In Vatican City, there are two Popes per square mile.

Why. Does the world. Hate me. I swear it’s rigged against me. 

Okay, let's try this out...

this should be a link to my elemental ski lodge. (If you decide to read it, I wouldn't be sad... heh) 

Oh my gosh, Boo says king!!!! Boo, are you the king?

(yyes) 

SCHOOL IS DONE. SCHOOL IS DONE. SCHOOL IS DONE.

Okay, I haven't really been on this thread before, but I needed a place to rant, so now I'm going to rant about Adobe Illustrator. Consider yourself warned.

So I'm working on this project that's kind of complicated and I had it all finished and ready to be submitted to be laser cut and then I realized I had overlooked a major design flaw. So I'm like, okay, deep breaths, I can fix this, and I thought it through and came up with a solution and reversed the thing and then, and THEN, I realized that part of it was backwards. Part, but not all, so I couldn't just 'reflect' the whole thing. And that part in the middle was attached to everything else because I used the 'compound shape' tool to make them go together into one piece and you can't un-compound-shape.

So that's the first thing I hate about Illustrator: you can't un-compound-shape. That was the reason I had to redo my entire project which had taken me an hour or more to make in the first place.

And I went back to the project the next day (today) and started to work on fixing it and I came across the other thing I hate about Illustrator. See, I needed to line up some of the shapes with pieces of the compound shapes in order to redo it because I'd measured it very precisely in the first place and I didn't have the physical thing I was measuring off of (it's at school, and I'm at home). And, you know how there are always these guidelines? They're supposed to help you line up your things, but they aren't very smart and they don't know where I'm trying to line up my thing so they're completely useless.

That's the second thing I hate about Illustrator: they have all of the guidelines except the ones I need.

But I got the shapes in place and moved on to the next piece, which involves a lot of long, skinny rectangles. The icons (stretch and spin and grow and things like that) on the skinny ends of the rectangles are really close together, so I kept trying to click on one and accidentally selecting the other.

That's the third thing I hate about Illustrator: there are too many icons getting in each others' ways!

End rant. 

I made a ranting station for anyone who needed it. I guess it helped. I can tell because it sunk. (It's actually on like the second page of CaC XD)

Does anybody else here do archery?

So I found Owlgirl's Island Paradise Resort Ski Lodge (here, hopefully), and I reread the entire thing (I was never in it, but it's probably the best ski lodge I've ever read), and guess what? She never finished it! So I was wondering if anyone knows anything about where Owlgirl went or if she's still around... I feel like I haven't seen her in a while, but I think she had a post of some sort about leaving or something?

This thread might not be the best place to post this, but I wasn't sure where else to put it. So... yeah! 

Ah, I wish I could make it look cool, but alas, I have no skills.

@Leeli, yes! Last winter I did two subsequent archery classes, both of which were super fun! I've always been nuts about doing archery, probably ever since I read Robin Hood when I was little. I got to shoot compound bows and try composite bows (which I couldn't use because they were just too loose/wobbly for me), and I won second place out of about 20 kids in a shooting contest on the last day. It was soooo fun, and I would love to do more archery sometime but you're not allowed to shoot bows on your property if you live in Portland ME. (Which makes sense, we don't have huge backyards.)