Livin' in the dark

[susandennis]

Once or several times a day, I hear or read about something I've never heard of before. I google it and find out it's a thing and no one told me! Just now someone wrote about pedaless bikes. WTF? Google and Whoa! turns out, once again, I am the last to know.

S'ok now I know.

The HOA president and one of the board members popped in this afternoon to talk about the Free Shelf. This is a set of shelves we used to have in the garage where people left stuff for re-homing they didn't want and other people could adopt it. It was great but the building manager hated it. So they shut it down. We got rid of that asshole and I offered up a plan to resurrect it with monitoring. The HOA president initially seemed all for it but never did anything about it. Now she's back on the idea and wants Rahel to be the board member in charge of it. I'll be delighted if it gets reinstated. I got a lot of good shit and left a lot of good shit. But, I'm not holding my breath.

I did have another great idea while they were here... a cable box. A big box of cables/cords,/chargers/etc. Take A Cable/Leave A Cable - TV/computer/speaker/phone/etc. They were both excited about that so maybe.

My sunhat turned out great. I love it! And making a test one first out of sheets was perfect. I figured out how to do it better by doing the test.



Tonight is TV and knitting. But, first, baked chicken, cheese mashed potatoes (just cheese added to store bought premashed) and half a store bought lunch salad. Easy peasy and it will taste fine.

Comments

[lacachet.livejournal.com]

I bet a lot of people are going to ask you where you bought that hat, when you go to the game--it's really cute!

[susandennis]

thanks! for once, i'm looking forward to the sun being out!

[meowmensteen]

I love the Mariners hat!

[susandennis]

Thanks... me too :)

[jaywil.livejournal.com]

I love the fact that you have a VERY stylish head mannequin!

[susandennis]

Years and years and years ago I wore wigs. (Too lazy to do my own hair and it had to look nice for work.) I ditched the wigs but kept the heads for some weird reason.

Last January when my brother was here, we were moving stuff around and that included some decorative hat boxes. I opened them up just to see if anything was in there and lo and behold there were the heads!! I remembered that today for the photo shoot.

:)

[restoman.livejournal.com]

Turns out, once again, I am the last to know.

Sorry, Susan, but you are only the second-to-last to know. I had to google it after reading your post. So, I am the last to know.
;-)

Great hat!

[rsc.livejournal.com]

Nope, you're still ahead of me.

[susandennis]

ha! Thanks - I'll treasure my lead position on this one.

[susandennis]

Whew. and thanks!

[syrsa (from livejournal.com)]

I love your sunhat, it's gorgeous!

[susandennis]

Thank you!!

[syrsa (from livejournal.com)]

You're welcome! I like your initiative on clothing, and materials making them. Love your choice of colours too. Exciting and not mundane! I love different.

[susandennis]

wow. how kind of you to let me know. i do love finding new and different.

[gracegiver]

A cable box - ingenious. I can see them used similarly to those neighborhood library boxes where people take a book and/or leave a book. I have so many cables - it's ridiculous. I hesitate tossing them because I have no idea where it came from and sure enough once I toss it I'll discover a need for it.
FAR too many USB cables to this and that. I hope your cable idea flies with the condo board.

[susandennis]

I know, right?? Plus, I honestly think the cables in this house multiply. They are like hangers. If you throw out 5, when you get back from the trashcan, you have 10. And none of them are the one you need right now.

[mixter11nm.livejournal.com]

Great hat! I bet you could make a chunk of change selling those outside the stadium on your non-baseball game days.

[susandennis]

thanks but NO thanks! i'd have to sell them for $1,000 a piece to justify the aggravation! Plus, then mine would not be one of a kind.

[syrsa (from livejournal.com)]

That is too true Susan, you are totally right there!

[roasted-beets.livejournal.com]

You're going to be "the woman with the hat"!

[zoefruitcake.livejournal.com]

Are the bikes the ones for kids? They are called balance bikes here and they seem to have just appeared out of nowhere a few years ago. We just had stabilisers that our dads put on the back for a week or two until you got the hang of it

[susandennis]

yep, apparently they are called balance bikes here, too. stabilisers are called training wheels here.