a new chicken

 The sink did get fixed. The guy called a couple minutes after 8 and said he was "in the neighborhood" and could come if I was ready (I was; I had set an alarm so I'd be sure to be up, woke up an hour before it and worked out and had been ready for quite some time). 

It was not too bad of a fix. Not cheap, but it didn't take him long - measured the sink, ran to the local plumbing supply house, came back. Used the same hardware as on the old one.

 At one point when he was going to get the tube of sealant from his truck, he stopped and looked at my bookshelf and chuckled: "That's the first Terry Pratchett I've seen 'in the wild'" (I had tucked the copy of Equal Rites on there after I had finished it). We talked for a minute or two about the books. It was a nice little moment of connection.

After that I quickly ran to Sherman - needed groceries and also wanted to hit the Michael's; I realized that I had given away all the orange acrylic I had (I had bought it a decade ago with the vague plan of altering the Doctor Hooves pattern to make a Starburst, but ran out of steam for ever trying it, and I gave the yarn to someone who was making afghans for charity). So I needed a couple skeins of orange for the chicken for my niece's birthday, and I had a good "voucher" (you get these after you spend a certain amount, but it was due to expire). And I also bought some fluffy yarn, one of those ombre "cakes" of yarn, because I got the wild hair of 'maybe I knit it up into just a simple scarf for fall" because I could imagine the fluffy yarn on a cold day around my neck.

I have too good an imagination. I can conjure up things like that and then want them - maybe not the fluffy scarf so much but the crisp fall day, and somewhere pleasant to go on it, and the scarf as a nice accessory,

 At any rate, given the voucher, it and the chicken yarn were virtually free, so whatever.

I also realized there's barely 2 weeks to the start of classes, so I better start the chicken for my colleague. 

I got the first point of one side of the tail made tonight. Had to start over because I was tired and forgot to knit back on one of the wrap and turn rows, and had to rip out and restart

 Yes, it's blue; she has some blue accessories in her office.