Yay for newish clothes, Andi!

I'm getting pooped out. I think I might go home soon.

Take care of you, vw!

ETA: Off to the library now. On foot! Ha! Hahahahhahaha! May also detour to the Walgreens to see if they have pure cocoa butter for the making of that which Daniel refers to as "goop".

Is this supposed to turn into a mental Ginsu commercial?

Hee! He slices! He dices! But can Neil Diamond CUT A TOMATO??!?

You get all this, and the steak knives are yours to keep absolutely free!

Nah, it's just a little twitch of mine -- people tend to talk about the three fencing weapons as if they were interchangeable (as in "not many people can weild a foil well enough..." above; most people good enough at sabre to get scholarships can't fence foil for shit, and vice versa), and the effect is a little like, hmm, calling hockey skates "figure skates", or something.

Ah, and after your edit, I see what you were asking. Yes, fencing (and sabre fencing in particular) is kind of my Bob. Thwacky thwacky thwacky.

Ah, Amych, your desire for precision is understandable. The funny thing is, I originally typed sabre, but not knowing which he used, fell back on foil, which was my brother's choice.

My boss isn't here right now, so I need to try to stick it out till he gets back. Ugh. I'm so sleepy.

I discovered there's a women's center here in town. Saturday they are having an arts and crafts sale -music festival thing, which I may go to. They also offer yoga and belly dancing classes at fairly reasonable prices.

And I've decided to make my brother a scarf for Christmas. Last year I bought Hip to Crochet and this year I've been practicing some stitches, the first pattern in the book is the scarf I'm going to try. It's a striped pattern, but instead of the four colors it calls for I'm only going to be using two colors. I found a stitch n bitch group here, I'm going to try and make a meeting. Actually there are a few women here who crochet and one is going to give me some pointers, I don't think I'm doing the stitch before the turn correctly.

Mom's also got a project to make xmas gifts and I may make one of those for someone. I'm going to try and be creative and frugal this Xmas.

Work doesn't have any work for me to do, but I'm supposed to stay anyway, which is fine. I just wish I had some homework here to do.

Argh. We're going to Germany for our R&R. A very good friend was going to be transiting Germany at the same time, so we said "Why don't you join us for a few days?" We've all travelled together before, seemed like it would be fun.

Thing is, this friend is really pushing for renting a car while there. Because he's lived there, and will be bringing his girlfriend, he will want to be the driver. He is the worst driver I know. I am scared to ride with him when it's not even the autobahn in winter. And with Mallory...

So how do I tell him no? I tried the cost thing, and he's countering that it's about the same price as train+taxi, which is true.

Now that Lillian has added zombie-wrangling to her skills, she's being promoted to #1 Minion status by Clovis.

{{juliana}}

Fay, good for you! That's really good progress.

Good luck with the tests, sumi.

... what else, what else? Hmmm. Oh, yeah. I'm having surgery this week. On my birthday. Bah, I say. Bah very much.

So how do I tell him no?

Could you just tell him that you're not comfortable driving on the autobahn in the winter?