Bulletin Point-ish Update
Aug. 9th, 2012 10:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sakon76Since we're in a heat wave and Wonderful Husband and I've been doing the borrowing-the-spare-car shuffle with my parents (WH's car went in for its XX-thousand mile tuneup), yesterday I put the Singer 401 in my car and left it in the sun, windows up, all day, and then took it over to my parents. The heat loosened a few screws that I hadn't been able to move previously, and my father was able to free up the presser foot bar. Hooray! Now I just need to put a foot on it, adjust the bar height, and I can actually sew on her! (The 401's name is Megan. This makes over half of my sewing machines, as well as my car, named for Transformers references. At least the car makes sense.)
TiVo failed to record the two-episode preview of Dragons: Riders of Berk, so last night I found them on YouTube and watched. I'm... a little disappointed. I mean, the series was never going to live up to the richness of the movie, but a lot of it is too... flat? caricatured? obvious? Still, I'll probably give episodes 3+ a chance when they come out.
Due to the aforementioned heat wave, I've been watering the (neglected) garden a lot this week, and have decided there is no WAY I'm hitting the fabric district in 100-degree-plus temperatures this Saturday. We can go curtain-shopping next weekend.
And, yes, I felt both of the SoCal earthquakes this week. The Tuesday 11:24pm one I was lying in bed for, and correctly gauged it in the 4-5 range (it was a 4.4 epicentered about six miles from the house), and the Wednesday morning one (4.5, just about same epicenter) I felt at work, seventeen miles further away, though about half my coworkers didn't. I suspect my ability to accurately assess the magnitudes is a sign of having lived here too long. How does that Jeff Foxworthy joke go? "If you've been on the news more than three times describing what the tornado sounded like...."
TiVo failed to record the two-episode preview of Dragons: Riders of Berk, so last night I found them on YouTube and watched. I'm... a little disappointed. I mean, the series was never going to live up to the richness of the movie, but a lot of it is too... flat? caricatured? obvious? Still, I'll probably give episodes 3+ a chance when they come out.
Due to the aforementioned heat wave, I've been watering the (neglected) garden a lot this week, and have decided there is no WAY I'm hitting the fabric district in 100-degree-plus temperatures this Saturday. We can go curtain-shopping next weekend.
And, yes, I felt both of the SoCal earthquakes this week. The Tuesday 11:24pm one I was lying in bed for, and correctly gauged it in the 4-5 range (it was a 4.4 epicentered about six miles from the house), and the Wednesday morning one (4.5, just about same epicenter) I felt at work, seventeen miles further away, though about half my coworkers didn't. I suspect my ability to accurately assess the magnitudes is a sign of having lived here too long. How does that Jeff Foxworthy joke go? "If you've been on the news more than three times describing what the tornado sounded like...."
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Date: 2012-08-09 08:55 pm (UTC)I had no idea there was a Riders of Berk series. I'm so out-of-touch it's not funny. Hm, I may have to check it out.
*snerk* I like most of Jeff Foxworthy's humor, and that one really made me laugh. Yup, you've lived there too long if you can guage the magnitute with that degree of accuracy.
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Date: 2012-08-10 03:54 am (UTC)That's pretty cool to be able to gauge earthquakes. And Jeff Foxworthy rocks! I've been thinking of his stand up routine a lot this summer. Especially one line, "If you are wearing a dress that's strapless with a bra that isn't..." Lost count how many women I've seen dressed that way this year. Is it in style or something?