Starting from the end of last month I've been slowly getting back into gardening. My first trial however was today while I was cleaning pots. Horror of horrors I found lots of tiny slugs :(
So onto the web to check out how to dispose of them without harming other plants and animals. Turns out there is a few things that can get rid of them.
Beer ...
Apparently left out at night in a little thin bowl thingy. I don't think I'll need to test that just right now.
Salt!
This worked a treat. However I should have brought the pot undercover so I won't get any on the grass, but meh. It's super effective (spot the reference)! But only works on the ones that you can see and get to. So I'll have to look for additional help.
Also I found two worms in the same pot, so I hurried them along before I exterminated the slugs. Now I want to make/get/construct a worm farm.
Monday, 8 August 2011
Thursday, 10 March 2011
EVE Online Election Time
So finally it has come around. Campaigning and voting for CSM6.
This will be the first time I've participated in the CSM process since the last time I started playing EVE there wasn't one on (not to my knowledge). Unfortunately for me I was unprepared for the miasma of information regarding candidates.
How was I to choose the most worthy representative? And which candidate was a good fit for my interests?
Thankfully on the EVE forums an enterprising citizen had part of the answer. They had made a website that compares your views with that of participating candidates. There was a questionnaire you had to fill in and then once completed, compared it with the candidates answers. Plus most of them gave a bit of extra information on why they felt that way and also if a particular item was extremely important to them.
There was so many good answers, but it still left me with about 7-10 candidates to pick from. So I went on the EVE forums once more to see what they had posted and what the responses were. There was a lot of topics by the candidates and it was clear there was a few that would definitely get voted on, just by the shear size of the alliance and friends backing their candidate.
Hopefully mine will get chosen to fill a seat at the CSM table. There are nine spots with various roles and of course a few places reserved for the alternates in case of members quitting or scandal, as is what happened a month or so ago (and indeed several times during the history of CSM).
Now we just have to wait and see at the beginning of April for the election outcomes. My fingers are crossed that we get a good selection.
On a completely different note, I've decided to only update my deviant art journal and not this one just to save time for the Sketch a Day posts.
This will be the first time I've participated in the CSM process since the last time I started playing EVE there wasn't one on (not to my knowledge). Unfortunately for me I was unprepared for the miasma of information regarding candidates.
How was I to choose the most worthy representative? And which candidate was a good fit for my interests?
Thankfully on the EVE forums an enterprising citizen had part of the answer. They had made a website that compares your views with that of participating candidates. There was a questionnaire you had to fill in and then once completed, compared it with the candidates answers. Plus most of them gave a bit of extra information on why they felt that way and also if a particular item was extremely important to them.
There was so many good answers, but it still left me with about 7-10 candidates to pick from. So I went on the EVE forums once more to see what they had posted and what the responses were. There was a lot of topics by the candidates and it was clear there was a few that would definitely get voted on, just by the shear size of the alliance and friends backing their candidate.
Hopefully mine will get chosen to fill a seat at the CSM table. There are nine spots with various roles and of course a few places reserved for the alternates in case of members quitting or scandal, as is what happened a month or so ago (and indeed several times during the history of CSM).
Now we just have to wait and see at the beginning of April for the election outcomes. My fingers are crossed that we get a good selection.
On a completely different note, I've decided to only update my deviant art journal and not this one just to save time for the Sketch a Day posts.
Wednesday, 2 March 2011
Day Two
Beach Time!!! Woohoo!!!
But naw, seriously I could only stay go for an hour (it was really hot). So I did a quick sketch of the beach and sea, and then I did some debris sketches.
I only had a 6B pencil with me at the time.
Part of the sides and bottom was cut off though :(
A few shells, some driftwood and a leaf.
As always to see the full image just click on it ^_^
But naw, seriously I could only stay go for an hour (it was really hot). So I did a quick sketch of the beach and sea, and then I did some debris sketches.
I only had a 6B pencil with me at the time.
Part of the sides and bottom was cut off though :(
A few shells, some driftwood and a leaf.
As always to see the full image just click on it ^_^
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