Utility Shed
Groundskeeper's Log
2024-12-02
- updated the events page with some upcoming events, and also added some events from this past year that happened but weren't on the list. [link]2024-06-06
- Posted a new one: "Pleasant Realms" [link]. Also I changed the font on the dropcap that starts each post. It wasn't big enough before, now it's bigger and fancier, more appropriate for a castle setting.2024-05-16
- Posted a new one: "New Guy Alert" [link]. Also opened the store for a little bit.2024-03-07
- Posted a new one: "Tiger Unlimited" [link]. Adding to my to do list: make a nice little path right from the castle to the ceramics factory. It isn't that far and it's a pleasant enough walk.2023-12-05
- Posted a new one: "Suit Viewing Opportunities: Upcoming Events December 2023" [link].2023-11-28
- Added some upcoming events to the "events" page, and added some recent(ish) events. I didn't have a ton of events in 2023, I need to up the events for next year! Oh, I also added a line on the page to let people know which events are in the future and which are in the past. Yes, I know you can figure it out without this little flair, but you know what, I can eat a sandwich without mustard. But is that preferrable? Well I guess it depends. [events]2023-11-25
- I made some new stuffed animals and added them to the store front. The store will be open all December :) [store]2023-09-13
- fixed the flyer collection in the library-- it was giving a 403 error when you tried to click on a flyer to see the large version. now it's OK.2023-04-18
- Posted a new one: "Letters To The Editor" [link]. Enough about "fan mail of the crypt keeper", let's see some fan art of the groundskeeper!2023-03-28
- Ay yi yi these mice are driving us nuts! I think they have their own little TV in there? and most troubling, I think they've been stealing the mail??? possibly for years????????????? Come ON you guys! [link]2023-03-21
- Posted a new one: "Bread Recipe" [link]2023-03-14
- Posted a new one: "Wigs and Other Enchantments: A Movie Round-Up" [link]2023-03-08
- put a new bell mallet in the temple, or rather, I put one there, whereas before there was none. Something I really like about having the mallet there is that it points out how the ringing of the bell doesn't happen at the onclick event, if happens when the click is released. Or to put it another way, the action of ringing the bell begins before the bell is rung. Peace and blessings.2023-03-07
- Posted a new one: "Mouse In The Hardware Store" [link]2023-02-28
- Posted a new one: "Models Inc." [link].2023-02-21
- Posted a new one: "Sayable Space / Mike's Crush" [link].2023-02-14
- Posted a new one: "Cinnamon Toast" [link]2023-02-07
- Posted a new one: "Wolfman For Sale" [link]2023-02-04
- eagle-eyed reader Greg Harvester noticed that in the collection of Mothers Newses in the library, I omitted issues #20 and #24. I didn't mean to, I just fucked up. Or did I mean to and now I forget why? Either way the story includes me fucking up. But I'm not going to beat myself up about it-- I'm going to be fucking up a little bit until the end of time. I really appreciate the bug report! No Prize going out special delivery to Greg H. :)2023-02-03
- added some recent interviews to the interview section of the Library. [link]2023-01-17
- Geez, it's been a bit... How've you been, doin good? Posted a new one: "Looking for Shapes" [link]2022-12-13
- Posted a new one: "Truffle Pig" [link] and added some of these so-called Truffle Pigs to the storefront: [link].2022-12-01
- added some events (some upcoming, some of the recent past) to the Events page [link]2022-09-13
- Posted a new one: "Animal Year In L.A." [link].2022-08-23
- Dropped a new product in the storefront, it's a carved wooden ashtray in the shape of a foot. [link]. And there's a little bit of writing about it as well, but really just a little bit. [link]2022-08-02
- Posted a new one: "Movies, Second Quarter 2022" [link]. I also updated the "events" page for the first time in a year and a half :) [link]2022-06-23
- Added the zine collection and most of (?) the small flyers collection to the library. There are a few zines I still have to scan the covers of-- very recent arrivals, all the Paper Rodeos, and all the Mothers News back issues. The library is kind of cluttered at the moment, I'm thinking I might make a new room for "Collections". But for now they're in the library [link]. Of course I have a million thoughts about all this stuff but for now, just "here it is".2022-05-24
- Posted a new one: "Late Spring Eternal" [link]2022-04-30
- Updated the dictionary in the library with all the words I looked up since 2020/07/01. I don't have a schedule for updating this, it's just one of those now and then things. [link]2022-04-26
- Posted a new one: "Nancy and Me" [link]. I'm happy to get these all in one place finally!2022-04-12
- Posted a new one: "Poster Sale" [link] and added some posters to the storefront.2022-04-05
- Posted a new one: "Movies, First Quarter 2022" [link]2022-03-29
- Posted a new one: "Comic Book Drop For Dane Martin" [link]2022-02-08
- Posted a new one: "Return Of The Sphinx" [link]2022-02-07
- Jeez I guess it looks like a slow couple months on here but we've been pretty busy in other areas of the castle-- general upkeep for winter plus working on a few new rooms. I'm happy to say that this week we're finally able to open up the long-discussed storefront. There was a lot of debate about whether to put it inside the castle proper or simply on the grounds, and we decided to set it up outside. It seems friendlier that way. Besides I had a big piece of tin roofing laying around and the choice was either to build a little shed with it or leave it laying around for someone (me) to cut themselves on (again).2022-01-04
- Posted a new one: "2021 Movie Round-Up" [link]2021-12-28
- Posted a new one: "Enjoyments of 2021" [link]2021-11-30
- Posted a new one: "A Hot Mug Of Something Or Other" [link]2021-09-20
- Posted a new one: "Evening Cake" [link]2021-09-17
- I just noticed that the original Japanese sumo clapper video, referenced in the post "Wavelength / Walk" [link], is no longer on YouTube. I don't know what happened. As a stopgap measure I made a new, duplicate video from the original source, uploaded it to my own account, and repointed the links. If that gets taken down for some reason I guess I'll just host it here, the whole video's only 48mb2021-09-14
- Posted a new one: "Walking Without Leash" [link]2021-09-12
- I put every back issue of Mothers News in the library, where they can be read and enjoyed, or at the very least, read. They're in a red milkcrate. I should make a nicer box for them but for the time being this is what we got.2021-09-07
- Posted a new one: "Q: Did you ever have a time in your life when you made a certain sound so much that people asked you to stop?" [link]. It's another questionnaire responses post. I've been spacing these out as a treat to myself.2021-08-31
- Posted a new one: "Moving Slowly Through Heat" [link]. There wasn't a post last week, I hope no one got rattled.2021-08-17
- Posted a new one: "Battle Cat (Book Sale)" but it's pretty much just a link to the book sale [link]2021-08-17
- I set up a little yard sale on the lawn outside the castle, mostly books. I put a blanket down so the books wouldn't get dirty. Please note that the blanket isn't for sale, it's almost an heirloom. I got it maybe 15 years ago when I saved this picture of Andean potato varieties to my desktop: [link]. I don't know how long the sale is going to go on for but hopefully not for more than a week- I don't want the grass to get yellow under the blanket.2021-08-10
- Posted a new one: "Olympic Skateboarding" [link]2021-08-03
- Posted a new one: "Flan's Guide To Car Camping", a guest post from Flannery. Thanks Flan!!!! [link]2021-07-27
- Posted a new one: "Poems In Battle Mode" [link]2021-07-20
- Posted a new one: "Q: Do You Have A Fake Name You Use Sometimes When It Really Doesn't Matter?" [link]2021-07-19
- I put some x-ray glasses in the grand ballroom so you can see behind the line layer of Tom Bubul's art work. Sadly these glasses only work on drawings, not on the rest of the castle. But if you want to see behind the scenes in other parts of the castle, I guess you can always just go to "view source" in your browser.2021-07-13
- Posted a new one: "World Snake Day" [link]2021-07-06
- Posted a new one: "Some Sights and Sounds of Summer" [link]2021-06-08
- Gonna take some time off from the castle, until the 6th. Feel free to hang out here as much as you want-- take a nap on the couch in the library, feed the fish in the pond, or if you're in the area and just need to use the bathroom that's cool too.2021-06-01
- Posted a new one: "Banana Bread Weather" [link]2021-05-30
- Tom Bubul made a musical mix to accompany his show in the grand ballroom, so I set up a little sound system in there. I didn't want to run a bunch of wires while the show is up so I just got an old iPod I had laying around and plugged it into a practice amp. It's a little brusque but it works.2021-05-11
- Posted a new one: "Visitors In The Garden" [link]2021-05-04
- Posted a new one: "Q: Do you ever eat (or feel compelled to eat) something that 'isn't food'?" [link]2021-05-01
- I thought it might be nice to have a morning meditation down by the pond, so I tasked some fireflies to bring a small bell in from offscreen and ring it every morning at 8:30am and again at 9. There were a few people there yesterday and then today it was just me and the fireflies-- both ways are fine. If anyone would like to join in you can, just be sure to log in before 8:30 or the bell won't load correctly. There's no instruction, just a bell at the beginning and a bell at the end.2021-04-27
- Posted a new one: "Asparagus Season" [link]2021-04-20
- Posted a new one: "Cookie Lawyer" [link]
2021-04-17
- There are now a few small blue orbs at various points around the castle and the castle grounds, if you click on them they'll give you a little info on your surroundings. It's unclear how these orbs are related to the large orb in the main entrance hall, other than both are orbs and both are blue. The large orb is midnight, singular, and mysterious; the smaller orbs are azure, multiple, and counter-mysterious.Orb placement is a little cavalier at the moment, due to the occasional intersetion of absolutely positioned and relatively positioned elements. I'm trying to test that now but anyway please let me know if an orb seems wildly misplaced.
Also, and this is a finesse point more than anything else, I fixed the grout in the second-floor bathroom. Before it had these weird green stains appearing at very regular intervals. Now the stains appear at irregular intervals.
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