March 11, 2008

  • The Professor sent me this link to The Onion's fake news broadcast site on the Internet.  While the story did make me laugh, it does point out that there is no way to authenticate the results from electronic voting machines.  At least paper ballots can be retained for a recount.

    Maybe the USA should try to save paper in other ways in order to attempt to protect the integrity of our election results.

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    There's nothing quite so guaranteed to bring a smile to your face as to be greeted enthusiastically by your cat when you go outside to fetch the newspaper.  Kissa bounds, much more than runs, up to me and immediately lies down on the driveway with her stomach up.  She loves to have her neck and tummy rubbed and knows that if she makes it easy for me, she's likely to get just what she wants.  Thank goodness the weather's warming up!

    Sometimes I just have to wonder which one of us is in charge here but, of course, it's Kissa.

    Quilting:  The Guild Update

    Yesterday was my quilting guild's monthly meeting.  Each month, as you sign in, you can buy tickets (at 50 cents each) for chances at the meeting's door prizes.  I usually buy two tickets to help the guild in some small way but never expect to win anything because most of the 70-odd (numerically, not characteristically) women and one man at the meeting seem to buy many more tickets than I. 

    When one of my numbers was called yesterday, I was pleasantly shocked.  There were two prizes left when I got up to the table in the front, a rotary cutter and a coupon for machine quilting.  I already have a rotary cutter, so I gladly took the 50% off coupon for machine quilting of a future quilt.

    I turned in my competition quilt, which has so many flaws in it that I really submitted it to add to the number of entries.  Not many people have offered to display quilts in our upcoming quilt show, so I'm going to enter The Professor's Rocky Road to California scrap quilt from 2004.  When I had the quilt professionally machine quilted, some machine oil got on the back of the quilt.  Unfortunately, when I removed the machine oil, some of the green dye from the pieced part of the quilt ran in several places.   However, the woman in charge of registration hopes to get 100 more quilts for the show, so she was willing to accept even a flawed quilt.  (I was so disappointed when the dye ran because this quilt was one of my better efforts.)

    My husband's Rocky Road to California quilt

    The quilt I really should enter is the twisted bargello quilt we gave my niece for her high school graduation.  Unfortunately, that quilt now lives to far away for it to be convenient (and cost effective, considering how much it costs to mail quilts) to display it in the guild's quilt show.

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