Our TV has been advertising daily trivia in their main menu, but it only intermittently gives us access. Very weird. It’s 10 questions, and they aren’t hard, but the most I had correctly answered was 9, either by myself or with Matt.
But tonight we finally got 10 out of 10 questions! I was a little disappointed to see that the congratulations screen is just the same as for 9 out of 10 correct.
They could have thrown in some fireworks or something.
This is much larger than real life, it’s the artist trading card size. I did it during a long meeting at work. Also, I have glasses now, and still this is out of focus! Grrr.
I asked Matt if he wanted to do a fun advent project, the Advent of Tess, where we fold Origami Tessellations every day. Matt said yes, I’ve been going through the Foundations course. It’s kind of a lot, complicated by the fact that I’ve been using brown kraft paper, which I first must cut to size.
But here I have completed one of the first foundations projects, an example of pleat reordering. I had to have Matt help me, but I got it done. This is a 32×32 grid, which is a lot to fold before you even get to the pleat reordering.
I messed up in the middle; the horizontal middle band is supposed to be 2 grids, not three, but other than that, I did it. Onto the next thing.
Me walking back from the library:
Oh, they’ve still got their Harris/Walz sign up. I wonder when they will take it down?
Oh, it’s the one that says, “We’re not going back.”
Me after reading the sign: A bark of rueful laughter.
I’m a sucker for a harmonica and some wistful lyrics.
My Google timeline dutifully reported my visit to Boise and surrounding towns.
But what’s this? Parma is some patchy grass near a fence? You can do better, Parma. At the very least you could have a picture of Parma Furniture.
AAAAAArrrrrrrrgggggghhhhhh!!!!!
I did my part, but I’m feeling worried…
Well, nearly voted. She’s filled out her ballot, for sure.
It took a while. And it took a spreadsheet. This was the first election we got to experience ranked choice voting.
I had to rank six candidates for mayor (a bit difficult, due to quality of candidates) and another six for the three District 2 representatives. 22 were running, but happily some of those 22 hadn’t submitted a statement to the voter’s pamphlet, which is my lowest bar to clear.
I’m excited to see how the ranked choice voting goes. I’m noticing that by ranking six candidates, my feelings of needing ONE person to win have dissipated. I look at that as progress.
Here you can see all my accruements for hydration at work.
The embroidered landing spot, my usual water vessel, a new thermos (much too large because I bought it online and didn’t properly visualize the size), and the cute mug that Danielle got to welcome me to the library.
Too-large thermos notwithstanding, this has all come together nicely. When I leave work, I tuck it all in a two-drawer file cabinet, so others can use the space for their own beverage station.
We emptied the living room of furniture and borrowed a few folding tables and chairs to seat all the people who came to Friendsgiving. Sara and Shawn surprised me by driving up from Arcata. It was great fun.
I’ve been scanning my grandfather’s slides and he was a fan of the far away photo, so I took a few photos as he would:
The slightly out of focus table.
The back-of-the-head table.
The way-far-away table.
I then had Kelly take the official photo, but forgot to fix the camera before I passed it on to her. Here’s the no-glasses version (I was quite hot and my glasses kept fogging up, so I took them off.)
Here’s the glasses version.
And here’s one last look at the cake.
