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With another daylight savings time change upon us, you may notice that the timestamps on the Arena are off by 1 hour from your actual time. Here is the simple way to fix that:

Go to "Profile" -> "Look and Layout"
The third setting is "Time Offset", click the "(auto detect)" link...the little number in the box should automatically adjust itself
Click "Change profile" at the bottom of the page

And done!

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This year I took the plunge and joined the Desert Bus craft-a-long (more details in my Off Topic thread about DB), with one of my plastic canvas Hogwarts Express trains. Nearly 3 feet long! This thing took about 80 hours to stitch and assemble (that's not including the time spent on designing all of the patterns). All made of plastic canvas and yarn.

It'll be part of DB's silent auction (https://desertbus.org/silent-auction/39) - exact date still to be posted (I'll updated once details are up). I'm nervous and excited to see how much it'll go for! Plus it might help bring in some exposure to my Etsy shop.

This is a revised pattern from my first Hogwarts Express, but very similar. The engine is a tissue box cover, the coal bin is a candy dish/napkin holder/etc, and the passenger car lifts off to reveal a 3-compartment storage area.

On to pics!
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Original train (and coasters):
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Here's another fun "get to know you thing" I found on Facebook.

Using only ONE WORD, answer each question! Its not as easy as you think!

1. Where is your cell phone? desk
2. Your hair? drying
3. Your dad? baseball
4. Your other half? raiding
5. Your favorite food? nutella
6. Your dream last night? work
7. Your favorite drink? tea
8. Your dream/goal? etsy
9. What room you are in? office
10. Your hobby? crafts
11. Your fear? spiders
12. Your home away from home? arena
13. Where were you last night? parents
14. Something that you aren't? tall
15. Muffins? chocolate
16. Wish list item? ponies
17. Where you grew up? brantford
18. Last thing you did? shower
19. What are you wearing now? housecoat
20. Your TV? cable
21. Your pets? bunnies
22. Friends? great
23. Your life? good
25. Missing someone? sure
26. Car? pretty
27. Something you're not wearing? socks
28. Your favorite movie w/one word title? hitch
29. Your favorite color? green
30. When is the last time you laughed? morning
31. Last time you cried? week
32. One place that I go to over and over? michaels
33. Person who messages me regularly? hubby
34. My favorite place to eat? tims


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I'm re-doing my pony room and purging some stuff here and there. In the purge pile are all my G3 backcards and pamplets. I'm wondering if there's any interest in them, otherwise they'll go out for recycling.

I'm looking to get rid of them all at once = 1 lot of backcards and 1 lot of pamplets (combined if someone wants both), I am not going to do these individually. Just asking whoever to pay shipping, which could be costly because of the weight.

Backcards
around 185 cards, some duplicates, no list of which ones, all are missing the pony points, most have the front piece missing but pony's name is written on the bottom (card name was used for labeling ponies)
box weighs 13 lbs / 5.9 kg

Pamplets
around 300 pieces covering 24 designs, many duplicates, most are folded (as they were in the boxes)
bag weights 3.3 lbs / 1.5 kg

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This is a joke email I got today - I don't often share or forward them on, but this one was really funny.

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Researchers for the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority found over 200 dead crows near greater Boston recently, and there was concern that they may have died from Avian Flu.  A Bird Pathologist examined the remains of all the crows, and, to everyone's relief, confirmed the problem was definitely NOT Avian Flu.  The cause of death appeared to be vehicular impacts.

However, during the detailed analysis it was noted that varying colors of paints appeared on the bird's beaks and claws.  By analyzing these paint residues it was determined that 98% of the crows had been killed by impact with trucks, while only 2% were killed by an impact with a car.

MTA then hired an Ornithological Behaviorist to determine if there was a cause for the disproportionate percentages of truck kills versus car kills.

He very quickly concluded the cause:  When crows eat road kill, they always have a look-out crow in a nearby tree to warn of impending danger.

They discovered that while all the lookout crows could shout "Cah", not a single one could shout "Truck."

Makes you wonder why you gave me your email address, huh?