Started the day by watching the Doctor Who Easter special. Yay! Full of win!

Then collected my quilt-in-progress, the printer fabric and my thumb drive with photos and decamped to the ancestral home where there was a color printer.  Printed my photos.  Hung out with the folks for a bit.
Went to my aunt's house for family holiday hanging out, which was mainly lots and lots of conversation in the kitchen, a great meal and much grazing after, and fun gaming experiences.  Someone had a game about Urban Legends with Truth or Myth cards, and we played that a bit, then several rounds of Outburst.

It was a nice time.
Now I am home and have more maintenance issues for the mgmt to address come the AM, but mostly things are fine. Still largely chaos, but there have been a few more boxes unpacked and some things re-arranged.
Also retrieved yet more stuff from the ancestral home, yay.

Have yet to finish a piece of digital art here, but I have a deadline looming so I should get something together.

Unpacking books seems like a foolish endeavor when I have no shelves upon which to place them.  Hmmm.

I could run over to the Central Market and Bed, Bath and Beyond to get some of the things I still need.  (A spatula would really come in handy.)
I'm out of rice cakes! This is a tragedy.

I made tea today in my kitchen for the first time, using the kettle Mom bought me and the teabags she sent from home.  I should probably acquire my own tea at some point. And a teapot.

Tummy troubles continue, with possible hypoglycemic symptoms, but they are usually mild and quite possibly psychosomatic. My anxiety can level me faster than anything else, it seems.  Need to work on that meditation thing.

I've been reading actual books and paper media, though. Mostly nonfiction - some "making a magical home" stuff, some "environmentally sustainable cleaning" ones, and ODE magazine. Also the interviews in Weird Tales.

Now I'm hip deep in the con Access database, running some reports for the Chair, and pondering the reality that ConCom members don't really *attend* their con as such. 

Also, I'm on programming for a Con next weekend.  The panel is about Social Media. I will have very likely just finished a report and formal action plan on the topic for work. My life is funny that way.

I want to get to a point today where I can get the sewing machine table set up and finish the sandwich construction phase on the current quilt.  If I do that much, there's every chance that I could manage the quilting before I go to New York. But I still don't have a printer set up and it's blotchy when it runs. Can't print photos with it until I figure out what's up with that.

Also, for those keeping track, I'm up to Episode 1.09 of Avatar: The Last Airbender and I <3 Sokka SO MUCH! :D

Well, shortly after my previous post the lights and outlet power in the apartment just tanked completely. The AC is on its own circuit so it was fine, but I sat around with the laptop until the battery died and then with a book and a flashlight until I went to bed.
Maintenance is supposed to be doing another parts replacement this morning, and we'll see if that changes anything.

I may end up schlepping the sewing machine back to the ancestral home, because I have so many busy weekends coming up (including a Con next weekend) that I am starting to think it will be impossible to finish the quilt before my NYC trip.

I think the Blog Every Day in April brigade probably had something more pithy in mind for entries, but I've got every day so far covered, I may as well go for the gold. Right? Here, have a funny family story.

So down by the grocery store my parents shop at is this gigantic cross looming over the freeway interchange.  Seriously, a gigantic cross. It lights up at night.  It is obnoxious.
And apparently it and some other megachurches and various schools do get some graffiti every so often. Apparently somebody spray-painted a Star of David on one of the big crosses as an act of protest.  I'm not sure what they were protesting, or what they wanted to accomplish, but nevertheless...
So as we were driving by the other day on our various errands, Mom wonders about the sort of graffiti an atheist might put on a big giant obnoxious light-up cross that suddenly sprouted across the freeway from the grocery store.
Naturally, I proposed that an atheist would post an equation.
That got us started on what sort of equation it should be.  Mom wanted to put a²+b²=c² but I objected that it didn't actually mean anything without an explanation of a, b, and c, so then we had a conversation about defined variables and constants and E=mc². And then Dad wanted something more interesting than E=mc² so I said, "Hey, I have a song with an equation in it!" and played Jonathan Coulton's Mandelbrot Set. Except they didn't realize that the equation was in the lyrics, so it was an exercise in hilarity. And that equation does have a heckuva lot of explanatory text.  Hard to spray-paint, you know, which was the (theoretical) point of the exercise. 
I think actually mom's idea would work perfectly well if she accompanied it with a labeled drawing of a triangle. 

(Disclaimer: This post not actually meant to encourage or condone graffiti on religious or other buildings. Can't we all just get along, and paint murals or something?)