The costume is nearly complete

I'm still waiting on my under tunic and I have to make adjustments to the shoulder pieces under the armor so they are fastened down versus just resting on my shoulders. I still have to make some more adjustments to the shin greaves so they sit correctly but I walked around for about an hour in it all tonight doing various things and it wasn't that bad at all. I thought it was going to be alot more uncomfortable.
Next year I hopefully will be able to get arm pieces, shoulder armor, a better cape, and fur pieces for the top of the cape the tunic sleeves. But here it is so far =)


Here is what I'm sort of modeling off of for next year(the one with the wold cape). Obviously with my own changes like an white artic fox and white rabbit pelts instead of that flattened wolf one.
http://home.att.net/~mattmp/general.htm
The guy who's selling that whole outfit minus the sword and helmet wants $1840.00 for it. And the breast plate isn't even metal. It's made of some resin material.

When I get lazy

It cost me $10 to catch a cab to the station.

I don't see how you people do this normal sleep thing. Now that I've been going to be at about 1am and getting like 7 hours of sleep a night I've been so lethargic getting out of bed. Of course I roll over for another 20 minutes which puts me out of the bus window since they run ever 45 minutes past my house.

But today is Van's boutique opening. (vousboutique.com) That should be great to check out her new space. I wish her the best of luck. Pretty crazy to open your own place right out of school.

I'd like to go get a new suit sometime soon. Anyone want to go shopping sometime?

Spare change

So a coworker has a pint glass of spare change she's collected from lunch and various other locations. And I have a quirk where even if I have change in my pocket when purchasing things I opt to break a dollar bill instead so I have more change. At the end of the night all my collected change goes into a large glass root beer jug I have. And of course I never have a clue how much is in there. So I decided to sit down and figure out just how much change on average one should have per cubic inch of container.

One would need to figure out what the average mix of change would be. Here's where I turn to last years annual report for the US Mint on their coinage production last year.
Pennies: 6,836,000,000
Nickels: 1,445,040,000
Dimes: 2,487,500,000
Quarters: 2,401,600,000
So the ratio breaks out to be 6,836,000,000/1,445,040,000/2,487,500,000/2,401,600,000 or roughly 473/100/172/166. That equals $68.43.

Now I would just need to take those numbers of coins and see how much space they take up. There should be enough coins to average out the difference in how the coins settle into a container. Finally I would divide $68.43 by the space in cubic inches to get the average amount of change worth per cubic inch.

Anyone get me the space 473 pennies, 100 nickels, 172 dimes, and 166 quarters works out to be? =)