blissmorgan

Gen Ed
Massachusetts Excise Tax
What is excise tax
Original MSRP of 2009 Nissan cube Did you know that it is cube and not Cube? It's deliberately downcased.
Whitework embroidery
What is a 1098-E
Natasha Lyonne
Worm on a string
A Phenomenological Exploration of Objects in Time Travel Short Fiction
Rootabaga Pigeons by Carl Sandberg
The 14-hour search for the end of TGI Fridays' Endless Apps
Bizarre details from the college admissions scandal
Physicists are decoding the math-y secrets of knitting


Gaming
Minecraft Wiki entry about hoppers
Poppit - a balloon-popping game
Entanglement - a line matching/path creating game


How To
Creating roles on Discord
Fix a leaky sink strainer
Make a French Knot
Do various embroidery stitches
Dragon Tail crochet pattern
Althea shawl crochet pattern


Images
"Titty Sprinkles"  
"When the sun hits that ridge just right"
"Illinois nazis. I hate Illinois nazis."
"You are who you choose to be"


Noms
Harira


Oooh, Shopping! ::clappyhands::
My Redbubble shop
My Etsy shop


Vidyas
How to use a basket strainer wrench
Yum Yum Breakfast Burrito (Extra Cheese Mix) by Parry Gripp
George Winston December full album
Aspects of Zibaldone
The Residents - God in Three Persons full album

Searches
Definition of "confab"
Converting fahrenheit to celsius (It's cold out, y'all)
LMGTFY (Let Me Google That For You)
I'm good at mental math but sometimes I need to rest on the comfy seats of the struggle bus
Fatalities in the 1919 Great Molasses Flood in Boston, MA

Random info and learnings


How to make an Unordered (bulleted) list
HTML references for tagging and whatnots
Wikipedia: G.G. Allin (TW for bloody face in the top image)
Downloadable character sheets for D&D
A step by step guide to D&D character creation (because it doesn't matter that I've been playing D&D since I was 8 - I play infrequently enough that I need my hand held every damn time)
"To A Louse, On Seeing one on a Lady's Bonnet at Church" by Robert Burns (a poem full of lols)
How to download a butt-ton of books that just entered the public domain (I may have posted this previously but still have it open, and hattip to joseph_teller  for the link originally)
D&D Idea: the Perfectly Ordinary Dog (tumblr post)

Oooh, shopping! *clappyhands*
A 5-drawer pine dresser from IKEA, unpainted
Wyrding Studios - amazing wire-wrap jewelry
A collection of scotch-blended chocolates from LA Burdick for Robert Burns' birthday (and mine)

Music
The Residents - God In Three Rooms (full Album)
George Winston - Theme to Grace / Lament (part of a playlist from the music of Vince Guaraldi album)
Aspects of Zibaldone (not technically music, but is a/v - a playlist by joseph_teller of language/culture/philosophy/etc.)



Images
Both is good
Heath Ledger smiling and winking (so pretty. So talented. So sadly gone. :( )
Happy Dance (several)
John Mulaney doing a shoulder-wiggle thang

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....surprise! Actual post, if you got this far past the linkdump and didn't just zoom past! If I have lots of infolinks first and then the chatty posty introspection after, does that mean this is like the inverse of the standard recipe blog post structure?

It is Friday, and my day off, but today my day off is not precisely my own. I got 2/3 of the Spawn enschoolenated, of course; the bulk of my day now turns on the axis of the remaining child, Middlest. We are into the city later, to see her orthodontist and get pronouncement on how well her mouth appliance survived the holidays and whether her teeth are still in the right place, and if they are then they will likely remove the appliance and send us off with a scrip to have several teeth removed by her regular dentist so they have room to work with vis-a-vis dental spatial adjustment and straightening.

This is always a fun trip, because we get some fun girl time together (assuming she is not in full tweenager angst mode), ride the trains, grab delicious hotpot, and goof off. There will be the bonus surprise of which she is unaware, that her dad is getting some dental work done this morning and will be meeting us for hotpot lunch. I hope it is a good surprise.

Hm, I wonder if I can convince him to come with us to her appointment and then all drive home together, thereby saving monies on train tickets.

Anyhoo, trains and hotpot and all cost monies that I did not have immediately to hand, so I have to run myself through a shower, go to the bank to deposit a check and take out some monies, and then get the child up and dressed and ready to catch a mid-morning train so we get there in time for Teh Lonch.

Eventually I will be home again....at which point I will be taking Youngest Spawn over to the Home Despot to pick out a little pot of green paint with which to paint the drawerfronts of his new bureau. I also need to dig through my purse and see if I still have the receipt from the purchase, because I bought it on Saturday and less than a week later it went on WICKED IKEA Family sale. I could really use those $50, and it's worth it to go hit up their Customer Service folks for it.

If I wanna stay on track, I better get moving. There will also be grocery shopping tonight to prep against the Weekend Weather. 8-12 inches predicted in my area, y'all. Not really looking forward to it.

Hello, Blisstopia. <3

Opinions/Articles/Listicles:
The International Center for the Study of Ancient Textiles has made a butt-ton of their old publications available for free review! (Note: They are not in English)

Crochet, Knittery, and other Fiberness:
How to knit the large eyelet rib stitch
I'm working on the Aleatha shawl in crochet cotton

Noms:
I made a rosemary-roasted turkey for Thanksgiving. It would have been better if I had cooked it the correct amount of time...
...which I failed at even though I had this cooking time guide available to me.
This herb-butter turkey recipe actually also contributed to how I made my turkey.
A Chambord Spritzer - because I wanted to drink fancy for the holiday
Baked foil-wrapped potatoes were arguably the best part of that dinner

Asking Questions and Learning:
How To Play Munchkin - because I haven't played it often enough to remember, really, and sooooomebody once told me the world was gonna roll me lost the instructions.
The definition of Quixotic
Some lizards 
How to add a user on a Chromebook because Middlest lost her computer charger and so I was letting her borrow my machine so as to be sure she was able to get her schoolwork done
What is an isotope?


Writing:

Music:
John Mulaney isn't music exactly, but it's a video I have had open in a tab for ages and still haven't watched.

*clappyhands* Oooh, shopping!:
The dragonfly-patterned blankets I was making used this yarn, in a colorway also called Dragonfly.
I have not read The Giver in a long time, but think I would like to do so again before I see the movie.

Free-floating Miscellany:
Amir Arison plays one of my absolute favorite characters on The Blacklist.

There we are. Back down to 14 tabs. MUCH better.

Hello, Blisstopia.<3