Macabre Hammer

Stillness is much harder to accomplish than movement.

A bottle of Abasolo, a Mexican whiskey made from nixtamalized corn.

My bottle of Abasolo is almost empty. Took about a year - I drink whisky in very small amounts and only when I have the focus and space to cherish the flavor.
Lovely textured square bottles.
My last one has an herbal raspberry brandy: Malenas, a family recipe cold cure.
What goes in this one next?

Can't do this kind of thing with AI. Never felt the need to "create" reference images.

Charoite and silver. Making a ring.

Charoite and silver. Ring is made.

Next piece: Unakite and silver, to be made. View of the mobile soldering station.

My booth and a teen helper.

I have been so wrapped up with office stuff I forgot how much fun a two day show can be.

People get to watch me make pieces from sheet and wire to finished piece, I love explaining the process.

My eyelids are sunburned, dry air sun and wind have me growing a cold sore on a lip, and I feel happy.

Put on a tie dye shirt and dance.

YouTube video by David Bowie David Bowie - Let's Dance (Official Video)

"too soon" is subjective.

A friend has left the material dance floor too soon for the people who have not met him yet.

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I've responded to the latest news from Glock by asking my favorite FFL to see if there's another used G26 out there for me. He replied with "Two is One and One is None" and he's a good friend so I figure another couple weeks.

Hardware cleaned and ready. Off to the range, then office time. I have a lot to do at my desk, getting a client's books cleaned up.

Nowadays the books are bits not atoms, which speeds things up, but it's amazing how much faster and wider errors can propagate in an accounting database.

Two targets side by side, and the scatter of shots showed my missed two weeks of practice. Pencils taped to the target gives me better visual feedback than just paper.

Workday today.

Accounting would be fun if it wasn't for the clients.

Still feeling snotty and "off" so instead of BJJ this morning, and since I have first market of Autumn tomorrow, will be going to the Range for practice before work.

Last week's shooting showed my missed two weeks of practice.

Hey, 10/10 for talking about autism as something more than Quirky Smart Dudes.

0/10 for grasping at ludicrous straws of correlation.

I associate that mood state with the matrilineal Knowing Shit Before It Happens kind of event.

The last two times I had it were 9/10/2001 and 10/6/2023.

Fortunately you don't have that curse, so I recommend ... Um... Sorry, I got nothing. You probably handled it right. Watch Airplane or something.

My left arm tells the story of my life in its own way. More to add, and my artist's great-aunt was on the same Death March as my mom and aunt (to Dachau to avoid the US Army) so her needles knit a circle into a spiral.

Three images on my skin, two from photos, one from a DeviantArt contributor.

Each one was contacted and asked for permission. Each one had the completed work photo emailed with my thanks.

The source of the Datura meteloides photo even sent me some seeds. D. meteloides, var. Belle Blanche.

I made a donation to Reno Chabad years ago. Over a decade.

The calendar followed me to AZ.

Basically turns road grease into mayonnaise. We get that here first monsoon of the season.

Good, so if the released prisoners come back to blow more innocents up, they're fair game.

Hammered heavy sterling silver ring with Larimar.

Sterling silver and Larimar.

We never ever save to onedrive. It's an accounting/tax office. All our files are confidential. If that starts being a default I wonder what boss will do? The Tax package we use for e-filing is Windows only.

IYKYK

Just finished re-reading Christie's "Postern of Fate." Decades ago I found a paperback sitting atop a trash can, grabbed it and read it on the way to school (I was a ninja at reading while I walked to school.)

Really fun, rambling spy mystery. My introduction to her books.

Our spice box is a silver tower model Mom was given by an apologetic Berlin family after the war.

Glad you rescued that poor lithops, she looks like ass!

(Runs away giggling)

I took a class decades ago offered by CareerTrak, "Image & Self Projection for Women."

It was fabulous.

Of the many lessons that stuck with me, the most important is "never let on you know how to make coffee."

"so why your tattoos?"

Meditation exercise.

The buried intent is, if tradition is right about tattoos being a one way ticket to Gehenna or whatever, this way I get to see my dad again.

If he gets a free pass because it wasn't his intent to be marked, and I don't see him, that's ok too.

I'm scarred from my childhood horrors of the 1970's, which is the extra spicy mayo on the BLT of Transgenerational Trauma of being a child of Survivors.

I thrive by training in firearms, martial arts, next week is a CCW class, I have plans for further range testing.

"Nobody is coming to save you."

Good morning!

5am class was good. Storm system has annoying muscle under right shoulder blade tweaked and howling but rolling/falling/throwing drills still felt awesome.

Now finishing coffee, breakfast to take to office is cooked and cooling, 1st client quarterly review I get to be part of today!

Today I learned how to remove a sold/trashed/broken asset from a balance sheet while also adjusting the accumulated depreciation so the balance sheet would stay balanced.

Accounting.

It's like Tetris with numbers.

Good morning!

5am BJJ class three mornings a week means four mornings a week I feel like I'm deliciously sleeping in.

Rain coming in the area next three days.

Been having a nice smooth week at the office mostly.

This month we run 3rdQtr filings, be interesting if IRS furloughs affect that.

Good morning! A new day, a new chance to throw my friends around. 5am BJJ class on the way!

And the difficulty in getting spiral crochet projects to lie flat? Consider that northern hemisphere winter is approaching, and a warm crocheted hat is never a bad thing to have.