Saw an awful horror film -- the kind that's not even fun to watch. Quite an achievement, given that it was basically 'Willard' with Marcel Marceau miming his way through the title role.
I need to buy a new computer, this one has developed a habit of shutting off at random.
I hope I die soon so I will no longer need to worry about buying things.
I hope I die soon so I will no longer need to worry about buying things.
I've gotten back into the eBay game. Here are the items I have up at present:
The Death and Destruction Spell Book
The Conjure Cookbook Magical Formulary
Lucky Cat Bones (authentic)
Marie Laveau's Lucky Hand Mojo Bag
I'm also planning to make some Holy Oil by the ancient recipe (see book of Exodus), but that's going to take a few weeks to have ready.
The Death and Destruction Spell Book
The Conjure Cookbook Magical Formulary
Lucky Cat Bones (authentic)
Marie Laveau's Lucky Hand Mojo Bag
I'm also planning to make some Holy Oil by the ancient recipe (see book of Exodus), but that's going to take a few weeks to have ready.
Well, I gave up on trying to Law of Attraction a Bose CD player because God knows how long that was going to take, and I just couldn't stand another day of that stereo I had with 1 working speaker and its refusal to acknowledge when a disc was in. So I went shopping about and picked up a little Sony CD/iPod player. Now if I ever get an iPod my technology will not be obsolete! We bought the first one and got it all the way home, unpacked it, and found one of the speaker docks was broken. So we had to go all the way back and trade it for another. Luckily the second seems to be working fine. It's a lot smaller than my old stereo which is good, because my bedroom is too cluttered as it is -- I can actually use some of that desk space now. Maybe I'll put out the lava lamp again (it's been packed away for lack of space.)
Otherwise I'm trying to start up a sort of meme to promote the Fanny Hill book and possibly improve its ranking in search results. http://www.amazon.com/Fanny-Hill-illustrations-John-Cleland/dp/1448607272 is the page address -- I am trying to get people to post that link on their blogs or twitter or whatever public space they've got, with text that includes the words "Fanny Hill" (you can even link it saying "I hate Fanny Hill" if you want, as long as the words Fanny Hill appear on the link it's all good.) So, if you want to help me out, that's an easy little things you folks can do for me! Tell your friends to do it too, that's even better!
Otherwise I'm trying to start up a sort of meme to promote the Fanny Hill book and possibly improve its ranking in search results. http://www.amazon.com/Fanny-Hill-illustrations-John-Cleland/dp/1448607272 is the page address -- I am trying to get people to post that link on their blogs or twitter or whatever public space they've got, with text that includes the words "Fanny Hill" (you can even link it saying "I hate Fanny Hill" if you want, as long as the words Fanny Hill appear on the link it's all good.) So, if you want to help me out, that's an easy little things you folks can do for me! Tell your friends to do it too, that's even better!
My latest batch of books came in for approval from Createspace. "Voodoo Conjure" has a small error on the cover involving a light gray patch in the crystal ball, but not worth spending more money on to fix, so I approved it -- overall the book looks very nice.
I decided while I was working this batch I would finally do something about the cover for "The Cartomancer's Key" -- I always hated the cover but I just didn't have the money to improve it. But now I'm doing a little better than I was a year ago so I figured I could invest a little in fixing it up, even though my I Ching advised against it. I should have listened to the I! Now I have a cover that I hate for different reasons (including that the purple is now inexplicably pink). Weirdly it doesn't show that way on the computer, and since that thing is only available online maybe it won't matter. That's one of the few books that sell, so I can't really afford to have it off the market too long to spend money making corrections.
Meanwhile, the cover for "The Conjure Cookbook" was horrible -- it was all pixelated and had weird outlines around the lettering. So, I had to go in and fix it. Hopefully the new version will be okay.
So then, as long as I was at it, I figured I'd sink even more cash into that money pit known as "Fanny Hill" and redo that cover as well.
OLD COVER
NEW COVER
The vague hope, of course, is that Fanny will sell better with a better cover.
I decided while I was working this batch I would finally do something about the cover for "The Cartomancer's Key" -- I always hated the cover but I just didn't have the money to improve it. But now I'm doing a little better than I was a year ago so I figured I could invest a little in fixing it up, even though my I Ching advised against it. I should have listened to the I! Now I have a cover that I hate for different reasons (including that the purple is now inexplicably pink). Weirdly it doesn't show that way on the computer, and since that thing is only available online maybe it won't matter. That's one of the few books that sell, so I can't really afford to have it off the market too long to spend money making corrections.
Meanwhile, the cover for "The Conjure Cookbook" was horrible -- it was all pixelated and had weird outlines around the lettering. So, I had to go in and fix it. Hopefully the new version will be okay.
So then, as long as I was at it, I figured I'd sink even more cash into that money pit known as "Fanny Hill" and redo that cover as well.
OLD COVER NEW COVERThe vague hope, of course, is that Fanny will sell better with a better cover.
I have had a mystery cough for about 2 weeks now. No other symptoms of illness, and the cough usually gets worse in the evenings.
Also for no obvious reason my feet and legs have started hurting in the last couple days, as if I'd walked too much, yet I've barely done any walking at all.
I've got some kind of low-income-person free healthcare, I suppose I could see a doctor if I could remember who my assigned doctor was.
Otherwise, I am trying some experiments with that Law of Attraction/Visualization stuff. I personally have considered it to be crap, and this from someone who believes in the powers of hoodoo. It just seems to me like it's not so much "amazing attractive power" as it is that if you obsess over getting a certain thing you're more likely to see and arrange opportunities for getting it. But several of my successful fellow rootworkers seem to add it to their magic and suggest it to be helpful, so I'm giving it a try. Going to manifest a Bose Wave CD player in "graphite" color -- Ophiel in his book on Creative Visualization warns about setting sights too high too soon with visualizations, so that seemed something reasonable to pursue. (And I do need a new CD player: my old one only seems to recognize whether there's a disc in it or not 1 out of 3 times, have to keep taking the disc out and putting it back in till the stupid thing can figure it out; and the right speaker hasn't worked in ages.) I cleared out a space on my cabinet for the Bose player (part of acting like you already have it, recommended by the books) and that's done some kind of change to the balance of decoration in my room, makes me feel like I need to get rid of some of the books I own because these shelves just look way too overcrowded. In fact I need to get rid of so much stuff -- my mindset is kind of "I should try to sell things on eBay!" but that usually doesn't go too well and really I need to just give-away a lot of this stuff I don't use, make the charities happy.
Also for no obvious reason my feet and legs have started hurting in the last couple days, as if I'd walked too much, yet I've barely done any walking at all.
I've got some kind of low-income-person free healthcare, I suppose I could see a doctor if I could remember who my assigned doctor was.
Otherwise, I am trying some experiments with that Law of Attraction/Visualization stuff. I personally have considered it to be crap, and this from someone who believes in the powers of hoodoo. It just seems to me like it's not so much "amazing attractive power" as it is that if you obsess over getting a certain thing you're more likely to see and arrange opportunities for getting it. But several of my successful fellow rootworkers seem to add it to their magic and suggest it to be helpful, so I'm giving it a try. Going to manifest a Bose Wave CD player in "graphite" color -- Ophiel in his book on Creative Visualization warns about setting sights too high too soon with visualizations, so that seemed something reasonable to pursue. (And I do need a new CD player: my old one only seems to recognize whether there's a disc in it or not 1 out of 3 times, have to keep taking the disc out and putting it back in till the stupid thing can figure it out; and the right speaker hasn't worked in ages.) I cleared out a space on my cabinet for the Bose player (part of acting like you already have it, recommended by the books) and that's done some kind of change to the balance of decoration in my room, makes me feel like I need to get rid of some of the books I own because these shelves just look way too overcrowded. In fact I need to get rid of so much stuff -- my mindset is kind of "I should try to sell things on eBay!" but that usually doesn't go too well and really I need to just give-away a lot of this stuff I don't use, make the charities happy.
How did it happen that the theme from Brisco County Jr. became the secondary theme for the Olympics?
