorts of large bags and pisses off everyone else. Ah well. Rick picked us up at the airport and whisked us back to the Empty City where Tom and Barb hopped into their car and left and I came in to a house strangely devoid of teenagers. Only Alys left at home now and it's pretty danged weird. (Kat moved back to college while I was at Dragoncon.)

As always Dragoncon was a load of fun. I've already written down a host of ideas to make Dr. Horrible Live even better next year, but it's pretty darned perfect right now. I'm sad not to have had South Grey as Dr. Horrible this year, if we'd had him, Brian and the folks who played Penny and Billy in cast 1 this year we'd have had a dream cast as far as I'm concerned. Ah well, gotta go with what you're given and at the performance was quite great all the same. Lots more people signed up in advance for the extra parts and going all out for them. It's a strange little world I live in, but once a year, people live in it with me and that's a good thing.

Enough for now... Hugs and Howls and I'll try to be better about keeping up my LJ.

Oh yes, and SO FAR, I seem to have escaped the con crud, but I have the teensiest bit of a sniffle and I'm mildly worried.

Current Mood: geeky

Dragoncon Saturday
The alarm would have gone off much too early yesterday morning if it wasn't for the fact that I woke up to Barb busily putting makeup on Tom for his Chip costume. This year for the first time we had all of Cassandra's handlers with us at the parade. Tom was FANTASTIC as Chip. Everyone was thrilled to see him and the makeup needs some work for the next time but there's got to be a next time since he looked so good.

So we were heading down to the parade start when Cassandra suddenly tipped over.. she was missing one of her casters. Tom headed back on a frantic search to see where it fell off (note: the curb cuts and sidewalks in Atlanta are CRAP... I pity any handicapped people who attempt to use them year round) and he eventually returned with a "no go."

What now? Luckily for us, a couple of guys dressed in classic Trek uniforms stopped for pictures with Cassandra while on the way to the parade and when told the problem said. "Oh hey, there's a wheel lying on the ground by the door of the Marriott!" I have NO Idea how we managed to drag her so far (about a block) without that wheel but the command track dude walked me back to the Marriott and pointed out where our wheel was and then I ran back to Tom and Cassandra. YIKES! Turns out that the plastic piece that the wheel fits in had broken and so there was no way to reattach the wheel.

BACK to the Marriott... UP to the 30th floor and rooted around in the Cassandra box for her repair kit and back to the corner Cassandra was stranded on with good old fashioned duct tape. Once we had the right tool for the job we managed to create a fix and get her delivered to the parade start about 10 minutes before we had to step out. PHEW!!

Chip was a big success at the parade, running back and forth squirting the kids in the crowd and fawning all over Cassandra at every possible instance. Cassandra drew lots of comment as usual and we had a very good time. Afterwards, the entire Prydon Academy (our Dr. Who costuming group) went straight to the Sheraton where the Brit Track is hosted and (more importantly) where the amazing full size Tardis was set up. We spent an hour or two doing photos and videos and finally packed it in and dragged Cassandra back to our hotel and put her away.

Changed once again and finally (on Day THREE) managed to go do some typical con stuff. We've now seen two of the dealer's room and hope to eventually find the art show and the Walk of Fame as well. Around 5 or so, Barb and I were weaving through the room, completely exhausted, and headed back up to the room where we found Dan and Tom and all of us fell instantly asleep. Luckily I'd set an alarm because we were meeting Ryan and Essay for the Dr. Who dinner at Durango's Steakhouse at 7 PM and we JUST managed to get there in time. (Actually we were easily in time since I had to wake up Ryan and Essay who had also chosen to nap!)

I was at the dinner in my full on Pink Pummeler costume since I was planning on going over to the Whedon Track Costume Contest after dinner. Ryan's friend Spaz was dressed as Captain Hammer, so we sat together at the dinner and chattered a lot. Got some great photos (I hope) of me trying to eat steak wearing pink boxing gloves mirroring the photos that Michael Canaan had put up on the PInk Pummeler fan pages. I've got to dump them over there sometime soon.

Took off running from dinner and got to the Marriott where the Whedon Track is hosted JUST as they were finishing off the Firefly category and were calling the Dr. Horrible costumers. There were only three of us so I felt pretty hopeful (also I was the only side character, there are so many Dr. Horrible and so many Captain Hammer costumes out there I think it'd be hard to beat me as something different.) BUT I forgot to take my glasses off. They perch precariously over my PP mask when I actually want to see and I usually take them off for photos. Still I WON for the Dr. Horrible category and got a set of little Firefly/Serenity figures that I had been looking at in the dealer's room a few hours earlier and trying to justify spending the money on. Instead I got them for free... or as Dan points out.. for the couple of hundred bucks I dropped on buying amazing pink boots and boxing gloves! I would have bought those anyway *grin*

After I stashed my loot up in the room I met up with Tom and Barb and we found a SPECTACULAR people watching space on the bottom level of the Marriott and I put myself in Pink Pummeler pose and we just sat there for an hour or two and occasionally jumped up to get photos of people. Mostly we just enjoyed watching the amazing costumes wander by. Eventually however, we realized that it was close to midnight and it might just be a good idea to head for the room. Asleep by 1 and up today at 9:30 AM. Sleep is BLISS!

This morning I'm starting slow but will eventually head out into the world, probably wearing my

bevander Hammer shirt again. Aside from visiting more con sites, I'm probably heading over to the Sheraton at 4 for Thriller practice and to join the heaps of people who are gonna try and break the Thriller Dance world record at 7 PM tonight. At 8:30 PM we're hosting a masquerade watching party in our room (3039 for any of you Tribe kids who are reading this... call the cell if you're coming so that I can make more space by moving Bad Horse out of the way.) I'm also hoping to tog out as Bad Horse again for a while today.

Oh yes, and I"m tentatively scheduled to go follow Ryan and Essay around with my video camera and get some footage of THEIR con, which is complicated by the fact that they are AMAZING cosplayers and often can't walk more than a few feet at a time without being stopped for pictures.

Enough for now. I have to go obey con rules, I've had my first meal of the day but the shower hasn't happened yet (AND IT's NEEDED!)

Hugs and Howls.... (OH forgot to mention that we met up with Tom Smith when we were being Bad Horse on Friday and got pictures with him. He gave Barb and I each a copy of his new album that has "our" songs on them!)

(Edited to fix the open tag in a paragraph above)

Current Mood: enthusiastic

Dragoncon Thursday and Friday
Oh Em Gee!

I am having so much fun!!! Barb, Tom and I arrived at the Marriott around 11 AM on Thursday morning and managed to check right in to our room which actually had a refrigerator this year. We got ourselves lightly settled, and then did some calling around to see who was hanging around the con. I brought a prodigious number of costumes this time, so I togged out first as a Captain Hammer fan (but with

bevander's face since he's OUR Captain Hammer.) Got a lot of questions about it and told a heap of people about the Dr. Horrible Live Show. We also managed to meet up with

truegrey who was sadly not playing Dr. Horrible this year, but was at least involved in some awesome media stuff.

tacnukesoul finally arrived with the rest of our costumes around 1 AM or so and sometime after that we finally conked out.

Fast forward to today... Got up early and went to the Dr. Horrible Live practice in the track room wearing

truegrey fan shirts and dragging along a bunch of Pink Pummeler props and the project I've been working on for the last month... Bad Horse! Yup, we build Bad Horse from top to bottom as a two person pantomime horse with Barb in front and me in the back. We can't go out for more than about half an hour without my back screaming but we are AWESOME and the subject of many pictures! I'll do a search when I get home and I bet I find a few pretty early on. I also togged out as the Pink Pummeler when we headed out to do Dr. Horrible Live and I got to play him on stage!! Twice in fact since I hung on for the 11:30 showing of Dr. H. Live as well. AND I ended up as an extra in the Buffy Horror Show, just cause I was hanging around.

As always the general quality of the players was HIGH, with the truly amazing

bevander doing Captain Hammer, then rushing off to makeup and doing an incredible Sweet from Buffy and then off to shower off all the makeup and come back in time to be Captain Hammer again. I truly don't know how he does it!!

ANyway... it's way late and I need to take a shot and go to bed so we can get up early tomorrow for the parade and to do a day of Dr. Who cosplaying. We haven't even managed to go to a dealer's room yet. AIEEEEEE!

Oh, and I"ve already come up with my next major sewing project, it'll be some goo fun putting it together. MOre on that at another time.

Hugs and Howls....

Current Mood: excited

YIKES!
Okay,

Can anyone tell me what would cause BOTH of my printers to suddenly stop working. I push the print button and it goes to the dialogue that looks like it's printing. On my printer's preferences panel it says "connecting" ...

and then NOTHING HAPPENS.

It just continues to sit there not printing. I should say THEY continue to sit there, because I have not been able to print anything at all for 2 days now. All the jobs just sit there with a "connecting" message.

But I never get any kind of a "we can't connect" message. The self check on both printers work when I turn them on and off. The one of the two that has a wireless light is lit. (the other one is physically plugged into our wireless repeater which has all of its appropriate working lights on)

Oh yes, and I'm online using the wireless network and it's working fine for my computer. And the most recent change of any kind that I made to my computer happened over a week ago and I have printed successfully with both printers since that change (security upgrade from apple)

WHY IS THIS HAPPENING????????? How can I make it stop (or rather start!)

Current Mood: frustrated

Lj buddies who know kugelblitz ... HELP!
Hey folks

I'm in west Virginia trying to get the son moved in and have limited Internet and NO phone. I've sent important email to kugelblitz at his 00 personal account. If anyone can reach him before he leaves work today and tell him to check that mail. We've hit a snag with the team greykell tech shirt order and he may need to upload the files again today before the end of business hours. If you reach him please comment here do he doesn't get inundated.

Thanks everyone!

Current Mood: Worried

Team Greykell Training Walk
Team Greykell's going on a training walk this Sunday morning starting at the Aspen Hill community park at 7 AM. Planning on doing around 6.5 miles. (but at a nice easy pace, or at least *I* am.)

If you're interested in joining us, comment here and I"ll get back to you with details. Note: I will be out of contact until Friday night due to driving the son to college in an hour or so.

(I'll post about that life changing event after I get home.)

Hugs and Howls.....

Current Mood: happy

And my youngest grows up...
It's a rite of passage that my teenage girls must go through.

shadowcaptain came by tonight, gently took my youngest by the hand and led her down the path to adulthood.

Yes, Alys is off seeing Rocky Horror Picture Show for the first time.

She is also accompanied by her older sister, thus fulfilling a promise from long ago.

Now I have all these memories of going to see Rocky Horror when *I* was 16!

Current Mood: nostalgic

Tech Shirts Links Fixed
Thanks to the wonderful

chickenhat I now have the proper form of art so that those of you with PC's can look at the tech shirt art in case you want to order one.

Just click on the appropriate type of computer you're using at the link.

clicky clicky

Hugs and Howls....

Current Mood: satisfied

Team Greykell Tech Shirts (Last Chance)
Hey there folks!

Team Greykell: the Walking Edition is ordering Tech Tshirts designed by our own fabulous

kugelblitz. They are FANTASTIC looking and we hope to have them in time to wear to the Challenge Walk the first weekend in October.

I've put the artwork up at a temporary website in case you want to see it.

Follow the Links!

If you are interested in getting in on this order, the shirts cost 40 bucks each for Team Greykell members. They come in sizes up to 5X.

By the nature of knowing me I'll assume you've either donated or participated in some way with Team Greykell over the years. If for some reason you have never participated in any way then I'd ask that you plan to (or send in an extra 10 bucks for the tech shirt which I will toss into the Team Greykell fund!)

Contact me by email or LJ mail immediately if you want one of these things and haven't talked to me before. Also, I've sent out an email to everyone who has ordered a shirt who I have on the list. If you think you've ordered one and you didn't get that email this morning then better get in touch with me ASAP.

Final orders go in Thursday by noon OR as soon as I get the email from the company saying that the proofs are finalized. (This should not take long as they have already finalized our temporary artwork, we added some map detail and sent it back in.)

Hugs and Howls!

Current Mood: excited

Escape From New York
It's been pointed out by a friend (thanks Kev) that seeing Escape From New York "... with greykell... in a movie theater is one of those cumulative experiences that's worth checking off of the life list, and a lot harder to line up these days than it used to be."

So given that this might be important to other people besides me... I'll be at the 10:20 PM showing of Escape From New York at the AFI in Silver Spring on Wednesday night. MY tickets are already bought. I'll be wearing my "WWSD" tshirt (thanks SpamnAndrea)

For those of you who have somehow missed this masterpiece, it is, in fact, the greatest movie ever made! Not to be missed.

See you at the movies....

PS: Something satisfying about starting to type it in and finding out I already HAVE an Escape from New York and a Snake tag!

Current Mood: anticipating
Current Music: Engulfed Cathedral from ... you guessed it.. the EFNY soundtrack

More Fangirl Squeeing
Okay remember the squeeing from a day or so ago?

He sent me a message on facebook!! THUD! (that's me fainting!)

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEE!!

Current Mood: hyper

OMG I am SUCH a fangrrrrrl
So... Doctor Horrible...

I've been way too intense a fan of Dr. Horrible since it came out. I'm up to 3 and a half costumes from it already made and 2 more in the works after the half is completed. Those of you who have been paying attention know that my first and foremost love from Dr. Horrible is the Pink Pummeler. I'm still working on perfecting my Pink Pummeler costume, but it's already gotten me some serious kudos from fanfolk at Balticon.

Anyway, in my constant quest to make the Pink Pummeler costume better I've been searching the net for Pink Pummeler photos. So I eventually stumbled on the youtube channel of Michael Canaan (the dude who played the Pink Pummeler in Dr. Horrible) and from there his myspace page. Which I friended because... why not?

Then I found his facebook page. And well, facebook is a bit more personal than Myspace. What are the chances that he'd friend me if I asked (given that I had to honestly admit to being a Pink Pummeler fan and thus some kind of deranged stalker.)

SQUEEEEEEEEE!!! I'm now OFFICIALLY some kind of deranged stalker, cause he friended me back. It's absolutely horrifying how excited I am about this. My goal in general when dealing with celebrities is to leave them alone to live their own lives because even if I know some small part of their work I don't know THEM. But EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! Michael Canaan FRIENDED ME!!!

I know I'm insane! Sorry to those of you who thought I was a normal adult human. Right now I'm about 15 years old I think!

Hugs and Howls....

PS: Did I mention that Michael Canaan friended me????

Current Mood: elated!