In honor of Buy Nothing Day, I'm going to sit around my apartment and do crap. Sewing, spinning, weaving, I don't know. You are invited to bring your crap and do the same. Friday November 23rd, noon-ish to dinner-ish, as I don't expect too many people will be vertical and mobile any earlier. (I'll mostly be home, let me know ( Read more... )

I'm culling the pattern collection, so I've got a stack of ones I will never use. They are all at least size 18. If you want one, let me know and either Dillo or I can get it to you next time we see you or you can stop by ( Read more... )

Finally something I thought this bunch would appreciate and be worth posting ( Read more... )

So, the landlord bought a submersible pump, punched a hole through the concrete in the back hallway and dug a pit. One that I've been trying to avoid sticking my foot into for the past week. But didn't bother installing the pump, which has been sitting out in the hall. The pit has collected most of the rain the past two days ( Read more... )

For the past few weeks I've been doing work for a new client, where a friend of mine works. They have Macs to set up and are seriously lacking the skills to do it so she brought me in to set up a room full of OS 9 computers. Way back, many months ago, I also submitted a resume in response to an open position. The organization is large and stable, ( Read more... )

After a month of paperwork and phone calls, we did it. I got a call today that the other buyer backed out and we now get the house. Well, an interest in a three unit Victorian anyway. We now are allowed to hand over almost as much as I paid for my old house as a downpayment and more than twice our current rent to own something in San Francisco.

I don't normally post textile stuff to my regular journal, but Dillo reminded me that I should update the non-fiber folks. I finished the work for the big spinning program last month and I got the results this week. I passed. I'm still working on my article about the process.


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There were various flavors of fake meat on sale at Whole Foods today. I basically hate this stuff, I have no particular political or social reason to be vegan or even vegetarian and I think of it as fake food. I'd rather have real tofu than something pasted together with bits of soy to look like something else. But, people tell me that it's really ( Read more... )

What is it about groups of drunk people ( Read more... )

So The Boyfriend is away for two weeks, off doing geek stuff. I couldn't go because the institute didn't get so much money this year and he had to buy his own ticket. We couldn't afford two. I stay home while he is off seeing Europe. Or something like that. Staying on campus is not actually all that much different than being here: there are people ( Read more... )