The Holiday Elf Meme Thing
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nyykiBack in the heyday of Livejournal this went around -- I'd like to revive it here.
Step One: Make a post (public, friendslocked, filtered...whatever you're comfortable with) to your journal. The post should contain your list of 10 holiday wishes. The wishes can be anything at all, from simple and fandom-related ("I'd love a Snape/Hermione icon that's just for me") to medium ("I wish for _____ on DVD")
to really big ("All I want for Christmas is a new car/computer/house/TV.") The important thing is, make sure these wishes are things you really, truly want.
- If you wish for real life things (not fics or icons), make sure you include some sort of contact info in your post, whether it's your address or just your email address where Santa (or one of his elves) could get in touch with you.
- Also, make sure you post some version of these guidelines in your journal so that the holiday joy will spread.
Step Two: Surf around your friends list (or friendsfriends, or just random journals) to see who has posted their list. And now here's the
important part:
- If you see a wish you can grant, and it's in your heart to do so, make someone's wish come true. Sometimes someone's trash is another's treasure, and
if you have a leather jacket you don't want or a gift certificate you won't use--or even know where you could get someone's dream purebred Basset Hound
for free--do it.
You needn't spend money on these wishes unless you want to. The point isn't to put people out, it's to provide everyone a chance to be someone else's holiday
elf--to spread the joy. Gifts can be made anonymously or not--it's your call.
There are no rules with this project, no guarantees, and no strings attached. Just...wish, and it might come true. Give, and you might receive. And you'll
have the joy of knowing you made someone's holiday special.
1. Someone to assist me in getting my live Rig working like it should. This will involve configuring a program or two on two laptops along with some stuff on a couple of keyboards, and following up with another bout of configuration. No one person has to do all of this. All of it is easy, I have manuals and the knowledge to do things, and it's fairly simple work.
2. Cover assistance for my finished novels/novellas. As a blind person I can't turn my cover ideas into reality, and I feel a good cover will increase sales a lot. I've got some AI generated covers, but as a blind person I can't get them included in a document; I'll need to find out how to put a graphic description behind the picture so people who cant' see graphics can know what the picture is, and for one series of books it's an issue of knowing how to set a different page background on the first page of a document.
3. I need about 33 digital versions of gear manuals for my musical stuff. Acrobat format is preferred, but if it's all graphics I can deal with that too, because I have an excellent OCR program. My biggest challenge for all of this is that many of the sites I find what I'm looking for have a Capcha on them that doesn't have an option for VI folks, so I can't get into the site to download the manual.
The Manual List:
Make Model
ART 250
Biamp Stereo Limiter/Noise Gate
Cherub WCP-60V
Crate PFM-60
Digitech RDS 1900
EFR SPII
Eminent SY-75
IRP AM4080
KRK K-Rok
Mackie 32.8 8 Bus Audio Mixing Console
Mackie Ottomix
MXR Pitch-shift Doubler
NEI Model 341
Octava
Roland SDE 1000
Seagull Maritime Spruce cwsg smicro eq
Symetrix 522 comp/limiter/expander/gate/ducker
Symetrix SG200 Dual Signal Gate
Tascam Pa-20b
Voyetra V-22m
Voyetra V-24sm
4. I really want a white ankle-length halter dress. I haven't found any that are decent quality and don't come from a country where the sizing is messed up. By white I mean white, not any of the false white shades, and i'd like it unornamented. I think a size 18 will do the trick if there's a tie on the back at the waist.
5. I could use some website help for my three domain sites.
6. Someone to help me with getting paperwork scanned and entered into the computer. Some of this will be simple scanning and some will be reading things to me as I type. Not all of this needs to be done by one person. Any contribution of an hour or two would be greatly appreciated. This project is going to take a lot of time, but it can be done piecemeal with no trouble. And I could probably scan some things too if folks want to help at home or remotely. The first task in all of this is to sort a lot of the paper I have here so it can run more smoothly, and that's going to take about an hour.
7. I lost my copy of The Can Opener Cookbook and a couple of others in one of the thefts of 2003-2004. I also lost several of my Foods of the World hardbacks, and could use any of those you happen to find while cruising through used book stores. I'm short about eight of the spiral bound recipe books that went with these, along with the master index and menu planning guide and the three supplement books. And if you find anything I'm looking for, an OCR scan to PDF of what you find would be great.
Foods of the World Books
Hardbacks
African Cooking
American Cooking
American Cooking : Creole and Acadian
American Cooking : The Eastern Heartland
American Cooking : The Great West
American Cooking : The Melting Pot
American Cooking : New England
American Cooking : The Northwest
American Cooking : Southern Style
Cooking of the British Isles
Cooking of the Caribbean Islands
Cooking of China
Classic French Cooking
Cooking of Provincial France
Cooking of Germany
Cooking of India
Cooking of Italy
Cooking of Japan
Latin American Cooking
Middle Eastern Cooking
Pacific-Southeast Asian Cooking
Quintet of Cuisines
Russian Cooking
Cooking of Scandinavia
Cooking of Spain and Portugal
Cooking of Vienna's Empire
Spirals
American Cooking : Creole and Acadian
American Cooking : The Eastern Heartland
American Cooking : The Great West
American Cooking : The Melting Pot
American Cooking : The Northwest
American Cooking : Southern Style
Cooking of the Caribbean Islands
Cooking of India
Quintet of Cuisines
Supplements
Menu Guide & Recipe Index paperback
Supplement Number One paperback
Supplement Number Two paperback
Kitchen Guide paperback
8. I have a list of books I own in hardcopy that I need to get digital copies of. I suspect much of this will come from the web, while the rest will require scanning and will require either someone owning the work or it being done here. So for the first part I probably need some resourceful internet user to locate the books I'm trying to find and send them to me. I have comprehensive lists of what I need. A lot of the books are gaming books, fiction, or books about music or recording. (Again, this list is too long to put in this message)
9. Two to three Matheson clan hunting tartan bandanas so The Holy Terrier can display her clan affiliation (I consider her to be adopted into my household). And if someone wants to go the extra mile a matching dress for a Scottish lady would be great, same tartan (I like the blue in the hunting tartan and the ancient tartan isn't too bad either -- the dress and faded tartans aren't to my taste, and the Dress tartan is aimed at young women leaving girlhood and that's not appropriate for me) I almost feel guilty for mentioning this site, but for fabric arts types Spoonflower (https://www.spoonflower.com) is a major rabbit hole.
10. Whistles. I've got the standard whistle coaches and other such folks use, but different and interesting ones are useful for when I play in percussion ensembles.
So, let me see what I might be able to help you with. You can contact me at nyyki at gypsyheir dot com for location for any of this or to ask me questions.
Step One: Make a post (public, friendslocked, filtered...whatever you're comfortable with) to your journal. The post should contain your list of 10 holiday wishes. The wishes can be anything at all, from simple and fandom-related ("I'd love a Snape/Hermione icon that's just for me") to medium ("I wish for _____ on DVD")
to really big ("All I want for Christmas is a new car/computer/house/TV.") The important thing is, make sure these wishes are things you really, truly want.
- If you wish for real life things (not fics or icons), make sure you include some sort of contact info in your post, whether it's your address or just your email address where Santa (or one of his elves) could get in touch with you.
- Also, make sure you post some version of these guidelines in your journal so that the holiday joy will spread.
Step Two: Surf around your friends list (or friendsfriends, or just random journals) to see who has posted their list. And now here's the
important part:
- If you see a wish you can grant, and it's in your heart to do so, make someone's wish come true. Sometimes someone's trash is another's treasure, and
if you have a leather jacket you don't want or a gift certificate you won't use--or even know where you could get someone's dream purebred Basset Hound
for free--do it.
You needn't spend money on these wishes unless you want to. The point isn't to put people out, it's to provide everyone a chance to be someone else's holiday
elf--to spread the joy. Gifts can be made anonymously or not--it's your call.
There are no rules with this project, no guarantees, and no strings attached. Just...wish, and it might come true. Give, and you might receive. And you'll
have the joy of knowing you made someone's holiday special.
1. Someone to assist me in getting my live Rig working like it should. This will involve configuring a program or two on two laptops along with some stuff on a couple of keyboards, and following up with another bout of configuration. No one person has to do all of this. All of it is easy, I have manuals and the knowledge to do things, and it's fairly simple work.
2. Cover assistance for my finished novels/novellas. As a blind person I can't turn my cover ideas into reality, and I feel a good cover will increase sales a lot. I've got some AI generated covers, but as a blind person I can't get them included in a document; I'll need to find out how to put a graphic description behind the picture so people who cant' see graphics can know what the picture is, and for one series of books it's an issue of knowing how to set a different page background on the first page of a document.
3. I need about 33 digital versions of gear manuals for my musical stuff. Acrobat format is preferred, but if it's all graphics I can deal with that too, because I have an excellent OCR program. My biggest challenge for all of this is that many of the sites I find what I'm looking for have a Capcha on them that doesn't have an option for VI folks, so I can't get into the site to download the manual.
The Manual List:
Make Model
ART 250
Biamp Stereo Limiter/Noise Gate
Cherub WCP-60V
Crate PFM-60
Digitech RDS 1900
EFR SPII
Eminent SY-75
IRP AM4080
KRK K-Rok
Mackie 32.8 8 Bus Audio Mixing Console
Mackie Ottomix
MXR Pitch-shift Doubler
NEI Model 341
Octava
Roland SDE 1000
Seagull Maritime Spruce cwsg smicro eq
Symetrix 522 comp/limiter/expander/gate/ducker
Symetrix SG200 Dual Signal Gate
Tascam Pa-20b
Voyetra V-22m
Voyetra V-24sm
4. I really want a white ankle-length halter dress. I haven't found any that are decent quality and don't come from a country where the sizing is messed up. By white I mean white, not any of the false white shades, and i'd like it unornamented. I think a size 18 will do the trick if there's a tie on the back at the waist.
5. I could use some website help for my three domain sites.
6. Someone to help me with getting paperwork scanned and entered into the computer. Some of this will be simple scanning and some will be reading things to me as I type. Not all of this needs to be done by one person. Any contribution of an hour or two would be greatly appreciated. This project is going to take a lot of time, but it can be done piecemeal with no trouble. And I could probably scan some things too if folks want to help at home or remotely. The first task in all of this is to sort a lot of the paper I have here so it can run more smoothly, and that's going to take about an hour.
7. I lost my copy of The Can Opener Cookbook and a couple of others in one of the thefts of 2003-2004. I also lost several of my Foods of the World hardbacks, and could use any of those you happen to find while cruising through used book stores. I'm short about eight of the spiral bound recipe books that went with these, along with the master index and menu planning guide and the three supplement books. And if you find anything I'm looking for, an OCR scan to PDF of what you find would be great.
Foods of the World Books
Hardbacks
African Cooking
American Cooking
American Cooking : Creole and Acadian
American Cooking : The Eastern Heartland
American Cooking : The Great West
American Cooking : The Melting Pot
American Cooking : New England
American Cooking : The Northwest
American Cooking : Southern Style
Cooking of the British Isles
Cooking of the Caribbean Islands
Cooking of China
Classic French Cooking
Cooking of Provincial France
Cooking of Germany
Cooking of India
Cooking of Italy
Cooking of Japan
Latin American Cooking
Middle Eastern Cooking
Pacific-Southeast Asian Cooking
Quintet of Cuisines
Russian Cooking
Cooking of Scandinavia
Cooking of Spain and Portugal
Cooking of Vienna's Empire
Spirals
American Cooking : Creole and Acadian
American Cooking : The Eastern Heartland
American Cooking : The Great West
American Cooking : The Melting Pot
American Cooking : The Northwest
American Cooking : Southern Style
Cooking of the Caribbean Islands
Cooking of India
Quintet of Cuisines
Supplements
Menu Guide & Recipe Index paperback
Supplement Number One paperback
Supplement Number Two paperback
Kitchen Guide paperback
8. I have a list of books I own in hardcopy that I need to get digital copies of. I suspect much of this will come from the web, while the rest will require scanning and will require either someone owning the work or it being done here. So for the first part I probably need some resourceful internet user to locate the books I'm trying to find and send them to me. I have comprehensive lists of what I need. A lot of the books are gaming books, fiction, or books about music or recording. (Again, this list is too long to put in this message)
9. Two to three Matheson clan hunting tartan bandanas so The Holy Terrier can display her clan affiliation (I consider her to be adopted into my household). And if someone wants to go the extra mile a matching dress for a Scottish lady would be great, same tartan (I like the blue in the hunting tartan and the ancient tartan isn't too bad either -- the dress and faded tartans aren't to my taste, and the Dress tartan is aimed at young women leaving girlhood and that's not appropriate for me) I almost feel guilty for mentioning this site, but for fabric arts types Spoonflower (https://www.spoonflower.com) is a major rabbit hole.
10. Whistles. I've got the standard whistle coaches and other such folks use, but different and interesting ones are useful for when I play in percussion ensembles.
So, let me see what I might be able to help you with. You can contact me at nyyki at gypsyheir dot com for location for any of this or to ask me questions.
