{"id":7690,"date":"2016-10-03T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/?p=7690"},"modified":"2016-10-02T18:48:10","modified_gmt":"2016-10-02T22:48:10","slug":"the-glass-is-half-full-of-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/?p=7690","title":{"rendered":"The glass is half full…OF BLOOD"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"This

This is Ray. He adopted us.<\/p><\/div>\n

Not really. That’s just my way of saying it was a mostly good day.<\/p>\n

The good: went to Home Depot for more birthday shopping (yesterday was a big wardrobe spree) to get some lighting. Along the way I picked up a fogger. I know, I may regret it, but I thought I’d give it a shot again, after many years without. I also got a Projector Kit<\/a>\u00a0for a surprisingly reasonable price. I was glad it had a USB hookup as well as the included SD card, because I figured the stuff with the projector would be kitschy and awful. Well, no. The videos were done by AtmosFX<\/a>, and they do some lovely work. The “Beckoning Beauty,” which is a ghost bride, is so scary I wouldn’t play it for youngsters. So naturally, I’ve been using it as my testing video.<\/p>\n

Thing is, I had a hard time getting anything done today. This is why:<\/p>\n

\"My

My studio.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"More

More horrible mess.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Workshop

Workshop isn’t so bad<\/p><\/div>\n

I can’t even find my scissors, so I’ve been carrying the one pair we have up and down the stairs. \u00a0Oh, and there are more studio boxes in the garage.<\/p>\n

I want to back-project on to mesh, but I don’t have anything suitable. It was working really well on some thin plexiglass, but there were flaws, so I noticed there was still protective plastic on it, and that’s where the flaws were. So I removed it. You know what happened, don’t you? It’s the protective film that was picking up the projection. \u00a0So now the plastic is all clean…and useless. The screen mesh I have doesn’t work well, so I guess I’m heading to the fabric store tomorrow with a flashlight<\/a>, to see what will work.<\/p>\n

Having struck out there, I tried to find my hot wire knives to get started on a tombstone. Nopers.<\/p>\n

So yay on acquisitions, nay on getting any work done. Tomorrow the Spousal Unit leaves early in the morning for a short business trip, so I’m gonna bury myself in the studio and see if I can churn something out.<\/p>\n

PS: Another thing that happened during the hiatus: we lost our beloved KC, our kitty companion of 21 years. We didn’t plan on getting another cat. I’m allergic, and cats can be a pain in the ass. Well, on the last day we were in the hotel before we moved to our house, on literally the last trip in to get our stuff, I spotted a kitty on the grounds. He was a teen, starved, and came right to us. We took him to the vet to check for a chip, we registered on all the databases, we did everything we could to find his people, because he was obviously someone’s pet. But no people appeared. Except for us, I guess. Ray is an awesome cat, and as you can see from the picture, he’s filled out nicely. And yes, he’s totally a pain in the ass, but we love him.<\/p>\n

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Not really. That’s just my way of saying it was a mostly good day. The good: went to Home Depot for more birthday shopping (yesterday was a big wardrobe spree) to get some lighting. Along the way I picked up a fogger. I know, I may regret it, but I thought I’d give it a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-month-of-spookdays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7690"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7696,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7690\/revisions\/7696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}