Thursday evening things

 * I admit, it's nice to have a new season of television on; I'm glad to see "Ghosts" is back, and that "Elsbeth" is back. 

I got kind of stuck in a loop of "the eternal now" - we've had very consistent weather - hot, no rain, not even clouds. And work was a pretty constant grind, and every weekend it seemed I was involved with fieldwork or similar, and it just felt like everything was on a repeat loop, and even when I wanted to relax and just knit and watch something, there was nothing on.

* And tomorrow is mid fall break day. I decided to go to Denison/Sherman - the yarn shop in Farmersville isn't open because of Rhinebeck but the one in Denison is (apparently they're not going, or have an employee who can stay back and hold down the fort), I want to go to Ulta - there are a few things I need there - and maybe to the natural foods store, also. But anyway, it'll be nice to have a day to do what I want, and to be able to go places without one eye on the clock like when I'd try to run down there on Friday afternoons after class. 

*I do also need to clean house. I did a little this afternoon, and might try to do more tomorrow morning before it's time to go (the yarn shop doesn't open until 10, and if I want to plan on lunch out I want to be there over lunch time). And I've got Saturday; I could put in time Saturday morning and take the afternoon to relax; I need relaxation time.

* I did start the second of the "Easter Egg colors" sock; I'm not trying to make these match because it's a very long repeat and sometimes I don't mind non-matching socks:

 I also want to get back to the long- stalled Moon Moth sweater; if it ever does get cool it would be nice to work on. I'm a couple rounds from the part where I start the colorwork. 

 * this came across my Bluesky feed today: Emulator for the "retro" local weather on TWC . There's a "readme" lower on the page, but it's not hard to figure out - you type in your location and click the boxes for what parts of the weather you want. (You also have to turn the little speaker icon on to get the music, which is a big part of the "Retro" Weather Channel experience). You can also set it to run "scan lines" like on an older CRT television.

I used to like the old Weather Channel. I suppose it's now been superseded by phone apps or online weather pages, but it was kind of nice to just turn it on for background noise. And back in the day, when I was having problems with insomnia, or had a bad dream in the night, I'd go and turn it on and just watch it scroll through the forecast info, which was what I remember it showing mostly at night. (Now, it's all weird reality shows that don't interest me). I guess Weather Nation is similar to the old Weather Channel now, but with more ads, and I don't get it on my cable system (My mom gets it on Dish). 

It does feel very much of its time and I admit I'm nostalgic for it because the late 80s and 90s were a more carefree time of my life than now, and the world seemed a bit less unhinged.

* It's time for me to start thinking if I make any Christmas presents. I traditionally do something small for AAUW, looking at my gigantic stash of sock-weight yarn I think maybe I find a hat or cowl pattern and make that. There's a dollar limit (some of the women with more time extensively shop the sales) but I figure stuff that's been in my stash more than a year is fair game. 

I might consider making a cowl for my mom if I can find a pattern I like and if I have yarn that works.