Wow – I didn’t remember posting at ~gasp~ 3:38 AM, but there you have it. FTP/the net in general was pretty rocky last night otherwise I would have been in bed a lot sooner. Hate that.

Today I was still snoozing when Pat called to consult about the raffle quilt. Worked on that here and then later on with her again. Here’s the current iteration.

I got a letter Friday or Saturday from, um, my short-lived employer telling me what my user login and password and email account is for the new email/web system. How lame is that? Did I try to log on? Sure did. Invalid. Oh well. That would have given me a chortle.

I’ve found recently that that whole debacle has bothered me more than I would have thought. A good job I suppose would make it easier to forget, eh?

Needless to say, I haven’t done much else today in terms of sewing – but I did do the dishes, change a light bulb and a few other things that don’t look like anything at all.

Sometimes it seems as though the creative process happens in spite of everything that’s going on. I know it happens sometimes as part of what’s going on, but other times it seems to have no connection at all with other events. Unless you compare the intensity of the event to the intensity of creative activity. Can you say disassociation?

Which all goes to say that I seem to be quilting at an even level despite anything else that’s going on in my life. Probably a good thing, since it’s about the only constant, and perhaps the only thing over which I have much control. Can’t make people give me a job. Can’t remake anyone to be something they’re not.

I did do a little work – put up the index page in fact – on the wedding page. whooo hoo. Should be an interesting afternoon tomorrow, eh?

At least the weather has changed. Supposed to be relatively cool tonight and reasonably summery tomorrow – perhaps in the low 80’s. I figured out something relatively cool to wear, since I didn’t want to wear black, however artiste that is.

Now I’m celebrating the cool weather and my quilting progress with a small glass of um, gin. And olives – they count as veggies right?

OK – getting into quilting the winter quilt, but it was pushing 100F today, so my willingness to sit with a fairly good-sized quilt around me was, shall we just say, limited.

Most of what I did was work on test “fill patterns” to fill up all that white space.

Click “Quilting Test Patterns”

I got up this morning and decided I’d do errands and hope to get back before the worst of the heat. I went to the post office where there was a package. For ME! With goodies like a thread sample color chart and some sample spools of thread and more! For ME! (love ya bonnie!)

Stopped at the lab where I normally have bloodwork done. I had no instructions for the tests Dr. Z had prescribed. Oh, you mean I need to be in a fasting state for these. Swell. So I’ll go back.

Then to the Doctor’s office to drop off the “goods” for a test they do to **ahem** older people. Oh the humanity of it. Treated myself to a trip to CompUSA, wondering just how big an Epson 1270/80 is. Pretty big. But do-able. While there I saw a woman standing in front of the display of mac laptops.

BTW- I have to say that this is the first time I’ve ever looked at the mac area of compusa in Latham and thought – oh – look – cool. Most of the time it’s – ick – they’re all broken or corrupted. Once I went in while in the market for this here powerbook and none of the laptops were working and most of them had broken keyboards.

Anyway, I say to this older lady — pssst — did you know that Apple is opening a store in Crossgates soon? (no) Yes! in late September!

I felt like I should have had a trenchcoat and slouchy hat on! LOL

Would have cruised to get some prices on plexiglass but it was already about unbearable when I came out of there. Came home and called to make an appointment for a bone density scan. Finally! The person who answered the phone listened to my request and said – oh I think that’s ((mumble mumble)) hold and I’ll get the number. UH, you don’t do those? Nope, this is a cardiology office. Hmmmmm This is the number written on the referral. The whoever who wrote this up wrote xxx-5533 and it should have been xxx-5353 Just a little different.

Call the right number. Set up the appointment. have a glimmer of a thought – explain about the wrong number, and that I have a suspicion that the whoever might have sent the faxed referral to the wrong office. yup – none on file. Great. No problem she says, but GREAT.

Hang up without finding out where the heck this is, call back and get that.

Spent the rest of the day trying to keep me and the cats cool.