Automatic callback service... and Nea goes forward into the past

[neadods]

First: Kitestring App is actually a website where you can ask to be sent a text at a predetermined time... and which will contact an emergency number you determine with a message you write if you don't answer.


Second, and totally disconnected: Today I played hooky and went to the Fort Frederick Market Fair, aka "Colonial re-enactor mega-mall." A good thing I came home from 221B Con with several hundred dollars, because they're all gone now!

I went wanting to get: regency short stays, a chemise, a gown, a short gown, some pretty pottery pie plates, a camping-style dutch oven, a cooking knife, a pot or two, a floorcloth, an apron (or two), maybe a sewing pattern, and a meal.

I came home with: a linen chemise, 2 blue and white pottery pie plates, a cooking knife, 2 tin-lined pots, 2 floorcloths, a full-outfit servant sewing pattern (chemise, short gown, petticoat, pocket, cap), a green glass bottle (free refills of cider with your meal), 2 bars of natural soap, a beautiful pottery mixing bowl, a few wooden spoons, a green marbellized leather billfold (because I don't take my big wallet and credit cards to cook over the hearth), a couple of colonial graters, a plain pocket, and sunburn.

Now I know why people at Riversdale rave about Market Fair. It was a helluva drive, so this won't be an annual pilgrimmage, but I'm feeling much more outfitted for the Kitchen Guild!

I'm also patting myself on the back because even though I spent quite a lot of money, it all came out of the con kitty and not the general spending budget, and although tempted by many things, I stuck entirely with either kitchen guild materials of the floorcloths (which I wanted for the living room). The second floorcloth was an impulse, but M *does* tend to spill water a bit as she waters the plant in the living room...

Comments

[redpanda13.livejournal.com]

"It was a helluva drive, so this won't be an annual pilgrimmage" says the woman who used to carpool to Media*West in Michigan.

Glad you had a fun day out and bought some cool stuff you wanted.

While I'm here, there was an article in today's WashPost about a knitting class for (male) inmates in a Howard County prison:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/at-prison-a-knitting-class-that-isnt-necessarily-about-knitting/2014/04/24/a814362a-ae0e-11e3-a49e-76adc9210f19_story.html

[neadods.livejournal.com]

To be blunt, enjoyable as yesterday was, I got more out of MediaWest back in the pre-internet days.

Interesting article!