★★★

And I do mean relative, but for a while, I was doing it one image at a time.

Now, how you organize your hard drive is your business, but I created folders and mimicked my board names.

First, download and install Basilisk browser. This operation is the only thing I use Basilisk for.

Second, go to Pin4Ever plugin page and install it. As stated, this is a plugin, and it runs only on Basilisk. Pin4Ever has a trial run before it becomes a paid service, but I decided to pay for a whole year.

If you decide to run it once to get all your pins, it will take FORever. It gives you one download folder and dumps them all in there. #protip Take the time to create your folders on your hard drive and download one board at a time from Pin4Ever because it won’t sort them for you once the pins are downloaded.

I have a “faves” board on Pinterest because they took away “likes.” Assholes. Anyway, I’m now meticulous about sorting and filing my pins because I want to maintain the correlation between Pinterest and my hard drive.

So every once in a while, I will back up my “faves” board, then sort them accordingly on both Pinterest and my hard drive. That way I keep up with the backup. This is also why I decided to pay $24.99 for a year.

Unlike a lot of people, I only have about 20,000 pins. With my Pinterest archive on my hard drive now, I put random pretty pictures into it instead of bothering with Pinterest. I don’t doubt Pinterest will someday come for my account, but I’ll be damned if I sit there and let them take away my carefully curated pictures.

It doesn’t back up links or web pages (e.g., recipes). It just backs up the pictures, including gifs.

I hope that is helpful. It’s saved me a lot of anxiety, so I thought I’d share.

Apparently it was a thing in the ’80s (never saw one then) and is now “vintage.” ’Scuse you, internet. The ’80s was just 4 years ago.

I was googling it to find out about it when I came across Galen Leather and its catalog of wonderful and esoteric things! You know how much I love good craftsmanship. And then, then … I saw this:

MUST. HAVE.

But it’s a frivolity and we are in a position to eschew frivolities at the moment.

Still … my birthday’s coming up and I wanted to give Dude a heads-up as to something he could get me relatively inexpensively (I thought) that I really wanted. What I didn’t know was that it was coming from Turkey (shipping ain’t cheap)!

Anyhoo, he didn’t wait for my birthday (silly man ) and so this happened:

The craftsmanship at every level is exquisite. The box is heavy, tidy kraft. The logo is lovely. The pouch that the coffee and tea packets come in is fine cloth. The envelope that the protractor is in is heavy embossed cardstock (almost chipboard). Everything about this is lovely and perfect.

Protractor: 10/10 cannot regret frivolousness

Husband: 10/10 would marry again

Knox snorted in amusement.

He shrugged. “I won’t be able to. If people could travel through time, it’d be— The universe would implode. The Big Bang theory? Totally true. It was because somebody traveled through time.”

I know. Go ahead and laugh or faint or whatever. I’ll wait until you’ve got yourself back together again.

Long story told in bullet-point lists:

• Saw a Sony at Target. The screen looked like a dot matrix printer (aka like crap). I decided eInk was not for me.
• Amazon pulled some crappy things, which confirmed my opinion of crap.
• My mother-in-law got a Kindle for Christmas and I fondled it. It didn’t look anything like the Sony at Target.
• I couldn’t stop thinking about my MIL’s Kindle.
• I had an increasing need to see what my formatting looked like on the device itself.
• I couldn’t stop thinking about my MIL’s Kindle.
• I had an increasing need to see what my formatting looked like on the device itself.
• Amazon put up their refurbs for $110.

I’ve had it for about a week now. I love it, but I do have some issues and (surprise!) it hasn’t diminished my love for my eBookWise or my BlackBerry. They’re like children: All different, all equally loved for different reasons.

One of my issues with the Kindle is how light and skinny and fragile it is. I know this is supposed to be a plus, but after holding my eBookWise for the last 2-1/2 years, its weight and ergonomic design has spoiled me. The eBookWise feels like a book, only a lot more comfortable.

Anyway, I desperately needed a case for my Kindle to protect it, but geez, people $30? No matter how much I liked my MIL’s case, I figured I could do original-and-cheaper on my own. (Well, hey, that’s how I got into this book publishing business in the first place, my tendency to DIY … everything.)

I’ve made a prototype. I think there are better ways to do this and better designs. I’m going to live with this one for a while and see what I’d change, what other features I might like, a better/more efficient way to build it.

Here’s Prototype Number One (mouse over the pictures to see the commentary):

I had a ball of Sugar’n Cream “Strawberry” yarn (100% cotton) I bought for XX TD to learn how to crochet. Two problems: A) She’s left-handed and I’m not, and B) I’m a horrible teacher. I seriously needed a break from reading, writing, publishing, DDJ. It had to be something creative, but not involved. Eva Gale’s dishcloth project inspired me, and I thought it was perfect for a mind break while still feeding my creativity.

Eva’s all about self-sufficiency and she really strives for it in ways big and small. She is such an inspiration to me. As she puts it, this project is therapy for $2. Awesome. I really liked it for that, but as a step toward self-sufficiency, I found it extremely expensive in terms of materials and time. One $2 dishcloth plus sunk costs of time when I could have been making far more than it would cost me to buy a pack of dishcloths (or Scotch-Brite sponges, which is what we use). But it was fun and it was a break and I got to use a ball of yarn I had no other use for. That was the big bonus.

I don’t watch TV much. It interferes with other things I find more interesting. Still, occasionally I want to vegetate but I can’t do that without something to do while I’m watching TV. I feel really guilty if I’m not able to watch TV and do something productive at the same time. Crochet fills that bill.

2011: Widowed Mormon bishop and steel magnate Mitch meets corporate restructuring specialist Cassie St. James, a former prostitute. As they navigate a relationship, they work together to stop a man who’s destroying everything Mitch holds dear.

2. Make some pretty things.

a) An afghan (Tunisian crochet, the only kind I like) for XX TD.

b) A Hobbes doll for XY TD.

3. Get better at the ebook formatting thing.

a) Continue self-tutoring in SVG so I can get The Fob Bible completely digitized (text, no problem, but it’s graphics heavy).

b) Give more priority to embedding fonts.

4. Shamelessly rip off RJ Keller’s 2010-in-photos idea.

5. Get my foyer, living room, and dining room decorated and my art up on the walls, including my kitschy matadors ~1950 and my cheap bought-out-of-a-car-trunk-in-a-parking-lot-but-expensively-framed Pissarro.

6. Expose my real identity to you all (in case you haven’t figured it out already and no, my real name is not famous in the least bit) and my artsy-fartsy business because I think you might like it. But to do that, I need to work on the super-outdated website.

7. Get The Fob Bible into college curricula, where I think it belongs best.

8. Implement some fun ideas I have for The Proviso et al.

9. Get back on the low-carb wagon, exercise, and load up on the probiotics/coconut oil.

10. Sit down and relax, watch a movie with Dude once a week or so.

There. I fixed it.

I have projects. I adore projects. Alas, I am only one person.

Let me tell you what’s on tap this weekend.

Is it too early to make my Christmas list to Santa? ’Cause I wish for 6 more hours in a day and the ability to forego sleeping.

You may feel sorry for me now.