Week 38 - So Much Lameness

It was a pretty normal week, meaning I was out and about a lot, but the weather did not cooperate, which is ridiculous but becoming the norm. It even cancelled Monday Night Knitting and then the forecast storm didn't arrive. Then the heat was back at the end of the week - pushing 100 degrees on Friday. Where is fall?

I went to Lincoln on Tuesday for the monthly emeriti/retirees lunch, which was on student food insecurity. It was very interesting and I was happy to hear that in addition to the Husker Pantry, they also have Husker Closet. I've been looking for somewhere to donate clothes so will go through and pick some things that a young person would wear and donate there. From campus I went to Seward to pick up my state fair entries and since I was there, I hit their wonderful thrift shop and also discovered an old school meat market and bought some of their hotdogs and a loaf mix to make a ham loaf kind of thing. Time will tell on that.

After dropping off the quilt I'd picked up for someone I know from the library, which included 30 minutes talking in her driveway, I went home to look at my comments. LAME! Clearly they have someone judging the knitting who has no idea about knitting. I entered 8 pairs of socks and 5 had the comment that I needed to weave in my ends (every single end was meticulously woven in), a pair made with tweed yarn, which has little blips of colored wool spun into a main color, had a comment that it was pilling (seriously?) and I got a good choice of colors on a self-striping pair. I am done with entering stuff and plan to email the fair about how lame the judging was. You'd think they could come up with a competent knitter to judge at the state level, right?

I was stuck at home on Wednesday because they were coming to convert my internet over to fiber and hadn't sent a text with when they'd come. The tech did an appalling job of installing, putting a huge gray box right next to my slider right at eye level. Really? I made him move it so now have 2 silicone filled holes but at least I don't have to look at it every time I walk inside. His reasoning was that it would be easy to service. Such an idiot! Could you have lived with this location? It's now over next to the old box.

He was done by lunch so I made my zucchini/pineapple jam, cooked dinner and repotted some African violets to take to a plant program at the lake that night. The program was by a man who owns a local nursery and he brought all kinds of trees and bushes for show and tell and left some to be prizes for plant bingo. I was particularly interested in a coralberry bush he had and totally blew it because I had a diagonal bingo but was looking for a straight one so missed winning the bush by seconds when the women right before me took it. I was bummed. It's not like I can't go buy one but I probably won't.

I was back to Lincoln on Thursday for lunch with Dodie and dropping my dead laptop off. Philippe (the computer guy) wasn't in his office so I went upstairs to drop it in my old office. Lacey found me in the hallway, which was a treat because she's only 20% at UNL so rarely in the building, and after talking to her, I talked to Layton and then met the new data analyst. I stopped to see Ben on the way out of the building and just like that, my afternoon was toast. I picked up book club books at the library commission, got a frapuccino since I'd missed tea time and headed home. It was fun to catch up with so many friends. Have I mentioned that I love the people I worked with?

The heat was back on Friday with a high of 96 so I had to turn the AC back on, which I was not happy about. I did laundry and hung it out so at least the heat helped with that but otherwise hunkered down inside talking to friends and going through a stack of papers. This had better be the last time I need AC!

I had spinning in Fremont on Saturday and took yarn to share, which was the last the yarn from my sale that I'd designated to give away. All but a couple of skeins went and those few went into a bag to drop at Stuff. While the weather did break on Saturday, I was still mostly inside on Sunday doing regular chores. I do enjoy my Sundays, choosing to stay home while the working world is out and about.

So another retirement week where I was exactly as busy as I wanted to be. Now if some actual fall weather would arrive and stay, I'll be happy happy happy. Are you with me?