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Ugh, I seem to have caught some bug. Crashed for most of the day, have regained consciousness enough to post a Blather.

I've sold out of my Letterpress cat cards in my Etsy shop, so have ordered more from Wales. I'm in the midst of working on some more designs for Blush Publishing, and am having fun with them.

For those who didn't have a chance to buy a copy at FilKONtario, Vixy's and Tony's CD, Thirteen, is now available on CDBaby! You can hear samples from all the tracks.



Today's Blatherpics are from Dave Clement's visit after FKO. It's always so wonderful to get time with Dave; we spent most of his visit hanging out, just the two of us, catching up on each other's lives. I'm so rarely able to spend one-on-one time with my out-of-town friends because of geography and everyone's schedules so every moment like this, especially with a friend like Dave, is so precious to me.

In case you missed it, here are 20 Things I Love About Dave Clement. There are so many more, of course, and the list just keeps getting longer over time.



Photo by Korak

During his visit, Dave showed Jeff and me his new PDA, and I found it highly enlightening to see how Dave reads Web pages. I'm going to be a lot more careful about always including ALT tags in my Blather posts from now on, for instance. Jeff helped Dave with some of the e-mail set-up.

I recently investigated the possibility of volunteering to do Braille music transcription for the Canadian National Institute for the Blind. Unfortunately the computerized training courses are only available for PC, not Mac. Also, taking the courses (which would be free) means a volunteer has to commit to 15 hours a week for at least 5 years -- that's more of a time commitment than I can make right now.

The CNIB is actively looking for music braille transcribers, however, so if you live in Toronto and are qualified (must have the ability to play the piano at the Grade VIII level (Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto) and have a knowledge of music theory at the Grade II level) and can make the commmitment, I urge you to find out more information.



On his last night here, Dave cooked a big pot o' his famous chili for Sue, Tom, Allison, Jodi, Marilisa, David, Jeff and me. His chili is the BEST. Walter dropped by after dinner, and we did some music later in the evening. 'Twas fun to see Allison and Marilisa do more loom bonding. :-)

And look, I even helped Marilisa with her loom knitted sweater:



Photo by Korak

It was Tom's and Sue's first dinner at someone else's house as a married couple!



Feeling a bit worse, so am going back to bed. Wish I had some of Dave's chili right now.



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