artkoala

New favorite thing discovered on AO3 - the button that says View Entire Work, because then I can click Read later for Instapaper and poof, there's a whole story on my iPad in two clicks. Anyone know if there's a way to make ff.net do the same?

Edit: it looks like this doesn't actually work - it gets only the last chapter instead - and wow, that's confusing. So does anyone know a solution for both AO3 and ff.net?

 Holy crap, I may be buying a house. I mean, I'm at the very first step - I've told my realtor I want to put in an offer (well, bid, actually...) on this one house. It's not my dream house. YET. The strengths of this house: it's where I want it to be. It has the front porch I've been wanting. It has the space I need in it. And its price is such that I will have a pretty good amount of freedom to DO STUFF to it. Stuff like knock out a window and turn it into French doors to the deck I'm going to build in the back yard. Stuff like totally redesigning the kitchen. Stuff like re-roofing it (which it'll need soon, I hear). And then I will have MY house, a house I've made into what I want it to be. And that is pretty awesome.

The whole process of buying it is going to be odd - it's a foreclosure, so I'm dealing with a bank, and a bidding process, and ridiculousness in general, but my realtor is awesome and knows what he's doing, so we will persevere. So maybe, just maybe, I'll have a house. A whole house. In which I will have a whole room as studio space. Seriously, this is such a huge draw for me. No more tiny corner of the living room for the art desk. An actual room in which I can build books or paint things or make stuff without it interfering with my main living space. I am so very excited about that.

So tonight was juggling club night - only three regulars there, me, Ronnie, and Mike. But since we're all club passers, that's plenty to have some fun. Also had a mom and her kids for the first time - the third grader was getting six catches by the end, but his younger brother isn't quite coordinated enough yet to do much. He was fascinated by the club passing, though, so I think they both had a good time.

Clubs! Worked on doubles with Ronnie, then did some waltzing - my left hand passes still have a hitch in them, which I need to work on a bit since Ronnie and Jeff are both lefties, so it simplifies life a lot for them if more of us can work ambidextrously. Then Ronnie and I did a chunk of fast/slow, but since both of us learned with Jeff, we couldn't remember at first who threw to where. Turns out the slow person (who's waltzing) does parallel throws, while the fast person (doing 4-count) alternates, so does a cross-pattern, then a parallel, then a cross, etc. But they're always throwing from the same hand.

Then all 3 of us did some feed patterns with Ronnie as point, but it disintegrated fast, so we switched to Mike and me passing, Ronnie stealing. There's a cool one I want to learn where he catches the pass that's coming in, then walks the club diagonally across the pattern and delivers it to the other side on time. Requires a pause from whoever he stole it from, but looks really neat in practice. Mike and I did some playing with behind-the-backs during passing, since you can really do whatever you want for the 3 self counts, as long as your pass goes out at the right time.

And finally, Ronnie taught/(retaught) Mike and me wally walks - or, rather, half wallys because full ones are suicidal ways to learn. It's like a ninja move - you're passing one club with somebody who's got three - then you walk a pass over to them, catch the pass (from their right hand), place the club in an underhand move (to their left hand), swap the caught club to the other hand, steal their self throw (from their right hand), and place the club in their left hand, and then back out and continue passing. I finally got the place/swap/steal/place sequence, but my "place" is a bit more like a "fling," so I gotta work on this a bit more. We stayed late this time, which was unusual - I think I've left early for the past few because my hands got sore, but this time I was having so much fun I ignored the soreness. It was a good evening.