About as near to the end of September as we're gonna get, and since I am going to be otherwise engaged in activity away from the computer a fair amount of tomorrow, I figured 'why not write something for the month...at least one entry.'
Truth be told, this is the second entry for the month, but I have yanked the other one for the time being.
Karl is at his keyboard and monitor, yelling at faceless gamers. [sigh]
Brian is at the Renaissance festival (working) for the last day of the year. It has been a fairly glorious weather pattern {we've} experienced this year for the run of the fair, and aside from not being able to spend both days of every weekend for a month and one-half with his friends, cavorting and selling and behaving bawdily, he has been a happy camper. I think the advent of a girlfriend has made a significant impact, too - overall.
Perhaps next year we will all feel like dressing up again; this year we (Karl, Jean, myself) attended once, and went in regular street clothes. Bud is always in regalia, and I am a bit envious. Of course, it's much more enjoyable when everything isn't done on a shoestring budget.
Entered PQ1 into another show, and while there wasn't much competition, I am amazed (and very disappointed) that it did not place against what little there was also entered in the machine quilted category. The winning quilt was FAR SMALLER and way over-quilted...and not that well done - other than the feathers. Some of my opinion is sour grapes, but much of it is warranted. Not to mention, VERY FEW of the machine quilted pieces were quilted by the maker of the quilt! Never again in that show. Sad, sad, sad event and poorly done. The worst of it is they PINNED the quilts to the backing screens, despite the fact a lot of the quilts had sleeves. PQ1 hung so poorly due to their pinning, I was embarrassed.
I am also a bit pissed as I was told I would be able to collect my quilt following the close of the show...but then was told "nope, not gonna happen." I now must drive to BAY CITY to collect it!
OK, so that's the brunt of it all. Ah, but let's not forget that I had finally managed to have a phone interview AND a face-to-face follow-up interview for a position in Flint (YEA!!), only to lose out to someone with counseling training under their belt (BOO).
Tomorrow will be a better day, I just need to get through dinner and breakfast.
