Wednesday Morning Rambly Bits

[gnomi]

-- I took the quiz at glassbooth.org, and I'm not sure I agree with their assessment of who I should vote for. It's an oddly limited number of questions they ask, which makes assessing my politics (which lean fiscally conservative but socially liberal) really hard.

-- I keep planning posts in my head, but for one reason or another they don't seem to make it to the screen.

-- I owe at least one person a language poll; I'll try to get it done by the end of the weekend, if not before.

-- Speaking of the screen, mabfan and I finally got our anniversary gift of the full series of Stargate: SG-1 on DVD. We've been checking each DVD to make sure it plays well. This tends to mean running through the eps on fast-forward, but I've been stopping to rewatch random episodes here and there. I'm up to season 4, so last night I rewatched "Small Victories," "Crossroads," "Divide and Conquer," "Chain Reaction," and "2010" (mabfan was out at Town Meeting, and I was crawling around on the living room floor).

-- Why was I crawling around on the floor last night? Well... it has to do with those things one learns from one's parents that one does even when one feels like a goofball doing so. I am making lcmlc a skirt, and when she first taught me to sew (when I was about 14 or so), she taught me the value of ironing the paper pattern pieces before cutting. She also taught me the value of Do-Sew or the functional equivalent, and since my best cutting surface is our living room floor, I was crawling around tracing out the pattern pieces in the proper size for lcmlc and then cutting out the resulting pieces. Tonight, I'll preshrink the fabric and (with luck) cut it out.

Comments

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

It *is* odd packaging, which is why we're testing the discs (there were reports of people receiving out-of-the-box damaged discs (I mean, discs that were damaged from the get-go)). We took all the discs out of their fancy-shmancy packaging and put them into slim cases, because that'll provide better protection.

And, yes. We'll see you next week. Yay!!!

[lisafeld.livejournal.com]

Huzzah! See you then!