Crazy Brain

So, yesterday i spent "far too much time" reading about "Low-Water Immersion Dyeing" techniques. I knew there was something procrastinatory about it, but there was something else. Some sort of obsessive learning process that irritated me: I don't need another project. But when i awoke this morning, my brain had sorted out some things -- and even if i don't think i need a project, my brain seems to have taken this on as a Good Idea. I realized that i don't want to get into the color wheel mixing CMY that the kit supports. I understand the process but i also know how much experimentation is needed. I'm just imagining that i can satisfy some clothing desires (fair trade, colors i desire, potentially cost) and creativity desires. Dharma has clearly experimented with the basic dyes to develop their own colors. I can just get the colors i (and Christine?) want.

I can borrow the book on techniques from the library. (Done.)

I'm still an obsessive plan mode, i see, from the two hours i've spent looking at colors and pulling notes together. *headdesk*

Hoorahs for Saturday:
* staying relaxed, cool despite the heat wave. Moffett Field hit 92°F at the time our car and landing thermometers were reading 100°. I don't know if this is that Moffett is really somewhat cooler or if it's a shade thing.
* restarted my health cart
* linking up with my co-website editor and finding em to be very similar to me in that ey admitted to some depression, social anxiety. We chatted & did not skype, which was probably a relief to both of us. I certainly led and managed during the chat. *Exhale* There's not too much to do here, even if i get left with it. The site could use someone who can do some lightweight architecture modifications, but it can get by with simple care a feeding. And i can remember that my co-editor is younger (25ish), and i probably seem all middle aged and distant. I asked em if ey were out to eir meeting, and i realize i don't know how ey identify: what would out mean to em?
* Taking books to book traders and then to the library donation drop off. Done, despite the heat and the art fair. Used up the tiny bit of trade received on a Dorothy Sayers novel and Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott McCloud. I'd read the McCloud book before, but it's a good reference i should re-read.

Yams: Library, work: JIRAs and the Key request.

Off to the Meetinghouse for the Library Committee work time & then Meeting.

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Star Trek

Since spiritchaser1 mentioned the Star Trek (2009) lens flares (as have many others), i said something to Christine about the "Star Trek was great, but um -- perhaps too many lens flares?" consensus. She suggests that it can be a drinking game.

I realize we could use it for a *candy* game: a piece for every flare. I'd have a sugar hangover the next day, for sure. *sigh*

Christine later suggests that perhaps i should have popcorn every lens flare.

[Aww, supportive spouse!]

Meeting today: committee meeting, mildly productive with a touch of irritation. Meeting for Worship: visualizing how to stack stenciled-resist in dyeing. BRAIN, why do you want to dye things????? Home to a cool apartment, to a spouse busy getting her control points straightened out before orthorectifying a new aerial image.

She suggests that maybe we could write geospatial mysteries some day.