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I went out to get some adhesive film for the incantor keyboard (got it) and a birthday present for Jimmy (also got it). The incantor talks to me. Not just like an incantor would talk to me; it talks to me. It says things. I hear it in my head when I'm not listening to it.

Two middle-aged men going to pot were carrying a folding table out of a church meeting hall and putting it in a truck; a small half-deflated balloon trailed along at their feet momentarily sucked out by the wake created by the broad, flat surface. "we all FLOAT down here," I thought.

Stopped off at Togo's to get a sandwich; parked under a banner where a photo of sandwiches had been so oversharpened that the bread looked like alien cellulose. Ordered my sandwich and leaned on the counter, eyes closed. I always wonder what they think when I do that, like am I stoned or tired or what. My foot hit something as I turned to go; I bent down to pick it up and it was a pin-on button that said "kiss me I'm famous".

I'm thinking about growing raspberry bushes, just because I'd have raspberries if I wanted them. I'm not sure why this is desirable. Lately I've become very unsatisfied with two-dimensional art, particularly that done electronically; I'm becoming addicted to fabricating real objects. Reshaping the world one gadget at a time.

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Raspberry bushes are super-pricky. Well, actually you might like that part. ;) But I mean nettles. I think they might be more bird-resistant than other berries, however. My grandfather constructed an elaborate arbor of netting to protect his blueberry bushes, but the raspberries bushes were unprotected. I used to gladly scratch myself up to wander among them and eat the yummy berries.

What are you using to fabricate your new objects?

Hmmm, maybe that's why I couldn't find any when I went to the local home/garden place. They had strawberries out the ass-- strawberry seeds, strawberry seedlings, strawberry plants --but no raspberry anything. No blueberry or blackberry, either. Maybe they're like weeds and nobody can make any money on them. But I thought the whole point of berries was that birds eat them and then poop the seeds out somewhere else...

A wide variety of tools. The incantor mostly involved the soldering iron and related accessories, and a Dremel tool, though various hand tools were also involved.

Now that you mention it, I'm pretty sure that raspberries do grow like weeds. There were heaps of them in the fallow field at my grandfather's home, I think they send out runners to make more raspberry bushes. The small, native blackberries grow that way.

As far as tools go, I was wondering if you had any of the heavy-duty metal-tweaking stuff, like I used to see in the back pages of Car Craft and Hot Rod. They had some crazy stuff for people who need to fabricate custom car parts and body panels.

No machine tools or anything, just stuff I can carry around and pack in a small case. Though today I was ogling a handheld soldering gun, as though I actually had a use for it.

There's always a use for a soldering gun. ALWAYS.

When I was a boy and lived in what passed for countryside for Brummies, I used to steal raspberries from a local farm. Fat kids hiding in the bushes with stained fingers. c.c

I think I need to meet the Incantor. Are you and it doing anything tomorrow?