OK. Here's another YouTube video. HOWEVER, in this one, I actually know the guy who's playing the sheriff! (I have no idea who the guy being arrested is!)
His name is Craig, and he used to go to my church before he moved to Arizona. Looks like he's enjoying himself, doesn't it?
Friday, February 29, 2008
Happy Leap Day!
Well... here we are. Another Leap Day.
Yesterday, I was watching the CBS morning news, and they had a couple on air who were full-term with their first baby. The wife was born on Leap Day, and she was going in on Leap Day to have the baby induced.
Interesting. I always thought it would be cool to be born on Leap Day. Now I'm not so sure. When I was a kid, I already complained about sharing my birthday with my sister... I can't imagine how much I would have complained about sharing it every four years! (ha!)
I read that the Greeks consider getting married in a Leap Year to be bad luck. Go figure. (http://news.wedding.auz.com/rumors/greek-leap-year/) I wonder if that's true? Anyone know? Anyone care?
Did you know (random Leap Year factoid) that Leap Years are not held exactly every four years? A year is NOT really 365.25 days long. It's actually about 11 minutes and 14 seconds short of being "exactly" 365.25 days long. So... to make up for it, they skip it three times every 400 years. I just KNOW you're dying to know HOW they do this. Well, a century year can only be a Leap Year IF it's evenly divisible by 400. So... 1700, 1800, and 1900 were not Leap Years, but 1600, 2000, and 2400 are (or was/will be) Leap Years.
The easy way to remember it is:
if a "regular" year is evenly divisible by 4 (evenly), it's a Leap Year.
if a "century" year is evenly divisible by 400, it is a Leap Year.
So... at this rate, the calendar year and the solar year are only "off" by 30 seconds. At this rate, it will take about 3,300 years until the calendar year and the solar year are "off" by a day.
Fascinating stuff, right?
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Snow on a Statue
The school put up a temporary statue that I can see from my office. In the most recent snow storm, he collected an interesting amount of snow. It looks kind of like a snow afro.
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Mor Mor's Needlework
My maternal grandmother made an absolutely gorgeous needlework wall hanging back in 1938. It is amazing. (Mor Mor in Swedish means "mother's mother"... "grandmother") After she passed away, my mother hung the piece in our family home.
After my mother passed away, the piece got put away... it was very hard to look at. At the time, it felt more bitter than sweet.
Very unfortunately, while it was in storage, there was damage made. Some of the damage may have been from insects (although that doesn't make much sense to me. It was indoors, and nothing else had insect damage), and some of the damage may have been due to improper framing. (The person who framed it placed the glass directly on the fabric, and didn't use all archival-quality materials.)
So, in the end, there was damage done to the far right side of the piece.
I *WISH* I had taken a before photo. I'm kicking myself that I neglected to do that! But... here are some "after" shots. There are close-ups of each side, so you can see the damage and how the restoration compares to the unaffected side, and a photo of the entire piece.
I'm sure once I get it reframed, you won't even notice the restorations! I'm THRILLED with the work that was done!
You can click on this image if you want to see a it enlarged.
After my mother passed away, the piece got put away... it was very hard to look at. At the time, it felt more bitter than sweet.
Very unfortunately, while it was in storage, there was damage made. Some of the damage may have been from insects (although that doesn't make much sense to me. It was indoors, and nothing else had insect damage), and some of the damage may have been due to improper framing. (The person who framed it placed the glass directly on the fabric, and didn't use all archival-quality materials.)
So, in the end, there was damage done to the far right side of the piece.
I *WISH* I had taken a before photo. I'm kicking myself that I neglected to do that! But... here are some "after" shots. There are close-ups of each side, so you can see the damage and how the restoration compares to the unaffected side, and a photo of the entire piece.
I'm sure once I get it reframed, you won't even notice the restorations! I'm THRILLED with the work that was done!
You can click on this image if you want to see a it enlarged.
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
My New Desktop Sorter!
Well, we were reorganizing our office at work to make room for a temp who will be here for about eight weeks. One of the things we "got rid of" was a gnarly old metal desktop sorter thingie. It was scratched, rusty, and, well, gnarly. I kind of loved it as is, but I saw some potential in it to be pretty, too.
So, here it is... in UC colors (blue and ORANGE). There's some pink on it, too, but it's mostly blue & orange.
My goal is to get people to use the orange section as an inbox... hence the big huge honking "IN" with arrows.
Products used:
Bazzill cardstock
Chatterbox paper
Tim Holtz/Distress ink - black soot
Heidi Swapp ghost frame
Basic Grey chipboard letters
Chipboard arrows... ????
Ranger spray ink (on chipboard)
Glossy Accents (on chipboard)
Matte Accents
Rhonna Farrer flourish stamps
Staples
Grosgrain Ribbon
Elmer's spray adhesive
I used Matte Accents and glue dots to adhere the chipboard letters. The spray ink kind of warped them, so I had to also clamp them down while the glue dots "dried".
So, here it is... in UC colors (blue and ORANGE). There's some pink on it, too, but it's mostly blue & orange.
My goal is to get people to use the orange section as an inbox... hence the big huge honking "IN" with arrows.
Products used:
Bazzill cardstock
Chatterbox paper
Tim Holtz/Distress ink - black soot
Heidi Swapp ghost frame
Basic Grey chipboard letters
Chipboard arrows... ????
Ranger spray ink (on chipboard)
Glossy Accents (on chipboard)
Matte Accents
Rhonna Farrer flourish stamps
Staples
Grosgrain Ribbon
Elmer's spray adhesive
I used Matte Accents and glue dots to adhere the chipboard letters. The spray ink kind of warped them, so I had to also clamp them down while the glue dots "dried".
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