Words to play by

F&S*(*(B!! robocalls

I've taken NINE robocalls in the last 3 hours while trying to get some work done. I normally don't get 9 calls in a month.

If I hadn't already intended to, this would definitely have spurred me into action. I urge you all to get out tomorrow and vote. For Ron Paul.

Actually I could probably live with him. The two front runners scare me. I mean, really, they *scare* me. Ron Paul is far from ideal as well but if I had to pick one of the clowns in the Republican parade, he at least seems not scary, though as a guy at work said, he's "10% alien screwball." But that's better than 100% ideological nutcase.

Blinkies all done

OK, got the switches in from an alternate supplier, and this evening I packaged up about 150 blinkies, so there are 190 kits in bags ready to roll in June. We'll be doing alternate colors but I may leave that until the convention. People liked the pink LEDs enough that we ordered more of them and will be charging a bit more (they're the most expensive LED I bought by a bit of a margin, so I didn't want to buy a LOT of them).

Also I want to do more patterns so I'm not burning the chips until within a few weeks of the convention, but they're all here and in the Duckon box.

VERY glad to have that all done.

New thing: Newspaper pot maker

Thing #18240, newspaper pot maker.
Printed one out last night, it works significantly better than the soup can I used last year, though I think there's room for improvement. A slight outward taper might make it a little easier to remove the newspaper cylinder.