(2307) Interesting evening … dropped off around 2030 as usual now but awoke again around 2130 and there was shouting outside the building, plus noisy next door, plus Isilme had sent Pre-Sun 2. (0034)

 

2. Isilme and the birthday cards

Sunday brings to a close my “birthday fortnight”, in which a few folk past and present had bdays, inc. mine. Toodles and Julia sent cards, various chaps sent wishes tomorrow Sunday and earlier. Call it an affectation but the idea came from one of the ladies in another group who had a “birth month”, not wishing to have the full-on obligation of all that goes with bdays … and I quite agree.

I thought if I could make it a short season instead, no one feels obliged, nor I … no presents involved … it finishes Sunday 23rd in my case. Julia did similarly, celebrating last weekend, though I know it was actually earlier … in fact, I’m thinking the ladies are allowed a month, we chaps are allowed a fortnight.

Well, in this other group, others took up the idea … one just completed the fortnight, another started one today, ha ha. Like it. And as mentioned, mine finishes Sunday, 34 minutes from now. Which is also the Russian Day of Men or in Russian terms … defenders of the fatherland day.

And so to Isilme

Both of them have been down in health of late, as have some of you I understand too. I’m asking that those of the praying kind put in some prayer work on behalf of our chaps and chapesses … thank you.

Isilme then writes:

Anyway, I thought I’d get the card pictures to you!

The cards with the red / orange backgrounds are done on the gelli plate. I  started with a red layer (or was it pink? Too long ago to remember). While the paint was wet, I stamped various shapes into it, including corrugated cardboard. But you can only see those lines right at the top of one of the cards.

Then when that layer was dry, I rolled on a yellow layer and printed it out. Then I got out my trusty rubber stamps (because my calligraphy is dire) and layered everything up to make the two cards.

The blue cards were different.

I put blobs of blue watercolour paint on a sheet of overhead projector film. Then I dipped a rubber stamp of roses into the watercolour and printed it. I realised I was supposed to spray a bit of water on the paper first and forgot, so I only did it on one of them.

But it came out quite effective either way! I blobbed a bit of pink to dip the picture into but I’d hoped it would be a little more subtle than it is. However, I’m pleased.

Now … my birthday card Isilme did followed certain things from Toodles and Julia … I’ll post it once I’ve dug it out tomorrow morning, it being currently 2347.

1. For every action, there’s an equal and opposite reaction

In the case of HQ, as distinct from NOWP, UHC, Jstack and OoL, the last four are at the whim of someone else but the upside is that they continue on, should I stop.

HQ on the other hand, within agreed limits, is far more in my hands, plus the support techie’s. The downside is that should I stop … so does HQ … disappears in an instant. Likelihood? Previously near zero … now line ball this coming summer.

Whether HQ comes back depends on a conjunction of circumstances which, interestingly for me, is along the lines near the end of my long book, in which I “invent” the idea (actually been around since the dawn of time) that things only happen in real or metaphysical time, should a conjunction of circumstances occur at that same single time singularity, in that location.

Were even one circumstance not be present, then the happening does not happen. In the same or opposite way, there is the “cascade effect” or “domino effect”, in which one failure causes a series of failures to occur … often suddenly.

Implications for HQ readers?

I’d strongly advise you, not me, to save anything you consider of value at this site from now till late summer … no comeback later please … any urls, pictures, whatever else you value and wish kept … we had a similar situation with blgr but zero warning then … it seems to be a summer thang.

In fact, to go further, with the new, dystopic Llamaland here, plus the joke situation across the ditch where Steve notes Er Sula and NATO/UN/CIA continue to wreck things (see NOWP 976) … the micro-situation in Unherdables land precedes a similar macro-situation across everywhere but the USA.

In short … we’s in trouble, ladies and gentlemen. Those who pray … please do.