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And It Worked …
At 200-and-some miles, on the over-the-hilly bit between Paso Robles and San Luis Obispo, the vehicle engine commenced to misfire in a very worrying manner. (I now know that this is what the previously intermittent rumblings were about, engine misfires.) On the way back, the loss of power up several grades got so pronounced that
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There Is a Trip Planned …
An extravagantly reckless trip that may blow up the engine of my vehicle. The Conference of Northern California Handweavers is having a do, down in San Luis Obispo, in early August, and during a manic phase a couple of months ago, I paid for it. But the vehicle does not like to spend more than
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Technically, I suppose …
It constitutes outlawry, but I like living in my car. I had thought that the Supreme Court, back during my young personhood, and with regard to that county government expedient known as the “Chain Gang” (that is, being picked up for vagrancy and sentenced to 60 days on the county roads), had declared it unconstitutional
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Some Hand Sewing
So I am back in the car full time. For a great deal of this year-to-date I have had access to premises. I attended to the cat and defended said premises against the depredations of adult children, and this, for a total of nearly four months between January and July of 2023. I really ought
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Making Progress …
The Etsy Shop is finally up! https://www.etsy.com/shop/oldknittylady Spent some little while yesterday trying to figure out how to put a link to an Etsy listing into a WordPress post. I will be spending more time on this. There is progress, but it is slooooow. And then there is my Listing Process, which I am trying
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And the Other Thing Going on …
Everybody has their “How I Coped with the COVID Lockdown” thing. And mine kind of melded with: What does a collector with no premises collect? There I am, some three years back, deprived of gainful employment, on an ample government stipend, and at the mercy of YouTube for distraction. There really is not all that
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I’ve Been Making Flowers
So, I live in the car, but how much infrastructure do you need to crochet a flower? And I am not entirely bereft of stuff. There is a storage space, and a respectable stash of yarn and other fiber in the storage space. I cycle things in and out of the trunk. There is sewing
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Further in the Way of Introduction …
Living in the San Francisco Bay Area and, for the last seven years in my vehicle, I have also worked, mostly full time, as a legal secretary until … last August when I applied for the Social Security. Now, it is a pittance, particularly in the Bay Area. So the plan is to take temp
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Technical Trials and Tribulations
What you are looking at is my third attempt with the Word Press. I’ve spent a goodly portion of my working life learning office software. Out of the thirty-some years as a legal secretary, easily 15 of them have been temp assignments at assorted law firms. (Another time I will wax poetic over the unhappy
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