At 12:33 AM 12/7/05 -0500, Tamara P Duvall wrote: > Speaking of which... Running errands - postponed from yesterday (and > yes, Joy; I did sweep the snow off all the windows of my car as soon as > it stopped snowing last night, so I would be able to get out today.
I thought my car was nice and clean Tuesday, because it hadn't snowed since I drove it on the day before -- but we had a heavy frost in the night. By good luck I'd intended to get to the dentist's office half an hour early. Windows still weren't all that clear when I started moving -- stopped in the mouth of the driveway to give them a few more scrapes -- even though I had the engine running and the defrosters going all the time I was cleaning them off. ----------- Later -- home from my embroidery lesson. I had to walk in the street because none of the walks were safe to use after dark. Met one pedestrian and no cars! (But I was overtaken by a long string, presumably released from the stoplight at the entrance to the village.) The class is down to two boys, but they are both doing very well. 8 December 2005 > The bangle ones - in both silver- and > gold-coloured metal, at $4.98 might work as frames for ornaments, Cool! Cheap, glittery bangles are one of the things I miss about dime stores. The next thing you know, someone will be selling the elegant little bottles of cologne. Vermont Country Store *has* brought back Evening in Paris -- but it's parfum in the pretty blue bottle, not cologne, and it's *far* from a dime-store price. The whole point of a dime store is that the nifty stuff is stuff that a child can buy with its own money. And funny books will never be seen again. The distribution system broke down and cannot be replaced, which is why comix cost so much more than funnybooks, and why every place you find paperbacks, it's all the *same* paperbacks. But electronic publication may take care of that, if we can settle on a standard format and ditch DRM and other bugs that are put in on purpose. See http://www.ethshar.com/thesprigganexperiment0.html and http://jiltanith.thefifthimperium.com/Collections/HaraldChapters/Harald_Link.php . -- Joy Beeson http://home.earthlink.net/~joybeeson/ http://home.earthlink.net/~dbeeson594/ROUGHSEW/ROUGH.HTM http://home.earthlink.net/~beeson_n3f/ http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
