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More so than my previous entries, to me this one actually feels finished: http://shirt.woot.com/Derby/Entry.aspx?id=52968

If any of you gentle readers wish to go vote for somebody at that site, feel free -- and again, you are under no obligation to vote for me just 'cause you know me. Some of the designs there really knock my socks off and will probably impress you as well :>

At my mother-in-law's request, I've drawn a flying turtle. (Dunno where she got the idea).

I'm posting a link here not so much to beg for votes (there are other designs entered that I like quite a bit better than my own), but more to let you folks know what I'm up to: http://shirt.woot.com/Derby/Entry.aspx?id=52675

No, that's not the name of a band. Yet.

My father-in-law was taken to the emergency room, and has now had two surgeries on his gallbladder. He should be coming home Thursday, but we'll see. He's less uncomfortable than he was, and is no longer in danger -- but his acid reflux is now giving him fits. So rather than being in crisis-road-trip mode, we're, uh, on vacation in Seguin.

I like being able to work remotely on the laptop, and will be mowing my in-laws' yard in about six hours.

I ... think I must enter this contest:

http://neilgaiman.bookperk.com/engine/Rules.aspx?contestid=29933

If I appear in the cast of a professional audiobook recording, I promise not to forget y'all.

ETA: Entry complete. Here's the link to my narration stylings:

http://neilgaiman.bookperk.com/engine/Details.aspx?p=A&c=29933&s=7785298&i=1

I'd encourage you to go vote for -- well, somebody, if the idea amuses you, but not specifically for me unless you like mine best. I wouldn't want to be known as the guy who brought down the entire Gaiman media juggernaut with a sub-par performance on his audiobook :>

In addition, if you hadn't heard my voice before and were wondering ... yes, I usually sound like I have that much of a stick up my ass.

I'm at the halfway point for my mythological critter design, and the deadline is next week. I managed to stretch my horizons, a little, and I think only three of the final twenty-six creatures will come from Greek mythology. Researching this project has been fun! Trying to find a level of detail that will read at the reproduction size has been ... less fun, but at least educational.

I'll link to the finished fabric here when I'm done, but if anyone wants to see a .PDF of the piece in progress, please leave me an e-mail address.

I'm diving into a side project, and wanted feedback from my Gentle Readers.

I'll be designing a fabric pattern containing mythological creatures -- one for each letter of the English alphabet. I was too-heavily steeped in Greek mythology as a child, so now I intend to use a worldwide distribution of sources ...which brings me to my question: Any particular critters you'd like to see appear? I've settled on four letters already (C for Charybdis, I for Iktomi, P for Pixiu, and Q for Qilin) -- otherwise, while I have a pretty good-sized list to pick from, I thought I'd let you folks throw out your favorites.

I'll submit this layout to something that's basically a logo contest ("Project Selvage" at Spoonflower.com) -- and while I rarely touch those with a ten-meter cattle prod, this one is scratching an artistic itch, so even if it drums up zero customers, I'll be satisfied.

I don't wanna post an image here before the contest closes, but will e-mail graphic updates to whoever requests them.

I am thinking about setting up two filters for future posts, then throwing each post open after a month or so, just to avoid clogging up your immediate friends lists.

One filter would be for posts about radio contests, another for posts about Rachal's medical stuff.

If I set them up, I'll likely start keeping track of more trivial details than I have been, and if that thought gives you a rash, then please don't opt-in :>

Anyone interested in either filter?

(Gentle readers of the Radio filter will hear about why I was happy to give the wrong answer this morning in a weekend-plane-trip-for-two contest...)

As I hoped, it appears that the "lifetime ban" was an error made when my data from last week's big prize was being entered. That's the good news. The somewhat-meh news is that when one wins the bigger prizes nowadays, the six-month timeout period applies not just to the station you won from, but to every station owned by that conglomerate.

This is either a new rule, or one that hasn't been applied to me previously, because I don't remember it kicking in after I won the Orlando trip the year before last.

But it means I didn't actually win Cirque du Soleil tickets over the weekend :<

At least I have nibbles on the Dane Cook and Gene Simmons prizes online, which should help with the abysmal paychecks I've been getting lately :>

"Greetings:

I understand that at a Nampa Walgreens recently, one of your pharmacists refused to fill a Methergine prescription on ethical grounds. My mother lives in Nampa, and my wife has various health problems, so I'm more than a little curious: what are the odds of my wife being refused such a prescription when we visit my family in Idaho? I follow the rationale of allowing your employees to protect their religious beliefs, but I hope Walgreens' policy would suggest she forward the request to another pharmacist -- which apparently isn't what happened. If I have any of the details of this incident wrong, I apologize -- but I'd like to know what steps Walgreens is taking to make sure that it has all of its employees on the same page.

Thank you for your attention in this matter.

Regards,

[my name]
[my contact info]"

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No, that's not the exact Walgreens where I had the flat tire incident thirteen months ago. But nothing in Nampa is too far from anything else.