The change, it's starting.

I watched Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party after turning off Nine Months because who can watch Tom Arnold, and wowzers. Mormons aren’t the religion in HGBP, but that social fear/pressure is one and the same.

Any of y'all use Artwork Archive? I'm getting to the point where my (fabulous) Excel + Affinity Publisher workflow is too manual and limiting.

I deleted Bsky from my phone so now all I do is open the package tracking app just in case any of my vinyls are suddenly on the move. (They never are.)

This writing in The Sun is so good. I feel like I know this grandfather entirely after these two sentences. www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/602...

My QuiltCon Couture didn't get worn this year, but it was a perfect companion at the Aurifil booth to show off the threads in my collection.

So can I hear things I've never heard before because they're records or because I have the volume turned up? Regardless, it's the experience I was hoping for. 12/10, would recommend.

I am >this< close to switching to use .net instead of .us for my domain. I don't know why in 2008 I decided to get .us instead of .net or .org, but now that my domain's an adult, I think it's probably time to use the grown-up .net.

I'm so back.

Well gosh.

This was not on my (long) list of things to accomplish today, but it happened anyway: I've tweaked (and relisted) my Spare Block Quilted Tote pattern after effusive praise about my own tote in the airport yesterday.

Oh snap! mondoshop.com/collections/...

Whoops. Just bought three more albums on vinyl.

‘A Room with a View’ is delightful!

I don’t know which is more disturbing: (a) my website is not on the first page of Google anymore or (b) the public Facebook page for my quilting is one of the first results and is still live, despite my account being deleted.

Trying to figure out how to get this mirror into my carryon luggage. I think it’s not going to fit.

I feel weird going to QuiltCon right now without any QuiltConCouture, but is exactly what my brain needs.

Kind of regretting being reading this right now as I pack.

LFG! (The L is obvs Limoncello) (And G is clearly “Go sit in a dark cupboard until Easter to then emerge to receive sugar and more vodka before waiting another 40 days”.)

I’m making some ahead of the demo for samples. One Tinier and one Tiny completed.

Turned on the turntable to start the day as the gods intended: with Jo Ann Castle’s ‘Ragtime Piano Gal’.

No one: what are you doing at the Aurifil booth on Friday at 2pm? Me: A demo of quilt-as-you-go tiny quilts. No one: For how long? Me: an hour. No one: [silence] Me: what?! No one: [points at the photos] Me: look, I needed to prep 10 tiny quilts and 10 tinier quilts just so I wasn’t limited!

Not perfect, but it’ll do.

More info. Looks like it's primarily one account with limited follower count. The post in the first screenshot has been deleted, it was about the meet-up. That meet-up's apparently been made undercover as the bag swap in the second screenshot. Third is just of their IG page for flavor.

If any of my followers happen to be participating in the Pro-ICE meet-up at QuiltCon, you have two options: 1) speak up so I can block your ass or 2) unfollow & block me right this fucking second

QuiltCon prep. Trying to strike a balance for my time in the Aurifil booth, in terms of my own expectations, ease of use, information quantity, and what to pack.

Today I made Nigella’s Forgotten Cookies to use the egg whites leftover from the Lemon Icebox Pie that I made today to use the leftover lemon juice from the last time I made limoncello because I have another order of lemons on the way to make more limoncello.

How could you leave me when I needed to possess you. I hated you; I loved you, too.

Take some time to read this essay. I like the idea that there isn’t a ghost in the machine of GenAI. Lots to think about.

I spent 20 minutes of my drive stressing about the drone flying above me. How was it staying in the sky so long? How and why was it flying just ahead of me the entire time? Does it belong to the state or the county? It was: Jupiter. The planet. (But that doesn’t mean it wasn’t tracking me.)

Well shucks, my source for limoncello lemons has their stock replenished. Guess I know how I’ll be recovering from QuiltCon next weekend.

On my walk today I remembered that we needed a record player. In a personal best of five hours, a new turntable was identified and has been ordered. No spreadsheets were involved, but there was (and still is) an excessive number of open tabs.

It is so utterly disappointing / disheartening / distracting / infuriating to be in a zoom webinar and suddenly the chat is filled with blasts of "Hi, I'm so-and-so's AI notetaker". I want to type "/ff leave" or "otter stop" to stop all of them.

New pronoun labeller just dropped! Instructions are in the thread and as this is something that becomes more useful the more people are using it, plz do pass it along

I finally got around to listening to the full new Madison Beer album. I don’t know if it’s good and I just need to listen to it a lot more (and not just the tracks released as singles), or if the only good songs were the tracks released as singles.

I refuse to believe that the most expedient way to refer to the timing of QuiltCon is "next week".

10000% would watch.

This was so weird.

The only Mother I will now accept is Ann Lee.

I’m seeing (irl and online) more and more “I just can’t take this any more” after this weekend, including for myself. As I told coworkers this morning, I had five too many last straws since Friday. And I know I’m not even in the thick of things.

Last week I did a taste test of four variations of my favorite cocktail, to see which substitutions were most acceptable. Turns out, none of them and all of them. Each one individually ranged from fine to “in a pinch”. So I poured all four together to not waste them, and that’s the best one!

Hmmm. I’m still interested, but trying to be more restrained in my anticipation. I mostly enjoyed Promising Young Woman and Saltburn, so we’ll see if this sticks in my head like the other two.

Moral of the story: don’t change your amex user id. Even if you think you really need to. The clean up after the change will break you.

I've been having the most appalling support from Amex this last month. A rep happily reports that an account has been deleted and I thank them, and then the next rep I talk to says it's not deleted but they've now deleted it and I thank them, and then the next rep says it's not deleted but they've n

I’m in the market for a non-leather belt that doesn’t suck. (I’m happy with my leather belt; I want an additional belt.) I’ve not had a non-leather belt I haven’t promptly stopped using.

Look, I love the Criterion Channel, but this nonsense about having to re-log in every month to the AppleTV app is bullshit. There is no one else using this app on this device. KEEP ME LOGGED IN!

Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

Mine is multiple: Grover Cleveland, Bolivia, and Peru. Just another reason why GenAI is trash. You’re not going to build that connection to a subject that lasts decades.

I was curious how the floor plan for #QuiltCon compared this year to 2024. Looks to me like many more vendors and fewer quilts.

Today on Auribuzz is an interview with me about my making journey and more about my thread collection.