Nestling weather

Yesterday I finished sewing the long piped seam on the second chair back cushion. Somehow I still don’t have the pattern quite right, as I had to ease the fuck out of it after the first curve, and managed to sew the second curve sufficiently shorter to successfully pre-empt that issue. Whatever, though: no more chair backs to do. Next is chair seats.

I finished Oath of Gold and started another sister trilogy about Paksenarrion’s servicemates. The first one is called Oath of Fealty. Lotta oaths. Good so far.

At work I got the pytheo docs and demo back up to date for the JPM folks, then returned to the dev walkthrough. One of the commands is sufficiently ambiguous that I gave up on wordsmithing and implemented the read/write feature in the lexicon I’ve been thinking about for ages. Retrained, and it seems to work! Hooray. At 5 we had our first lab meeting of the semester, and heard a visiting research group from Slovenia talk on event-based information extraction. It was good.

P had the car on campus so drove us home. Late dinner but that was fine; what wasn’t fine was the surprise patchouli in one of the soap samples that arrived from my favorite vendor in MI. I’ve developed some kind of sensitivity, and just smelling it over and over and over was irritating.

Crossword, Elementary, snack, sleep.

Olin trans news: I got a nice response from PM but I get the idea they’re not going to send out a public clarification.

Also got email back from OXO; they’re happy to send replacement dishes if I send them a photo. Can do.