I've been reading Ian Toll's Twilight of the Gods, and it's good. Doing a little knitting. Hanging out with friends.I have a bit of a cold, but not COVID or anything worse.

Life is pretty good.

 I have finished Dies The Fire and started the second book in the series, The Protector's War. I'm really enjoying the reread. Also still reading The Twilight of the Gods; this is really a palate cleanser. I'm enjoying it as well. I'm in the chapter on the battle of Peleliu. If I spelled that right.

I've pulled out the tapestry bag, and I'm going to take another stab at it. Now I have to find the book with the instructions. There are so many joins you can use for the weft, and I want the right one. Or maybe I'll try all of them, this is a practice piece. I'm really using it to avoid working on the Viking apron I should be finishing for Winter Market.

I cooked the cabbage/hamburger casserole again yesterday. It seems like everyone likes it, and I'll keep making it until somebody tells me they don't like it. So there!  See what happens when you leave me alone in the kitchen!

 Reading Dies The Fire again.  And a book on the Pacific war by  Ian Toll, the third book in the trilogy, Twilight of the Gods. The first two were excellent.

I have a project on the loom, and I've been putting off getting started on it because I know I misthreaded part of the pattern. I've been knitting and reading instead. Must buck up and get it done. Rethreading is not that hard a chore and I even have replacement heddles for missing ends. For a wonder, I didn't break a single thread warping the loom. I've got to get this project off, though, and get started in Christmas weaving.

Retirement isn't so bad; figuring out the money part of it has been a little rough. The hardest part is that I'm now paid once a month and the time after the 15th is lean. I have to pace myself better.

I've got a new family member: Jack, a shelter dog with separation issues. I think he was returned to the shelter multiple times for some reason. He's a sweet guy and does everything I tell him to. He does love licking everything. We've finally broken him of jumping on everyone. He is the bestest dog.

 I've retired, and now have time to do anything I want. I just have no money to do it, LOL. 

Trying to find my way through the Medicare system so I don't have any gaps in health insurance. I keep finding forms that have to be signed by my old employer, and signed yesterday. Good grief.

Reading the July issue of Analog, and I can't remember the name of the short story. Living in a basement apartment. Watching a lot of TV. Warping the Baby bit by bit.

Still alive.

Home from work today with a migraine. Drugs are wonderful, let me tell you.

Reading Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson. It holds my interest, but it jumps around a lot in perspective, and I find it difficult to follow with my reading-in-small-bites lifestyle. When I retire (and that date looks further and further away) i hope to be able to sit and read for hours at a time.

Magna Faire this weekend. Not sure I'll be able to make it, darn it. Still have halos from the migraine.

Okay, looks like the glitch, whatever it was, is fixed.  I'm still not sure what happened to lock me out of the "compose" function. 

Reading Freedom's Landing, by Anne McCaffrey. An oldie but a goodie; one of her juveniles.  Aliens kidnap humans to serve as slaves in their empire.  It's holding my attention, but it is so Mary Sue.

Good weekend!  I spent Saturday at Sharon's. Winalee showed up and we went over documentation for A&S projects using the Guided Documentation form from the Kingdom A&S site.  I think they both have a good understanding of where to go from here. Winalee and I will both proofread and nudge hem along the way to Magna Faire. Both Sharon and Jory took the class.  Sharon and I went out to a gardening store with wondrous stuff, and thence to JoAnn's, where I proceeded to try to buy the entire yarn department. Oh, and we gt quilling kits, too. She's already made a flower with hers, and it's beautiful.  I think she'll stick with it.

Winalee has asked me to knit a bag for her; it's the Turkish bag out of the new Piecework. We talked about that for a bit. Hilary never showed up.  Dave came with Nick, and he sat and wove a strip on his loom while Nick ran around ike the two year old he is. He's a cute kid.

We tried out the Scotch eggs recipe, and it was a real success. Dave suggested that instead of eggs we use a ball of cheese, and that was good too.  We all agreed the cheese neeeded to be different; something meltier. We used string cheese because it was the only thing we had on hand.  We'll try Monterey Jack, and something else to be determined. Sharon thinks the Scotch eggs/cheese should have stayed in the oven for a bit longer; we used 10 minutes per the recipe, and she thinks we should go with 12 or 15.

Sunday, off to fighter practice, and we had a lot of heavy fighters there, as well as, let's see, I think we had six rapier fighters as well.  Phylip came and fought a bit. I think I counted six heavies as well, with both Aethulwulf and Valdryk teaching in small groups as well as the whole. Among them, they managed to break four shields, and they've scheduled an armor night to repair the shields and work on armor in general. It was a good fighter practice.

On the way home from practice I stopped at K&S, the international grocery on Charlotte avenue, and picked up garlic, leeks, some hot sauce, and chipotles in adobe for some recipe Theo's trying. And the car wouldn't start again, because the anti-lock on the ignition is worn, and the key is worn, and the antilock now thinks I'm trying to steal the car and shuts down the ignition. I have to sit and wait for the computer to reset. I have to figure out some way to disarm it or disconnect it.  It's getting really annoying.

To infinity and beyond!

Home to straighten up and try a bowl of Theo's gumbo, which was defini

Still Can't Post Anything. Weird.

Okay, looks like it'll let me type in the block if I change everything to HTML, whatever that is.