Day 283: Pillow Fight

Even though I'm posting this on Day 284, I actually did this make on Day 283, but I needed a real computer to post it.

Here's an animated GIF I made of a pillow fight I witnessed between Mat, Kaidin, and Keagin.

Yes, it's fast and blurry and hard to see what's happening. That's how it was in reality. Just add some grunting and battle cries and you'll feel just like you were there.

Day 282: Rubber Band Ball Seeks Name

Today, I gave my rubber band ball some personality.


It's not much, but I'm working my way to margarita oblivion, so nothing else is gonna get made.

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Day 381: Tall Zombie

Today I wanted a treat. After taking my Spanish midterm today and doing a marathon of homework yesterday, I thought maybe I'd bake something chocolatey. Well, that didn't happen. My kitchen is too small and filled with dirty dishes. So instead I made a new drink.


It looks kinda disgusting, like I put a zombie in the blender, but it tastes pretty good. It includes the four boozer in the picture plus vodka and milk.

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Day 380: Another Pile of Websites

My marathon of homework for today was to do three multi-part assignments and then post my results on three different web pages of my own design, following assorted rules and including assorted tags and features. 7 hours of homework after 8 hours of work after 5 hours of sleep does not an overachiever make, so be prepared for mediocrity.

Fair warning: I doubt you'll want to read any of the text on the first two pages. I didn't even want to write that garbage. But the third page at least has some nifty pictures.

http://senna.sjsu.edu/lmain/melleny/assignment6a.html

http://senna.sjsu.edu/lmain/melleny/assignment6b.html

http://senna.sjsu.edu/lmain/melleny/assignment6c.html

Now I just have to study for my Spanish midterm tomorrow. Oh, and survive the other half of this semester.

Day 379: Fallout Jr.

Today I helped Mat make costumes for the little midgets who will be joining our Fallout band of costumed awesomeness.

I sewed a girl-scout-ish sash for Aislind's costume.


It's filled with buttons designed by Mat.


Then I sewed a furry belly onto a hoodie for Keagin's costume.


I had to hand-stitch this one, because the layers of fur and hoodie and zipper wouldn't fit in my sewing machine.

These are but trifling parts of the super duper costumes Mat has been crafting for the kids. They will debut this weekend at AkiCon in Bellevue.

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Day 378: Little Ball of Rage

Today I wasted over an hour carefully folding a piece of paper in a billion different ways to make a little snap-lock box. Of course, the origami instructions aren't very helpful when they basically go from an elaborately folded flat piece of paper to "collapse into a box."

Here's my elaborately folded flat piece of paper:


Guinness likes it.


After lengthy negotiations, we all decided to collapse it into a ball instead of a box.


I think I'm done with this origami book.

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Day 377: Peanut Butter Jelly Time

It's been a while since I did a drinksperiment. I was hungry for a bit of peanut butter and jelly, so I decided to do it up grown-up style.


Homemade peanut vodka (yes, I just keep my vodkas in canning jars now - don't judge) and grape juice.

Similar to the shot of peanut vodka and grape vodka, but more for sipping.

It's fun to sip a sandwich.

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