being the kind of superhero where it takes 10 minutes to get a customer to Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V

[azurelunatic]

It's a Saturday! Belovedest had a video chat scheduled with the siblings and parents, but since neither of us realized that it was a clicky-linky call rather than an alert-my-device call, we were an hour late. Oops. I put on lipstick for the occasion of the call, because all but the most subtle lighting washes out my face and you just see a blur of hair, some eyes, and depending on the angle a nostril or two. It was good to chat with more people. Maybe Mama has good enough internet to video chat?

Some of the aunts and uncles are greatly missed on the video chat, but also sufficiently non-technical that it recently took Bop doing a Facetime with one uncle to get some setting or other on something unfucked. (The uncle in question turned the phone around to have the front camera see the thing, and did not seem aware of the camera-switching option.)

At one point Pops came back with a glassful of something. He allowed as how it was in fact an adult beverage. At this point two out of four siblings and I hopped out of frame to get our own adult beverages. It turns out that Triple Sec and strawberry-kiwi Snapple are an okay combination.

I'd bleached my hair again, seeing Belovedest's hair in progress, and yesterday I put the dye on finally. (We kept having shower schedules that meant I'd be going to bed with wet dye on my head, and that just doesn't do. Or else I was too tired.) So I have ink-slick-purple blue hair today, which didn't show up particularly on camera. I'm slightly reminded of the time back at Virtual Hammer where a teammate saw me in bright light for the first time in a while and noticed that I'd gone blue.

I did a bacon-and-veg roast, with ends rather than the usual. I'm thinking I will approach it differently with the other bag of ends. Probably render the bacon first, crisp it up a bit on a pan, and then do the veg in a reasonable quantity of the resulting grease. #neversatisfied

My current hobbyhorse is hats. I would like to design a 3d-printed skeleton to stabilize a threaded socket to put in the top of a skullcap (in this case). In the socket goes a pole; on the pole goes one of those bike lights with laser demarcation for personal space, as a warning to cars.

That jumped me off to plague doctor masks, and it would be very nice if one of those masks has, oh, I dunno, replaceable prescription lenses so that I could see while wearing one. (I have a loon hat, but not an actual plague doctor mask.)

That sent me on an unsatisfying journey for steampunk goggles and welding goggles and uncut prescription lenses.

But winding up on Ali Baba reminded me of why specifically I ordered the spiral hairpins (I ordered spiral hairpins and they came today) and that's my Ingray Aughskold cosplay. So now I'm gazing wistfully at page upon page of emerald green glass beads and seeing nothing that speaks directly to my mental image of these pins.

French hairpin, the kind with two widely spaced wavy legs, not a bobby pin.
Silver tone.
Either a rhinestone in a cup, or a cabochon, or slightly irregular but smooth bits of glass that's not quite perfectly transparent but is still extremely translucent. Probably not frosted texture though.

Anyway we're nearly out of the 10 pounds of milk chocolate chips that we have in the basement pantry, and now the spare strip of heavy felt from the anti-cat coating on alexseanchai's door has been stapled to the bottom of the basement door, to deter lady-on-lady interactions via underneath the door.

I've been working my way through the Oglaf archive, with inspection on so I can take in both the alt text and the title, which are different and both relevant. Extremely NSFW (sex and gore, more sex than gore, concurrent and consecutive) but very much to my weird taste in humor.

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[alexseanchai]

oh is that what the staple gun was for. YAY THANK YOU

[azurelunatic]

Alas for Yellface's engineering skills.

[lilysea]

Oh, yes, I find Oglaf very amusing.

[lilysea]

I put on lipstick for the occasion of the call, because all but the most subtle lighting washes out my face and you just see a blur of hair, some eyes, and depending on the angle a nostril or two.

I've read that for people who are partial lip readers, it is easier for them to understand people who are wearing bright lipstick.

[sporky_rat]

As someone who does lip read, that fad a while ago for almost skin-colored lipstick was the bane of my existence.
Any bright or vibrant or anything that makes the lips a much different color works well enough.

[azurelunatic]

I am pleased that my usual is high-contrast, then!

[sporky_rat]

My favorite person ever (my second mom, basically) has the best lipcolor ever, and the skin tone to wear it. Nyx Liquid Suede 'Stone Fox'. It's described as a 'deep grey with blue undertone'. It's marvelous.

Raises hand

[jesse_the_k]

When I was screened as a "sign language communication assistant" in 1983, the examiners all said I must get some red lipstick so my mouth would be legible.

Reader, I did. I'll admit that every time I donned in before interpreting, I felt a little rush of illicit glory.

[konsectatrix]

Olgaf is great. I haven't read it in ages; hitting the archives ain't a bad idea.

Funny, I woke up contemplating dye. I had glanced into the mirror during a dream and my hair had a distinct blue tint.

re: goggles--I had sent frames to 39 dollar eyeglasses once and they installed prescription lenses into some old-timey wire specs for me to go with my victorian/steampunk costumes years ago and that worked out really well. They might be able to work with you on the mask.

Failing that, Zenni optical also sells prescription goggles for about $30 (I heard my bio major child yelling something about it when we were all ordering new glasses), but they look like they're very modern shapes and/or mostly for swimming.

[azurelunatic]

They're not even for swimming, they're for not getting your glasses smacked into your eyes by a basketball. My current pair is a very cheap Zenni frame, now that I'm less likely to suffer an athletic and improbable glasses mishap than when I was up the chokecherry tree and down the frog pond with any regularity.

[konsectatrix]

That makes even more sense, I forgot about sports/impact frames.

Keeping up with you must be fun. XD After years of multiple cheap pairs of glasses as a coping mechanism, I tried going the traditional route once, and that... did not work out well for any of us, plus it was mad expensive and much less fun (And then there's the part where DoomTwin01 was holding her lenses in her very expensive frames with tape and not telling me because I'd already gotten them fixed only months before. I don't even yell at them about this stuff, I totally get it's accidental, worst-case scenario is I don't have money to fix it). So now I'm right back at 'order a bunch of cheap frames + sunglasses', and by the time I've destroyed/lost them, it's usually well past time for another eye check anyway, and if not, we can always order more.

[azurelunatic]

Keeping up with me is much easier now that I've slowed down a little. I was a terror as a kid, not going to lie...

[momijizukamori]

I wonder if you could get the cheapest pair of round-lensed glasses from one of the myriad online sellers and just take the lenses out of the frame? I know there's at least one seller that makes them; a few of my friends have them. Unfortunately I think most lenses are cut in-house, so you're unlikely to find prescription blanks.

(back when I was swimming regularly, I gave in and got a pair of prescription goggles, which were like ~$40 for 'within half a power' and which were money well-spent for me)

[momijizukamori]

And by chance, I just stumbled upon a reddit post about prescription lenses and VR headsets, and apparently you can buy prescription lens adapters for those! https://widmovr.com/ https://vroptician.com/

[azurelunatic]

Ooo, interesting!