aaaaaahhhhhhhh......... hear that? Righto - relative quiet. Spent a short while this morning getting my muffler fixed. Felt so good about it had the oil and windshield wipers changed as well. Is that bliss or what? Now I can spend my time riding around listening to selections from my iPod. Finally figured out how to shuffle the tunes. duh.
What else have I done? Put away a little bit of stuff. Answered some email.
Oh and speaking of email - the seasons quilt (now "The View From Here") won second place at a show. whooo hooo! And at what I would consider a fairly conservative show too so that pleases me. Well, it always pleases me to win something or other. Just an ego thing I guess or some validation that maybe it was worth taking the extra time to make something match or to undo something and redo it. Yes indeedy. OK - anyone care to join me for a round or two of the happy dance?
Please note - it's totally un-apparent, but the thing takes two AAA batteries. According to the specs on the web site those batteries will last about 20 hours, twice as long as a single charge of the iPod! I might give up listening to the radio altogether.... So yes, great. And yes, it takes batteries. Now ya know.
1000 songs. In your car. On your boom box. On your clock radio (probably not the best sound provider). On anything with a tunable FM radio. All without CD's. How cool is that? Very.very.cool.
Another day come and gone. Loooooong day. Very long. I did another seam of my quilt (see 3/26 entry) yes indeedy it's come to this: sewing a fairly good sized quilt 1.5 inches at a time.
I paused from this exciting task to sew a little rice bag for our cat, although I'm using it at the moment. Actually I might have to make another one for me! You know rice bags right? You take a nice piece of flannel or other fabric and you make a little pocket or bag with one end open. A simple thing, like a pillow case. Fill about half or two-thirds with regular uncooked rice. Carefully sew shut the open end of the bag. You've got a rice bag!
Why do you have a rice bag? OK, put it into the microwave and nuke for about two to three minutes. Remove. Make sure it's not TOO hot. You'll figure out how long to cook it, the first few times. Nice and toasty warm? OK - apply to sore body parts! Or slide between cold covers and sheets, down where your feet are going. Apply to stiff neck.
In my case, wrap in light towel and place in carrying case of small cat going to vet for his little operation. Yup, tomorrow's the day for little Gus (aka "The Dink") to be altered. Last time, when he had his hernia repaired, the tech suggested rice bags rather than a bottle of hot water. Makes sense to me, not so cold after it cools off!
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11:45:16 PM
Another day come and gone. Loooooong day. Very long. I did another seam of my quilt (see 3/26 entry) yes indeedy it's come to this: sewing a fairly good sized quilt 2 inches at a time.
I paused from this exciting task to sew a little rice bag for our cat, although I'm using it at the moment. Actually I might have to make another one for me! You know rice bags right? You take a nice piece of flannel or other fabric and you make a little pocket or bag with one end open. A simple thing, like a pillow case. Fill about half or two-thirds with regular uncooked rice. Carefully sew shut the open end of the bag. You've got a rice bag!
Why do you have a rice bag? OK, put it into the microwave and nuke for about two to three minutes. Remove. Make sure it's not TOO hot. You'll figure out how long to cook it, the first few times. Nice and toasty warm? OK - apply to sore body parts! Or slide between cold covers and sheets, down where your feet are going.
Apply to stiff neck. In my case, wrap in light towel and place in carrying case of small cat going to vet for his little operation. Yup, tomorrow's the day for little Gus (aka "The Dink") to be altered. Last time, when he had his hernia repaired, the tech suggested rice bags rather than a bottle of hot water. Makes sense to me, not so cold after it cools off!
My new quilt is now all sewn together one way. I even replaced one of the triangles I'd added last night, using a darker orange. I like it. I think the triangles are there but not distracting. We'll see. Took me awhile tonight to sew the "hunks" together and then I took some documenting photos. Guess I'll have to wait to start sewing it all together the other way. Those are long seams but there aren't quite as many of them....
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11:46:11 PM
Last night while the Oscars ceremony was on, I worked on my new quilt, adding small triangles of bright pinks, oranges, golds to some of the grey squares. Now that that is done, I can sew the rows.
At lunch today, I un-sewed some of my Amish-inspired nine patch quilt top. Some of those seams were no where near actually matching. wow. It looks better already, even though it has a bunch of holes in it.
Today was my last day of being "inventory guy" at work. Not having to be at work at 8 AM will seem like a wonderful thing to me. whooo hoooo! And I think I figured out most things so the regular guy will only have to check things out to make sure everything is cool.
Wow! 5300 visitors since July. How cool is that? Just happened to be the number on the stats page when I looked this morning.
Still miffed at silly ol' shoot-ourselves-in-the-foot Tripod. Let's see - more traffic is better but if you get too much, we're shutting you down - Tripod. Sooner or later someone will say to them - you are supposed to be giving me 1 Gig a Day and because you shut me down for two hours as people were coming to my site I only got 32 MB or 64 MB - where's the rest of my Gig? OK, there, I've said it!
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12:10:03 PM
Apologies to all who were blocked from coming here for two hours while tripod decided that I was "over my limit." uh huh. Not to be a stickler about this, but if they're going to run a meter, how about taking into account the many hours when I got little or NO traffic and metering out the remainder of my daily bandwidth. Geesh. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to know it doesn't take a rocket scientist to do that sort of math and use technology to make it so.
On a better note - I had hoped to be sewing tonight but instead ended up ironing seams on my new quilt. Way too many seams to iron open. And while doing that I decided to go ahead and put in the small triangles of pinks, oranges and dark yellows. I think they'll float in front of the whole thing. But that means quality time with a seam ripper tomorrow. Not painful in the way that ripping out mistakes can be, but all in all a good thing.
And speaking of seam rippers, my amish inspired top was right at eye level during all this ironing and man, all I could see was this glaring error of seams not matching. ooops. I know my mind was somewhere else that night..... september 11, 2001. The title of this quilt now is "Summer as Seen from September. 2001."
