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Yesterday I took apart the back yoke and center back seams, removed the
temporary zipper, picked out buttons, designed the placket, cut bias
strips, and started binding the neckline. I had some executive function
issues after my shower, and missed the shuttle, just barely missed the bus,
and caught the 12:15 shuttle instead. P texted to say he was hanging with C
and see if I was en route, but the issues I’ve been having with cellular
data apparently extend to iMessage as well and I couldn’t convince my phone
to use SMS instead. Called to coordinate. Lunch with P and C, then spent
most of the afternoon on theo bugs and a bit on trying to run wiki backups
on the server. Things kept hanging; I suspect more issues with the NAS.
Grrr.

Stolen continues; the reader is getting more into it and the characters are
all darling. Kam is a bit flighty but genuinely likes people and manages to
be intensely trusting without taking any bullshit. (...personal
aspirations) There’s a lot of trite shorthand in the writing that could be
conveyed more naturally, which feels weird next to the deftness of both the
individual characterizations and the relationships. Hoping to see the
former develop more in later books; authors learning to write is always
fascinating.

Home, dinner, crossword, Flash, snack, sleep. P heard from his folks; his
mom is exhausted and M is going to stick around until P gets there.