Recently, Bunny Rabbit and myself acquired new games for the Wii. Metroid Prime Corruption and Super Smash Brothers Brawl. For anyone who has played these games you know their kung fu is strong. For anyone who has not played them, well you should and that's that.

In crafting news I'm currently working on cuffs for Teh Flynn's favorite sweater.

Much with the Crafting

I have been a busy little lad.

Here are some pictures of a penguin hat I did as a commission. It turned out alright on the first try. There are some things I'd alter just a tad if I did it over again, but the person buying it is happy with the pictures Bunny showed her so I suppose it is good enough for now.


These are pics of some knots/weaves I've been doing with paracord.

This first set is the snake knot, and the doubled snake knot.


These are examples of the cobra knot. The first two are examples of the cobra knot when you start off with two colors side by side. This version is reversible-the colors look different on either side.
This is the cobra knot if you have one color for the core and another for the outside.
When you double up the cobra knot you get the king cobra knot. The first two are the front and back shot of the knot when the outer colors are alternated from the core set of cobra knots.

These two are the front and back of king cobra knots where the inner and outer colors are matched.

This last one is an example of the king cobra knot where the core cobra knot is one color and the outer knot is another.

In addition to making these nifty little knots I also had fun putting a better grip on Linus' little battle axe. The next project on my list is Tessa's kitty hat. I have all but perfected the basic template for hats now, allowing for a smooth transitioning earflap.

In other fun news, Bunny gets her braces of tomorrow. I'm sure she's ecstatic, I can't rightly imagine how much of a hassle braces have been for her.

I did it. I bought it. I made a purchase of a Mac. In the end I went with a little white one. I, obviously, would have preferred a black one or a silver one, but this has all I really need. I will of course be getting more ram and a bigger screen, but even with those extras this one will cost less than the next best alternative, by about 300 dollars. So, in the end, I feel I made a good choice. I will have to figure out how to get my info from this computer to the new one, though. In addition, I'll have to get software installed again and learn how to use a different operating system. That just comes with the territory getting a new computer.

The other day I was on lunch from work. I got a coffee and a muffin, strolled to the corner and sat on the bench to watch cars go by. One fellow was staring rather intently at me from his car as he pulled around the corner. He got out of his car in a hurry and headed in my direction. I thought to myself..."I could take him." To my surprise he didn't want to start anything with me, he just wanted to know if I'd be on that bench for a couple more minutes. I said that I was planning on it and he strolled back to his car, returning with a really big friggin camera. He asked me if it would be ok for him to take a few pictures of me, I said "sure" and he asked that I just go about my business as if he weren't there. So I sat there, trying not to be self conscious, watching the cars go by and sipping my coffee. When I was nearly done with my coffee he thanked me for letting him take the pictures, explained he'd been waiting for quite some time to find someone sitting on that particular bench as the sun was getting low, and told me the picture may be in tomorrow's Boomerang. I figured it would be somewhere in the middle or near the community page, but the next day I get a call from my mom asking If I had seen the paper. Apparently the picture was on the front page and it turned out quite nicely. That photographer had a pretty good eye, the bricks on the building behind me were a really nice color at that time of day.

As it is the picture belongs to the Boomerang, so I can't really steal it and post it here, but this is the link to it!!!