infryq

Yesterday I hemmed two handkerchiefs with mitered corners. Very pleased. I
finished Falling Free, which ended a bit abruptly, but fine. Someone asked
how I get so much reading done — and, well, my audiobooks are usually 6-15
hours long. On weekdays I get a solid hour every morning while I sew,
another half hour over the commute and lunch, another half hour over the
way home and decompressing, and sometimes another half hour and change over
my bedtime routine or breakfast prep or other tasks. That’s a book every
2-8 days. This only works because I have no children, my job stays at work,
and my hobbies are not terribly cerebral; if I’m doing math for pattern
design or spatial visualizations for assembly planning I turn the book off.

At work I updated the backups progress spreadsheet and switched back to the
theo install. I got stuck on an issue with inference on a slotslot, but
conveniently had a meeting with T just then, who untangled the issue. We
drew all over the board and it was great. I spent the rest of the afternoon
investigating a tricky issue where default string values are mysteriously
turning into lists of characters instead, but didn’t reach the bottom of it.

D emailed, so I wrote back to her with a short update. They’re still in
town! They bought a house on the other side of the neighborhood, and she’s
working for Pitt now. Good.

Home, and P was away at the garden meeting. Dinner, Flash, then he got home
and we did the crossword. More Flash, snack, sleep.