I have so felt this way....

Dude, I know. I know...

Sigh.

wierd

I don't know why, but for the last 2 days I have felt...well...empty. Not in a ennui kind of way. Literally hollow, empty. No particular reason. Its not sorry-for-myself type stuff, week-back-after-vacation stuff (after all I spent my vacation at home doing school work), or loneliness. I just feel physically empty (and yes, I have eaten lunch).

WHO IS IN CHARGE HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have called the entire north american continent (yes folks, us and canada, they don't have a rep in mexico) to find these damn parts. EVERYONE is waiting for the parts shipment from Italy, which is due in September. I personally would loose my job for not maintaining stock properly. At least my customer is understanding. So far...

Brainstorm!

ouuuuuuuuh!

Did I just get an idea!

Based on the end of the previous post, how about a jabberwocky hunt? It could be set up like a sporting clays shoot with participants having to move to different stations and hit a moving target at each one. There are a bunch of models to design from, including a competitive woods shoot that they still do in actual airgun competitions. Space to do it would be the main issue.

Could be fun. Hey, you safari types!

Extra points for steampunk paintball or airsoft guns, but you can use what you have. Different categories maybe?

Steampunk guns

Well, it has happened. I finally got off my buttox and started to make to damn things.

Let me rephrase that. I have started to pull the materials together. I already had a pistol, but now I have a long gun to mod. Big deal, you say. Everyone is moding guns, you say.

Yes, but as I said before somewhere on this blog thing, I am making them work.

Now granted, I have no way of making miniature leyden spheres, but I can make the guns.

What in the name of the sacred bean are you talking about you loon, you ask.

Well, to recap, I am building a steam/diesel transitional persona based on the vernsian.
The guns in 20,000 leagues were air guns that shot miniature leyden (look it up you lazy bums) spheres. What is the modern equivalent...paintball guns. Air guns that shoot spherical objects.

BA AAAAAAAAAAH!

So, I have an old paintball pistol that is still functional that I will be steaming out, and I have just found a tippman a-5 used that I will be modding. I have found a company that already makes custom weapon shrouds for the mil-sim people and they have one that I can screw around with to get the effect I want. Then it is just accessorizing.

Isn't it always down to the acessories?

Did I mention that they will still be functional paintball guns when I am done? Anyone up for a steampunk paintball team?

Again with the changing!

Yep, Again.

What I am going to be adapting to now is a more pan polynesian persona. 5 bucks 5 bucks. Sorry.

I can work with this. It just brings me back to the Maori thing. Not that I have a problem with that mind you. It seems to be the stuff that WANTS to be made, as it keeps falling into my lap. I just don't want to be monotonous. I also don't want to piss anyone off.

For those of you who don't know me, and most of the people who would see me in this stuff and get excited wouldn't know me or my background (and honestly not even care), I am a LARGE white guy, who for the almost 3 years before he moved to Atlanta, spent at least 5 nights a week and most of the weekend with Kalena's Polynesian Ohana, a hula school in Orlando, drumming for Tahitian, doing Wero (Maori challenge), and hanging out with my Samoan, Hawaiian, and Chamorro family. I miss them like gangbusters. I have never come across such a strong sense of family and community in my life. I am proud to be able to say I am a part of it, even after so much time.

And if any of you out there have a problem with a fat haole, palagi, pakeha, or...whatever dancing and drumming, get out and do it yourself.

ALOOOOOOHA!

I Think I finally managed to figure out what I am going to do with my steampunk hawaiian. I have been focused on trying to make a shark tooth knife for so long that I have lost track of other projects, since I haven't the tools, but have the teeth, to create the thing. It has been stagnating. Plus, I have had a time documenting and, more importantly, remembering, the proper pronunciation of the submarine's name. But things may change here soon.

1) Found a place on ebay that I can order CLEAN swordfish bills out of which I can make daggers.
2) I can remember how to pronounce a'u which happens to be the hawaiian for swordfish (vowels are suprisingly like spanish and a vvowel typically indicates a sylable break, so it is two sylables)

So, projects adapt. HEE!

Mea Culpa.

Yeah, I know.

Okay, enough of that. Okay. Well there have been some changes in the old Yul's internet presence...
I have succumbed to Facebook.

Yea how the mighty have fallen. Yadda, yadda.
Enough.

Okay, need to get this thing back on track. Projects need to get posted, since I have them again.

Working on:
mongol belt, as I have finally gotten the knife to go with.
Name- Passed, now arms?
Needle felted alien space tentacle...getting there.
Car fixed...trying to figure out if I want to splurge for the off road bumper I have always wanted (not Cheap)
Ring...waiting to see Bob about stones.

As they happen there will be updates, finally. I promise.