Saturday

I had a lovely swim this morning and then did my morning walk by walking around the block there and then stopping in Trader Joe's. All week I've gotten to the gym and left before daylight. On Saturdays and Sundays the gym doesn't open until 8 so dark was clearly over. The world's slowest construction project going up outside the pool windows, did actually make some great progress since last weekend. Amused by little things.

Tom Hanks is hosting Wait Wait Don't Tell Me. He's trying to hard but I appreciate his trying.

My phone did not come. At 8:45 last night, they changed the details to 'redeliver next business day'. If it comes Monday, I'll bitch to Google about using OnTrac. If it comes Tuesday, I'll bitch to Google about using OnTrac and demand the refund of my expedited delivery charge.

Meanwhile I bought another phone. I bought a 7 year old Kyocera Hydro on Amazon for $25. And a waterproof pouch for $8. I'm going to try streaming music while swimming using the gym's wifi. There are several potholes in this plan but if I can work around them, which I just might be able to, then kewel. And then I can sell the Nexus 6P for big bucks and use the Kyocera as a back up phone as well. As a plan, it's totally worth a shot.

Nothing big on the agenda today - doll making, my second walk, some TV and some knitting. Just a regular day.

Here's a bear I finished last night.

My tweets

• Fri, 13:06: I need an eagle eye assist, please. What's different about the HP 60XL ink that makes it so much cheaper??
• Fri, 16:24: Wait... Google? WTF?

All chores done

When I came back from my 2nd walk of the day, I found this:



This cat makes me laugh so hard sometimes.

Now I am in the middle of exporting my gmail backup database into a file that Thunderbird can read. I should say hopefully into a file that thunderbird can read. My weekly automated back up of gmail ran today as usual and it occurred to me that having the database is great but what if I can't do anything with it? In the event of disaster, what I want is to be able to see my gmail archives locally, without gmail if necessary. So I've downloaded thunderbird and now am, again hopefully, creating some kind of viable mbox file. This is a test. This is only a test.

Frankly, I hope it's like an umbrella. If you have it with you at the ready, you will never need it. Without it, halfway home you'll run into a downpour.

Meanwhile, here are the dolls made today.