Extended Weekend Wrap-Up

By the time I finished blogging yesterday (posting here and a long one to the personal blog), I had a very sore lower back. Partly just from lots of working on lots of things over the weekend, but mostly because when I was sorting through the scrap pile, and to a lesser extent working on belt loops and straps for bottles, I spent a lot of time sitting in a chair, and reaching down to the floor. Bad idea. My body may not like sitting on the floor, but it would have been less bad than what I did. Getting chilled while sitting at the computer, and the thermostat rolling back to the "nobody home" setting probably didn't help. A hot shower and Alleve seem to have mostly taken care of it.

Things we accomplished over the 3-day weekend:

• Scrap pile sorted
• One sub-pile reduced to belt loops
• Another sub-pile prepped for wrapping around bottles, and other uses
• Belt loops and bottle, etc. scraps put away neatly/compactly
• Rest of the scrap sorted into two categories and contained
• Several drawers neatened up
• Latch supply inventoried, nothing needed at the moment
• Determined we have Stupid Amounts of copper rivets (which we don't use much any more)
• Supply of belt tabs for hanging pouches assessed (insufficient)
• Some of the hanging pouch flaps laced
• A bunch of soft pouches ready to lace
• Some soft pouches sent off with Xap to get some of the lacing done
• Sewing machine power switch replaced
• Cool little LED light bar and power switch added to sewing machine
• iPad bracket put on shelves  
• Multi-meter located, and then put away in its case after use
• Cordless rechargeable Dremel tool bought, tested, and approved
• Corded Dremel tool hiding place located
• Rubber cement and thinner obtained (supply of rubber cement was getting grim, and what we had was rather thick/sticky)
• Hanging pouch ordered at Reenactor Fest completed, in transit
• Started lacing the bottom seams and belt loops on soft pouches
• Worked on updating the visual catalog of letterpress blocks - all images imported, still need final arranging on pages and labels (back was starting to kvetch)
• Have a pile of pouches to lace tonight at motel in Springfield  
• Bitched about overnight trip to Springfield
• Sent a bunch of my knitting stuff up to live with the rest of the knitting stash, allowing . .. 
• Unearthed the tool bag that lives near the couch, so I could . . . 
• Put pouches being worked on in it.
• Kitchen cupboard re-organization initiated

Things not accomplished:

• Didn't get the business tax returns finished off
• Didn't get as far as I'd hoped on the rest of the hanging pouches
• Didn't get anything done with the hard pouch fronts molded last week
• Didn't get any more hard pouch fronts cut out or molded

Considering how much we did accomplish, a bunch which can be summed up as "the dining room is usable again", I'm not complaining. 


More things to do and/or get (by ACen):

• Just keep swimming, just keep swimming, er, making pouches
• (Funky-) Colored (ie: not black/brown) soft pouches 
• Potion bottles
• Bandolier(s)
• Another map case
• Finish valise?
• More tails 
• Machine-sewn pouches/satchels
• Inventory of not-belts - notes on inventory done at Reenactor Fest have been lost (except for belts and possibly hardware)
• Quite probably other things I'm forgetting