bonus!

+ Half an hour on the elliptical yesterday and today.

+ Did the laundry and put it away.

+ Filed my nails so they won't catch as much on my knitting, and so I can do the dishes. (Not that I can't do dishes when my nails are too long, but I don't like how they get very soft and, of course, more likely to break.)

+ Took out the trash and the recycling.

- Have not yet addressed the rest of the kitchen.

+ Knit the arms of the stuffed toy I'm making right onto the body, instead of knitting them separately and sewing them on, and am very pleased.

- Gripped my needles too hard and got a strainy kind of cramp in my hand.

+ Found my wrist brace.

+ Dealt with all the crap that's been accumulating around the edges of the living room and the bedroom since I came down with the plague.

+ Found that the assignment I thought was due this Thursday, and which I should have spoken to the professor about before beginning it, is not actually due for two more weeks, so I can both consult the prof and do a decent job on it.



On balance, a huge win, and I'm going to do an errand or two this afternoon and not feel the slightest bit guilty about not being at home doing work. :-D

a modern tragedy

I went out on a series of errands, one of which was to acquire a USB cable for my GPS so I can update the maps. Simple, right? Only in the electronics section of the Target, I passed by a display demonstrating a video game: here was Lego R2-D2, and there was Lego Obi-Wan Kenobi and Lego Anakin Skywalker and they were in a setting I wasn't familiar with. Also I couldn't find the cable I wanted. So I found a young man in a red shirt and asked him where to find the cable, and also what game was that?, and he showed me, and it is a new Lego Star Wars game - and now I have the rest of the afternoon to think about how sad it was that I could tell with one glance at the screen that this was a game I had never seen before.

redux

Montgomery County was a complete wash, but Anne Arundel came through, and I'm here to tell you that tigerflower's Government Shutdown cocktail is nine thousand times better with maraschino in it. (It looks far more like a bourbon sour, as well, but it tastes way smoother than - well, than anything else associated with government shutdowns in any way, is what.)

We have a winner.

also

Two years ago, I held a seder at Passover and it was well attended and, I think, a success.

Last year, I was going to do it again (but smaller!), only then I was sidetracked by my TMJ and ongoing dental issues.

This year, I was going to do it again (and smaller), only then I got mono and used up all my sick time and most if not all of my vacation, so I can't take a day to cook up a seder when I'm saving my leave as it's accrued so I'll have enough for my actual vacation in, you know, July.

The first night is Monday, so if I do anything it'll be the following Saturday, i.e. the last night but one. Since my kitchen is in no way kosher (and nor am I!), this isn't actually a Thing, so hey: I may well make a seder two weeks from last night. Who thinks I should?