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nyykiStep One:
- Make a post (public, friendslocked, filtered...whatever you're comfortable with) to your LJ. 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 LJ 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.
First, the recap from last year's list:
1. My sight hasn't returned, but I've seen improvement. This is an ongoing process.
2. I have all of the Marx Brothers movies except for Love Happy, and I got the rest of the Babylon 5 seasons too. I still need Love Happy and the Stargate seasons past season 4.
3. I have all the books indexed. They're in Excel spreadsheets, and I'm starting the process of getting the ones I need located. If anyone has good torrent or p2p access, I could use some help in this department. This list is too big to send here, but I can send it as an attachment in email. I still have a lot of paper I need scanned, as well as a lot of music I need played into the computer. (As in, about 4 boxes of it)
4. Done. Prodigal got me caught up with the story of SiP, and also kept me in the loop to the end of the book. Prodigal rocks.
5. Nothing on the development of the live rig. I still need help with this.
6. The t-shirts are done, I need to go through golf and long sleeve shirts at some point. Most of the rest of my stuff is in fine shape. I do also need someone who is good with a pair of scissors to come by and help me process the t-shirts into panel blanks so I will have more room in the t-shirt box and so I can get an accurate count of how many there actually are in there and how close I am to the 42 needed to have the cumforter made.
7. Still need some resources to work on the wardrobe, even now more than before. With the culling of so many t-shirts, I'm not as deep with options as I used to have.
8. I still need the timer knob to my steamer. It's a fairly generic size. This will involve a bit of hunting in places with all kinds of nifty things in them.
9. I still need a cheap violin to practice on.
10. This process is almost completely done. I have about 70 recipes still to go, which should translate to about 5 hours of typing total. I'm almost tempted to have a recipe party and get people over with laptops to enter recipes while I provide drinks and pizza and such, but my place is a bit small for this, so I'd need a venue as well. Once the loose recipes are done, then I'll need to move on to the bound ones, though at least many of the Foods of the World recipes are on the web if I can get a good table of contents from those books to search them out. My hardcover books that go with the foods of the world series got stolen, it seems, along with my copy of Supercookery and a few other cool cookbooks.
So, in light of that, here's the new list:
1. Someone to assist me in getting my live Rig working like it should. This will involve some rooting around in menus, some software installation, some swapping cables and transmitting things from one box to another, and also some drilling and soldering. No one person has to do all of this.
2. A cheap violin that will stay in tune. This needs to be a full sized one, and the bow needs to be in decent shape. It doesn't matter if the strings suck, as I can get new ones, but it does need to have fine tuners on it.
3. My DVD list is on Amazon under the user name Seafox. Things from this would be greatly appreciated. My CD list hasn't been entered, and if someone would be so kind as to do that, I'd be greatly appreciative.
4. Someone to help me with getting paperwork scanned and entered into the computer. Some of this will be simple scanning, some will be reading things to me as I type, and some will be playing things into the sequencer. Not all of this needs to be done by one person. Any contribution of an hour or two would be greatly appreciated. I also need some recipe assistance. Again, an hour here and there is fine. I may even be able to scan these to email them to someone. I also need recipe lists from my cookbooks, and I can provide a list of those. And if you happen to be at Half Price or another UBS, I lost copies of Supercookery, The Can Opener Cookbook, and Betty Crocker's paperback cookbook, . I also lost all my Foods of the World hardbacks except for the Wines and Spirits book, and could use any of those you happen to find.
5. Some torrent or p2p user to locate the books I'm trying to find and send them to me. I have a very good way to do this. I have comprehensive lists of what I need.
6. Wardrobe work: I need some scissor weilding person to come by and help me process the t-shirts, then do a run through my wardrobe to cull any stained or holed shirts.
7. Timer knob for my steamer. The steamer model is a Magic Chef fs-1 e138980, and the knob is a D shank knob about an inch in diameter. Anything that fits is fine, as I can mark zero with some velcro.
8. Some furniture assistance. I need someone who knows how to stain wood and someone who knows how to use a power saw to help me out with a few things dealing with the living room furniture. I have stain and all materials needed, I just need someone to do the part that involves cutting or staining, as I can't do that myself. I also need some help in building a table, which will involve slightly better woodworking skills.
9. Someone with deep computer skills to troubleshoot some issues on a Windows 98SE computer connecting to a Win2k server. I'll need some card level issues resolved, installation of a couple of programs, and getting the machine connecting to the network. We've identified part of the problem -- a boot ROM like menu thing on the card is preventing a good connection on the machine, and there's no way to fix this under a 98 environment. (Fun) I have a new NIC on the way, the same model as in the machine but without the boot ROM. Also, I could use some help finding a more blind accessible Livejournal client -- Symmagic isn't cutting it, as I can't set moods, songs, or any of that other stuff with it, and so I need another client or a way to send messages to my journal through Outlook 2003. And if someone could create for me a document with the HTML tags LJ uses, that would be greatly appreciated. Don't just send me a link, as I'll lose the link and forget it, I need an actual document I can reference on my hard drive.
10. My sight back. I'll accept any Reiki, Acupuncture, Qui Gong, or other techniques that will help this process along.
You can contact me at nyyki at gypsyheir dot com for location for any of this.
- Make a post (public, friendslocked, filtered...whatever you're comfortable with) to your LJ. 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 LJ 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.
First, the recap from last year's list:
1. My sight hasn't returned, but I've seen improvement. This is an ongoing process.
2. I have all of the Marx Brothers movies except for Love Happy, and I got the rest of the Babylon 5 seasons too. I still need Love Happy and the Stargate seasons past season 4.
3. I have all the books indexed. They're in Excel spreadsheets, and I'm starting the process of getting the ones I need located. If anyone has good torrent or p2p access, I could use some help in this department. This list is too big to send here, but I can send it as an attachment in email. I still have a lot of paper I need scanned, as well as a lot of music I need played into the computer. (As in, about 4 boxes of it)
4. Done. Prodigal got me caught up with the story of SiP, and also kept me in the loop to the end of the book. Prodigal rocks.
5. Nothing on the development of the live rig. I still need help with this.
6. The t-shirts are done, I need to go through golf and long sleeve shirts at some point. Most of the rest of my stuff is in fine shape. I do also need someone who is good with a pair of scissors to come by and help me process the t-shirts into panel blanks so I will have more room in the t-shirt box and so I can get an accurate count of how many there actually are in there and how close I am to the 42 needed to have the cumforter made.
7. Still need some resources to work on the wardrobe, even now more than before. With the culling of so many t-shirts, I'm not as deep with options as I used to have.
8. I still need the timer knob to my steamer. It's a fairly generic size. This will involve a bit of hunting in places with all kinds of nifty things in them.
9. I still need a cheap violin to practice on.
10. This process is almost completely done. I have about 70 recipes still to go, which should translate to about 5 hours of typing total. I'm almost tempted to have a recipe party and get people over with laptops to enter recipes while I provide drinks and pizza and such, but my place is a bit small for this, so I'd need a venue as well. Once the loose recipes are done, then I'll need to move on to the bound ones, though at least many of the Foods of the World recipes are on the web if I can get a good table of contents from those books to search them out. My hardcover books that go with the foods of the world series got stolen, it seems, along with my copy of Supercookery and a few other cool cookbooks.
So, in light of that, here's the new list:
1. Someone to assist me in getting my live Rig working like it should. This will involve some rooting around in menus, some software installation, some swapping cables and transmitting things from one box to another, and also some drilling and soldering. No one person has to do all of this.
2. A cheap violin that will stay in tune. This needs to be a full sized one, and the bow needs to be in decent shape. It doesn't matter if the strings suck, as I can get new ones, but it does need to have fine tuners on it.
3. My DVD list is on Amazon under the user name Seafox. Things from this would be greatly appreciated. My CD list hasn't been entered, and if someone would be so kind as to do that, I'd be greatly appreciative.
4. Someone to help me with getting paperwork scanned and entered into the computer. Some of this will be simple scanning, some will be reading things to me as I type, and some will be playing things into the sequencer. Not all of this needs to be done by one person. Any contribution of an hour or two would be greatly appreciated. I also need some recipe assistance. Again, an hour here and there is fine. I may even be able to scan these to email them to someone. I also need recipe lists from my cookbooks, and I can provide a list of those. And if you happen to be at Half Price or another UBS, I lost copies of Supercookery, The Can Opener Cookbook, and Betty Crocker's paperback cookbook, . I also lost all my Foods of the World hardbacks except for the Wines and Spirits book, and could use any of those you happen to find.
5. Some torrent or p2p user to locate the books I'm trying to find and send them to me. I have a very good way to do this. I have comprehensive lists of what I need.
6. Wardrobe work: I need some scissor weilding person to come by and help me process the t-shirts, then do a run through my wardrobe to cull any stained or holed shirts.
7. Timer knob for my steamer. The steamer model is a Magic Chef fs-1 e138980, and the knob is a D shank knob about an inch in diameter. Anything that fits is fine, as I can mark zero with some velcro.
8. Some furniture assistance. I need someone who knows how to stain wood and someone who knows how to use a power saw to help me out with a few things dealing with the living room furniture. I have stain and all materials needed, I just need someone to do the part that involves cutting or staining, as I can't do that myself. I also need some help in building a table, which will involve slightly better woodworking skills.
9. Someone with deep computer skills to troubleshoot some issues on a Windows 98SE computer connecting to a Win2k server. I'll need some card level issues resolved, installation of a couple of programs, and getting the machine connecting to the network. We've identified part of the problem -- a boot ROM like menu thing on the card is preventing a good connection on the machine, and there's no way to fix this under a 98 environment. (Fun) I have a new NIC on the way, the same model as in the machine but without the boot ROM. Also, I could use some help finding a more blind accessible Livejournal client -- Symmagic isn't cutting it, as I can't set moods, songs, or any of that other stuff with it, and so I need another client or a way to send messages to my journal through Outlook 2003. And if someone could create for me a document with the HTML tags LJ uses, that would be greatly appreciated. Don't just send me a link, as I'll lose the link and forget it, I need an actual document I can reference on my hard drive.
10. My sight back. I'll accept any Reiki, Acupuncture, Qui Gong, or other techniques that will help this process along.
You can contact me at nyyki at gypsyheir dot com for location for any of this.
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Date: 2007-12-06 04:28 pm (UTC)