…at least this one is.
First and foremost, birthday wishes to profstevie.
Today’s been a cleaning and home day. So far, I’ve put up a wall-mounted TV stand for gf_guruilla in the Sewing Room [mmm, manly, 40-year old power drills (it was my dad’s), using stud detectors :-)]. I’ve been doing the delicates in the laundry, folding the stuff that’s dry, and washing the dirty stuff. I should be fully caught up shortly. On laundry weekends, I really understand the song Putting It Away from the musical “Heartbeats” by Amanda McBroom:
Hanging out the clothes.
I feel so fine
When that sweet sunshine
Runs around in my nose
My woolens know no static…
My stockings never cling…
My whites are white, my colors bright.
And my collars have no ring.
But something’s less that perfect
Here in paradise
Here comes that time again
‘that I just despise.
Putting things away.
Bringing in the sheets
Folding up the shorts, handing up the shirts,
Matching up the pleats
And socks are just like expectations,
one always gets away.
It can make you blue
There’s better things to do,
than putting things away.
(As an aside: I really do like that line “And socks are just like expectations, one always gets away.”)
And so, everything is folded in stacks in the laundry room, or hanging out to dry. Someone else can put it away (well, if they get it to bedroom, I’ll put my stuff away. Gotta set an example and all that rot).
Other than that, more icon cleanup (I’ve changed the blushing one yet again, cleaned up the stressed icon, and redone the general music icon). I guess I’m putting off the one thing I need to do: rework the software for soc.culture.jewish.parenting to work with listserv instead of listproc. The perl code that handles the randomization is pretty crufty and creaky.
ellipticcurve should be over shortly to help gf_guruilla in the Sewing Room. We really have grown to love having ellipticcurve around; in just a short time, she’s become a member of the family. A truly good person!
As for the arm: Better today. I had the insight that it might be like my sciatia, which is knocked down not by painkillers, but by a muscle relaxant. I’m trying to take some extra calcium and magnesium; if anyone have ideas for a non-prescription equivalent of Parafon Forte, let me know. [of course, if I’ve been looking straight ahead for a long time, the first look downwards is a killer!]
