Yesterday, I had not only yesterday’s email to deal with, but also Sunday’s and about half of Saturdays still. So what did I do? I attempted to get my sewing machine working, of course. This took most of the day. I had not used it for so many years that I had forgotten how to thread it, both upper and lower. So I went to DuckDuckGo and at least has a stroke of luck with the results. My model number is 3577, and it wasn’t a very popular machine, so no search results showed it. One result showed 3537, and I thought, well, that’s close, maybe they’ll work alike, so I went to that page, by golly, the manual was written for both 3537 and 3577. So I now have a manual. But it then took some time to clean it up – and I didn’t stop to oil it, which I clearly should have. I was able to get two urgent repairs done, but not without breaking a needle, and all the rest will have to wait. And I still need to oil it – but at least this time I covered it. Also most of the email will have to wait. I’ll do my best to at least
I don’t think Robert Reich says anything here that y’all don’t already know. It does provide evidence that we are not overreacting or imagining the horrors of this administration. They really are doing what the Apricot Antichrist said they would. And yet black people, women, Latinx people voted for him. Oh, and seniors too. And the price of insulin for one senior on Medicare had the price of a month’s supply of insulin go up by $772 from December to January (from DU)
As Heather Cox Richardson says, we have all earned a break from last week. Sadly, it’s a break we are not going to get, or not today. This is why I decided to do good-news-only Sundays – it’s the only way I can think of to give us all a tiny break. But this is Tuesday – so that’s over for this week. Instead, here’s news you’re going to need a break from.
