Who do hoodoo?

Shopping kind of a day. I still couldn't find Culpeper's Complete Herbal anywhere, but I got this great book ("Holistic Herbal" by David Hoffman) that will definitely do for the time being. It's got everything from treatments by body system (musculo-skeletal, nervous, digestive etc), pointers on gathering and preparation and a whole bunch of chemistry info as well as the list of herbs and their uses. I also got "Cunningham's Encyclopaedia of Magical Herbs", mostly because I'm interested in the correlaries between the magical and medical uses for the herbs. Between that and some of the other books floating around the house, I should have a pretty good basis, and I've already come up with something that works well on dodgyhoodoo's insomnia. I have a ways to go before I'm fully equipped, though -- for one thing, storage of the 32 different types of herbs I've got in the house at the minute is a bit of a bitch. Need little jars. Lots and lots of little jars, preferably the amber glass ones. Well, Neal's Yard does mail order and for big orders like that, it's probably the only way. Plus there's a buttload of herbs I still need before I consider my stocks complete, and I want to pick up some bases for shampoo, conditioner, ointment and so on.

I contented myself with glycerine and three small amber jars today. I figure, since glycerine is a soap base, it can be used externally, and the fact that women used to use glycerine and rosewater as a skin softener means that it soaks into the skin quite well, so I'm going to try using that as a basis for some of the anti-inflammatory rubs I'm planning. I'll be picking up some ointment base for the same purpose, but for now I want something that goes deep. Look, I'm 29 in just under two weeks; I should not have arthritis. But since I obviously do, I would like not to have quite so much pain, please. Plus it would work well on dodgyhoodoo's circulation and I know a few other people who have muscle and joint problems. Spread the healing hoodoo, I say.

Mage tomorrow. No peter_grafton journal entry yet. Bollocks. Plus nadriel has to leave early tomorrow. Good thing his character has his own mode of transport and a bunch of colleagues camping out in town. That should write him out early with good effect, if they can time things right. Hopefully I can, given which way the plot's going. It should take them three-odd hours of game time to raid a Technocrat stronghold, right?