Somewhere between The Invisible Man and Steel Magnolias this last inch and a half happened. All four hunks done and right now I’m quite glad to stand up.
Open up a magazine today and find an announcement that Electric Quilt is NOW AVAILABLE FOR MAC! I can remember standing in back of the many demos at quilt shows and when the demonstrator would ask for questions, I’d ask “when will be it available for mac?” and eventually “is this just vaporware?” For many years all the ads had “available soon for mac” at the bottom and eventually it went away.
Anyway, it’s a big deal now I suppose except, like the release of Office for iPads, it might be a little late, LOL time and users have moved on to other things. For years I used graph paper (still do for most of my plans) and then used ClarisWorks and Appleworks. Good enough and did the job at hand.
Congrats to all the folks who have been waiting or running WIN on their macs in order to run EQ. I went over to their website to look at the specs and after rummaging a bit for more info on release date:
Sitting in the food court nonchalantly observing a group of people nearby. What had appeared to be a tinny little bit of music turns out to be the underpinnings of a piece of rap that one of them is trying to learn or practice. Fascinating stuff.
Had a bit of haiku writing (not by me) change the mood of someone having a bad moment yesterday. The power of the syllable and word!
Also poetry-related, completed hunk three of four of my quilt in progress. Will push over the coming week to get that part done so I can do the experimental portion underway. Translation: I have no idea of what technique I’m going to use to accomplish the next part so I’ll have to make up a small sample piece to use for testing. This will get used later for quilting practice/testing.
Was awakened early this morning but what could only be hail or large grapple on the bedroom window. Indeed! When I headed out this morning it was about 35F and the stuff was piled up on the lawn, the steps, the car windshield. Winter’s still holding on by the fingernails.
Spent my “found” time today looking through my NaPoWriMo moleskine and being happy over things I’d written.
A pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.
