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Joined: 07 Jun 2005
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Location: Australia
Posted: Tue 07 Jun 2005, 01:35
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Multisession information found where on CD???
Hi, I tracked down this information, I will look into it a bit further once I finish work for the day, but thought I'd post it now so that others can look into it.
Hopefully it is of some use:
Somewhere behind the first 32 k on the CD, a block with information about the CD is located. You can extract the information with the following
shell script:
#! /bin/bash
for i in 32768,7 32776,32 32808,32 32958,128 33086,128 33214,128 \
33342,128 33470,32 33581,16 33598,16 33615,16 33632,16
set -- $i
echo "*`dd if=$RD bs=1 skip=$OFFSET count=$LENGTH 2> /dev/null`#"
Found on webpage:
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Posted: Tue 07 Jun 2005, 02:08
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I do have a good feeling about this.
I do I do I do
Hope it works. This is excellent news. The MS Puppy (Multi-Session) is one of the innovative aspects of Puppy. It is my favourite potentials.
Now I know you said you were busy but you might like to look here . . .
If you scroll to the entry for June 5th
you will find our Pup in Chief, Barry, has been reduced to profanity by the burden of development. . . . (he loves it really)
So Boogle, stick around. You might decide Puppy is worth adopting. Don't those
big Puppy eyes and whimpering
do anything for you . . . ?
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Posted: Tue 07 Jun 2005, 02:54
Post subject:
I did see the projects page a few days ago, and since I tried myself to burn a multi-session disk, but it still made a file on my HD, I decided to find out what was going on.
I to thought it is such a good idea that warranted a bit of time to find a solution.
I actually think that it should default to CD-profile, if it is mult-session, then write back to the CD, otherwise ask the user.
That would be the way I'd see it done.
But automatically choosing HD or CD is fine as long as it works!
I'll be finished up work soon, will then have to cook tea for the masses, and then I'll see if what my redhat server can tell me about the first 32k on both a closed and open CD.
In reference to Barry's June 5 entry, since Barry has got this far, I am suprised there are so few expletives around!!!...
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Posted: Tue 07 Jun 2005, 03:31
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Just ran a few quick tests. 1stly, you need to ensure there is only 1 space in the array of numbers in the for loop. The script I copied had multiple spaces sometimes.
2ndly, so far the data returned just look like the following:
CD name, Info about the software that created the iso image or created the data cd. (So Nero will have a comment here in a Nero Data CD)
And then some dates.
Not very useful so far...
* #
* #
* #
* #
Edit... Additional info:
Still nothing eye catching. I modified the dd statement so that it would just dump a bigger section, unformated.
dd if=/dev/cdrom bs=1 skip=32000 count=9000
CD001LINUX CDROM �yy�
i&� PuTTY MKISOFS ISO 9660/HFS FILESYSTEM BUILDER & CDRECORD CD-R/DVD CREATOR (C) 1993 E.YOUNGDALE (C) 1997 J.PEARSON/J.SCHILLING 2005051623144500�2005051623144500�00000000000000002005051623144500� CD001EL TORITO SPECIFICATION CD001LINUX CDROM �yy�%/E
&� PuTTY MKISOFS ISO 9660_HFS FILESYSTEM BUILDER & CDRECORD CD-R_DVD CREA 2005051623144500�2005051623144500�00000000000000002005051623144500� �CD001MKI Mon May 16 23:14:45 2005
mkisofs 2.09000+0 records in
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Posted: Tue 07 Jun 2005, 06:00
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Ok, time to figure out how a cd works.
What does "finalize" mean?
Finalizing is the process of writing the final TOC (Table of Contents), which allows disks to be played on standard players. Unfinalized CD-R disks can be played on other CD-R recorders, but cannot be played on standard CD players until they have been finalized.
Once finalized, CD-R disks cannot be used for additional recording; the recording is permanent. Unfinalized CD-RW disks can be played on other CD-RW recorders. Unlike CD-R disks, CD-RW disks can be erased. You can erase the last track or the entire disk.
What is a TOC?
It is an acronym for Table of Contents. The TOC contains track and index numbers, track start and end times, and track length information, and is read each time a disk is loaded into a CD player.
So anyway I assume that the TOC needs to be at a pre-defined place... At the start of the disk... We need to have a look at the TOC to see the differences between multisession (one session) open, multisession (more than 1 session on disk) open, multisession closed, single session closed. I will try to find exactly this.
Further information:
On a conventional CD of any flavor, the first information the reader sees is the Table Of Contents (TOC). In CD-DA, the .CDA 'file' specifying each track is a fiction that a file manager (like Explorer) uses.
In a single-session, closed disc
, the TOC contains information which is interpreted by a DOS extension as being a directory. The rules for converting TOC information (including the fact that everything on the disc is read-only) are embedded in the extension, such as DOS's MSCDEX.
On a multisession disc
, the TOC for the first session tells the system where to find the next one - or whether the current one is the last, or whether the disc is now closed. DAO is necessarily single-session (which is why one cannot write DAO tracks in Mixed or CD-Xtra formats).
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Posted: Thu 09 Jun 2005, 11:33
Post subject:
Very interesting!
keep going... the anwer is in there somewhere!
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Posted: Fri 10 Jun 2005, 01:07
Post subject:
The trick is how to read the TOC. Finding out how to do this on the net is like getting the back teeth out of a Bengal tiger.
The standards govening CD burning should give some idea I think.
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Posted: Fri 10 Jun 2005, 06:06
Post subject:
You hit the nail on the head Ian.
I have continued the research, but it's been sparse, lots to do at work.
What I have found out is that when you close a CD it writes the
absolute lead-in
and final TOC in a negative sector.
Which I believe is at -02:32:19 (sector: -11419)
From what I have seen, dd was written initially for disk drives, and doesn't have support for reading negative sectors.
So... What we need is something that will read that section of data, if data exits, the CD is closed.
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Posted: Fri 10 Jun 2005, 06:07
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Arg, forgot to login, that was from me!
Oh, and it is a long weekend here is Australia. I'll finally have some spare time. Still a lot to do. We are having our place tiled in 2 weeks, so we have to move all the furniture...
But still relatively spare time!
For those are interested in CD writing... (This is just a FYI, doesn't help our research much... I found it interesting anyway)
What is the difference between fixation and finalization?
Fixation is the process of completing a CD-R or CD-RW disc session by writing Lead-In (table of contents) and Lead-Out information. Once a disc is fixated it can then be played back in CD and DVD-ROM drives and recorders and consumer electronics devices compatible with the particular disc type and format. It is also possible to record additional information later to create a multisession disc. Finalization, on the other hand, completely closes the disc so no further material can be added.
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Posted: Fri 10 Jun 2005, 08:34
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Hrm, those sectors are a dead end, they contain ATIP information, and isn't useful to our cause.
Learn more about ATIP (Pre-Groove) here:
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Posted: Fri 10 Jun 2005, 08:38
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Dang it logged me out again...
Anyway, I am looking for the "final table of contents" (TOC) at the moment.
There are enough references to it on the web, but not it's location on the disk.
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Posted: Fri 10 Jun 2005, 11:17
Post subject:
I also happened to stumble across a program called cdrdao which might just give you the information you're after with its disk-info command. Its hosted on source forge, cdrdao.
I found some info here, I had a bit of a look, seems like it moght contain other good lead....
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Posted: Tue 21 Jun 2005, 03:34
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Hrm, It's been a while, so many things to do.
I had a quick look at cdrdao, not sure if it can get much further:
# cdrdao disk-info --device 0,0,0
Cdrdao version 1.1.7 - (C) Andreas Mueller <email@example.com>
SCSI interface library - (C) Joerg Schilling
Paranoia DAE library - (C) Monty
Check http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/drives.html#dt for current driver tables.
Using libscg version 'andreas-0.5-UNIXWARE_Patch'
0,0,0: ASUS CRW-5224A Rev: 1.35
ERROR: No driver found for 'ASUS CRW-5224A', available drivers:
For all recent recorder models either the 'generic-mmc' or
the 'generic-mmc-raw' driver should work.
Use option '--driver' to force usage of a driver, e.g.: --driver generic-mmc
The useful information in the above about 'CRW' etc, can also be obtained using:
cdrecord -scanbus
# cdrecord -scanbus
Cdrecord 2.0 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 J�rg Schilling
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24
Using libscg version 'schily-0.7'
cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version (schily - Red Hat-scsi-linux-sg.c-1.75-RH '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c 1.75 02/10/21 Copyright 1997 J. Schilling').
0,0,0 0) 'ASUS ' 'CRW-5224A ' '1.35' Removable CD-ROM
0,1,0 1) *
0,2,0 2) *
0,3,0 3) *
0,4,0 4) *
0,5,0 5) *
0,6,0 6) *
0,7,0 7) *
The following readme is all about using cdrecord to burn multisession disks.
Unfortunatly it uses the msinfo command already found to cause problems by Barry.
Next step is to check if cdrecord is able to retrieve the following data:
1) The first block (sector) number in the first track of the last session
This must be '0' in our case.
2) The next writable address in the unwritten session following the current.
This should be the number of sectors written in the first
run + ~ 11400 sectors for about 22MB lead out/in
For the first additional session this is 11250 sectors lead-out/lead-in
overhead + 150 sectors for the pre-gap of the first track after the
lead-in = 11400 sectos.
For all further session this is 6750 sectors lead-out/lead-in
overhead + 150 sectors for the pre-gap of the first track after the
lead-in = 6900 sectors.
To get this information type:
cdrecord -msinfo dev=2,0
The output should be two numbers separated by a comma.
e.g.: 0,204562
The first number is (1), the second number is (2).
I found that readme in with a mass of others about cdrecord and related utils.
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Posted: Tue 21 Jun 2005, 03:45
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Actually I looked further into cdrdao and there does appear to be many useful options.
show-toc - prints out toc and exits
toc-info - prints out short toc-file summary
toc-size - prints total number of blocks for toc
read-toc - create toc file from audio CD
read-cd - create toc and rip audio data from CD
read-cddb - contact CDDB server and add data as CD-TEXT to toc-file
show-data - prints out audio data and exits
read-test - reads all audio files and exits
disk-info - shows information about inserted medium
msinfo - shows multi session info, output is suited for scripts
unlock - unlock drive after failed writing
blank - blank a CD-RW
scanbus - scan for devices
simulate - shortcut for 'write --simulate'
write - writes CD
copy - copies CD
commands such as these are returning interesting results. Unfortunatly I have moved these computers into a different room because of tiling going on. For another 2 or 3 days, the CD in the drive a CDRW... and I can't switch it as it's crammed against the wall. And I can't be bothered taking out the computer before it (windows machine) to get to it just at the moment.
Hopefully someone can run these commands over some different media. closed and open CD's etc...
Here are the results for my CD-RW: (I made bold some of the more interesting lines returned...)
[root@linuxserver root]# cdrdao show-toc --device 0,0,0 --driver generic-mmc
ERROR: Missing toc-file.
Cdrdao version 1.1.7 - (C) Andreas Mueller <firstname.lastname@example.com>
SCSI interface library - (C) Joerg Schilling
Paranoia DAE library - (C) Monty
Check http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/drives.html#dt for current driver tables.
Usage: cdrdao show-toc [-v #] toc-file
[root@linuxserver root]# cdrdao msinfo --device 0,0,0 --driver generic-mmc
Cdrdao version 1.1.7 - (C) Andreas Mueller <email@example.com>
SCSI interface library - (C) Joerg Schilling
Paranoia DAE library - (C) Monty
Check http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/drives.html#dt for current driver tables.
Using libscg version 'andreas-0.5-UNIXWARE_Patch'
0,0,0: ASUS CRW-5224A Rev: 1.35
Using driver: Generic SCSI-3/MMC - Version 2.0 (options 0x0000)
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Posted: Thu 11 Aug 2005, 00:15
Post subject: Multisession CD Bibliography
Multisession CD Bibliography
ANSI T13 ATAPI Technical committee
Home page
BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive Services
- working draft 5 Nov 2004
ATAPI Command Set
by Hale Landis
Enhanced IDE FAQ and Utilities
Enhanced IDE/Fast-ATA/ATA-2 FAQ
from 2000
, mostly for audio CDs but still a lot of info.
Example Subject:
[4-16] My multi-session disc only has data from the last session
CD-R/W Encoder Decoder with ATAPI interface
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"The Master," Paul Thomas Anderson's imposing, confounding and altogether amazing new film, is partly concerned with the life and work of one Lancaster Dodd, leader of a therapeutic, quasi-religious cult known as the Cause. Dodd's "process," a stew of Freud, hypnosis and carnival sideshow mumbo-jumbo, is based on a kind of mental time travel. The subject is led, by a series of pointed, painful questions, on a search for past trauma — earlier in life, before birth, in a previous existence — that can be identified as the source of negative emotion and destructive behavior in the present.
At a certain point Dodd modifies his theory, suggesting that instead of "remembering" our prenatal past, our minds "imagine" it. This shift leads to some consternation among his followers (notably a wealthy benefactor played by Laura Dern), and it may also fuel the audience's skepticism about this charismatic mountebank, brought to life by Philip Seymour Hoffman with the flair and precision of a great concert pianist.
More showman than shaman — he holds his followers in thrall with jokes, dinner-table toasts and bawdy songs — Dodd is so adept at the performance of sincerity that he may long ago have fooled himself into believing the bizarre doctrines he seems to pull out of thin air. "The Master," meanwhile, is rigorously agnostic about his methods and intentions, refusing the temptations of satire and gazing fondly at Dodd's follies even as it notes the brutal way he and his acolytes deal with doubters and heretics. This semi-sympathetic stance makes sense, since the film, a glorious and haunting symphony of color, emotion and sound, is very much its own Cause.
Our minds sometimes play tricks on us, substituting invention for memory. Movies turn this lapse into a principle, manufacturing collective fantasies that are often more vivid, more real, than what actually happened. "The Master," unfolding in the anxious, movie-saturated years just after World War II, is not a work of history in the literal or even the conventionally literary sense. The strange and complicated story it has to tell exists beyond the reach of doubt or verification. The cumulative artifice on display is beautiful — camera movements that elicit an involuntary gasp, passages in Jonny Greenwood's score that raise the hair on the back of your neck, feats of acting that defy comprehension — but all of it has been marshaled in the pursuit of a new kind of cinematic truth. This is a movie that defies understanding even as it compels reverent, astonished belief.
Lancaster Dodd bears a clear resemblance to L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology, and there are strong echoes of Hubbard's Dianetics in the theory and practice of the Cause, but viewers of "The Master" hoping for insight into the prehistory of Tom Cruise's love life will be disappointed. Hubbard's rise is the kernel of this film much in the way that the career of the early-20th-century California oil tycoon Edward L. Doheny was the seed from which Mr. Anderson (assisted by Upton Sinclair's muckraking novel "Oil!") coaxed the lurid blossom that was "There Will Be Blood." The stiff, theatrical pseudo-realism of period drama is the last thing on this director's mind.
In "The Master" the production designers Jack Fisk and David Crank have produced a sensuous, richly detailed and absolutely plausible vision of 1950, and the cinematographer, Mihai Malaimare Jr., takes advantage of the density and sheen of the 70-millimeter format to approximate the lush visual grandeur of mid-50s melodrama. The specters of Eisenhower-era auteurs like George Stevens, Max Ophuls, Nicholas Ray and Douglas Sirk hover just outside the frame, along with the ghosts of the spiritual seekers, sexual adventurers and shellshocked veterans who dotted the American landscape at the dawn of the atomic age.
Which brings us to Freddie Quell, an alcoholic wreck played with sly, manic ferocity by Joaquin Phoenix. "The Master" is really more Freddie's story than Dodd's, and some of the film's drama resides in the struggle between the two characters — and perhaps the two actors — for supremacy. "You'll be my protégé and my guinea pig," Dodd says to Freddie shortly after their first meeting. There turns out to be a lot more to it than that. They are father and son, guru and disciple, passionate friends and bitter competitors locked in a relationship whose sexual undercurrents are as palpable and mysterious as the motion of water under the surface of the ocean.
After serving with the Navy in the Pacific war, Freddie, a native of Lynn, Mass., washes up in California like a bit of human flotsam. Psychiatric interviews before his discharge confirm what a few wartime scenes have already suggested, namely that this guy is a mess. Shown a series of Rorschach inkblots, he sees only genitalia. Asked to account for his strange behavior, he mumbles and equivocates. Though Freddie finds work at a department store and, later, in the cabbage fields of Salinas, his real vocation is inventing and consuming cocktails made of paint thinner, darkroom chemicals, household cleaning supplies and whatever else is at hand.
Dodd offers treatment (and samples Freddie's concoctions), but the film does not supply a diagnosis. Freddie's menacing oddness may result from those potions, from the war or from some other buried trouble that has left him, as Dodd puts it, "aberrated." There is certainly pain in Freddie's past, including a lost love (Madisen Beaty) summoned to the screen during a therapeutic session with Dodd. But no single cause could account for the tangle of tics and urges that make up Freddie's personality. Mr. Phoenix, his shoulders hunched, his speech barely intelligible, his face twisted, pushes his performance beyond the psychological gestures of the Method (which was very much in vogue in the early days of Dianetics) into a zone of pure, feral, improvisatory being.
Mr. Hoffman, in contrast, presents an integrated, highly nuanced, supremely Methodical self to the camera. The two actors work in a counterpoint that expresses not only the diverging temperaments of the men they are playing but also some of the contradictions of their era. Dodd (whose name is rarely uttered aloud in the film) is, to himself and his followers, the very incarnation of success, with the discipline of a scientist and the drive of an entrepreneur.
Freddie's creased and haggard face is a road map of failure. But the Master is also a charlatan and a tyrant, driven by vanity and paranoia as much as by any rational ambition. And Freddie, however damaged he may be, is at the same time a person of unquestionable sincerity. Neither he nor Dodd is a stable, singular entity. Each is, in turn, hero and villain, master and disciple, con man and patsy.
The third voice — the one that binds the film together — belongs to Peggy Dodd (Amy Adams), the latest of the Master's several wives and the hidden hand that directs his empire. Peggy, who is either pregnant or holding a child in almost all of her scenes, embodies a familiar feminine ideal, and Ms. Adams does nothing to subvert the image of a perfect mother and helpmeet. What she does is show, plainly and gracefully, how the pursuit of such perfection can be monstrous.
At times "The Master" seems entirely populated by monsters, though occasionally someone — in particular Dodd's cynical son Val (Jesse Plemons) — will sound a note of common sense. But common sense does not much interest Mr. Anderson, who glimpses the reflection of his own ambition in the aspirations of his characters, and who rewrites the rules of filmmaking at will.
He has never made a western — "Punch-Drunk Love," a tale of righteous revenge starring Adam Sandler, probably comes closest — but all of Mr. Anderson's six feature films to date are at least partially meditations on the American West. "Hard Eight" takes place in Reno; "Boogie Nights," "Magnolia" and "Punch-Drunk Love" in the San Fernando Valley; and "There Will be Blood" in the oil fields of Southern California. "The Master" travels east — to New York, Philadelphia and England — but its geographic touchstones are the Pacific Ocean and the Arizona desert.
In all of those places, and at every point in history, Mr. Anderson discovers the perpetual promise of new beginnings and a poisonous backwash of anomie, violence and greed. In his world fortunes are constantly being made and squandered. New religions are springing to life. Gamblers, pornographers, hustlers and drunks are plumbing the mysteries of existence. Fathers are at war with their biological and symbolic sons. Husbands are at war with wives. Men are at war with the universe, perversely convinced that they have a chance of winning.
All of this striving — absurd, tragic, grotesque and beautiful — can feel like too much. "The Master" is wild and enormous, its scale almost commensurate with Lancaster Dodd's hubris and its soul nearly as restless as Freddie Quell's. It is a movie about the lure and folly of greatness that comes as close as anything I've seen recently to being a great movie. There will be skeptics, but the cult is already forming. Count me in.
"The Master" is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian). Nudity, sex, smoking and drinking, much of it in a dubious cause.


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|Step 1
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Microsoft announces Surface tablet computer with Windows 8
Updated June 19, 2012 9:10 a.m. ET
(CBS News) Microsoft announced the Surface tablet computer Monday at an event in Los Angeles. Chief executive officer Steve Ballmer took the stage at Milk Studios to show off the company's new tablet.
The Microsoft Surface features a 10.6-inch display, a full version of the Windows 8 operating system, Gorilla Glass, a built in kickstand and a tactile multi-touch keyboard.
"We wanted to give Windows 8 its own hardware innovation. Something new, different, a whole new family of computing devices from Microsoft," said Ballmer.
Full coverage of Microsoft at Tech Talk
Steven Sinofsky, president of Windows, took the stage after Balmer to highlight the features of the Surface tablet. Microsoft's new tablet come installed with Microsoft Office, has a 3 millimeter smart cover that doubles as a keyboard and uses a stylus. The Surface's stylus is described as using "digital ink," which reads at 600 dots per inch (dpi).
Two versions of the tablet were announced: An Intel-powered Surface Pro and the Surface RT, which is powered with an ARM chip that runs Windows RT - a version of Windows 8. The Surface is touted as the "first PC with a magnesium case." The Windows RT tablet will come in a 32GB or 64GB model, while the Windows 8 Pro model will be be available in 64 GB d 128 GB models.
"Less than 2 lbs, less than 14 millimeters, but it's a full PC," said Michael Angiulo, corporate vice president for Microsoft. The Windows RT model is slightly slimmer, at 9.3 millimeters.
Microsoft has historically been a software company. This is the software giant's first foray into hardware.
"Suggested retail pricing will be announced closer to availability and is expected to be competitive with a comparable ARM tablet or Intel Ultrabook-class PC. OEMs will have cost and feature parity on Windows 8 and Windows RT," Microsoft said in a press release.
Video of the Microsoft Surface below.


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or that even if you do the same tradition every year and take pictures every year, you should still post? i.e. decraytin' the tree.
here we are again...everyone's a little taller! whew!
but these are our memories and this is our story. and it's good to document your life for your kids. and actually for you. because you don't sleep, silly. you'll forget!
(penelope was the first choice for the tree topper)
i've said, no more lost stories.
be a good steward of your families memories.
blaa, blaa, blaa.
well even though i've been a total slacker lately, i still believe this. on that same note, i still believe you should be commenting on your friend's blogs and encouraging them...hey! i read this! keep writing! your story is so important! instead of being jealous or rolling our eyes at one another. we say, look at the perfect mom over there...ugg...i hate her. instead of saying, awesome job being a mom!thanks for the ideas! we don't say that because we are self consumed. let us look outside of ourselves. and lets stop being jealous and mean. let's be encouragers.
so ya, i believe that. even though i have not even looked at people's blogs this week. and therefore have not commented. blogger forgive me, for i have sinned.
but i have really sometimes unintentionally and sometimes intentionally just unbusied my days during this month. and it's been really great. i am still working on being present though. it seems like days get away from me because i'm still stuck in overload busy mode...it's hard to break this habit. but i'm not really crafting as much. and we're doing advent stuff every night. i'm doing shopping online mostly. no lines and crowds. awwwwww....sigh....so nice.
i crave those Jesus-ee christmas carols. on our radio stations we get mostly the santa jams and how last christmas i gave you my heart... i want something more.
so ya, it kind of feels weird.
wait, it kind of feels great.
will i do this every year, probs not. so i'm just going to try and bask in this...or something deep like that. basking... meditating... reiterating... wait, that last one didn't fit.
so in honor of posting the mundane. the non-interesting to others outside your fam. and valuing the everyday moments. i bring to you a modern day gift of myrrh and incense. in the form of a blog book giveaway. BLOG2PRINT is giving one of you a voucher for a blog book. the voucher is for $40...which will get a 60 page hardcover or 90 page softcover book.
(here's where nato brings out some tool that's extremely loud to cut the top of the tree when i'm pretty sure scissors would have worked in this situation. or sheers. or something that wouldn't ruin the christmas spirit of it all.)
the thing i love about blog2print is that it does all the work for you. you dont have to design it like the other companies...and although that has it's perks, it's way to time consuming for me. this program just sucks everything out of your blog and slaps it into a published piece of art. so gratifying when that baby comes in the mail. all your memories packaged neatly. put on a shelf to be read over and over again for years to come and hopefully generations.
so to enter this giveaway, you simply leave a comment repenting for not blogging more(ha) and saying what your favorite ornament is. yes. spill it.
i won't say you have to follow this blog to enter. i only want you to be here if you want to be here.
FYI, shipping for blog2print books is as follows if you're trying to order for a christ has gift:
now go TELL YOUR STORY!