yay Gigantor!

[ciphergoth]

Gigantor was very much fun. Very many pretty people. Much good music. As usual when I've got a cold, I didn't dress up and I drank relatively little, but I still danced quite a lot. 'Twas good.

Yesterday I did some hand washing. If I thought I had job security at the moment, I'd offer to pay a hard-up goth in return for doing some of my hand washing, because I never get around to it, but I have to remind myself it's really not as hard as all that.

I've admitted I'm never going to get around to making my own tamper-evident collar, and mailed a fetish leather maker to ask how much it would cost to get them to make it.

Now I'm working on Chapter 5 of Daemen's PhD thesis some more. It's quite hard going, but it does lay the basis for modern theory about provable security against linear and differential cryptanalysis. Later today I must do some work on the BiCon booking form, and also sort some stuff out for our Big Party on March 30th.

Update: none of this clubgoing has had any success in dislodging the tunes from "...Once more with feeling!" from my head.

Comments

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Leather, even crappy leather, washes just fine. I used to wear leather bracelets (the kind that tie on and don't come off til they fall off. I would buy one each year at Strawberry Fair and wear it for a year, at which point it would mystically fall off in time for the fair so I had to get a new one.
So, unless you're planning to keep someone collared (or be collared yourself) for over a year, you shouldn't have a problem.
Only snag I can envisage is that if someone's going to wear it for a long time, damp leather against the skin can chafe, and also if it's tightish it might be hard to clean underneath it.

[giolla.livejournal.com]

Much what I was thinking.
Certainly leather I've washed which has dried out a bit has been fine after oiling.

The point about chafing is relevant though, I think the simplest answer is don't make it too tight, and the person wearing it has to remember to dry the collar as well as themselves.

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Sounds fair.