Sunday, July 10, 2022

For Sale - Updated 8/16 at 4pm

Sale is lover - geek items left are headed to Ravencon Charity Auction

This page is going to update frequently as I help a friend/neighbor's family find new home for items from his estate.  All items are in Landmark Mews in Alexandria, VA near Landmark Mall 

I have 3 more small boxes of stuff to go thru

I have done my best to price these fairly - if you are very interersted and want to offer a different price please do so 

Board Games  Many fewer on the listing now 

  Here is the current board game listing




  Star Wars 

Bandai Boba Fett  Model Kit $20       New in Box   1/12 Scale  0201305-2700
Bandai Darth Vader Model Kit $40   New in Box   1/12 Scale  0191408-2400

               Both for $50






 

      

Friday, June 24, 2022

Roe V Wade overtuned

 Right now to shocked to say much but wanted to capture the resources flying around

Center for Reproductive Rights Legal Avocacy 

    What if Roe falls  Map of laws and access by staet

The New Handbook for a Post-Roe America    The Complete Guide to Abortion Legality, Access, and Practical Support by Robin Marty.

What can I do

Plan C  State by State guide to access to the 'abortion pill'  (Mifepristone and Misoprostol) that stop a pregnancy from growing and cause cramping and bleeding to empty to uterus.  Similar to having a miscarriage.

Rewire newsgroup National publication exclusively dedicated to reporting on reproductive and sexual health, rights, and justice.

 Shout your Abortion  Activism site

Abortion on Demand Physician supported medical abortion care online.

The Brgid Alliance  Getting people to care they need

Haven Coalition Supporting people who are making trips to New York for abortions.

Access reproductive justice Supporting Californians

Abortion Funds  Helping financially also listing of funds by state

Supporting Abortion funds in the south Collection of sites specifically helping in the southern states

Clue - Period Tracker based out of Germany so your data is safe from US courts

Downloadable ovulation tracker keep your data local

Contact your local abortion provider and offer support - housing, transportation, logistics, bringing lunch for staff.  

Midwest Abortion Access

I need an abortion helps find local resources

Abortion Finder

National Abortion Federation

Hotline for miscarriage / home abortions

Reproductive Legal Helpline

Dopo support and education

All options counceling

Reproductive care Emotional and educational support for medical abortions at home

Exhale Support aftercare support

Connect and breathe non-judgemental after abortion talkline

Apiary practical support transportation, child care...

Tubal Ligation Doctors  Google Doc by state of doctors that will do Tubal Ligation

Elevated Access transportation to transgender and reproductive care


Thursday, April 14, 2022

Back Pain Plans

 So Back/Hip/Knee arthritis acting up so doing the Chiropractor, Massage, Ortho, Cortisone, Acupuncture routing of throwing everything at it and see what helps cause baseline pain level 5 sucks. here is a collection of things that are useful for this

So Good Pain Scales I have found

Fibromyalgia Pain ScaleStanford Scale
Fibro Pain Scale

Massage I use Alternative Health Associates - Laura, Lisa, and River are all excellent
Chiropractor I've started using The Joint at Landmark
My Ortho office is Ortho Virginia
Acupuncture with  NOVA Acupuncture
Chair Yoga with Fairfax County Senior Services Reeves RX-Relax Adapted yoga

Some things I have learned
  • Hip pain is in the front - if back of hip/butt then is likely your back
  • Body Status
    • Knee (Oct 2018) Mild patellofemoral arthritis. Spur formation of lateral patellar facet and medial femoral condyle.  Chondromalacia of right patella 
    • Hip (Jan 2022) Joint space narrowing, Near bone touching bone in the inferior hip joint.
      No acute bony abnormalities
    • Back (April 2022) Near bone-touching-bone arthritis at L5-S1. Moderate degenerative
      arthritis at her left hip with 3 mm of joint space remaining.  Lumbosacral osteoarthritis and left-sided sciatica
  • Fragrant Qigong (Xiang Gong) was recommended to me - 15 arm movements twice a day can be done sitting or standing  
    • Level 1
  • Essence of Chinese Dietary Therapy  This one I have more of a um maybe reaction to  basically food is classified in Cold, Cool, Neutral, Warm, and Hot. You should avoid Cold and Hot unless using for specific reason 
    • Cold Foods - makes you fatigued and pained, Raw things, tropical fruit, iced drinks, salt 
    • Cool Foods - Goes inward, mushrooms, citrus, cheese
    • Neutral Foods - Rice, beef, honey
    • Warm Foods - Goes outward, Steamed, Simmered, Boiled, Sautee, butter, garlic, Soup
    • Hot Foods - inflammation and excites brain, Baked and Fried foods, Candy, Coffee, Booze


  • Here is an example of Chair Yoga


Friday, March 18, 2022

Craft Catalog

 I'm on a craft organizing Facebook group Get Organized with Totally Tiffany for folks that have used the Get Organized Challenge (GOC) and from time to time there is a request to see your tools catalog.  So instead of just posting pictures I though I would make a post about it that I can link to. 

  • EXTREME oversimplification
  • You have 4 sections
  •     1) Alphabets, Numbers, Punctuation
  •     2) Themes and Sentiments A-Z
  •     3) The Calendar year (Seasons and Holidays)
  •     4) The Rainbow (Roy G. Biv with his friends Neutral and Metallic)
  • You  have an Organized Only space of things you have organized
  • You have a purge box for things you no longer use

My Biggest part of my tools collection is the rubber stamps so I started there

I got a large 3 ring and protector pages, For each stamp I made an impression (using pink paper I had a ton of) if the image fit into multiple categories I made multiple impressions. I wrote the stamp # and drawer # on the stamp and then put the image in the catalog on the page for that category. 


In this image you can see 
I have labeled the drawer
  • RS 68-97 D-4
  • RS is for Rubber Stamps
  • 68-97 are the stamps that are in that drawer
  • this is Drawer-4
I have labeled the stamp 
  • RS-97 D4
  • This is Rubber Stamp #97 stored in Drawer 4
* Lesson learned - I easily could have ONLY put the drawer number on the stamp and not actually numbered the stamps just the drawers

Enter into Tool catalog
On a page for theme "Clothes" (Upper right corner) I put a stamped image of this stamp and then wrote next to it the stamp # and other information I wanted to know about the stamp
        RS-97 D4 
        H122 Grad Cap  Stampendous!   (This is the brand and item number and their name)
         Also: Celebration            (If the stamp image is in multiple themes I cross list)
  Other things I might list - if part of a set would list set name, 




If this is a multi part stamp I stamp them individually and then all together  This is Stampin up set 'Pineapple Welcome" made up of 3 stamps  You can see this is also under Flower and Tiki (in addition to Food/Cooking)










For sets I find a catalog page (physical or online) and in a back section I have 'sets' where I have pages for the set and what each stamp number is )




This took a while - Turns out I have 787 mounted rubber stamps  I started in April 2020 and finished at the end of June

Index of types of tools
their code and where stored
Tabs to separate out sections
Other ToolsLetters
List of ThemesList of Sets

Sunday, August 22, 2021

 Genealogy

So from time to time I get into Genealogy for a bit then I get distracted and don't for a while.  So recently got a hit on 23 and me for a relative of Pooch's and back and forth with input from his Mom we figured out that the oldest person on Pooch's dad's line had a first wife and their daughter is this persons ancestor.  Was fun figuring it out and finding some new documents that I had misplaced.  

Wiki Tree is a free family tree site where I keep my records though I have tried out many others including AncestryFamily Tree Builder (now part of My Heritage)

Have you done any genealogy or DNA testing?  What have you found?

Friday, August 20, 2021

 New web site, New domain hosting, New attempt at web pages.  I have had extensive interwoven web pages in the past but many links are dead, many topics no longer relevant,   Most of my online interaction is on social media but there is use in having a website to refer people to.

So not sure if going to go back and re-create all my old web pages or if random blog posting will be the right way to do things or if ProtoPage is what I want.  Maybe after I get all the domains moved and initial pages set up on them I'll go thru my old web pages and make blog posts able anything worth keeping.

My Proto Page 

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