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So, we are finally starting to sort ourselves out at the new house, and our month of utility deposits and poverty is nearly at an end (payday is just 2 days away!!!). In that time, we've had a lot more time for things like cooking and getting our movie server all set up (especially because we lost the remote for the DVD player and it can't be used until it set up again, which requires the remote). And now our beloved server Tuna can host websites in addition to all its other nifty tricks.

This has me inspired to spend a little time working on my photos and getting a new version of my own website going. Now that I have a decent kitchen, I can start making my Sabbat Celebrations section pretty - crafts and recipes are alway better when there are photos of what you should get at the end.

I think I will start with the Equinox. I was supposed to have a housewarming party then, anyway (though, who knows if that will actually happen).

Gotta run back to work now.  More later.

Yay!

-PT

From gUrl.com. I am starting to feel very under valued and unappreciated there. Right now I have two kids trying to 'out wise' me because I was excited for a girl who had finally reached the point in her path where she has to dive into the deep end or get out of the pool.

They were mad because I referred to what she had been doing these last 5 years as 'dabbling'. The truth hurts, but if she gets past that surface bump and continues on (which I am fairly sure she has - she dropped out of the conversation almost a week ago - I hate latecomers who feel the need to restir shit) , she will be glad to have had someone who didn't give her mystical bullshit answers like 'listen to your heart, you will know what to do next'.

I have had to struggle for the last several days to keep from saying, 'you know what? I am not being mean to Errapel by not feeling sorry for her. This is an exciting time that most of you will never get to.' Somehow, I think that will just make things worse.

So, instead of trying to talk sense to a bunch of kids who have decided that my knowledge is not worth listening to, I am going to leave them to themselves for a while.  Perhaps I will come back when the list of 'I need HEEEeeelllllllllllllllppppppppp!!!!1111!11' threads is back up to about a half dozen per section and there have been no responses for weeks.

Days like these are definitely the ones where I wonder why I bother to step outside of TWO at all.  If the kids want to be taught by people who don't know any more than they do, then let them bloody well find out the hard way!  Ugh!

--Phae

Is the Yahoo group we have been invited to use for the planning of Wickets.  Everyone who is interested can sign up Here.  I want to thank Sana and her honey for their generosity in offering us a place to plan so that I don't have to learn how to run a Yahoo group :)

--Phae

As many of you know, PW is sinking again, and I am not entirely certain that I am going to make the effort to save it.  Most have jumped ship, and those who remain are infrequent posters at best (except of course for the ever verbous LadyK). 

And I am sure that most of  you have seen me complain about PC, which has become and will continue to become nothing at all like I wanted it to be (already it has failed to provide a place where Mysteries can be discussed without someone or other comparing those trads to dangerous and useless cults).  Honestly, and without any sour grapes, I just don't think that there is enough in common between the creators/maintainers' vision and mine to make it a place where I could feel at home.

This makes me long for TT.  I miss it.  I miss everyone who was there, and I miss the Witch-focussed conversations that we had.  I was thinking a bit about the idea that was tossed around the first time I was bucking at the core concepts of PC - creating my own forum.  I have some time on my hands, and I could create a place that could strive to fill the hole TT left in me.

I was even thinking of names (names help to cement concepts for me), and what sort of tribute I could make to TT.  I came up with Wickets.  Simple word smooshing.  I looked it up, just to make sure that there weren't any meanings that I didn't want associated with the site (I knew about wickets in cricket and croquet), and I found this: A small door or gate, especially one built into or near a larger one.

I think that is about the perfect image for what I am going for here (we all remember what the front page image of TT was ... Wickets made me think of This).  I will have to do some research on what I will need in the way of software and hosting, but I think that Wickets has already had the first breath of life breathed into it.  I am excited to see what this brainchild will become.

--Phae

Got an invite today for the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn yahoo group. I wonder who it is that has gotten a hold of my email address and what they are doing to it. Poor tortured email address

--Phae