Matera the Mad @matera@mastodon.sdf.org

Words are little clamps we put on thoughts to stop the bleeding.

Winning at Solitaire is like having your faith in humanity restored. It only lasts until the next deal.

MtM Lessons of Solitaire

When you speak of "thinking outside the box" you ignore one very important thing: The box is yours. You created it.

In reality, there is no box.

I worked my mouse to death 😭

Cleaning and loading my worker laptop for the next shootout at the NWTC Corral.

8:00. I'm crawling out of bed after a spotty night's sleep. He walks in with a rock on his shoulder.

"Where do you want Grandmother?"

Gwahhhhh...lemme get my shoes on...

Here 👉

My house is not "smart" - it's wise. 😉

As a reward for my strenuous effort to organize--and dispose of excess--origami, two packages of delicious paper from Japan landed in my mailbox.

Happy fingers 😋

LOL I just afdvised a witch to try a restraining order instead of a curse.

Today's task: Epic sorting out of bags and boxes of haphazardly mixed origami that threatens to bury me alive. Most of it is giveaway or tossaway.

Still at it

Getting ready for a visit from the Borrowers
#origami

And I had just finished getting this together.

Hans Werner-Guth's Jump sitting on my Palantir Stand.

This is to remind me to do more with curves 😃

#origami

Hoka-hey! It is a good day to fold! I ordered a second package of a cheap but excellent print assortment so I could send some along with the exhibit. But the new package freaked me out.

I open the package, and :Waitaminnit...this looks different -- OYFG it's printed on both sides!!!!!!!

This is going to be a lot of fun.
#origami

More abstract construction art

Muahaha

leaves

Celery and Windows have a lot in common. Ubiquitous, unnecessary, and (over)used by default by people who don't think for themselves.

i does it

Shoddy packaging strikes again. I wanted a bit of black paint, and the shitty tube lost its head.

Paint was transferred to a jar with minimum loss, but We are not amused.