It’s been hard to think of anything to write about for the past week or so. Things are so very much the same from day to day. Someone reported a post from 2010 as possibly cheating on a mail-in math contest that is happening this month. Someone else doesn’t realize that calculators only have so many bits of precision, so he’s angry that the answer his calculator gave hime was marked wrong. My code has some remarkably subtle error in which an object that I believe should be within the scope I’m operating in appears not to be.

Over the long weekend I have managed to get things done, though! At home, of course.

For a very long time four of the outlets in my kitchen have not worked. Well over a year. Possibly more than two. A long time. The solution has been to run an extension cord across the sink to one of the two outlets that did work.

Today I finally got fed up with the situation, walked to the hardware store, bought a new GFCI, and installed it. I have electricity again! My Instant Pot can cook on either side of the kitchen! Spices can be ground without unplugging the rice maker!

kitchen

I finally dealt with all the fiddly little details of the quilt that I had been working on. The label is sewn on the back. The loose ends are trimmed. Excess, visible basting thread has been removed. It might even go on the bed tonight.

quilt

It is very hard to take a picture of a quilt. Your best option is to find a way to hang the quilt on a very big wall in a place with lots of diffuse light and to be fortunate enough to be able to place the camera on a rather tall tripod. If you don’t take the picture straight on, there will be keystoning; the quilt will look like a trapezoid. Now, most quilts are not perfectly rectangular, but most photographs make things look even more dire.

So I feel the need to point out that this quilt is perhaps one of the most perfectly rectangular ones that I have ever made. Even though you can’t tell from the picture.