jack is in his corset jane is in her vest

[the_siobhan]

10 – Worldwide Knit in Public Day: It's time to take knitting out of the shadows and show everyone that knitting is for all ages and that it’s a fun and enjoyable activity, and something that you can proud of. Do you knit? Do you knit in public? Do you ever get questions or comments from strangers when you do knit in public?
11 – Corn on the Cob Day: Do you like corn on the cob? How do you usually cook it -- just boiled, on the BBQ, etc.? What's your favourite seasoning?
12 – Red Rose Day: Are roses -- red or otherwise -highly overrated?


10 - I tried knitting when I was a teenager I think? But I didn't have the resources to buy wool so it was a thing that just kind of fell by the wayside. I have friends who are enthusiastic knitters. 11. Love corn on the cob, usually from the grill. 12. I like roses. Unfortunately most are bred for appearance over smell, and I am much more attuned to the smell of things than their looks. (One of the things I love about milkweed, the plant isn't that attractive but they smell amazing.)

13 – Kitchen Klutzes Day: Even if you're not a klutz in the kitchen, we've all had a significant kitchen mishap at some point. What was the klutziest thing to ever happen to you in the kitchen?

I'm pretty much a klutz in general, but for some reason last week was particularly bad. I dumped two whole meals right on the floor. And with the house in this state, there's no 10-second rule in play.

***

The adjoining neighbours are not people who believe in repressing their emotions. On the contrary, conflict is dealt with promptly and with a frank exchange of views. Very very loud exchanges of views.

Apparently the issue this morning was that the teenage son wasn't leaving his room for school and both parents teamed up to express their concern about it. At one point Mr yelled "You're killing us J__" and it reminded me so much of Tommy Wideau's "You're tearing me apart!" that I've been walking around giggling all day.

***

The fan in the bathroom has started working again? Like, out of nowhere?

I have no idea.

However now the lights in the living room are out. We have dimmers on all our lights, which require special bulbs - the housemate ordered some from Amazon and apparently they sent regular bulbs instead and housemate didn't think to check - so they blew out the switch. A simple fix, I just need to get around to going to a hardware store to pick one up. In the meantime I make my coffee by torchlight.

This fucking house man.

I also found out that the contractor has been in the hospital which is why I haven't seen him for three weeks. One of his employees was supposed to tell us, which in fairness he did, but I tend to interpret "Mike will be back Tuesday!" as meaning he will be back the next Tuesday, and not some unspecified Tuesday in the future.

He made noises about being back to work next week, so I guess I'll find out how he's doing if he makes it in. I hope he's OK. He's a good guy.

***

I'm going to start insisting that if housemate is spending more than 50% of their time with their gf they start taking their cat with them - Dr River Song is very sweet and affectionate, but also very licky, and I come up all hives wherever she gets at me. I had to lock her out of my office today to keep her off me. In theory housemate takes care of all the cat stuff - but that requires them to actually be here, and the good Doctor will protest poop outside the box if it isn't up to her standards.

Which reminds me, I think his Lordship had a follow-up vet appointment but I have no idea when. I'll need to poke to make sure that's taken care of.

***

The Old Man has been calling me non-stop about his computer. We had it set up with individual desktop icons for each of the sites he visits except Windows did an update and ate them all. I tried setting them up again in Chrome - which is what he expects and looks for - but MS has downgraded Chrome I guess? Anyway I couldn't get it to work last time I was there.

My brother-in-law has remote access to his computer so he can help with tech support so I asked if he could have a look. Which I can only assume hasn't happened because I keep getting phone calls about it. And no matter how many times I explain I can't look at his computer from here, I have to do it when I am in the room with him, which will happen on Friday, only BIL has the remote access - he just calls me back the next day because it still isn't working. "Oh and your sister called me this morning! "Great, did you ask her about the computer?" "No." *headdesk*

I'll try another whack at it tomorrow with a different browser. It won't look exactly the same, which is a problem, but if I can walk him through it a couple of times he can probably get it down. Hopefully Ill be able to get it sorted for him, it's not a big problem - just an annoying one.