all fishes, all the time
Jun. 8th, 2019 04:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dancing_crowI used to be better at blogging, and at keeping the "public" (my mother can find it and read it) separate from my "private" (the things I truly do not want my sainted mother's opinions on) and both of them ticking along. All the extra platforms have me boggled and frustrated. I kind of need FB for attempting to sell things to people who know me from different parts of my life, and yet i despise the format and (lack of) organization, so I post there by posting to IG, and shuttling images over to FB, or reposting something that is absurdly gorgeous or faintly surrreal... And i have a website that wants content and Patrons who have paid for content, and I feel rather as though I am pouring bits of my life out without measuring carefully or well.
Aside from that i got to spend as long as I wanted, almost, at the maker lab yesterday afternoon, working on both lasercutters and figuring out how to get the effects I want from both of them on various materials. I also fell into an Islamic/Arabic tile rabbit hole, because a student had left a design she'd recreated on the Epilog computer, and I borrowed it.
The computer attached to the Epilog was almost entirely in Chinese, it had apparently transformed itself? or a student had? it felt rather more malicious than a temporary student thing, and also I had forgotten a thumb drive, and was alone in the lab. It took about 15 minutes of stomping in circles to remember Google Drive and make proper use of it, but that was a relief once I had, and at least the drafting program I was using was mostly in english. It was an enormous relief to get back to my machinewhere I could read all the parts.
most of what i cut yesterday was codfish and trees. Clearly I need to make a tree that grows fish.
Aside from that i got to spend as long as I wanted, almost, at the maker lab yesterday afternoon, working on both lasercutters and figuring out how to get the effects I want from both of them on various materials. I also fell into an Islamic/Arabic tile rabbit hole, because a student had left a design she'd recreated on the Epilog computer, and I borrowed it.
The computer attached to the Epilog was almost entirely in Chinese, it had apparently transformed itself? or a student had? it felt rather more malicious than a temporary student thing, and also I had forgotten a thumb drive, and was alone in the lab. It took about 15 minutes of stomping in circles to remember Google Drive and make proper use of it, but that was a relief once I had, and at least the drafting program I was using was mostly in english. It was an enormous relief to get back to my machinewhere I could read all the parts.
most of what i cut yesterday was codfish and trees. Clearly I need to make a tree that grows fish.
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Date: 2019-06-09 02:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-06-10 03:06 pm (UTC)Oh absolutely both lives are really real - online has an immediacy to it, and I have friends here that I treasure.
I am old enough? or committed enough? or just persistent enough that I really like seeing in person the people who exist in my computer, so there is even a fair amount of crossover. But keeping some boundaries around what my mom knows of my life seems key. Other friends can find and read this if they like, or not. It is adjunct info if you see me regularly, and keeping up info if this is where we mostly interact.