Good Sense Takes a Holiday

I use this service (https://keepa.com) to track price drops. It's a browser extension. If I'm willing to wait until the price drops, I tell it my desired price and it tells me when Amazon has it listed for that. (WARNING!! If you use this pay close attention to the seller. Cheap prices attract fraudulent sellers on Amazon. I've been caught twice so be careful.)

Anyway, a while back I set up price tracking on a dress form. I don't really even have room for a dress form. I don't really need one. But, when in the world did that ever stop me? So, yeah, the price went down and I bought one. It will be here tomorrow. I'm half hoping it won't work (won't have enough controls to size it the way it needs to be to match me) and I have to send it back. It's way more money than I need to spend on stuff I don't need. Especially staring down the nose of a big tech spend next week.

On the up side, my cash back bonuses will be handsome come holiday season!

This year, for the first time I can remember, the new TV season and the baseball season will be dovetailing nicely. Next week the new shows start and baseball ends. Usually there is more of an overlap. Like last year, while I'm looking forward to my favorites returning, there don't seem to be too many new shows I'm interested in. But between Acorn and HBO and Netflix and MeTV, I've got more watching than I can handle anyway.

I'll miss baseball but I think I have enough entertainment to carry me through to Spring training.

I have too many projects half started. I need to finish before I start more. That's today's agenda. Finish.

My tweets

• Wed, 16:46: @MKBHD just saw you on Ellen (yesterday's show - I'm catching up) https://t.co/npTQWYSHjI
• Thu, 11:32: Lunch plus dinner plus snack, probably! Thanks @seattlefishguys !! https://t.co/j2FVBebnrd https://t.co/yeZ4bZHC5f

Posting this for my Mom

I don't believe in an after life and I honestly think when you die, you just end. BUT I have been wrong from time to time about all manner of things and could be wrong about this. And maybe my Mom, who died a dozen years ago, is somehow reading this. I hope so.

She and I shared a total lack of patience with weddings. The fuss, the bother, the totally unnecessary drama, all the drama... and the requirement that everyone get all in a frenzy about it all. Wedding planners, Save the Date, wedding this, wedding that. Ugh.

The bartender at Mom's retirement place got married and everyone was in on the drama. At one point, when Mom's BFF at 'the home' died, Mom remarked that it was a cheeky way for her to avoid all that wedding crap.

Cut to my brother's 35ish year old son who is getting married for the first time this weekend in Des Moines, Iowa where he lives. My brother and his other son as well as others are all gathered for the 'do' on Saturday.

Just now, my brother sent me the day of wedding schedule written by his soon to be new daughter in law. (He scanned it with his phone,)






I know nothing about this woman. But after reading this, I know my nephew is one lucky guy. She's a keeper and I hate like the dickens that my Mom missed meeting her.

Benefits

This morning I put a top on that I had not worn before. It's one I kind of invented. I tried it on after it was finished and the npt it in the closet. This morning I got it out to wear and there turns out to be issues. The sleeves are too short and the cuffs are too tight.  I dug through my scrap box and found some scraps from the sleeves and I just cut those cuffs right off and replaced them with a nice, wide edge that makes the top perfect.

I love making/fixing stuff. So much.

I put together a new shirt today. It's a pattern I never tried before. I made a test version out of old sheets.  Yep, the sleeves need more room - maybe an inch added to the circumference and 2 inches added to the length.  And while it fits, I like more room, if you don't mind so let's add some.  So then I made all the changes to the actual pattern and then put the test into the Goodwill bin. The neck and shoulders needed zero mods.  Cool.

I also finished up a fine pair of boot socks.  The last thing on my started-but-didn't-finish list is transferring two new patterns from tissue paper to nice stock. I've got the tissue all cut out and ironed. I'll transfer the pieces on to heavier stock for actual use (and reuse).

And then I'll be all caught up. Whew. I did take all the stuffed toys to the donation place.

Across the street is a fish place that I've been wanting to try. They have tako (octopus) for poke. So I got poke rice, seaweed and tako which would have been amazingly delicious if they hadn't cover it in chili flakes.

I do not like spicy hot in anything. Nothing. I like a rich flavor and I don't mind a VERY LIGHT sprinkling of spicy but I refuse to participate in The Hotter The Better Spice Race. If I scrape the flakes off the tako, it's not bad but that's pretty labor intensive. There's plenty left. I may or may not have it for dinner, I haven't decided.