Oh, I have a regional dialect question. I just saw Nikki Giovanni speaking and she talked about having grown up in Cincinatti but she pronounces it Cincinattah (uh?) is that a generational thing
It *might* be a generational thing, but I hear people of all ages say it. And my automatic response is: much like Missouri, Cincinnati ENDS IN A GODDAMN "I," NOT AN "A"!!!
Ahem.
I don't get it. I like Nikki Giovanni, though. Hometown girl makes good.
Supposedly anything more than about 400 is actually bullshit, Tom.
I heard 300. (You pick these things up on the streets.)
Scola, the New York Times did a shopping article on sheets recently that talked about thread count:
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In fact, he advised, “Once you get beyond 400 threads per square inch, be suspicious.” The standard for counting is to add each warp (vertical) and filling (horizontal) thread per square inch. The most that normally fits, he said, is 400, after which the threads are thinner and weaker. Some companies use two- or three-ply threads and multiply the count. “An 800-thread-count sheet made of two-ply yarn should legitimately be relabeled as 400,” he said. “That’s how you get 1,000 threads per square inch: creative counting.”
In the slide show there's some recommended bedding at BB&B.
It sounds like bamboo grows like mint. (Mom learned her lesson about putting mint in the garden--it soon took over that corner of the yard!)
IpoliticalN, the Tennessee State House Democrats pulled a fast one on their Republican counterparts.
To boil it down, Repubs have a House majority for the first time since Reconstruction, but it's a thin lead of 50 Repubs to 49 Dems. When they convened yesterday, they voted on their new Speaker, whom most of the Repubs thought would be the hard-right guy who had the backing of the Repub caucus. What they didn't know was that the Dems had approached a moderate Repub about running as well. The House Clerk called on all of the Dems to vote first, and they all voted for the moderate Repub. The clerk then called on all of the Repubs, and they all voted for the hard-right Repub, except for the moderate Repub who was running, who of course voted for himself.
So, the Tennessee House now has a moderate Repub Speaker who owes his position to the Dems and won't forget that fact. The rest of the Repubs tossed him out of their last caucus meeting and are debating what to do now.
Muah ha ha.
Tom, I'd recommend sateen finish cotton sheets in about 300 to 400 thread count. Feels much smoother and silkier than basic Egyptian cotton.
That synthetic silk fitted sheet I bought myself several years ago is 800 thread count and does legitimately feel a LOT finer and smoother than 400-count sheets I've had, but at least some of that may be due to the material, and I paid out the wazoo for it.
I have 1 set of 600 thread count sateen sheets, and they are HEAVEN. I did pay a whole lot for them, though - and I made sure that they are actually 600 count.
I have to say that the beech sheets Hec and I got as a wedding present wore thin and shredded completely to bits after about four years--but I also have to say that they got an unusually heavy amount of wear because (a) we don't have a lot of sheet sets, and when it was too warm for the flannel sheets we'd just wash the beech and put them right back on the bed, so they never got a break, and (b) we did have one other set of non-flannel sheets, but the beech sheets were just insanely much more soft and comfortable that we mostly ignored the others. If you can afford four or five sets and give each set a proper rest in between stints on your bed, oh they're lovely.
They've cancelled school for tomorrow due to cold. Subzero temps and REALLY subzero windchills. I need to figure out some indoor activities for tomorrow.
One inside activity my kids love is the treasure hunt. I just hide a bunch of notes around the house with each having a clue to finding the next until they reach the treasure one which is usually a coupon to turn in for a piece of candy or ice cream.
