Happenings!

TiVo got a massive upgrade this morning. I only upgraded one of my TiVos just to be safe but the upgrade went fine. I'll do the other one this afternoon. It's entirely optional. It's a lot different. But, I like it. It adds voice but I don't have the correct remote yet to test that. Even without the voice it's a lovely upgrade. And it was fast. In the olden days, a simple reboot of TiVo could tie up your TV for hours, even if it worked right the first time which never happened. We've come a long way baby.

The pool was packed to the gills this morning. I was there when the door opened and was out to the pool in a flash and was already the third one in. But, my swim was nice and I thought of a very neat coat to make and figured out how to do it. It's going to be a fleece patchwork. My two favorite things.

But, first I need to sew pants. I cut out 3 pair yesterday and I plan to sew at least a couple of them up today.

I read this morning that my Amazon Prime includes downloading 250 songs a month to play offline. I got all excited about adding new music to my swim mix. But, alas (and of course) they are bound inextricably to the Amazon player so now way to get them out so I can play them on anything else, like the iPod Shuffle. If/when the Kickstarter player (operating on Android) I order arrives, the 250 new songs a month will be great. However, the latest is that it is delayed ... again. I'm not holding my breath on that one.

The Seahawkians are in full force outside now. I actually had a hard time getting home from the pool with most of the streets around here blocked off. I think they shut them down about 9 am for a 1 pm game. At least it's chilly enough that I don't have to have my door open and so the sound is nicely dampened down. It's actually rather pleasant background noise right now.

My tweets

• Sun, 07:03: Good morning... To come #sleepingin https://t.co/JvwKmlZHNi https://t.co/uxy8UY6Lud
• Sun, 10:06: I'm surprised to be so impressed with TiVo's new look/function. I don't have the voice remote yet but even without it's very nice!
• Sun, 10:09: RT @_youhadonejob1: When your pants suspect something. https://t.co/v9a4pr8Ora

No more baseball this year... why do I even say these things?

Honestly, I don't care about the Dodgers and I really do not want to see Houston win and I cannot quit watching. So far - and we're in the middle of game 5 - the games have all be excellent. Nicely full of drama. The Dodgers had this game 4-0 and were feeling pretty smug. And, in one inning, Houston just tied it up. And there's lots o' game left. I'm really not good at not watching baseball.

And, ha! I just got a text from bill_schubert who usually mocks my interest in baseball. Even he is into this series! And his wife, too. So, it's not just me.

I only made one pair of pants today. Sewing on black knit is really not fun. And it's very hard to tell the wrong side of the fabric from the right side. I had a pocket half sewn on before I realized it was sewn on the wrong side. And, because I really want to wear the bejesus out of these pants, I'm sewing every seam so that no blowouts will be possible. Which is great until I have to undo a seam. One Hour Later... But, I got 'em finished and a head start on the next pair.

Then I spent a long time playing with TiVo making sure the upgrade didn't break anything and which buttons do what now. And working on my sweater. I'm about to run out of yarn again. More is on order and I'm really, truly 3 hours of crochet away from finishing but I feel like I've been saying that for days.

Right this minute Zoey is sleeping on the sweater so I guess I'll go cleam up the kitchen.