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I am feeling much better this morning; the painkillers are making me thickheaded but I have significantly less actual pain than yesterday, and can get around mostly without a crutch. I can bend my foot enough to actually get it into the splint-boot without assistance, too.

People asked if I'd post photos of the broken leg, so here's one to start you off....

They gave me my X-Rays on CD. THE FUTURE IS NOW, and it is AMAZING!

Today will probably be spent catching up on email and flist reading and other things I've let slide, being with family as much as I have. I'm hoping to prod Mum into taking Emmy and me to Jerry's Art-o-Rama, which is an awesome art store in north Austin. I'm thinking of steampunking my boot, but I'm not sure how just yet, other than decorating the uprights and trim with copper tape. I'd put some gears on the ankle "joint" (it's not a joint at all) but gears aren't easy to find. I'd like to make the straps that hold the boot on look like leather, but not sure how other than trying to stitch some splits on, and not only do I not have any split sheets with me but I don't have the means for sewing leather.

This is what the boot looks like, side and front (those are not photos of my leg, btw. And the second boot has crisscross straps on the foot, which mine doesn't). Suggestions for cheap and easy steampunkery appreciated. I can't really get out of the house much, but I can get to a decent art shop here and once I'm home in Chicago there's a hardware store not too far away.

Oooh. I could make fimo gears...

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So! Publishing is always very exciting.

strange_selkie and her friend and illustrator J just finished a children's book that they're working on getting published soon. They are likely to go a similar route to mine with self-publishing, and asked if I'd run a quick poll.

The book is unique in that it's a children's book where the protagonist has two moms -- but just happens to have two moms. It's not the point of the story, it's just there; the story is actually about life in the city, and it's incredibly cute. You can click on this link and see what some of it looks like.

Unfortunately, the publishing house that they were in talks with can't acquire it right now, for a number of reasons, but they're willing to sell it on their site if Selk and J arrange for the printing. Since they'd have to be pre-purchasing books in bulk, they'd like to know what sort of interest there is.

[Poll #1398814]

If you have more detailed questions or comments, or you're interested in finding out how to pre-order, please email darthrami at gmail.com -- she's Selk's wife, and is acting as publicity goddess for the book. :)

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My family watches NCIS! It's a miracle!

Which means it's time for ( Sam's Three Things About NCIS )

3b. I love NCIS's fight choreographers. Who else would incorporate a FRIDGE DOOR into a fistfight? Everyone in the room went "OOOOOOH" when that happened, it was awesome.

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I should be sleeping just now, but this afternoon I slept quite a bit without intending to so I suspect I'm all right to be up. I slept through a program called "The Doctors" where doctors chosen for their good looks and charisma answer questions about medicine from people who apparently don't have access to wikipedia. Suspect I did not miss much.

I did get to clean out my mailbox today -- down to EIGHT EMAILS, and most of those I didn't answer only because I am too stupid right now to be coherent (if you emailed me in the last two days and didn't get a reply, it is because you are currently too intelligent for me to speak to coherently). The Lortab I guess builds up in your system, because it didn't really affect me much yesterday but today the whole world was pretty fuzzy all day long. I ate when there was food, took loads of pills (Naproxen in the morning, Lortab every four hours, three giant calcium pills with lunch) and watched TV, or maybe I slept more than I thought? It's all something of a blur.

Possibly this bodes ill for the people I emailed.

At any rate, it was a nice relaxing day and I'm very glad I didn't fly home this morning as I was supposed to. Instead I'm flying home Thursday morning, catching a shuttle to my flat, and then moving myself and the bare necessities into R's flat for a while. Friday morning I get to attempt to go to work.

I am scouting copper tape, brass buttons, thin chain, and pleather/vinyl for steampunking the boot. Because I haven't got a lot of tools and the boot has to endure a fair amount of rough treatment, I can't get too ornate; I'm not sure how I'm going to attach the leather to the straps yet, but I can't just replace the straps with buckle leather (no leatherworking tools for trimming down belts, and the straps have to velcro onto the boot). I'm going to be attaching buttons where the straps aren't, to make it look like the boot buttons up, putting brass tape on the uprights and possibly the trim, and attaching wings with gears to either side of the heel.

If I can ever actually get my hands on any of this, mind you, without ridiculous budget expenditure.

Super behind on reading my flist. If you are undergoing major trauma or just won the lottery or something, you might want to inform me. :D