Alas

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Yesterday I learned how to do a hand-rolled hem, and it is so much easier than using the rolled hem foot I may never go back. I did about half of it so it doesn’t even take that long.

P used the new purple lead tests on the paint on the front of the house (the paint is red, so the usual red ones from the hardware store are suboptimal) aaaand they came up positive. We’re going to have the masonry guys hold off on the front until we can get an abatement team in. I mean I’ve always wanted to get the paint off the bricks but this is not the way I wanted to do it. Probably another $3k.

October Man continues well; the reader started out a bit stuffy but is relaxing into it.

Lunch, work was good— I’m back into debugging use case tests; met with F and M and dug up some more likely datasets for them from the proppr archives; flexed my data processing muscles on cleaning them up. Dinner, crossword, then we went to the PCA to help load the soda kiln. It made for a late night but it was a very pleasant gentle social experience. I dropped someone else’s pot 😔 which sucked, but it helped that T wasn’t having the most on top of it day either. Mistakes aren’t fun but that doesn’t mean they’re not normal. You figure stuff out. P made a possible client connection for the spring web design course with a guy who works in a slipcasting studio. He had really fabulous stuff to put in the kiln — ducks cast from hunting lures, horseshoe crabs, turtle shells. He plans to help with unloading on Monday but I kinda hope some of his stuff winds up at Braddock so we can all see how it turns out.

Home, snack, sleep.