The Tournament

Yesterday afternoon, I had only a few more minutes on this CD book by Matthew Reilly.  I love the historical dramas from Kings and Queens of Medieval times.  This one was about Elizabeth as a 13 year old girl in 1563.  She travels to Suleiman's Ottoman Kingdom to watch a Chess Tournament.  Michael Angelo makes an appearance.  And there are some murders.  I was on the phone to the Endodontist trying to make an appointment and on came this really (really really) steamy sex scene with Elizabeth's chaperon in the Sultan's harem room.  Oh, my!

Other than the 3 or 4 gratuitous sex scenes (which are like just stuck in the story and really have no bearing on it at all) the book is pretty good.  (Like the English Princess would actually be allowed to travel to the Middle East.)  And I always wonder why men think they can write so vividly about what they think women experience.  This is the Middle Ages people!

But I would recommend it as a good quilting CD read.  Think of me when you get to the sex scenes, I am Elsie!  LOL

Later          ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


About 4:30 PM I finished the book and the quilting! Considering what happens in the end, maybe I won't be Elsie.  Although I wouldn't be that stupid.


Now I can put the back together for the Swissy Raffle Quilt and get it on the frame.

Not sure if you can see the quilting.  But here is a close up of a corner.

I need to get the binding done so I can wash it and see if all the markers come out. 

Off to the Endodontist.  I hope their  scheduler enjoyed the gratuitous sex scene! I might see it in her eye as she takes my insurance card!

Listening to Books On CD while Quilting

In the studio I am listening to The Madonna Of Excelsior by Zakes Mda.  Excellent book.  Zakes Mda is a novelist and playwright from South Africa.  In 1971 the rural town of Excelsior was the site of a scandalous breach in the apartheid Immorality Act, which forbade sexual congress between races.  The black women involved were jailed and the white men released on bail.  Ultimately, the charges were dropped by the authorities, but for one of the accused women, Niki, life's hardships were only intensified.  This is the story of one family weathering the storm from early 1970s oppression to the present day mixed society of South Africa.

The voice of the narrator Robin Miles is beautiful.  It lilts through the accent.  And it should, she is a professor of speech and dialects at SUNY.

I am on the very last CD, and I am missing the book already.  I always hate for a good book to end.

Stupid MP3 Player
See my cute pjs?

Blocks I won at River City
I will use black between the rows
to set them apart

This weekend I need to get working on getting some quilts quilted.  While at the library for the meeting last night, I picked up two more books on CD to quilt by.  The librarian told me I could download the books to my computer.  Then save them to a file.  Then upload them to my MP3 player and thus have the entire book on the device.

My particular MP3 player does not upload, for some reason, from Overdrive (the program used by the library to disseminate ebooks and voice books).  I have an audio book waiting to download from the library at this moment, so I may play around with it tonight to see if I can get it on my MP3

My wonderful Bose Unit
holding my spray starch

The problem is that I cannot hear it when it is on the Bose player and my quilting machine is humming in my head so close to my ears.  I cannot get it loud enough.  Hmm.

Dilemma.  When I sew in the studio, I have to turn the Bose up loudly so I can hear it.  It is doable with out a problem, however.  DiNozzo sits on his window seat and sleeps through it.  I used to put the Bose in the window seat but you know how that went.  Frank won the Bose player when he was at a sales meeting for his company.  They had a contest and of course he won, he is a really good salesman and people just like him.  He gave it to me when he got home

(working on downloading the book to the MP3)

Try as I might I could not get the MP3 to accept the download.  So tomorrow I will try to download it directly from the computer.

The computer says it is downloading, and the MP3 says it is receiving but they are speaking two languages and it doesn't get on to my player.

Darn, I really wanted to listen to books when I was quilting.    I need another plan.

glen

Nothing to do?

Not really, you know better than that! LOL.  Nothing quilty so I will share some other pics with you.

Laura Plantation in Vachery, LA

I have lots to do, just not enough time to do it in!  So today I DID nothing.  Well, that is not exactly true either.  I didn't get quilting or sewing done, I did a lot.

I closed down and sold my business 5 years ago.  And I get a notice today saying that my CD in the  name of my business is considered unclaimed and will go to the government.  Well........I spent 3 days on the phone working this out.

Patsy and Chuck In Costa Rica

It seems that when I closed the business down and transferred all the financial stuff into my personal name, that this one got missed.  It has auto renewed for 5 years.  So after 5 years of non-customer initiation, the law says it goes to the government.

Boom!  just like that!  I was listening to Glen Beck or Sean Hannity, one of them, the other day and he was saying that the government puts loopholes into the tax code so that if you "trip" they can "take" the money or property.  I thought at the time, what nonsense.  But this is a perfect example of that in action.

Patsy in Belize

Now I am working on getting it declared mine again.  It is not like they can't find me, either.  I banked for about 30 years with this same group, and they have multiple other instruments and several accounts with my name all over them.  So I know they did not try too hard to "find" me.

So, my advice to you.  During this tax season, go over all the stuff you think you have and make sure you really have it.  And consider not letting your instruments auto-renew.  Take an active role in your money.

The government will get it fast enough.

glen