Emery Q. Asterism
Doin' mountainy things. I see fnords.
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I tag my art with #inkthusiasm and my fibre work with #KnittingPirate. You might also know me as cougrr/qgr or Belaset.
My primary hobby is collecting more hobbies - I draw/paint, play guitar and drums, knit/spin/crochet, snowboard in the winter and bike the rest of the year, and I sure play a mean pinball.
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We watched The Outsiders tonight, a movie I haven't seen in over 30 years. Now I'm feeling all the same feelings I felt when I watched it as a preteen, but tempered by being, you know, all middle-aged or whatever. 😅
(I had a switchblade because of that movie! Mine was a comb instead of a knife, but it made me feel tuff anyway.)
There are some foods that make me feel less than great, even if I really like them. And while I still choose to eat them sometimes, I'm becoming less willing to deal with the not-great just to have those foods.
(A former coworker asked me if I was "diabetic or something" when I turned down her offer of a morning donut. She wasn't exactly nice about it either; the implication was that I had a good medical reason to skip the donut or I was an ungrateful coworker with the sort of willpower that she did not have. But it wasn't even about the calories, it's that I know that if I eat a donut at 10:00, I'll want a nap by 11:00.)
This got me thinking... if there are foods that make me feel not-great, what if there are foods that make me feel *better* than my baseline? What can I add in that will improve how I feel?
I'm not really looking for advice here, just pondering possibilities. From what I can tell, the answer is "more fibre," because of course it is.
We did our best to cook/eat/freeze whatever might go bad before our impromptu trip to New York. Now that we're back, eating the combinations of leftovers has just added to the surreal feeling of the week.
"Oh yeah, we had some shredded chicken and the tortillas have gone stale... I guess I'll make stacked enchiladas with that."
Amusing moment of the day - my parents were talking with my late uncle's business partner G. and his wife S., and I walked over to say hello to them and also ask Mom a question. Just as I got there, S. was asking "how are your kids?" so Dad said "here's one of them now!" Once we'd all agreed on which kid I was and that I was doing fine, S. asked, "weren't you the one who was the hellion when you were younger?"
Mom denied it, but I mock-indignantly asked her, "what sorts of things have you been saying about me??" and then told S. that nah, I'd only been a heck-ion.
As much as I love riding Amtrak, my back starts aching in these seats after about 2.5 hours.
Unfortunately the trip from WAS to NYP is 3.5 hours long...
I re-arranged the pencils into rainbow order 
A few of them might have been used ONCE? It's practically a mint set, disregarding the dry-rot condition of the foam padding. I'll remove and replace that if I can.
My old set of 24 Spectracolors is branded Faber-Castell. I got it between 1992-94, and all the pencils have black wood. What's fascinating about the new set is that some of them have black wood and some have natural. But I don't have the original packaging which might have given me a clue as to when they were made!
So of course I went a-researching, and now I've seen pictures of Spectracolors with both natural and black wood.
Spectracolors were originally made by Venus, then Eberhard Faber, and then Faber-Castell. There were lots of company mergers and acquisitions that I can't follow.
Eagle changed its name to Berol in 1969. Berol bought Venus in 1971, then Faber-Castell bought Berol. Empire bought Berol in 1987. In 1995, Sanford bought Empire/Berol & Faber-Castell USA. Faber-Castell had already bought Eberhard Faber by this point (the family history there is a rabbit hole to go down!) Spectracolors were discontinued because they were so similar to Prismacolors, which came from the Berol/Sanford end of this merger, but some of their colours were rolled into the Prismacolor line.
ANYWAY, all that said... When was this set made, that the woods are mixed like this? Was it made by Berol, or Sanford? I have no details and I am so very, very curious!!
#today has been awesome :)
First, I found on FB marketplace a set of the same coloured pencils that I still have from high school - but I have only the well-used set of 24, and they were discontinued in the late '90s, and sets of 60 go for *hundreds* of dollars on ebay, and this lady was selling it for $10??
So Husband and I drove to the meeting place and shared a cup of chai, and then I bought a set of pencils that appear to still have their factory sharpening on them. Never used. Holy wow.
Then we went to the library to get cards, since the county we were in is part of the reciprocal borrowing system with our home county - but there's no inter-county loan, it's just that you're eligible for a card at the other counties' library systems if you go there in person to get it.
While I was sitting on the bench near the checkout desk and putting my new card onto my keyring, a very angry person started shouting and flinging books right next to me!
I didn't feel like I was in any danger and the whole incident was over in about 20 seconds, but wow, that was unusual.
