I think this is the second morning in a row we've not had hot water when i went to make tea. Hrmph. The embarrassing thing is not remembering if there was hot water at all yesterday: did i try to wash my face with warm water? We use the dishwasher for dishes, and don't take daily showers, so....
It was a lovely day off: i need a vacation. I had coffee for two hours with friends in the morning, and then the comic book store was open. What happened to everyone getting the day off? But no, the coffee shop, the comic book store, the doughnut shop (for Christine): all open. I feel rather conflicted by giving the companies my business on a day that "should" be a holiday. I bought my reward, King City, and splurged on the first book of Moomin comic strips. I'd read![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
laughingrat's mention of Moomin and had only known it was a book of some sort.
Over coffee i'd offered my scanner to a friend who needed to scan slides, so i went digging for the software. I found antiques. Boldly i decided to dump the old software, the 5.5" floppies (Christine rescued the MS DOS 2.2 floppy), my three (three!) hard drives i had wrapped for rescue some day. We think Christine has a power magnet, meant for wiping tapes in her radio days. I think i'll use those on the drives and then chunk them in the digital recycling. I think they're already damaged drives and the data is fairly old, so the data and identity theft risk is already low. We used to have a company near by with a reasonable hard drive shredding price.
This purge freed up a little space, so that felt good. Purge purge purge.
We watched Jaws, our Fourth of July tradition, and i did some mending (yay, decreasing that stack). I'm plowing along with a second sweater out of heavy chenille yarn. I'd bought the close out yarn and matched it up with a sweater pattern years ago. After working with the lace-weight sweater and getting it wearable -- not quite finished, but finished enough! -- I felt i ought to be able to whip up this sweater. Well, the Doris Chan Cinnibar pattern is much harder than the Marylin cardigan pattern, even though both have the same general design principle for the yolk. I'm currently just using the pattern as a suggestion and making do: i was trying to follow it, but something didn't quite go right (and i do have the errata for the book).
I did get a bit of walking in, joining a crowd standing on the 101 overpass to watch the fireworks. And then i had to ice my ankle. I'm ordering an ankle brace.
And, two hours later, hot water. WTF?
It was a lovely day off: i need a vacation. I had coffee for two hours with friends in the morning, and then the comic book store was open. What happened to everyone getting the day off? But no, the coffee shop, the comic book store, the doughnut shop (for Christine): all open. I feel rather conflicted by giving the companies my business on a day that "should" be a holiday. I bought my reward, King City, and splurged on the first book of Moomin comic strips. I'd read
laughingrat's mention of Moomin and had only known it was a book of some sort.Over coffee i'd offered my scanner to a friend who needed to scan slides, so i went digging for the software. I found antiques. Boldly i decided to dump the old software, the 5.5" floppies (Christine rescued the MS DOS 2.2 floppy), my three (three!) hard drives i had wrapped for rescue some day. We think Christine has a power magnet, meant for wiping tapes in her radio days. I think i'll use those on the drives and then chunk them in the digital recycling. I think they're already damaged drives and the data is fairly old, so the data and identity theft risk is already low. We used to have a company near by with a reasonable hard drive shredding price.
This purge freed up a little space, so that felt good. Purge purge purge.
We watched Jaws, our Fourth of July tradition, and i did some mending (yay, decreasing that stack). I'm plowing along with a second sweater out of heavy chenille yarn. I'd bought the close out yarn and matched it up with a sweater pattern years ago. After working with the lace-weight sweater and getting it wearable -- not quite finished, but finished enough! -- I felt i ought to be able to whip up this sweater. Well, the Doris Chan Cinnibar pattern is much harder than the Marylin cardigan pattern, even though both have the same general design principle for the yolk. I'm currently just using the pattern as a suggestion and making do: i was trying to follow it, but something didn't quite go right (and i do have the errata for the book).
I did get a bit of walking in, joining a crowd standing on the 101 overpass to watch the fireworks. And then i had to ice my ankle. I'm ordering an ankle brace.
And, two hours later, hot water. WTF?
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