Today I learnt how to do a New Thing.

I have not actually done it yet, but after having read the instructions through many times and having had a few goes and still not getting it, I found a slightly different explanation. I had the 'aha' moment and I'm pretty confident I'll be able to do it now. And confident that it will be a useful thing to know in the future.

Yes, it is a knitting thing, which is why I'm not going to go on about it. Also, I was missing something screamingly obvious that I would not have missed had I the clear head that I used to have, I swear.

I'm just pleased that I've learnt something new. It feels like it's been a while.

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I think tomorrow I might put some coffee and some tea into ice cube trays. We will be having another day in the mid 40s on Saturday, so it would pay to find a civilised way to get my caffeine hit.

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And speaking of caffeine, here is an oldie but a goodie:

Cup of Brown Joy - Elemental.


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Woah.

Right now, even thinking about thinking is too much like hard work.

Today I:


1. Fielded a brief phone call from my beloved tenbears in which he asked me to find phone numbers for plumbers near to where he was working. He was sooo very, very calm on the phone -yet clearly disinclined to go into details and/or chat- that after he'd rung off I couldn't stop worrying. I assume everything's been sorted now, but won't know what happenned for a while yet. Hopefully he is debriefing over a beer chez Ro.

2. Nearly backed Bazza off the side of the ramp. The tyre was just sitting atop the little barrier when he stopped. It could have been quite disasterous, I had to have a few moments quiet after that.

3. Then I backed off the paved area and got bogged in the dirt. A few more moments of quiet were called for.

4. As was some heavy lifting which I needed to do to render Bazza path-based again, but which I did not need on any other level.

5. You don't want to know how many times Bazza and I didn't quite make it through the gate. Paused on the footpath for further quiet time.

6. You also don't want to know how many typos I've made thus far.

7. I bought a teapot from the op-shop. I do not need another teapot.

8. I did not buy the cute 1950's sugarbowl that first attracted my attention. I've been thinking for a while that I would like a nice sugarbowl. I am sick of open bags of sugar on the kitchen table and jars that need to be opened with two hands. I do not know why I bought the teapot instead.

9. Still, I had a nice conversation with the guy at the bookstore, bought the books they got in for me and also picked up a little desk bookshelf that is close enough to what I've been wanting for my desk that it will do the job well enough, and cheap enough that it can go if I stumble across something better.

10. I am now going to lie on the couch and avoid the world until further notice. I will reemerge when it's time to hug 10B and maybe stroke his brow in a wifely manner and try not to accidentally poke him in the eye. And maybe he'll stroke my brow too and hopefully not need to call a doctor because his finger got stuck in my ear.