Did some stuff this morning and then had to wait for the Nassau Post Office to re-open after their mid-day break. Why? Because I wanted to go in person to ask what to do about a package I’d sent that arrived with most of its contents carefully removed. The priority box (those ones that are so hard to open) had been opened, the bubble wrapped bundle opened and the contents of that removed. Bubble wrap, and a few other bits of contents including the note that talked about what was in the bubble wrap was put back into the box and the whole thing sealed up with tape again.

Anyway, the postal person was pretty surprised and after a bit of chatting suggested I call the number on the receipt I had with the tracking number. I did and lo and behold got a lovely person who was apologetic and then settled down to get all the pertinant info. At one point she allowed as she had to ask me the next question which was “do you know anyone who would want to do this?” which surprised me but I could honestly answer no.

Nothing left to do on that count except wait and see if anything at all happens.

Made chili and it turned out pretty darn well!

In other news, twenty-one of twenty-seven rows of my new quilt stuck to the wall. Slow but sure plugging away at it.

I shall not be pope
Nor anyone I may know.
Men wearing big robes.

I will be shepherd
of my small and humble life
and let the world turn

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them-that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. – Lao-Tse

I spent this afternoon tending to some cooking and doing some wash and sticking squares up on the wall. Took a break to chop up some fabric that was found in the pile last night. It’s always good to throw more into the mix when the whole theory is more is ok and more more is even better!

I went into the back sewing room (yes I have a front one and a back one and the back one holds the stash and the sewing machine table) tonight and LO! I found a small but valuable addition to the pile of blue squares and strips. And then LO! found 3 yards of 60″ wide summer weight wool, right where I should have guessed all along. Amazing. I was hoping for about 6 yards but I suppose even if gotten on sale that would have been a chunk o’change.

I have what amounts to about half the planned size up for the new project and think it’s going well. It always changes a little as it continues on. Unwanted lines of dark or light develop or a new color is found to blend in etc and some swapping of squares in and out results.

if you’ve never explored what you can do with email software, you should. Most programs have ways to let you filter or sort mail. I have a ton of filters or, as the Mac Mail software calls them, “rules” set up. Some do mundane things like put mail from a quilt guild into its own folder.

I have a “smart mailbox” that dynamically shows me mail that meets two criteria: it must have arrived today and must not be read. At midnight, and as I read it, the mail is cleared from that smart mailbox having never left the inbox it had originally arrived in. I have another smart mailbox that shows me just mail from family members.

The best part of filtering mail is that you can decide “I never want to read another email about this particular topic. Or from this particular person. Or “all these things are spam and even if they get through gmail they should go to trash.”

What am I currently not reading? Anything about computer viruses, being hacked or iPads. That’s because two different email lists I subscribe to spend, at times, more discussing those topics than their original purpose. BLam! Goes to trash! Crossposting to both lists? Not to my inbox you don’t – trash!

I do glance over the trash box before emptying it, just to make sure nothing unintended has ended up there but mostly I just smile as I hit “empty trash”.

Oh the geeky power of it all…