The #1 Team?
Earlier today I reported that our high school was the #1 team in the country. Leonidas asked who said so. I didn’t know. I figure someone decides these things. For example, our local college has been the NCAA champion a […]
Bikes Blues
I slept in till 7:30 and the motorcyclists are already out in force. Actually, as far as I know they never went to bed, since I went to sleep in a noise level apppoximating what you would get if you […]
Evenings Out
Here is an important note to myself: I enjoy Chamber Singers rehearsals. I need to make this note to myself and perhaps also to remind myself to come read it next Thursday, because I never want to go, and once […]
Bird Worship and Bikers
Following Rachelsent and Ozarque’s excellent advice, I will go this weekend and get a vise before I continue attempting to solder. I can see that it would make a big difference. I have a lot of other things that need […]
Soldering and Editing Poetry
Here is my soldering station. Particularly nonstandard aspects include the quilt protecting the table, the use of an upturned ancient cookie sheet for a work surface (now decorated with a couple of soldered-on jump rings), the bottom of a butter […]
A Random Post
SWAP progress for the weekend continued on Sunday with some work on the Hong Kong finish for the jacket. A Hong Kong finish is enclosing the seams of a garment with bias strips. You sew them to the seam allowance, fold […]
Squiggle and Triangle
I did write the last entry, since you asked, but I was copying Chanthaboune. In fact, I was teasing her. And I discovered, while idly looking at my site meter, that someone came to my blog having googled for “scorpion nose”! […]
Pastiche on Chanthaboune
“I haven’t heard from him in three days,” she told her coworker, scooping up the stack of invoices with a practiced hand. She clipped them together and flipped them onto the growing stack. Noticing her mother’s screen name on her […]
Problems with Atheism
Since last week’s planned Personal Sewing Day (PSD) turned out to be just a couple of Personal Sewing Hours, I intend to declare tomorrow a PSD and try again. Also, lots of sleeping will be taking place this weekend, I […]