Saturday, August 7, 2010

Thoughts on Medians, Sleep, and oh yeah...

So last night was Face to Face, and it was in Azle which is about half an hour away from my house. In general a half hour isn't a really big deal, and although I don't have air conditioning I did manage to stay cool with various things including Powerade. Also it helped that the weather was a bit rainy/stormy although it didn't actually rain on me. That made it a little cooler. The problem I had was driving home in the dark. I don't know the area, so even with ok headlights and the occasional use of my brights (when there's no cars coming at me), it was a bit difficult since I can't exactly see medians at night. I'm not even sure what happened exactly but I think I had trouble with two different ones. I don't understand why they don't have reflectors or at least neon paint on the edges. I hope I didn't hurt my car... not that you could tell if I did... but we're lucky I didn't have a nasty wreck, and not just by running over the median itself if you know what I mean.

So I guess it's from the stress of that drive home, but even though I was really tired and went to bed around 11:30 or 12, I didn't get to sleep until after 2:30 or so. And then because there was a big storm here at home last night we suddenly had to get up at 7 to clean up the pears that had fallen from the pear tree. So far I've had two cups of coffee... which is no substitute for sleep... but it kinda makes it tolerable...

But yeah, medians are invisible at night. Makes night driving not fun. I'm just really glad it wasn't raining on me.

anyway, I think this turned out well:



Now what I'm wondering is if the style can be considered Victorian. I think maybe it is.
hmm... I also wonder if it'll look better with the keys on the inside of the outer chain, attached at the top corners of the triangle. If I change that I'll have to retake all the photos, but still... that
might work.

4 comments:

  1. First, on driving in the dark. I can't anymore. My step-dad can't but he does - sooo dangerous. Not my favorite thing for anyone to do. Just pray!

    That is a stupendous necklace but I am wondering if you use Gothic in your tags? It looks like a combination of Victorian and Goth to me. I wish I had some money cause I love your jewelry.

    ♥♥♥
    Sue

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  2. I think it's a mix but I'd almost add "steampunk" to the tags. I think it works as steampunk.

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  3. well I haven't listed it yet but all those tags sound like a good idea to me. I didn't know til recently that steampunk was actually part of victorian. or came out of victorian.

    I believe most problems are not restricted to age even though people like to say "you're too young for that", but I should be too young to not be able to drive at night. unless it's just that I need new glasses, which is probably true anyway since I don't remember the last time I went to the eye doctor. either way I still think they should put reflectors on those things.

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