Imaginal Casements

All right. So in order to work on exorcising this latest obsession, I downloaded the free Inkscape utility (on a friend's recommendation) and have been messing around with it and trying it out.

I think I may need to read some help files and/or buy an instruction book.

On the positive side, I did manage to put this together from some separate butterfly clip art chunks from Dover, and used the "scale" and "rotate" functions. So I am now feeling unduly pleased with myself:

http://incandescens.livejournal.com/pics/catalog/2990/101905

(For reference: all of the butterflies came from Full-Color Decorative Butterfly Illustrations.)

(For the record, I have also found out that Dover now has an online downloading facility, which is selling a lot of their books at a much cheaper price than the paper version, at http://doverpictura.com/ -- very reasonable prices. The only major drawback is that you can't just flip through the paper version of the book to choose pictures, which I admit is something I would want to do. Pros, cons...)

Life gets problematic when two people are cross-mapping morphology codes and there is only one morphology code index available. Fortunately Hazel remembered the location of a second one, and its titular owner (who is our team leader and will never use it) was persuaded to "donate" it. I promised to give it back. When we were finished. You know, eventually.

Okay. And this is cute. Bleach meets My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. http://jberg18.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d41fuex

(Don't judge me!)

My boiler is having issues. Fortunately it's only the automatic part that's having issues: the manual provide-a-bit-of-extra-hot-water is still working fine, and therefore I don't have to worry about having no hot water at all, but I need to get a Samsung engineer in. (Apparently, since it is a Samsung boiler, you need a Samsung-certified engineer. Most annoying.)

Ah well. One more thing to sort out. It could be worse. And the regular boiler engineer guy who came out to look at it, and who told me that I'd need a Samsung engineer, was very nice and wouldn't take a callout fee, since he couldn't do anything to help. I must keep his phone number for reference.

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-- Sherlock: A Study In Pink