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Posted By Kathleen David on March 20, 2019

And now the chance to get the puppet to the person promised is looming as in a week and a half. I need to build it and get the details right. I didn’t know I would have a chance at doing this at all until about three days ago.

Looking at the project, I am glad this is ten years later as it will be easier for me to create it as I have learned a number of skills in that time which will help with this project.

I think the way I would have done it ten years ago would not have done the character justice.

I do believe that certain skills are a use it or lose it.

Others, once learned, are never forgotten entirely but one can be really rusty as to how something is done.

Knowledge is a cumulative process. You start at one point and learn. You add to the basics that you know and expand on that knowledge gaining more.

I firmly believe that I haven’t even scratched the surface of what I can do with puppetry.

I have all these things I want to try and increase my knowledge of how to build really cool puppets.

So when a challenge like this, I am going to see what I can push to create what I want to do.

I am grateful that others have broken down the costume so I have a prayer of making it look right.

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Posted By Kathleen David on March 18, 2019

But it is not having the desired effect.

Caroline’s Robot team won the Chairman’s award and will be going to nationals. I am very proud of her and her team for all their hard work.

The rest of the month is pretty much normal with a couple of conventions tucked in there for good measure.

I know what my next puppet is going to be since I promised it probably ten years ago. More on that when I get it moving. But I have two weeks to do it in. And repair some others.

Right now I need to get this day moving the right direction.

I am grateful for cosplayers who have broken down what I need to do.

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Posted By Kathleen David on March 17, 2019

We went to our Irish Pub and had our annual corn-beef and cabbage while I raised a pint.

The parade started down by where we were and went east from there.

A lot of happy people milling about on a lovely day for it.

The cats are happy that Caroline is home. Her team won the Chairman’s award for their work so she is pretty happy.

Sort of a small pause before the month starts up again.

I am grateful for low key celebrations.

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Posted By Kathleen David on March 16, 2019

They decided for many reasons this year to hold the Saint Patrick’s Day parade in NYC on Saturday rather than Sunday. 

Our local parade is slated for tomorrow and I expect will be well attended since it usual is.  I am very glad that we have back roads that only the locals use because you will take out an axle with the potholes unless you know how to drive it.

The LIRR declared no open containers of alcohol on the trains from 5 pm Friday until Monday morning. Not that people won’t sneak their booze, but they might be a little more discrete about it.

It is amazing to me how many people of Irish heritage come out of the woodwork for this holiday.

Also I still do not understand the green bagels and green beer this time of year. Neither looks appetizing. The bagels look moldy to me.

I do plan to go to my favorite Irish pub and have a pint and some food. They always have good music and the like on St. Patty’s Day.

But that’s about it. I have no real need to be part of the crowd watching the parade. I have been in NYC during the parade and it took me forty minutes to cross a street. Also didn’t like all the beer that was sloshing around the streets.

Instead I will celebrate the Saint’s feast day that my youngest brother is named after.

There was a time in this country where I live that being Irish meant that housing and jobs were hard to find. “No Irish need apply” was the sign in the window. The Irish were drunks and lazy. They were Catholic and were going to have so many children that the Catholic Church would take over the United States (I read this in an op-ed piece in the Atlanta paper when I was going through microfiche for a paper I was writing in college.) They are stupid, ignorant, and a burden on society.

The parade was a way to show pride in their heritage or that is how it started out. Now it is so much of a tradition like the Macy’s Thanksgiving parade and the Puerto Rican Parade along with the Pride parade, which will be celebrating 50 years this year.

I am proud of my Irish heritage just as I am proud of my Polish heritage. I guess I just don’t need a day to be Irish.

I am grateful to my ancestors without whom I would not be here.

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Posted By Kathleen David on March 15, 2019

Forty-nine people are dead with who knows how many more injured in an attack by white terrorist(s) on two Mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand.

There was apparently a white supremacist manifesto published on various right wing places on the Internet and the attack was, for a short time, streamed live on Facebook.

I am sure we will find out a lot about the terrorists and their beliefs. I don’t care. They have informed us of their character by their actions, which are despicable and cowardly. Killing people in their house of worship is the lowest of the low.

There are so many things wrong with what happened it is hard to process what happened.

My heart is with the people of New Zealand as they have to work through what happened. My sympathies to everyone affected by this senseless tragedy. My prayers for the dead and the injured who were doing nothing but going to their house of worship to pray.

I think after I post this, I am getting of the Internet for the rest of the day before I say something I will regret.

I am grateful that they caught the gunman and the bomb in the car didn’t go off.

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