Monkeys and keyboards aside, one Random + CSS still doesn't make poop.

I got my new and nifty Fire Mountain Gems order in today, complete with some little anodized aluminum rings, and I promptly murdered them with my pliers. Seems they're an extremely soft temper and not very well matched to someone who's spent the day giving herself god-awful calluses making a maille skirt.

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A few flu-addled days of using nyquil to get to sleep means I can no longer get to sleep on my own. If I were tired, this would suck. Instead I'm feeling strangely productive.



I still can't get inverted aura right, but that's okay.

(You see that squished jump ring at the top of the pic? That's what happened when I grabbed the pliers and decided to see just how soft this aluminum was.)

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RaceFail '09 continues, prompting Scalzi rage, retraction of Scalzi rage, random fandom outings, and ranty posts about how outing people by real name is bad. In the shadows of all this, purplepopple tells me she's trying to get her full name taken off the site of those great Internet Little Guy champions, the OTW. Seems it's not working too well.

Way to grudgewank, OTW. You just stay classy.

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I have two belt commissions to do and a metal skirt thingy to finish and my fingers hurt. :P