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Nov. 2nd, 2015 11:20 amLife is all about compromise. Yesterday, since the clocks changed, the Hairy Beasts thought they were getting dinner half an hour late. I thought they were getting it half an hour early. I caved because I knew they weren't getting dinner at 4:30 today, so they'll reset their expectations. I had a couple of charter members of the Clean Plate Club yesterday, though. It seems they were sad and tragic creatures who could barely walk, they were so starving. WOE.
Having not spent $20 on cat food (TJs is out of tuna cat food again, for the last three weeks) on Saturday, I went and spent $75 at Brookline Booksmith instead (shame on me, budget-wise. But it was a morale-building exercise, and it worked.) I'm probably never going to see The Martian, so I bought the book (and two others, and a fridge magnet that instantly made me think of my Fairly Godmother). And then I stuck my head in Peet's, in which was a kid whose name was apparently Oscar, because his parents kept calling him Oskie. That's also how we pronounce OSCE at work, and I kept wondering who was talking so much about the Objective Structured Comprehensive Examination in Peet's on a Saturday morning. Silly brain.
Work has slowed down considerably post-retreat, and I've finally gotten back into the flow of things. The next order of business is for the curriculum committee to approve the new curriculum framework, so we can officially let the school know what it looks like. People have been beating down my door (figuratively; I don't have a door) for months now wanting the new curriculum framework, and they're getting downright disgruntled lately when I tell them they still can't have it yet. I'm sure they'll gripe about some other things when they've got it, but that's life around here, and they gripe copiously but not seriously. We listen to serious gripes and try to work them out.
Speaking of working things out, I'm in a "rewrite the pattern some more" phase of embroidery. The mistake I made last year sometime, which was tolerable when I repeated it another seven times, has now caused a problem elsewhere and I'm trying to figure out what to do about that. The trick is that whatever the solution is, it won't repeat every time, so I have to remember which repeats it applies to and which ones it doesn't. I also either need a bigger frame (although I'm currently using the biggest Q-Snap frame there is) or I need a way to keep an eye on something more than 17" away from its last iteration. I'm not sure taking one clamp off and leaving that side waving in the breeze is the best solution, although it works when the section I'm embroidering is on the opposite side from the unclamp. There's probably a really easy solution I'm not seeing, because if there's a hard way to do anything, I will find it. At least I know that about myself?
Having not spent $20 on cat food (TJs is out of tuna cat food again, for the last three weeks) on Saturday, I went and spent $75 at Brookline Booksmith instead (shame on me, budget-wise. But it was a morale-building exercise, and it worked.) I'm probably never going to see The Martian, so I bought the book (and two others, and a fridge magnet that instantly made me think of my Fairly Godmother). And then I stuck my head in Peet's, in which was a kid whose name was apparently Oscar, because his parents kept calling him Oskie. That's also how we pronounce OSCE at work, and I kept wondering who was talking so much about the Objective Structured Comprehensive Examination in Peet's on a Saturday morning. Silly brain.
Work has slowed down considerably post-retreat, and I've finally gotten back into the flow of things. The next order of business is for the curriculum committee to approve the new curriculum framework, so we can officially let the school know what it looks like. People have been beating down my door (figuratively; I don't have a door) for months now wanting the new curriculum framework, and they're getting downright disgruntled lately when I tell them they still can't have it yet. I'm sure they'll gripe about some other things when they've got it, but that's life around here, and they gripe copiously but not seriously. We listen to serious gripes and try to work them out.
Speaking of working things out, I'm in a "rewrite the pattern some more" phase of embroidery. The mistake I made last year sometime, which was tolerable when I repeated it another seven times, has now caused a problem elsewhere and I'm trying to figure out what to do about that. The trick is that whatever the solution is, it won't repeat every time, so I have to remember which repeats it applies to and which ones it doesn't. I also either need a bigger frame (although I'm currently using the biggest Q-Snap frame there is) or I need a way to keep an eye on something more than 17" away from its last iteration. I'm not sure taking one clamp off and leaving that side waving in the breeze is the best solution, although it works when the section I'm embroidering is on the opposite side from the unclamp. There's probably a really easy solution I'm not seeing, because if there's a hard way to do anything, I will find it. At least I know that about myself?
