Covert Maidservant

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before...He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.   Kurt Vonnegut, 'Cats Cradle

Against all my self-preservation instincts I've been coerced into joining a Bocce league.  Our first scheduled pre-season game (?) is this afternoon and I found out yesterday that 4 out of the 6 team members are going to some play at the Kravitz and can't make the game.  So *I* am supposed to show up and do the match along with the daughter of one of the missing team members.  OK, I have no pride, and a successful 1-0 win rate for my lifetime games (played with my family who let me win so I wouldn't go home!).  And I was going to go and do it because it would count for me s a practice afternoon.  I just now got an email that the OTHER team has defaulted and my record remains unblemished.  Guess I will face the music next week.  Cue the music:

Well-behaved women seldom make history.  Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

I went hunting for a little glass box to replace the broken piece from the other day- the Ironstone book can't be shown until I get it fixed, but there were no glass boxes in Michaels yesterday, nor were there any of the same dimension that I could fudge up to replace the broken one.  I've turned it over and over and cannot for the life of me figure out how to replace the glass-  it was really thin glass and has no moldings holding it in so it was assembled in each side with the glass intact.  My other option is to bust out all the glass remaining and just replace the top and bottom with a thin board- enough to hold the things in place inside and on the top.  Looks like this is the only way to go right now but I'm going to keep looking for a new box too.  I hate the Re-Do... Oh well, at least it's intact in both books coming out in a few months- I'll let you know when they're available.

I belong to Kickstarter and have really enjoyed picking projects to help fund.  I got my first Kickstarter 'Kickback' in the mail yesterday:

It's a series of three different robots made of card stock, to assemble.  I have a couple of perfect recipients in mind and I'll even furnish the glue.  The funding we all provided to PaperPunk for this went to printing and boxing the pieces.  I hope she has success with the marketing too because they are way cute.

The Herb and Dorothy followup movie that I've also contributed to  has been over funded by half and it's now a 'go' too.  For this I get a tee-shirt and a DVD and some other stuff.  I don't donate huge sums of money, and if the funding reaches what is needed the kickbacks go out.  I loved the original 'Herb and Dorothy' movie of a few years ago, and I believe that the follow-up is about them donating their works around.  Watch for it.