Ficus strangulensis's Posts - International Union of Mail-Artists2024-03-29T07:01:29ZFicus strangulensishttps://iuoma-network.ning.com/profile/Ficusstrangulensis79https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3798503061?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1https://iuoma-network.ning.com/profiles/blog/feed?user=0kisn8uzcdt1e&xn_auth=noTed trager email Please!? send replies to my REAL ; NEW emailtag:iuoma-network.ning.com,2023-04-13:2496677:BlogPost:27858592023-04-13T18:59:52.000ZFicus strangulensishttps://iuoma-network.ning.com/profile/Ficusstrangulensis79
<p>I got a blank CD from Ted Trager marked "personal bizness. Dunno what to do with it. Need his email & NEED TO UPDATE MY EMAIL ADDRESS HERE AT iuoma BUT HAVE FAILED!</p>
<p>I got a blank CD from Ted Trager marked "personal bizness. Dunno what to do with it. Need his email & NEED TO UPDATE MY EMAIL ADDRESS HERE AT iuoma BUT HAVE FAILED!</p>Was IUOMA 'down for a day just yesterday [Mar 1st? I couldn't reach it.tag:iuoma-network.ning.com,2023-03-02:2496677:BlogPost:27695492023-03-02T19:59:57.000ZFicus strangulensishttps://iuoma-network.ning.com/profile/Ficusstrangulensis79
<p>kept getting no network or somesuch error message and it didn't seem to be caused by my end.</p>
<p>kept getting no network or somesuch error message and it didn't seem to be caused by my end.</p>Soooooo Slooooooowtag:iuoma-network.ning.com,2023-03-01:2496677:BlogPost:27685572023-03-01T11:41:15.000ZFicus strangulensishttps://iuoma-network.ning.com/profile/Ficusstrangulensis79
<p>Howdy, All.</p>
<p>Hello, IUOMAns!</p>
<p>Still way behind on replying and not catching up so's you'd notice.</p>
<p>Had chemo yesterday and, as usual, the steroids they infuse to keep me from being nauseous seem to result in an increase of energy at least for the next day. So I'd better use summa it to pare down the backlog.</p>
<p>Some may have noticed that I've adopted an abbreviated [4me anyway] format with one of my photo cards used as a postcard. Since my chemo side effects seem to be…</p>
<p>Howdy, All.</p>
<p>Hello, IUOMAns!</p>
<p>Still way behind on replying and not catching up so's you'd notice.</p>
<p>Had chemo yesterday and, as usual, the steroids they infuse to keep me from being nauseous seem to result in an increase of energy at least for the next day. So I'd better use summa it to pare down the backlog.</p>
<p>Some may have noticed that I've adopted an abbreviated [4me anyway] format with one of my photo cards used as a postcard. Since my chemo side effects seem to be worsening, I doubt I'll get faster in the foreseeable future and y'r likely to see more postcards excepting probably those who send interesting notes and letters.</p>
<p>MY family physician discovered that I've got an irregular heartbeat and, if we can shave a part of my chest so the heart monitor will stop reporting it can't communicate I'll have results for the cardio-doc I see in a coupla weeks.</p>
<p>Our Winter in WV is not bad, with little snow and so far the most trying time was the freakish cold spell many of us experienced. We're moved into our new, manufactured home, situate only a few yards in front of our old home of 52+ years and only lacking a few pieces of the 'junque' which formed the piling 'system' still largely filling it.</p>
<p>My Beloved Shirley quilts about every day and I've devolved into not doing much at all except playing and doing business on the computer. Just got an i9-27000[?] for half-price from HP's business refurb store with a 1TB nvme main drive which I expect to run FilterForge as fast as the proverbial scalded ass ape. So the flow of tortured images may even increase!</p>
<p>Thank you for y'r support and caring messages which probably helped my Turkish Delight, Dr. Soley my oncologist put my cancers in remission.</p>
<p>More later,</p>
<p>Y'r ol' Bud, Fike</p>found a BEAUTIFUL at least to me Deep Dream at wikipediatag:iuoma-network.ning.com,2023-02-16:2496677:BlogPost:27634342023-02-16T16:56:33.000ZFicus strangulensishttps://iuoma-network.ning.com/profile/Ficusstrangulensis79
<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10968373677?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10968373677?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-full"/></a></p>
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<p>We've moved into our new home, the doublewide trailer only a few yards from our old home and in it's front yard.</p>
<p>Seems like chemo and/or life has thrown us a few curves in the form of a cold and a fungal[?] infection which are hanging on and making life less interesting.</p>
<p>Expecting my Angel, son-in-law Dan and his wife [our daughter #2, Mary] 2day and will probably ask him to transport me to an urgent care so I can start trying to see if I have a fungal infection from…</p>
<p>We've moved into our new home, the doublewide trailer only a few yards from our old home and in it's front yard.</p>
<p>Seems like chemo and/or life has thrown us a few curves in the form of a cold and a fungal[?] infection which are hanging on and making life less interesting.</p>
<p>Expecting my Angel, son-in-law Dan and his wife [our daughter #2, Mary] 2day and will probably ask him to transport me to an urgent care so I can start trying to see if I have a fungal infection from 'HELL'.</p>
<p>SO--- Please 4give me for being even later replying than I've been recently.</p>
<p>I WILL respond!</p>
<p>Y'r ol' Bud, Fike</p>4got2keep up the blog, Dag Nabbit!tag:iuoma-network.ning.com,2022-11-01:2496677:BlogPost:27268412022-11-01T16:48:07.000ZFicus strangulensishttps://iuoma-network.ning.com/profile/Ficusstrangulensis79
<p>So here it is 2022, time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.</p>
<p>I'm in remission from cancer discovered late 2021 and treated with chemo, a delight if you like crappy side effects but who's to compain, it's got me in remission from a colon cancer which had metastasized to a lung before it was discovered but my Turkish Delight Dr. Soley [Bayraktar] has beaten it back with metabolic poisons for which I am undyingly [at least for now] grateful.</p>
<p>and 2day I received…</p>
<p>So here it is 2022, time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.</p>
<p>I'm in remission from cancer discovered late 2021 and treated with chemo, a delight if you like crappy side effects but who's to compain, it's got me in remission from a colon cancer which had metastasized to a lung before it was discovered but my Turkish Delight Dr. Soley [Bayraktar] has beaten it back with metabolic poisons for which I am undyingly [at least for now] grateful.</p>
<p>and 2day I received "Kermesse 28: from JeanFi of Belgium and find it a wealth of amusement and useful information. F'rinstance: Who knew that one should be hoarding Sriracha sauce due to a hot pepper shortage or that it lists the ugliest cities in the world.</p>
<p> I for one will continue corresponding with JeanFi in hopes that I will receive more issues.</p>
<p>Also: our wheelchair accessible, doublewide, new home nears completion in our front yard and we expect to move in by EOY'22.</p>
<p>and just for laughs and good vibes here's wishing everyone reading this good health, happiness and the least possible harm from Shakespearean daemonry including but not limited to:<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="5">imps, gytrashes, patches, hob-and-lanthorns, gringes, boguests, bonelesses, Peg-prowlers, pucks, fays, kidnappers, gallybeggars, hudskins, nickers, madcaps, trolls, robinets, friars' lanthorns, silkies, cauld-lads, death-hearses, goblins, hob-headlesses, bugaboos, kows, nickies, nacks, waiths, miffies, buckies, ghouls, sylphs, guests, swarths, freiths, freits, gy-carlins [Gyre-carling], pigmies, chittifaces, nixies, Jinny-burnt-tails, dudmen, hell-hounds, dopple-gangers, boggleboes, bogies and flaming mudflaps, Y'r ol' Bud, Fike<br/></font></font></p>LIVE-ED alters fike image card based on DKA artistamp image of fike.tag:iuoma-network.ning.com,2019-10-08:2496677:BlogPost:23524062019-10-08T15:33:20.000ZFicus strangulensishttps://iuoma-network.ning.com/profile/Ficusstrangulensis79
<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3651793474?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3651793474?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-full"/></a>First [in my very porous memory] fikeCard altered by LIVE_ED Giecek</p>
<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3651793474?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3651793474?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-full"/></a>First [in my very porous memory] fikeCard altered by LIVE_ED Giecek</p>I have a blog???!tag:iuoma-network.ning.com,2018-07-14:2496677:BlogPost:22317562018-07-14T10:34:46.000ZFicus strangulensishttps://iuoma-network.ning.com/profile/Ficusstrangulensis79
<p>I guess I do. Or at least, that's wot the clicky-button said on the previous page. from which [by clicking] 'I' got 'here'. [virtually].</p>
<p>Currently [re]reading all of William Gibson, at least the novels and a wonderful read he is! Taking a break with Thomas M. Disch's "334" over these past few nites, charging up the ol' memory B4 lites out each eve. Richard Brautigan awaits also.</p>
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<p>Soon we start ripping out the floor of the computer 'den' at strangulensis Manor.</p>
<p>To…</p>
<p>I guess I do. Or at least, that's wot the clicky-button said on the previous page. from which [by clicking] 'I' got 'here'. [virtually].</p>
<p>Currently [re]reading all of William Gibson, at least the novels and a wonderful read he is! Taking a break with Thomas M. Disch's "334" over these past few nites, charging up the ol' memory B4 lites out each eve. Richard Brautigan awaits also.</p>
<p></p>
<p>Soon we start ripping out the floor of the computer 'den' at strangulensis Manor.</p>
<p>To make a long story short [esp4 those of you who've had the 'pleasure' of reading of this adventure in my responses to y'r mail art] we had an incident of terror in which my Beloved, Shirley, encountered a LARGE blacksnake and responded by shrieking. It'd apparently been stirred up from its basement crawl space residence by handypersons who also found what looks2B great access points to our upstairs.</p>
<p>Currently, said 'den' floor is listing to port [east] and soon we will start excavating the 48-yrs of accumulation to make way for repair activities. Mostly, the piling system of the 'den' consists in shaky heaps of bargain bin 'art' materials and stuff that other mail artists have sent me. During the re-construction, I'll be playing from an alternative computer site expected to be a small, improvised desk in the 'master' bedroom.</p>
<p>More later.</p>
<p>Y'r ol' Bud, Fike</p>quaint drawingstag:iuoma-network.ning.com,2016-06-15:2496677:BlogPost:19968122016-06-15T21:43:23.000ZFicus strangulensishttps://iuoma-network.ning.com/profile/Ficusstrangulensis79
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<p><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=Jean+Ignace+Isidore+G%C3%A9rard&client=ubuntu&hs=G8z&channel=fs&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiM-r3s_qrNAhXKOCYKHQyJCbAQ_AUICCgB#q=Jean+Ignace+Isidore+G%C3%A9rard&channel=fs&tbm=isch&tbs=isz:l&imgrc=3Sq6aq854Y0o9M%3A">https://www.google.com/search?q=Jean+Ignace+Isidore+G%C3%A9rard&client=ubuntu&hs=G8z&channel=fs&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiM-r3s_qrNAhXKOCYKHQyJCbAQ_AUICCgB#q=Jean+Ignace+Isidore+G%C3%A9rard&channel=fs&tbm=isch&tbs=isz:l&imgrc=3Sq6aq854Y0o9M%3A</a></p>If you like to use old US postage on your mail art envelopes...tag:iuoma-network.ning.com,2014-10-04:2496677:BlogPost:16303872014-10-04T15:01:10.000ZFicus strangulensishttps://iuoma-network.ning.com/profile/Ficusstrangulensis79
<p>Karl Anderson's a good source who I've used for several orders over the past few years.</p>
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<p>His current list and very detailed information on requirements for ordering from him are found at:</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.andersonstampandcoin.com/Pricelist.pdf">http://www.andersonstampandcoin.com/Pricelist.pdf</a></p>
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<p>Currently, he is selling mint US 3-cent stamps from the 1940's-50's for very little over face value.</p>
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<p>Y'r Ol' Bud, Fike</p>
<p>Karl Anderson's a good source who I've used for several orders over the past few years.</p>
<p></p>
<p>His current list and very detailed information on requirements for ordering from him are found at:</p>
<p></p>
<p><a href="http://www.andersonstampandcoin.com/Pricelist.pdf">http://www.andersonstampandcoin.com/Pricelist.pdf</a></p>
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<p>Currently, he is selling mint US 3-cent stamps from the 1940's-50's for very little over face value.</p>
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<p>Y'r Ol' Bud, Fike</p>So you like fractals, eh?tag:iuoma-network.ning.com,2014-03-04:2496677:BlogPost:15009562014-03-04T14:54:38.000ZFicus strangulensishttps://iuoma-network.ning.com/profile/Ficusstrangulensis79
<p>if so, there's a blog</p>
<p></p>
<p><a href="http://orbittrap.ca/">http://orbittrap.ca/</a></p>
<p>you might find interesting.</p>
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<p>Y'r ol' Bud, Fike</p>
<p>if so, there's a blog</p>
<p></p>
<p><a href="http://orbittrap.ca/">http://orbittrap.ca/</a></p>
<p>you might find interesting.</p>
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<p>Y'r ol' Bud, Fike</p>