Originally posted by apis_cerana at TEA!

Doing a little friends-cut, nothing major, just feel like tightening in a little.

As you may have noticed, I recently started getting back into gardening. So maybe a week ago, I saw a thing about this seed company being in trouble. I started reading about it, and here's the deal and why I want you all to know about it too: This is Landreth Seeds. They have been in business since 1784, which is pretty cool in and of itself. They are the oldest seed company in the States, which is also pretty cool. They're dedicated to preserving heirloom varieties of seeds, and while they do carry hybrids, they won't carry any genetically modified seeds or plants. Personally I'm not against genetically modified plants completely, but I do care very much about biodiversity and preserving the heirloom varieties, so I started perusing the site.

There's a lot of cool stuff there! They have neat notecards with art from vintage, illustrated seed packets, they have great tools and equipment for gardeners, they have gorgeous books for people interested in things like heirloom tomatoes, and the variety of plants and seeds is actually a little staggering.

They also have collections of seeds, often with a book or pamphlet of information or recipes, packaged up in cute little bags. I ordered some of these the other day.

One of these is particularly interesting to me, and a big part of why I want to get the word out about this. They've put together a collection of African American heritage seeds. There's more information on the Special Collection page (and more varieties than what comes in the set), and I really think that this is a very cool, very important thing. There's a lot to be learned about a culture based on their food history and what they grew, and preserving the actual heirloom varieties that slaves and sharecroppers were growing is a really important piece of history. I think it would be a really cool way to teach some of this to kids, by getting the collection (which comes with the book that the historian who put all this together wrote on the topic) and starting a garden with them.

So obviously, the best thing would be if you ordered stuff from them. They're doing a drive to save the company right now, and even if you don't garden, ordering their catalog would be a good thing. It's a gorgeous catalog with illustrations of the plants, and really well put together, from what I hear. If you don't want a catalog and don't have any use for the stuff they sell but still want to help, there's a button to donate on the front page. Spreading the word to anyone you know who does garden is also good. Of course, no one who reads this is under any obligation to do anything at all. If this isn't your thing and you don't know any gardeners, whatever! It's no big deal! I've been telling people about this in email for a week, and finally decided I should put this out here for anyone I know who might be interested.

In other news, the other day I got to eat an ENTIRE SALAD of THINGS I GREW MYSELF and I was like "GREENS SO FRESH EVERYBODY WANTS TO FIGHT ME." because it was so awesome.



I don't know how to make that smaller right now, sorry.

Last night we had to put Copper to sleep. She was 17, and had so many health problems at this point, and last night when lynx got home she was having trouble breathing. When I got home we went to the emergency vet, and they said that there was fluid around and possibly in her lungs, and that it was probably either heart disease or cancer. They could remove the fluid, but it was only going to keep building back up and getting worse. That, on top of all of her other problems, was probably going to leave her miserable, so we had to decide to let her go. This is impossible and there's never any way for it to be easy, so we're doing about as well as could be expected.

I want to write about what a great cat she was and tell you all about her, but right now I can't. She was the best cat. I'll always miss her.

It's just me babbling about gardening stuff, feel free to skip if it's not your thing.

I need some kind of gardening icon!


I'm at work and away from all of my notes and spreadsheets and whatnot, so this might not get completed until later. I *should* be writing the grant report, but I'm looking at this as a warm-up.

So, gardening! I started getting kinda into growing herbs and stuff back in Little Rock, but I had to leave all of the plants and pots and everything behind when I moved up here. It was actually very sad, but I managed. My first three places in Boston weren't at all conducive even to pots of things (well, I *could* have gardened quite a bit at the second place in Somerville, but I wasn't there long enough and grad school and such as), and I was starting to get itchy with missing it, especially after helping yuki_onna and justbeast plant a pretty awesome garden at their last place.

At our current apartment, we actually have a backyard and a little patio, so plants have begun sort of appearing. We have a big pot with a tiny pine tree that was a favor from athalran and inochinoakari's wedding. it has been joined by a pot of rosemary and a pot of chocolate mint. I've also added basil (ok don't judge me, but the seeds came from a box of Triscuits. I don't even know), two kinds of thyme, and two kinds of spinach to the pot with the tree, as the pot is very large, and the tree is very small, and having other things in there means less weeding for me. Lynx gets nervous that these things are taking nutrients away from the tree, but it's really fine. The basil needs to get cut down and the thyme needs a trim, but really, it is a very big pot.

MEANWHILE, there was the basement flooding. That saga is ongoing and still very stressful and annoying, but I think our landlord is probably going to be able to get the work done pretty quickly once he's able to get it started, so possibly by the end of next month? Anyway, lynx came up with a plan to help make sure it never has a chance to happen again, which involves building garden boxes that completely surround the window, as dams to stop any water that rises in the backyard. That means that after this weekend, I will suddenly have quite a bit of raised garden bed space to begin planting in. Yay! SUPER big thanks on this go out to nex0s, who gave us the idea by planning and building the garden we helped Cat and D with, and for answering my email questions about how the boxes worked and what kind of wood we needed to use and so on. There's going to be one box shaped like an L that goes out from the side of the house and then over to the fence, to block in the window, and then two shorter, straight boxes right at the end of the patio, just for funzies. We're going to Home Depot tonight and they should be finished by the weekend, at which point I can take some pictures.

In anticipation of this I was doing research on good winter veggies and cold hardy salad greens and things like that, and the second day I was working on this I found out one of my favorite seed sources (Nichols Gardens, they are fabulous) was actually having a sale on seeds specifically for fall and winter planting. So THAT worked out nicely. I ordered a bunch of stuff and when it got here, we still weren't quite ready to build the boxes, so I made a bunch of "improvised containers" by which I mean I chopped the tops off of a bunch of 2L Diet Coke bottles, gouged some drainage holes in the bottoms, and tossed in some potting soil and seeds. These are all coming along nicely at this point. The spinach has produced enough leaves that we're going to cut them and make hamburgers tonight with spinach leaves as a topping.

Last night I sat down with paper and sketched out where everything will get planted. Decisions are hard, guys, that took forever.

Anyway, here is an incomplete list of things that are either getting planted or transplanted this weekend:
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We're back from Chicago. Many fine adventures were had, very few pictures were taken, because that's how we roll.

I'm looking at lj now but I haven't even glanced at it since we left, so if there's something important, link me.

We were planning to drive until about midnight last night, stop in New York, and finish driving today, but once we got past Utica it didn't look like there was going to be anywhere non-sketchy to stop for another couple of hours, and there were only 4 hours of driving left anyway, so we just kept going and got home around quarter to 3. We're awake now, but you know. Kind of. Going to pick up the kitty from the kennel here in a bit.

More later.

So today has been very exciting! I called in sick to work, and was kind of just puttering around. Had the back door open for the breeze. Big bottle of iced green tea that I'd made, next to me at the computer. Nice, right? Probably in a few minutes I would have headed up to shower and go see shadesong to give her some knitting help.

THEN, from outside, I could hear my neighbor out back, moving things around on her back porch and yelling "OHHH MY GOOOD" every few minutes. I kind of just ignored her because I assumed either her cat or her kids had done something stupid. Then I heard her on the phone with someone, sounding panicked, and saying that the backyard was flooded and it was all getting into her basement.

Umm. What?

I had been out back not even half an hour before this, picking some fresh herbs to put in my ramen, and everything had been fine then! I went out to look though, and sure enough: backyard SUPER FLOODED. Basement windows: WATER EVERYWHERE. So I ran downstairs to see how bad it was in the basement and it was REALLY BAD. There was like, a good couple of inches standing water in most of the basement, other parts squelched when I walked on them, oh shit.

I ran back upstairs and tried to call lynxreign, left a message, same with the landlord, then ran back down stairs and started moving vulnerable things to safety. NGL, when I saw how wet the bottoms of my spinning wheels were I may have screamed a few times. They'll be fine, but ugh.

Eventually I managed to get through to lynx, and accidentally made him think the basement was a swimming pool, instead of just a wading pool, so he left work and came home. The neighbor lady and a plumber came over and helped me move things.

The fire department came to pump all the water out of the backyard. My basement windows, when viewed from inside the basement, no longer looked like aquariums. There are people here from a cleaning agency, and they are sucking all of the water out of the basement carpet. I'm typing this mostly to resist the urge to go "help" them, because I know I'd mostly just be in the way. These guys are good, and they're taking care of things. It's all going to be fine.

So let's see. I think we may lose a few books, but not many. All of lynx's games are fine, as they were on shelves and the water didn't get *that* high. A lot of the vinyl was stacked on the floor, so I'm thinking we're going to lose a lot of the covers, but the actual records should be fine. All of my yarn and fiber was on shelves and in plastic, so it's all fine. The wheels will be fine, I just need to get them dried off once the cleaning dudes are done. Some of the boxes of cds in the corner need to be dealt with, but the actual cds will be fine. Mostly anything that's ruined was trash anyway, so we're not that concerned right now. I did have to stop neighbor lady from "helping" by putting a plastic crate with a wet bottom right on top of the stack of art and paintings waiting to be hung. All the art is stacked on a closet shelf, so it was fine, but a WET PLASTIC CRATE CAN NOT GO ON TOP OF THE ERIN MORGENSTERN PAINTING I WOULD CRY FOR WEEKS.

So all in all it's really not that bad, but frustrating as hell and very messy. Good thing I had stayed home today, though! Eesh!

ETA: Oh man, I forgot to tell you guys *why* it happened! At first they thought the water main on the corner burst, but then they realized it was actually the sprinkler system for the complex. The outdoor system, that is. I have a complicated relationship with that system anyway, I think our landscapers here mow way too often and overwater like mad, but STILL.

This will probably not go anywhere, and that's fine! But I figured I'd put this up and ask just in *case* anyone has this stuff and was thinking about tossing it in the donate bin.

I'm working on getting a dye workshop set up in my basement, and if any of you local people have old but still working crockpots you're looking to get rid of or those steamer inserts for pots (like this) I would be happy to take them off your hands, and could make you something in exchange, perhaps? I know the steamer inserts are cheap, I'm not really concerned about picking some up, but I figured I'd ask around in case people were looking to get rid of them.

Thanks!

I just met a little girl named Maddie. She's maybe 4? She came into the library wearing a beautiful white dress with a big rose on the waistband, and bright green clogs with giant flowers painted on them. My co-worker and I were chatting with Maddie and her mom, and my co-worker said to Maddie "Are you a woman who likes to be fancy?" or something like that. Her response was just "I'm *Maddie*." Which was, basically, perfect, and the reason I'm even telling you guys about it, because that was the moment that I started thinking about madwitch.

It's late and I'm tired and there are a million things I should really post about, but here we are.

Do you want to know what magic is? Because I've said this before, but tonight it's even more true than it was last time. Magic is when you don't get to see your friend very often because she lives in Wales or someplace equally ridiculous, but because she's a writer and because you listen to a fantasy podcast sometimes, you get to hear someone read her words to you and tell you a story sometimes. What's even better is when sometimes it ends up where another friend that you also don't get to see enough is the one reading you the story your friend wrote, so you get to hear a beloved voice reading you something written by another love.

I thought that was the best it could be. I was wrong.

Magic is when your commute changes, so you stop listening to the podcast for about a year, and then one day you don't feel like music so you switch over to the stories, and you aren't really paying attention to where you are in the backlog, so all of a sudden you hit a friend's story. Even if you just saw that friend the weekend before (bless us Readercon), it's still a jolt of pleasure to hear their words read and get to feel like they're telling you a story.

Then tonight, tonight I found out it could get even better. Listening to Podcastle tonight, I got to the recent spotlight they did on the new Bordertown anthology. Which means I got to hear ellen_kushner's voice all of a sudden! I mean again, I just saw her last week, but it's still fun to be in the car all alone near midnight and suddenly feel like your friend is talking to you, right? It also meant, because I remembered the posts about this, that I knew something amazing was coming. tithenai has a poem in the book, and I knew that her sister and sister's fiance had recorded it as a song, and it was going to play. So sure enough, all of a sudden I hear Dounya singing Amal's words and I'm in the car and I'm crying because a) it's a beautiful song and b) Dounya has such a gorgeous voice and the whole experience is nothing but magic. So I'm grinning my stupid face off at how fantastic this all is and then Amal is TALKING and Amal was not AT Readercon this year and I missed her so much and she is TALKING to me in my CAR and I'm parked outside my house with my hand over my mouth and tears streaming down my face because of it all and how beautiful her voice is and how much she loves to tell me about how this poem was written in collaboration with yuki_onna's story and and *hand wave flail*.

So yes. That's what magic is.

Default icon is appropriate, for I am zoomy with work today.

SO! Here's the thing: I am spending the rest of my grant money and I have a headache so I fear that I may be forgetting something IMPORTANT! In this post I am making a list so that YOU can check it twice and tell me if I forgot something.

Things I already have:
Xbox 360 + 1 controller
Band Hero for the Xbox + 1 guitar, drum kit, and mic.
Wii + 4 controllers, 2 nunchucks
PS2 + 2 controllers

What I am getting:
2 Flip cameras (not game related, but if people know of accessories I HAVE to get, tell me please)
PS3 (comes with 1 controller, ordering an additional 3)
3 more Xbox 360 controllers
2 more PS2 controllers
The multitap thing so I can plug in those extra PS2 controllers
2 more Wii nunchucks. There are usually fights over them when the Smash Brothers starts up.

What am I forgetting that I should really have? This doesn't include the games I'll be picking up, of course.

So I was gone all weekend, and then when I came back I was super-busy with booktalks and meetings at the school and so on. I think I managed to go back far enough that I've read everything, but if you feel like something was important that I maybe missed, please let me know.

The weekend in VA was awesome though, we had a lot of fun with our friends and their kids. Now we're home, and two days of booktalks later I'm finally back in my office and setting into some kind of normalcy again. More later, perhaps.

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Questions fromtanyad :

1. What powers would you have as a character on MLP:Friendship is Magic?
Like, what would my cutie mark be? Either something with books and libraries or something yarn based. Possibly Rarity outsources some of her special order knitted fabrics to me, IDK.

2. What's your favorite kind of yarn and why?
Ok, to wear would be this yummy cashmere/mink blend that akirachan made me a hat with ages ago. To knit, probably Creatively Dyed cashmere/merino blend, fingering weight.

3. Are you coming to ChiCon next year? (hopes that you are!)
Is that Worldcon? That's in Chicago next year, right? If we're thinking about the same thing the plan is to come, yes. lynxreign 's mom is in Chicago, plus you and thewayoftheid and hopefully karnythia again by that point, and other people I'm not even remembering right now, so Chicago has a lot going for it. Plus I've never actually been to Chicago, and I want to see it.

4. What would you do with a million dollars, tax free?
First, buy a house. This is Boston area, so that may take all of it, IDK. If there's enough after that it goes to buying houses in the same neighborhood for our friends and taking over as much of the area as possible for general nerdery. Anything leftover would go to setting up my fiber studio.

5. What's your favorite spot in the library?
Probably my office? Haha, I don't really get to just hang out here much, so it's hard to say. Train table is pretty cool, the roof is neat but I don't get up there much, the YA space is pretty great now but again, I can't really just go sit over there.

Originally posted by doctoreon at Signal Boost!

Originally posted by kate_nepveu at Con or Bust NOW taking requests for July-September cons!

I will admit that a good part of the reason I'm reposting this (besides the fact that Con or Bust is awesome obviously) is that I'll be at Readercon, and I'm on the programming committee for it, and I think it's going to be awesome this year and I want lots and lots of awesome people there!

Very quickly because I want to go down in the basement and spin (yarn, not around) and YES I AM STILL WORKING ON A TCAF POST IT'S LOOOONG but apparently there are people who LURK here and read my posts about the ridiculous things that happen at work? So yes.

Today was Anime Club, and we started watching Negima, which is about a 10 year-old boy who is secretly a wizard and as part of his training he's assigned to teach English at an all girls junior high, and hijinks ensue, right? IDK guys, I'm only 3 episodes in so don't ask me why the hell he was assigned to teach voluptuous girls a few years older than him, it's a harem comedy, so BECAUSE is why, I'm pretty sure. I mean it's the only way to explain why he ends up roommates with two of his students, unless I wrote this show when I was 13.

Anyway, only two kids showed up today, which is fine. I'm pretty sure they're both 6th graders. The girl LOVES THIS SHOW OMG she actually used the phrase "I am eating this with a spoon" which nearly caused me to die of lols. The boy, on the other hand, is The Boy Who Only Like Naruto. Sometimes maybe a little Dragonball, and he tried One Piece, but really he only likes Naruto. He knew when we started the club that he wasn't going to get to watch Naruto all the time, and really I'm kind of proud of him for even trying this other stuff so he could meet some people who at least kind of like some of the same stuff as him. Today though, he could not handle this show. He sat through it mostly quietly, but at least three times he turned to me and said "This is the weirdest thing I've ever seen in my LIFE." Which really, kid, that HAPPENS when you're 12. You've never seen anything before. But also, oh honey, this is pretty typical for it's genre. Soooooo. . .yeah. The girl would giggle and make happy noises and people would be nearly kissing on screen and poor BWOLN would just look at me, completely helplessly. Emotions! What is THIS? Why aren't they all just fighting all the time? I mean Asuna fights all the time, but she also put on a fish costume as part of a love spell to make her teacher (other one, not the 10 yr-old) love her.

We had fun though. I like these kids.

This thing that is happening in front of me right now, it is actually killing me and I will be dead soon, so I'm typing as fast as I can to get it down before they kill me with the hilarity. Some of my 7th and 8th graders are arguing about books and reading and what a library is for, and I LOVE IT.

N is a reader. J is the Facebook addict, and B is halfway between the two.
N: (to B) She's addicted to Facebook. (to J) Doesn't it ever occur to you to open a book instead of going on Facebook for extensive amounts of time?
J: Facebook involves reading, like a picture book or a magazine.
N: No like, a BOOK, like THIS" *brandishes paperback novel* I love the smell of books, isn't it great?
J: I'm allergic to books, stop it, you're killing me! (She is kidding, but very good at being deadpan)
N: Then why are you in a LIBRARY, you're surrounded by books!
J: No, I'm surrounded by people and a couch and tables!
N: Dictionaries smell really good.
B: Seriously N let's go to the library and smell a bunch of books?
N: Yeah!

I mean partly I'm just thrilled that any of them like books enough to fight with their friends over, but also there's the part where J recognizes her reading as valid even if she's not a big fan of books. Also the part about "why would you even be in a library" is basically the same fight that's going on all over the library world right now right? Is a library only for books, is it more of a community center, should all of our events promote reading no matter what we do, etc etc, right? So I mean yeah, they're just goofing around, but the part where N sees books and J sees PEOPLE and furniture and still wants to be here even without wanting a book, I don't know, it struck me as interesting.

And now a 4th kid (R) has brought over one of the giant, hardback atlases as a "present" for N to read.
N: I already own that one, I've read it. *giggle*
R: Ok awesome I'll read it.
She has awkwardly hefted the book and is attempting to read from the introduction and it's basically hilarious. As she reads the other kids are giggling madly. She stops and says very seriously "I'm sorry, is something amusing? I am trying to read this totally normal book that is almost as tall as I am and weighs more, is that acceptable? May I continue my reading or will there be any more interruptions?"

Leaving this one open for a change, I think it's safe enough.

You know, I always go back to Oklahoma, in my mind, whenever we really start talking about 9/11. The OKC bombing was much closer and more immediate for me, and it's the closest thing I had direct experience with of this nature when 9/11 happened, so a lot of my processing and thoughts about one go through the filter of the other, if that makes sense.

If you didn't know, I'm from the OKC suburbs, and my mom used to work for Social Security. So when I was in middle school, some asshole blew up my mom's office building, right? I mean, I was 14, and as much as I understood some of the larger implications of what it all meant, that was still most of what I understood. That's a messed up thing to think about; that the OKC bombing happened when I was the same age as the 8th graders I work with now. Time moving and such as, it's an arbitrary thing but knowing these kids does help me remember what I was like and how my brain worked at that point.

Anyway, I remember when McVeigh was executed. Obviously it's not the same, since he stood trial and sat in jail for a while and was here and all, and we didn't fight a war over him or anything, but still. I remember my mom being. . .I don't know, happy, but bitterly so? If that makes sense? Which, wow, I just looked it up, and that was in June of 2001, so just a few months before 9/11. Anyway, I still vaguely considered myself a Christian at that point, and I remember being deeply uncomfortable with my mom being happy about someone being dead, even considering everything. It was important to her in ways I didn't understand very well until I was really an adult, and in some ways still don't understand, because I didn't go through it the same way she did.

So I don't know. I'm not going to tell anyone else how to feel or anything, especially since I'm still not sure how I feel right now. I think part of it is that as much as this is so different from a regular death, it's still a death, and I think a lot of what we're seeing is some of the same processing and reaction that happens after other deaths. People are going to react differently and show their emotion differently. The people being assholes about it, well, they suck. Anyone who uses this as an excuse to be cruel to another person is getting judged with a severe side eye, but that's kinda it for me right now. I'm still deciding how I feel, and right now I almost feel like I'm absorbing other people's emotions more than I am feeling my own, and that's ok because it's part of how I figure things out when it's complicated like this.

It's a big symbolic thing, and clearly is important to a lot of people. That doesn't necessarily mean they're stupid or naive enough to think all terrorism is over forever or even that Al Qaeda is over. Some people are more scared today than they were yesterday, and I think that makes sense too. I don't know guys, it seems like I can kinda get where most people are coming from with their reactions (except the people claiming conspiracy theories or using this as an opportunity to do more harm because someone doesn't look like them) so I'm not really willing to come down on either side?

I mean I figure most of us are thinking about this today, so that's where I'm at. I retweeted some of the jokes and silly things people were saying last night, and the biggest thing I'm enjoying about the announcement was Obama's sense of timing, which is gorgeous. 8 year anniversary of Bush's "Mission Accomplished" photo-op? Check. Pre-empting Celebrity Apprentice and further annoying The Donald? CHICKITY-CHECK. Whatever I end up feeling about the actual event, I do really enjoy those two bits of circumstance.

Eh, my kids are showing up, I need to stop thinking about this and deal with them.

Sorry for crossposting this, I'm enjoying the weirdness enough that I want it everywhere.

So ok, we have two grocery stores we frequent. The one that's further away is the one we went to at our old place, and it's not *that* far, and it's the superior grocery store, for sure. So that's the Normal Store. The store that's closer to us isn't as good, but it works as like, a giant convenience store, for times like tonight where we had meat for hamburgers but no buns or anything, right?

But see, at the crappy store, interesting stuff always happens. It is The Adventure Store.

Tonight we saw

1. This AWESOME creepy faceless toy I found in the parking lot.

Which my friend Wednesday immediately ID'd when I put it on Twitter earlier. It's a thing, apparently, and it's supposed to look like that. (Oh Weds, you were also right about it being Disney, I looked at it's feet)

2. This bumper sticker.

Which, besides being GIGANTIC is also weird to me, because the Four Freedoms thing is from a speech by FDR. In 1941. Then Rockwell did a series of paintings of the four freedoms, which I guess is what this is referencing? But it really looks like the sticker is attributing the quote to Rockwell, which. . .I don't even know, man. Adventure Store! Excelsior!

And finally, 3. A dude who I swear to god had Rod Stewart's hair. I didn't take a picture of him, because that would be rude. THREE WACKY THINGS THOUGH. That's a lot.

OH WAIT. As we were leaving, there was a big dude (big like, an adult, kinda tall, kinda broad shouldered) riding a teeny tiny little scooter thing across the street. Then he picked it up and carried it the rest of the way. I say it still counts as being part of the Adventure Store weirdness.

Even though it's the crap store I want to go to Adventure Store all the time now.

This is what's going on right now.

I'm at work. I'm down here by myself (other than one page and the patrons, of course), because my co-worker who has shingles still has shingles, so my boss, who would normally be here right now, is coming in at noon to cover the evening shift. There's a mother and toddler reading picture books together to my left, and The Scary Patron, the one who sometimes gets in trouble for looking at inappropriate things and once got arrested a street over for breaking into his former landlord's house and threatening to blow it up (no really) is at the computer watching YouTube videos that he thinks are hilarious. At least there's nothing visually objectionable about them, so I don't have to deal with that right now, but if he gets loud I'm calling for backup before I speak to him. Someone sent the library flowers today, we don't know who, but the Youth Room flowers have Curious George! So that's pretty great. You can see them here. I have tea, I have invoices to code and fliers to create and post, and that's Monday.

Also, it's aidosaur's birthday! So Happy Birthday Yuko, even though I'm pretty sure she never looks at this anymore! I'mma go post something for her on Tumblr too, since it's so much more likely she'll see that.

OH. LOCAL PEOPLE PSA: It looks like this Sunday I might be going to a tapestry exhibit at the Textile History Museum, speak up if you maybe want to go with?