biscuit

So it turns out that there's a limit to how many holes one can safely drill in a steel handebar. This failed as I was coming to a gentle stop in traffic (no harm to me). I limped it a mile or so to campus, at half speed, but will arrange for alternate transportation home.

Randomly seen on my commute: nine turkeys puttering through the residential neighborhood between Huron Village and the Charles River.

Today Monty and I hiked Olomana Trail (Kailua, Hawaii) to the first peak. It featured the steepest and scariest rock scrambling I've ever done, high up, and enormous amounts of thick slippery mud, low down. The rest of our party (Nathan, Noah, Nadia) went on to peaks two and three, and possibly have better pictures, but for now I bring you a picture of a random rock pile, and a picture of some red flowers that I may manage to look up. We saw a bird that I later identified as a red-billed leiothrix, on the way down.

This pillowcase is embroidered with glow in the dark thread (DMC E940). I am not a huge fan of it - it's very shreddy/snaggy to work with, and the glow isn't nearly as bright as I would hope for .

It was also slightly impolitic that I finished George's ahead of Denton's. I embroidered Denton's first, and the idea arose because Denton noted that George's existing pillowcase was nicer than his, and I offered to make him one. He picked orange (at which point George piped up and told me he didn't like purple very much anymore and would rather green) and I noted that "dark orange" isn't an easy thing, and proposed the glow in the dark. But, George was the one taking a very close interest in the process, and in helping, and George bugged me pretty hard to put it all together.