New Tech

digital cover of Issue 2

I recently updated Windows with the help of a friend, and I'm still discovering new ways Windows doesn't work like it used to do.  :P~

However, here is the cover of the next copy of WEFT.  Yes, I have a small contribution in it.  :D

I got the 2nd issue the other day and scrolled through some of the offerings.  I think one of the things I enjoy about WEFT is that they seem to fully embrace the 'it depends' reality of cloth construction.  I have not read all of the articles - yet - because Friday and yesterday got super busy and I ran out of energy long before I ran out of day.  But a quick perusal of the contents page is intriguing.  In some ways, it's like going to a conference and able to listen in on many different conversations - all of them about weaving.  (Be still my heart!)

I've been stymied, for a number of reasons, on the current writing, but I had a meeting with one of my healthcare team on Friday and we have a plan for going forward.  I'm such a special snowflake, I'm a 'it depends' patient.  It depends if we have targeted the actual issues I'm having.  It depends if the plan works for me, or if we will try multiple approaches.  One at a time, so we know what is working - and what is not.

My birthday is a week away - less than that now.  It is a 'significant' number, and I have to decide if I keep trying or finally 'retire'.  OTOH, I had some nice comments from folk online who appreciated my feedback, so...I dunno.  But when I began this journey, my intention was to 'retire' at 75.  And here I am.  It has been 50 golden (sort of) years...

I do have two more articles to write for WEFT.  I have samples woven for one of them, and a rough idea of the shape it will take.  The other I will likely dig through my teaching examples for that one.  I have kept most of my samples from when I was doing in person workshops.  I couldn't bear to get rid of them.  Yet.  That day may come.

But Word doesn't work quite the way it used to do, either, and I'm still trying to figure how to do what I need it to do.  So perhaps these last two articles will be the last ones I do?  To be determined...