I found myself gravitating to hooded nibs in F and EF - flows well even in vertical orientation. My current favorite is the Jinhao 991 - not great in hand, but excellent on a pen plotter.

#fountainpen #penplotter #shoptalk

Lunchtime listening sorted, Ben Frain is on the #ShopTalk podcast #frontend #css #webdev

https://shoptalkshow.com/687/

We've found the best ideas come from those unplanned sessions where you just tinker until something clicks. No pressure, no timeline - just you and the bike figuring it out together.
Share this with someone who understands why "I'll be in the garage for an hour" really means "See you tomorrow."

What's your longest garage session ever? Our record is 36 hours straight on a deadline build.

#shoptalk #garagelife #bobberculture #buildersflow

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I thought about it, and if I'm going to put some of my flag patterns on Etsy, I should probably have them on my own site. So they're there now!

https://www.shop.raeyn.com/product-category/cross-stitch-patterns/pride-flags/

Happy to make a pattern for any flag on request, and willing to make the actual flag for a reasonable fee. :)

#shoptalk #shopraeyn #crossstitch #pride

Currently feeling productive. Pre-noon, and I've already had a bath! Clean hair! Well overdue, since my hair wash schedule got thrown off by doing that fayre. It wasn't too bad, considering; washing it only once a week means it doesn't grease up very much.

I've also finished taking my pride flag patterns and tarting them up for sale. There's a few patterns I've not tarted, like my two for Ally flags, and the one I have for frayromantic. I think that those will go into the 'if someone asks, I have them' bucket. I mean, I'm happy to 'design' or stitch anyone's flag if they're happy to pay for it, so. Now, one I need to do immediately is a the progressive pride version that includes the intersex flag. I've 'only' got the regular progressive up there. Waffling on whether to include the OG pride flag (or at least, the OG that is post-pink).

So yeah, things to think about while I lump today. *nodnods*

#deardiary #dailylog #cats #catsofmastodon #vivithecat #octoberthecat #shoptalk

I'm not sure what motion I've done that's done it, but my back just went PING!. It happens with some frequency, enough for me to suspect it's a trapped nerve that catches occasionally. So what do I do for it? I take some co-codamol and try to not do whatever I was doing right beforehand. Bodies, innit.

(thankfully, the codeine works really fast in shutting whatever nerve is whining up, so. grateful for that.)

I'm currently trying to decide what, if any, shop things I'm going to do today. I might look at my existing Etsy listings again for things like the cross-stitch pride flags and see if I can make those listings better/more findable. I really like them, and they're just about my perfect attention span for cross-stitch, so selling them is multiple levels of win for me.

(casual glance suggests no. big surprise. Very amused at people selling patterns for the flags when like... you really don't need to pay £3 to figure out colours? Or maybe I should sell my 'patterns' for £1 or sommat. Maybe £1.50 if I provide both DMC and Anchor colourways? xD)

Anyhoos.

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