Monday, November 9, 2020

It’s been one of “those” days and my level of confidence has dipped. I had more problems with my grocery order this morning but I managed to get the groceries delivered. Pat had warned me that Safari, as a browser, hadn’t worked for him so I put in my order via Chrome. When I got to the checkout it was asking for a security code that would be delivered either by text or voice. Since I hadn’t given them my cell number I expected a phone call with this code. Nothing. I called the store and the person I talked to didn’t know what was wrong and so I had to wait until her manager arrived. When I called back I went through two people before I got to the manager and he was absolutely no help either. I ended up saying I would pay for the groceries at the door when they were delivered. Pat now tells me that he had that same problem with Safari but it didn’t show up when he used Firefox. If, and that is a big if, I order again I will try using Firefox.

I knew I was delaying my project for the day – quilting. I did some more cutting for my retreat-at-home weekend and I went out to the post office to mail the masks and to drop a book back at the library. There was enough time before I had to go downstairs to wait for the groceries so I sandwiched one of the blocks on my quilt. That didn’t go well so I ended up using my spray to sandwich the layers. By this time I didn’t even want to continue.

But after the groceries arrived I got back to it. I was planning to try some ruler and free-motion work on these blocks but when I looked at the book they all seemed really complicated. I found one block that looked doable but it was all straight lines so I didn’t need to use the free-motion technique. The block in the book was smaller than the block I was working on so I had to add a few ideas of my own to get the density right for the batting.

On to the next block and I’ve got it about half done. For this block I followed the book but it turns out that it is much more densely quilted than it needs to be. I will carry on with it though.

I have a Board meeting tonight and I told everyone I would be attending online. Then our President asked me if I would host the meeting and send out the Zoom invites; I said I would try. With the way my day has been going I have no confidence that anyone will be able to log on and participate.

And then our Secretary asked me if I would take minutes as he was sick and wouldn’t be attending.

I can hardly wait until this day is over.