I didn't get much knitting done during the week again, but I'm very close to being ready to start the cuff on my Oregon Autumn Cardigan. I may have started the cuff by the time you read this.
I'm continuing to clean the house in preparation for the arrival of the kids who live within driving distance. They're planning to come for Thanksgiving. I got my workroom done except for vacuuming the floor. Once I make the beds and vacuum, I'll only need to clean the guest bath, and the upstairs will be done. Then to start on the downstairs.
I've had some jobs to do related to the latest book, as well. Amazon has the photo of the cover of the book now. It's available for presale, shipping December 5th.
However, if you don't get free shipping from them, or you want it right away, Book Baby has it right now. You will have to pay for shipping, but half of the purchase price of the book goes to support pediatric cancer research and treatment, instead of the one-dollar-something Amazon pays them.
Autographed copies will go out to people who want those as I get checks. I can use Zelle, now, but a check is easier for my pea brain, at least until I learn how to use Zelle. I'm not using PayPal anymore after our cyberattack in May.
The new book has links to the free knitting and sewing patterns shown in the photos in the book. Of course, they aren't live links in a printed book, but if you don't want to key them in and risk making a mistake, you can take a photo of the link, highlight it on your computer, copy and paste in the URL slot on your search engine.
I like to donate my new book to the library each year, and I leave my book in the free Little Libraries in our neighborhood. Wednesday I dropped off the book at the main library. Thursday I took the car and drove to the locations that were too far to walk to. We went out on Saturday in light snow to leave books in the nearby Little Libraries and walk the dogs at the same time.
I use social media to let people know about the book, and I used to use Twitter/X, but it has become totally toxic, so I deleted my account after removing my personal information.
I decided a few months ago to add BlueSky to the social media I use. I had left the Twitter/X account open, but I read that my personal information might not be safe if abandoned, so I decided to remove my personal information and then close it. Right after I did so, everyone and his uncle decided to leave Twitter/X and come to BlueSky. I discovered that there are a lot of knitters, crocheters, spinners and weavers on BlueSky, with more coming every day, so I added that to my bio. I can't keep up with the follows! (I always try to follow back unless the account gives me reason not to.) Apparently there are apps and programs you can use to import your followers from X to BlueSky. I had a lot of followers, so I suspect some of my new followers used them. I'm finding some I recognize, at least if they left their name and profile photo/avatar the same.
I sometimes get unwanted attention on social media. This one was in my Direct Messages on Spoutible. A friend on Spoutible got the same, almost word-for-word, direct message from the same account. I've obscured his/their/its photo and name, because I'm sure this person (if it's a live person) is very embarrassed at being discovered.
My friend played with him a bit, telling him she was shocked to find out that she wasn't not his one-and-only, and that it was going to interfere with their relationship. I got a kick out of that. It was creative, but I wonder if anyone falls for this stuff. I get a lot of those on Facebook, and it's very annoying. Of course, on Facebook these heartbreakers have to plant an entire profile page. They're always widowed, retired from the military or airline pilot, usually living overseas somewhere. Life used to be so simple!
We have ripe bananas right now, so I made smoothies on Thursday and waffles on Saturday (using my banana-oat waffle recipe). While I stood over the waffle iron, waiting for the light to go out indicating that the waffles were done, I went through my follows on BlueSky, following back. I guess I can multitask after all! Who knew!
I have a lot of vegetables in the fridge that need to be used up to make room for food for Thanksgiving and our visitors. I decided to make stir-fry to go with rice.
I used Quorn ChiQen Pieces with the vegetables. Whole Foods used to have them, but now they only carry the breaded items from Quorn, if they even have those. I don't want to pay for breading, because we don't need it with the rice, but I've found Quorn products at Natural Grocers. I picked up another Turkey-style Roast for Thanksgiving. We'll be having a turkey, but not for me. Natural Grocers has a nice selection of Quorn products, a good supply and they were on sale!
You may remember that I recently replaced my old laptop, originally manufactured in 2017 but purchased refurbished in 2019. You also might remember that I had the keyboard replaced twice, and that I feared it was going to go out again, so I traded it in on a new one.
Well, the new one is up and running, although not without some challenges to overcome. It looks almost the same. There are some slight differences, though. It's much faster. It's easier to pick up with one hand, because of the shape, I think. The edges aren't as rounded. The keyboard is easy to type on, and the battery is good for a whole day of being on.
I had to transfer everything from my old computer to the new one and then delete everything from the old one. I did that last week. On Wednesday the package for mailing my old laptop back to Apple arrived. (I'm trading it in.) It was all ready to go, so all I had to do was put the laptop into the box, close it up and peel off the label on the front of the shipping box, revealing Apple's address, then drop it off at the UPS store. I had some struggles getting the new iOS software to download, because I didn't have much memory. This happened before when I had to send my old laptop in to be repaired. Apparently, if I understand it correctly, when you upload new software, you might need more memory than just what the software needs when it's already on your computer. Then after the new iOS was up and running, the Photos app search function wouldn't work. While talking to another tech-support person at Apple, I mentioned that I thought it started with the new update, Sequoia 15.1. She had me hold while she checked out information on the new update. It turned out to be a bug they were aware of. I'll be getting a new update soon (I hope) taking care of the problem.
So, as you can see, I had good reasons for not finishing my cardigan yet!
What's in The Doll's Storybook: This week's story from #TheDollsStorybook is Rules for Success. Mariah and Charlotte ponder why changing the rules for hopscotch so you could step on the lines made the game less fun.
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