Friday

It was so much fun to swim this morning with the new iPod Shuffle. I had moved all the songs that never played into their own playlist and now that I have workable buttons, I could actually play that playlist! Cool.

The pool is usually pretty lonely on Fridays but not today. It was packed and I saw some folks I hadn't seen in a while. Nice.

After, I stopped by MacDonalds for a sausage biscuit and coffee because I wanted to go to the grocery store and I didn't want to do that hungry. Success all around. Coming back across the bridge at 9:45 is way better than 9. And I remembered to get something for both lunch and dinner at the grocery. (I often go, spend a buttload of money and get home with nothing to eat.)

It occurred to me - after I got home - that I could have killed another 10 minutes and Papa Murphy's would have been open and I could have picked up a pizza. Oh well, next time.

I have two main projects today. I have a shirt that is all cut out and ready to assemble. It's a new pattern (or rather a tweaked pattern) for a long sleeved version of my summer shirts. I cut it out a while back and today I'm finally going to sew it up.

And, then, I need to do a factory reset on my phone. It's been about a year and I signed up for the Google feedback program which required a tracking agent which ate the fuck out of my battery and caused a couple of other little issues that did not go away when I uninstalled it. So.. it's time. It shouldn't be a big deal if I plan right.

The ballgame is at 5 tonight - Minnesota.

But the main even du jour is that I'm going to have to finally finish one of the best books I've every read. The Nix is a weighty tome. I'm listening to the audio version and it's 21+ hours long. And I've loved every minute. I've tried to stretch it out as long as I could to avoid The End. But, tonight will be it.

On to the sewing room now...

My tweets

• Fri, 10:09: Excellent https://t.co/R4jX4qoZ0m
• Fri, 10:26: Especially when I get two more thanking me for unsubscribing to the first ones. GRRRRRRRR https://t.co/dBf0gXejup

Rebuilding....

I just hit the button to wipe out and rebuild my phone. I know it will be fine but I use my phone 498,823 times a day and would be lost without it. So here's hoping what I know is true... And I didn't forget something crucial in my rebuilding notes.

My new swimsuit fabric arrived. It's so hard to find fun 4 way stretch fabric that even though I think my latest tweaks will mean I won't even need to use this for a while, I'm glad to have it on hand for any possible swimsuit sewing emergency that might arise.

3 new future suits!



Then I spent the rest of the day until now working on my long sleeved shirt. The good news is that I've got it. The pattern works and is replicatable. It took me lots of redos to nail it but I did. The bad news is that this fabric sucks. It's 100% polyester (that really slinky kind) - the kind that makes you super hot in Summer and really cold in winter. I think it will be fine with a cotton t-shirt under it so not a total failure. (Also, it was on sale. If I remember correctly it cost me $1.50 for the whole shirt.)



The condo moved the big building maintenance project to next Spring and the assessment due date from November to February. This latter is a nice little bit of news as it will enable me to beef up the coffer that I plan on using to fund my contribution. So. Whew.

My phone is now rebuilding. I'm guessing it will be another hour or so.