Status Reports & Other Ramblings
27 April 2021
April Roundup: still no tentacles
I got my second covid vaccination on Friday, and while I'm grateful that this one didn't take me out for a week like the first shot did, I am quite annoyed to report that I do not have any tentacles, nor a prehensile tail, nor 5G or bluetooth or any of the many other things I was told I would get. Apparently I have to settle for just not dying and helping to stop the spread of a pandemic or something. Hrmphf.
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1 February 2021
Monday Morning Roundup, snow day edition
It's been a minute since I did one of these, huh?
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22 December 2020
December, with delays
So I, uh... kinda lost the first half of December to a bad drug reaction that I didn't realize was a bad reaction until it finally dawned on me that two solid weeks of horrendously painful migraines and cognitive impairment was a bit unusual even for me and OH HEY it's also been two weeks since I started taking this new thing and maybe there's a connection?
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2 December 2020
Pretty Rocks Club 2021: it's gonna get weird
Signups are now open for Pretty Rocks Club 2021, aka Wyrding Gets Weirder, as you can see from the schedule:
January: really really old stuff
(ammonite and coprolite go look it up I'll wait)
1 November 2020
15th Anniversary Sale!
15 years ago I started a business with a brand-new set gof Lindstrom pliers, a relatively small quantity of beads, and a folding table in one corner of my living room - note the conspicuous lack of words like "business plan" or "any idea what I was doing" in that list. I've been figuring it out as I go along ever since, and I am so, SO grateful to everyone who's supported me along the way.
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28 October 2020
2020 Holiday shipping deadlines
This is the earliest I've ever posted shipping deadlines, and I know nobody wants to be thinking about Hanukkah/Christmas/etc yet, but given the unprecedented USPS delays I've been experiencing and my extremely unpredictable health, here we go:
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