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Productive day at home. Have three quarters of the columns sewn together on the new quilt. Looking good. Had some mighty fine homemade tomato soup for lunch and equally yummy dinner. Watched the skating tonight and that would have been ever so much better if they would provide a way to mute the commentators.

My other big accomplishment of the day was renewing my car registration via the web and then changing my mind and correcting it by phone. Hats off to — who’dathunkit? — NYS DMV — for a great web site process AND for the best phone service I’ve had in awhile from a government agency. I complimented the young man who handled my request both on the process and the ever so fine “hold music” – not too peppy, rather soothing, instrumental. A-OK. Stay tuned here for future updates on my decision.

Just re-polished my nails so I’m waiting for them to dry so I can go hang up my last hunk of squares to look at. Then off to bed and tomorrow, back to work in the land of mall wackies.

OK, speaking of back to work. The phone rang this morning and it was someone who barely identified themselves, but I remembered the name of the employment agency from a job fair. She was looking for a “K-Oh-na engineer.” OK, yes, I messed with her and asked her a few times – what sort of engineer? AH! – Kana. But in Chicago? no thank you. And ahem, just because I USED kana in my Williamstown experience (muttering loudly all the time) doesn’t qualify me as an engineer! LOL.