I think I'm going to decree today 'Work on PtF' day. I have several journals to update, there's a mess up in one of the features. I have a few things that may work well as features sitting in my inbox. I just need to figure out an effective way to keep coolish and go from there. Mike suggested that I take my work with me to the library at UW and work in the air conditioning. I think he meant my OAC course that I have yet to touch.

*sighs* I wish Idriel (the laptop) was a real laptop... nice and self contained. She's a laptop that needs an external mouse and keyboard and the battery is shot on her too. Enh. I'm tempted to hook her up to Liriel (my comp) and transfer over all the working files for PtF and go to the library anyways. I wouldn't be able to upload anything, but I could maybe get most of the work done in heaven sent coolness. :)

We shall see.

later...

I got sidetracked into unmolding and cutting up the last batch of soap I made. It didn't work out quite as planned. *sighs* There's a lye swirl through most of the soap. How do I know this? I tounge tested it. See lye will 'bite' if it's present in the soap. Hard to explain. Lets just say it's like licking a bar of soap, and then having your tongue burn and sting and it tastes like utter crap.

I may just end up rebatching it, I guess. Bah! Bah!

later still...

If I had actually done what I said I was going to do today, I should be posting right about now about the fully updated PtF. Instead I'm about to get started. I got sidetracked completely by my 6lb batch of potentially sucky soap.

Sucky no more, baby! Since there was the real possibility of me just having to toss the lot, I decided to have some fun and do some experimenting. I rebatched the soap into 4 different types:

Cinnamon - added a tablespoon of ground cinnamon, mixed it up and tossed it into the molds.
Mint - pulled out the rarely used coffee grinder and ground up peppermint super fine, tossed that into the batch, put a few drops of green food colouring, molded it.
Eucalyptus & Mint - ground up more peppermint, took the bottle of eucalyptus I had on my desk, dumped that in, put a bunch of blue food colouring in, mixed it up, molded it.
Plain - Added 2 tablespoons of olive oil, mixed it up, molded it.

What's really cool about this is now I have an idea of how much scent I can get from using straight herbs & spices. Also, my guinea pigs now have a selection of scents and colours to try! (let me know what appeals, k?)

What sucks is with all the rebatching, molding and unmolding I've literally washed my hands 50 times today. Just call me lizard girl.

Anyways, I have a new cool poem to put online, and about a kazillion journal entries to update.