DANIEL CRAIG,

We love action movies – you know the kind you can lose yourself for an hour or two without straining your brain.

Ever since Sean Connery stopped being Bond, James Bond that is… I have not really enjoyed Bond movies…. at all.

So had been stalling each time TH mentioned going to see the new Casino Royale – well on Saturday we ran out of errands – (meaning I was out of excuses) in time to make the “matinee/cheap/1/2 price” show at our small local threater

Wow I am glad I did. The only even vaguely negative thought throughout the entire movie was a fleeting during the first few minutes of the movie – “MMG how can they possible make the rest of the movie as good as this sequence”

Well they did so Ladies and Gentleman, even though

• Roger Moore was a clown,
• Timothy Dalton was dreadful,
• Pierce Brosnan was, well, not believable, but with his looks and mannerisms a woman can forgive a lot – especially when you consider that fencing scene.
• Then there are the other guys whom I cannot even remember – maybe its post-traumatic stress amnesia – their Bonds were so bad, I have to block it from my conscious mind

For me, Bond will always be about believable action and THE LOOK.

It is the look that says, when serious, you are in a world of trouble

And when it has that smirky quirky smile, it says you are about to fall into a whole different kind of heartache – good and bad.

Sean Connery has it and no Bond since him could do quite so much with either the Dead Serious or Smirky Quirky Boyish Babe catching lopsided closemouthed grin.

That first few minutes will rival the plaza scene from Heat (another movie with guys who can do the “look” and firmly set the tone,

It is true

BOND IS BACK
And His Name Is
DANIEL CRAIG

Wheat
already planning to buy the DVD.

TH says that I have my own language. So he suggested the Who-What posts need to include the occasional explanation.

He strongly feels that most people do not understand I say things sometimes either to provoke thought or because it is meant to amuse – he sometimes likens my humor to the Sahara Desert.

So okay, from time to time, I will preface a post with PSA

This is not a Public Service Annoucement (well maybe it is since it meant to protect your keyboard in particular and your computer in general) but rather a suggestion you may want to swallow any liquids before reading further, because the message to come contains a

Possible Spew Alert

Wheat accepts no liability for your failure to practice safe computing and ignoring such notices.

Wheat also understands what while many people won’t get my humor – if it has to be explained, well, you can see where this is going.

Time to venture to the Stupid Market in search of Thursday Grill Ingredients.

Peace of the Season

For some people New Year’s is the time of resolution and change.

For me, it has always been my birthday – and writing has always been how I choose to “get it out of my system” and move on to “what’s next”.

Sometimes I just want to think about the day, or watching a sunrise, or rant/vent about something that is bothering me.

It helps that I needed to get really familiar with WordPress nuances, so there is some motivation

It can get pretty silly around here, so best I explain about “Ventures”.

Ventures come in many forms, Big Ventures, Mini-Ventures, Capital Ventures and now

Blog-A-Ventures – I hope you will join me as I go Blog-A-Venturing and sharing thoughts that just don’t fit anywhere else.

Wheat

TH is such a wonderful man, yesterday, as usual, he came home with the lovliest bouquet of roses.

I am not often “girly” – however, the very first gift he ever gave me, shortly after we met – was a huge bouquet of roses for my birthday.

Each year he goes out and finds not just wonderful roses, but there is always something else “different” in the bouquet. This year was lavender and some interesting green seed pods. The pods – no idea what they were, maybe I will try to scan one and see if anyone can tell me
what they are.

I love that they often last as much as two or three weeks.

Now where did I put my digital camera.

Wheat

Welcome, my name is Wheat Michaline Carr, and to cover the most common question people seem to have:

No I was not born in field,  Wheat is a family name used as a first name – Of course use of a “family/last name” as a first or middle name is not all that uncommon.

Yes, that is the name on the final birth certificate

Michaline is pronounced “Mike-a-lean”

Gender is Female.

Attitude is Native New York Metropolitan

Since 1985, I have been sharing my life with a wonderful man usually referred to as “TH” – neither of us remember the exact date we met but it was one of those moments – neither alcohol or computers were involved-but gadgetry certainly played a part.

Within the Needle Arts Business, I am a wearer of several hats, all closely related – or at least universally bound by string, and as such I have been writing “on-line” for about 20 years or so about string things.

In other words, if it uses any form of string, handwoven or spun, felted, hooked, prodded, embroidered, quilted, and beads (a form of lumpy string don’t you know”) or braided. Strictly as a passion, I am particularly enraptured by Japanese (Kumihimo, TakaDai, etc) and PlySplit Braiding. I can Knit (but generally choose not to since so many are so much better at it than I want to be) and of course, a passionate love of Crochet for more than 50 years. Some might consider me something of a technogeek thanks to my background in telephony and communications (about 45 years) and computers (maybe 30) and more recently “the Internet and the World Wide Web” (approximately 25 years I can document)

• • Hat number 1: Wandering Wolf Design, publisher of independent patterns
    which more or less speaks for itself, however we also do some distribution for Independent designers and book packaging.
  • Hat number 2: Product Development – with a concentration on working with certain publishers and product manufacturers to develop projects and such to support the use of specific materials and tools. (FWIW, I only use ones I like – life is too short ot work with shoddy materials and tools)
  • Hat number 3: Designing Author Development – working with emerging and established designing authors to either help them correct or better yet avoid the normal number of faux paxs comment to all
  • Hat Number 4: Small Business Consultant – acting as an advisor to a select group of clients (usually no more than 25-30) who own “string related” retail businesses as something of a marketing and small business advisor. These are existing and “start up” planning stages and some exisiting, were clients since start up.
  • Hat Number 5 and the oldest relates to integrated voice data systems particularly in Tele-Messaging, live operator services, and telephony which rather interestingly evolved into “the Internet and the web” so in 2007, we will be taking YARNandTHREAD.net beyond just an ISP for our group and expanding it unique perspective to Retailers and others in the Fiber Arts distribution channels.

• • Not Presently Active
    Hat Number 6 – For far too long I have been away from actively “designing” and sometime in 2007 will once again market some basic technique projects under our product line: Frantasy – a division of our Wholesale Company – Wandering Wolf Design.

Business is always business and having made most of the mistakes, I can often help others to avoid them

Over the coming year I hope to share more about each of these and of course our other ventures as part of this blog-a-venture.

The common goal is to create an atmosphere that protects and benefits each designer/author – I am really excited about the changes and emerging opportunities that today’s market challenges are creating.

The Blog-A-Venture Continues…

Wheat