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I’m mess’n around with Microsoft Tags. Not familiar with it? Basically its a 2D BarCode, you can go to Microsoft’s site and check it out. While at Microsoft’s site you can check out how to make one yourself for your own website or promotions. Awesome tool for sending people to contests that will be exclusive to the smartphone users, etc.

You will need the Microsoft Tag App for your smart phone to be able to scan the Microsoft Tags.  You can go to http://gettag.mobi to get the App for most smart phones.

I’m going to be playing around with the design but for now you can scan the below barcode from your mobile phone and it will take you to this website.

The Buckner Building in Whittier, Alaska

The Buckner Building stands abandoned in Whittier, Alaska. Where is Whittier, Alaska you ask? Whittier is on the northeast shore of the Kenai Peninsula, at the head of Passage Canal. It is on the west side of Prince William Sound, 75 miles southeast of Anchorage. It lies at approximately 60° 46′ N Latitude, 148° 41′ W Longitude.

The building itself is 299,369/273,660 square feet and was completed in 1953, it was built as a Military Troop Headquarters. It was abandoned in 1960 when the Army pulled out of Whittier and the 1964 quake, 9.2 on the Richter scale, left the building damaged and uninhabitable. The building had the name City under one roof due to the fact that it had everything the occupants living in the 1000 apartments could need. Besides the 1000 apartments the building also contained a huge mess hall, a 300 seat theater, a hospital, jail, school, bank branch, 5 elevators, laundry facility and many other small shops.

The building has been up for sale/lease since 1975, if my research is correct. The 1975 article in the Anchorage Daily News is here. The for sale info can be found here. Oh… the sale price is only $1,500,000 which doesn’t include the asbestos cleanup that will have to be done AND any demo materials must be sent out by barge…just so ya know.

Below are some photos I have found around the interwebs. Clicking on any photo will take you to its photographer or source website, I claim no fame to any of the above or below photos.

We will only get two more years after this to be able to have a triple number day. Then we have to wait a hundred years.

Just want to post real quick to apologize for not posting much or often. I’m struggling with stress making me lethargic and apathetic. Good news is I’m decorating at work so I’m not a complete quitter. Heh!

Plus it has been getting cold and I’m not a winter person, I tend to hibernate. I seriously need to get out of Alaska, but that isn’t going to happen for a few years. So I have to tough it out.

I’m going to try to do some posting soon.

Happy October 1st!!!

So there are recalls on eggs, recalls on Deli meat from Walmart. Recalls for toys, cars, childrens medicines, pet food… Recalls on the recalls.

I have mentioned before that I would like to have a gated community for Artists, Haunters and Halloween enthusiasts. So now I’m thinking maybe we should all pitch in and buy 400+ acres of farm land somewhere. We can raise our own food, have our funky studios decorated the way we want without the neighbors freaking out about property values. We could have beef cows for all you meat eaters and lots of veggies and fruits for the Vegtabletarians.

Heck I’m looking on Land and Farm right now and there are wonderful deals to be had!!!!

Lets go make some Koolaid!!!

It’s an actual question to myself…where have I been? Why have I not gotten in the swing of things and blogged more? Why don’t I surf for Halloween and Spooky goodness online instead of wasting my time on Facebook, playing Farmville? Why don’t I spend more time in the Skullery?

I honestly can’t answer any of those questions.  I have been lurking online, besides playing Farmville, which I actually only play once/twice a day and for a short time. I lurk on all of the other blogger’s sites trying to find some flame to stick under my butt to get me going. So many are creating wonderful things that instead of feeling inspired I started to feel over whelmed.
I push myself way to hard and expect the moon of myself. Instead of that being a good thing it makes me shut down instead. I start new projects, leaving others to collect dust, which then makes me feel like I’m not succeeding at anything.

I know that part of my problem is seeing so many artists that do art full time, it is their life, and then I try to make self be able to create as much as they do. Ummm… self, your forgetting one key thing here. You work for a living being a Computer tech, 8 hours of your day is spent away at work, then there is roughly 8 hours of sleep,  another 2 of that is prep time for either work or driving to it. That leaves roughly 6 hours which we can take about 2 for eating dinner and dinner prep, now I’m down to 4. Four hours left in the day to do something all on my own…the dogs get some of that, and I get the rest. What do I do? I relax and typically do nothing, why? I feel tired from work and then feel like I let myself down because I didn’t use up 2 hours in the Skullery.

I have got to reconfigure how I think of things. Obviously work is not something I can change…actually, there is something I can do but it would take them finally hiring a third person in our department. Once I’m able I’m going to work four 10 hour days, that will give me three days off to do what I wish with. But…until that happens, and it is out of my control, I need to rethink/reconfigure how I do things.
I have to start with forgiving myself for those days I do nothing. If they happen often enough then I can start kicking myself in the self to get me motivated. Down time is always much needed but too much of it is just laziness, which I have had an over abundance of in my life.

I have got to ease up on the self. This isn’t a competition… and if it is, who exactly am I competing with?

*This post was brought to you by Brain. Brain, although good natured, can be a bit over stimulated at times. Self just tries to keep up and roll with the coaster.

Here we are on Friday the 13th, the only one we will have this year so enjoy every minute of it folks! Did you know that the fear of Friday the 13th is called Friggatriskaidekaphobia? There is a bunch of info over on Wiki concerning Friday the 13th, you can find it here.
Mostly the Friday the 13th became to be known as an unlucky day because of the belief that Friday was an unlucky day and that the number 13 was an unlucky number, combine the two and you have super unlucky.

Google has a really cool time-line for Friday the 13th.

Hope you guys have a wonderfully spooky day!!

It’s 90 days until Halloween and I’m starting to feel the season wrap its lovingly spooky arms around me. Looking around on Facebook I see lots and lots of Halloween updates from the Home Haunters creating props, the Pro Haunts building theirs and the artists creating tons of new spooky art.
I do love Halloween year round but there is no other feeling than the months right before Halloween. I tend to walk around with a stoopid grin on my face with it only getting worse if I happen across something Halloween related.

I have a bit of predicament though. I do love Halloween and I love building full size Halloween props…but, yes there is a but, I have no where to store them! Cucur and Mauly have spent this whole time in my living room, which I don’t mind, but… I’m going to run out of room for my furniture if I keep at it.
I had decided months ago to attempt to switch over to smaller Spooky art that I could sell. That is going very slowly but I am moving forward…now another predicament. My brother wants me to haunt his yard this year and I want to build a few ghosts for the yard.  UGH!!! I need a dammed garage!! Heck, I need a whole nother house!

Even though I have those little predicaments… I’m still geeking all over the place over Halloween season creeping into the air!!

Kimily’s missing mind has been found! In fact it wasn’t actually lost, the mind had wandered so far into the Imagination that it only appeared to be lost.

The mind reports finding some fun, yet disturbing, things within the Imagination. The mind can’t seem to keep itself away from this fun disturbing place and Kimily’s brain keeps complaining that she needs to do other mundane thinking type tasks.

The mind has also contemplated mutiny against the brain. Upon hearing of this the brain caused a reflex reaction in the leg, which caused the leg to kick out, striking the toes against a hard surface. Needless to say, the pain response gave the brain the upper hand…for now.

Kimily can’t come to the Blog right now, she has currently lost her mind and is off in search of it. If you have seen said mind please leave a comment below with a time, date and location of the sighting. We miss the psychic apparatus terribly and want for its immediate return.

Thank you,

Brain