I ordered a tube of 6 mystery prints  from a Chicago artist about 3 weeks ago and they came in yesterday! Hah, 3 of my coworkers were so impressed that they ordered a tube, too. I was expecting relatively small screen prints but they’re all at least 18×24″ in size and verrrrry cool.

When I opened the tube I was quite surprised to see that the padding at the top and bottom of the tubes were crumpled rectangular test prints! Hah! How cool is that.

They’re signed and numbered too. I’m super impressed.

— art, artist, chicago, posters

Gasp! I’m going to be running in my 5th 10k this evening with Mike. Ahhh, I haven’t trained enough and I’m totally going to fail miserably. I EVEN FAILED WHILE PICKING UP MY RACEKIT THIS MORNING. Actually, I don’t know if it was me who failed or the race weekend organizers or whomever represents the Glebe. 

Race kit pickup was at Lansdowne Park this year for some reason or other. They said parking would be limited and there were free OC shuttle buses from city hall, but anyway — I decided to drive in somewhat early this morning (~10). Little did I know that the Glebe Garage sale was going on today. 

OMFG. I was like “k, screw paying at Lansdowne for parking” and decided to go down a side street. FAIL. FAIL. FAIL.  I was going 10km/h down a street, people were everywhere with goods and an old lady on an electric scooter did something stupid and went from the sidewalk onto the road, and there were kids with their parents and people in the streets and cars parked all down the side of the street. CHAOS. CHAOS. Then I ended up on Colonel By blah blah blah, long story short I paid the $5 to park at Lansdowne for $15 minutes.

On the bright side: for the first time ever I got a free MDS Nordion 10k shirt that actually fits me. In the 4 other years I’ve done this race I have never had a shirt that fits. So yay!

Enjoy this photo of Eric sleeping in his car in front of MHS yesterday. T’was the art show …

— 10k, art, mhs, photos, running

GUYS. Guess what. I have amazing news that no-one will care about! Okay, so I got this hosting plan with this company that does VPS hosting (it’s like having a dedicated computer to serve your web pages). Anywho, so I’ve been testing that out and setting that up for a while … when it came to installing a mail server today (cuz it’s nice to have email addresses like whatever@whatever.com). Before I could finish trying to set up one software server I came across GOOGLE APPS.

GOOGLE APPS, the amazing darling that it is — uses your domain name for many google services. So for example, if you go to … you’ll be brought to a familiar interface, yes? But that familiar interface will not let you login with your current google account. However, if you happen to possess one of the totally awesome [insertwords]@rainiscold.ca … then it welcomes you with four open arms. It’s completely separate from gmail. I can have google calendar, google docs, all that stuff, using my own domain. Sweet, no?

To get even more crazy techie … after setting up the mail exchange records to point to google’s servers something unusual and miraculous happened. I could use PHP (which I guess is somehow using the default sendmail app) to send emails automagically from the server (thereby accomplishing what I wanted to accomplish when I tried google apps). The point is that I am currently happy.

If you want to see bloog in a parallel universe … http://www.rainiscold.ca/bloog/

— art, ascii, orly

Okay. I’ve succumbed.

http://jordrawers.deviantart.com

No, it’s not an inside joke. It’s just random stupidity that came with the weekend. ‘Jor’ sort of sounds like ‘drawers’ and ‘drawers’ could be read as “draw-ers” as in – people who can draw. Ahahah!! (Or not.) XD

As of yet, there’s little there, but hopefully that will change soon?

It’s actually a joint account, for people who might have not heard me mention it. With me, and the other Jane, which most (if not all) of you met at my get-together in September. She’s a kicktastic artist and is insane like mad. I look forward to her postings. The purpose of a joint account was to combine our equal lazinesses and perhaps sum it up into something that’s not so lazy anymore. (Watch us fail, ahah?)
Don’t worry (BECAUSE I KNOW YOU ALL ARE!! *points randomly at YOU*), I shall sign my art with a Jane J. (J is for Jie, which is my Chinese name, for all those curious. BECAUSE I KNOW YOU ALL ARE!! *points randomly at THE PERSON NEXT TO YOU*) and other Jane will sign her name with … something else, I don’t know. Maybe Jane Y? Since we both have the same last name … eeeee~. Heh, but you should be able to tell who drew what and who wrote what just by sight. Trust me, you will. Other Jane’s grammar and spelling is something wondrous to behold. *sings*

(I hope deviantart is kind to me… *jingles her pockets*)

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Let’s have a moment to remember the deceased, shall we?

I’LL ALWAYS LOVE YOU SUPERMAN. T______________________T.

— art, deviantart