I'm up to the "J's" now! Hooray!

Just letting you know, I got my old e-mail address working again. (Or rather, it decided to start working of its own accord. ) I'll continue to keep the g-mail address on standby whenever problems like this happen in the future (and they will.)

Since my e-mail is finally working again, I can finally tackle my e-mail all in one go. Wish me luck.

Here's a project I've been working on little by little over the last month:

Athena the Angel. (Sorry for the huge size, but I'm too tired to look up how to do an lj cut. Well...lazy ,too....)

I can't send ANY e-mail using my cloudnet address. (I can receive it just fine, though.) I've set up a G-mail account that I'll use for the time being. Here is my new address:

tdietzinger@gmail.com

(I set up a G-mail account when my e-mail went wonky before, but I couldn't remember the address, so I just made a new one. Please use it to get in touch with me.)

I'm going through my e-mail backlog now, but it's going to be a cumbersome process cutting and pasting all those addresses. Bear with me. And sorry for any delays/inconvenience/etc.)

And thanks again to the people in the entry below who helped/offered to help me with my forum issues. I appreciate it!

And now, my rant for the day:

I'm very, VERY mad at http://www.verycoolthings.com I ordered this book from them over two months ago and I haven't received it. I e-mailed them a couple of weeks ago and they sent me a "we're sorry, Martians stole it and wiped their asses with it, it should be here by next Friday" excuse, but I haven't heard anything from them since then. Has anyone reading this ever had to deal with www.verycoolthings.com ? (And if you have, do you know if I have a chance of ever getting my book or my money back?)

HELLLP!!!!

Really. I mean it. I need help here. I've been trying to post a message onto Junkyspot's doll forum and it WON'T LET ME. It just gets hung up for no apparent reason and times out whenever I press the "post" button. I REALLY REALLY REALLY need to be able to post there before midnight tonight. (I know people can post from OTHER computers. But it won't let ME post for some reason. And yes, I've tried changing my IP address, my browsers, I've even tried signing up under a different username and address. No dice.) Can anyone help me, PLEASE? (I'll give you instructions on what I want you to do once you contact me.)


PLEAAAAAASEEEE!!!!

Here's the deal: I can't transfer ANY data or messages from my computer to any other computer. I can't post on forums, I can't transfer pictures to my webserver, and I can't answer e-mail. (The only thing I CAN do is post on livejournal, which is about as useful as standing in the middle of a field in a lightning storm shaking my fist at the heavens.)

I blame Charter (mis)Communications for this. Their geekmonkeys have obviously gotten drunk and puked all over their webservers. Must be nice to be a fucking monopoly and not have to provide anything that would even remotely qualify as service.

I have most of the pics for my next tutorial done and will post them as soon as the gods lose interest in me and decide to torture some OTHER human. In the meantime, if you've sent me an e-mail, please be patient. I will try to get back to you as soon as I'm able to...

Sigh. It seems my internet connection has been largely restored *crosses fingers*. The magical Utility Demons have been futzing with our electrical and phone cables lately so I'm guessing all the connection chaos has been their doing. Hopefully they're done so they can bugger off and disrupt someone ELSE'S communications...

I'm trying to catch up on e-mail, but my wonderful comfy computer chair that's taken me three years to break in has disintegrated, leaving me at the mercy of my only OTHER chair-- a high-backed, intricately-lathed, pioneer-era chair that obviously wasn't built for comfort. (I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't used as a way of punishing frontier children who got out of line.) I can't sit in it for long periods of time so I'm going to have to limit my computer time until I can find and buy a computer chair that wasn't made on the planet Bizarro.

Today's Random Youtube Link: What if colleges were completely honest with their recruitment tactics?

My internet is blinking in and out. I know it's the fault of the cable since my phone and TV are doing the same thing. I hope I can get this fixed in the near future (seeing as how I live right next door to the damn cable company. Although that's no guarantee that they won't screw me over.)

I'll try to answer my e-mail in a timely fashion. You may have to wait a little for a quote if you have an inquiry about a new project, although I'm hoping it won't take me more than a week to get back to you.

(Better press the "post" button before my computer connection gets zapped into another dimension again...)

I have to go out of town this weekend to buy fabric and supplies that I can only get down in the Cities. (Also, see my family and score some free food off of them.) I'll answer everybody's e-mail as soon as I can...

(Also, Vina Fu--I got your figure and payment, but I can't seem to find your e-mail address anywhere. I know I had it on file at some point but you must have changed your username, rendering my pathetic inbox search thingy useless. Please drop me a line and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. Thanks!)

I've had another one of those projects that takes a Herculean amount of effort and bogs down space and time with its..elaborate.....doohickeyness.....


I do want to make another tutorial soon, as soon as this...monster has been squared away.

In the meantime, here's the funniest thing ever.

And I mean EVER....

She too, shops at Hot Topic:



She gets along well with Rufus, although all he wants to talk about are video games and Youtube videos that are about video games.



She thinks he should get a job.



Rufus counters that she doesn't have a job either, but Athena insists that being a part-time college student IS a job. Rufus isn't buying it....


(By the way, I made everything that Athena is wearing, except for the boots, which came from www.mimiwoo.com. I made the wig too. The pantyhose were the hardest thing to make since my fingertips were all torn up from a recent embroidery project and the fabric snagged everytime I touched it.)

Well, since spring and summer have officially been canceled for Minnesota this year, it looks as though I'll have to make coats for these two before I can take them outside. Bugger.