Shopping update:

I've now seen 2 Mervyn's with "Store Closing" signage up. Leads me to believe it's system-wide possibly. 20-50 percent off, probably get more w/time.

Sport Chalet: has E-Z ups (quick shade brand actually) for $70! Also has the super camping grill for $129

Want to see a professor moon another? It's about 1 min. into the clip. You think that's bad, you should see dept. meetings.

Testes... testes... one.. two... three?

Mervyn's must've chaptered... saw two more today after posting the above

Yes, they went into Chapter 11 last month.

But currently they are closing only 26 stores, mostly in California, Arizona, and Texas.

Facts I just learned looking that up: Mervyn's was founded here in the East Bay and until 2004 was owned by Target. Fact you just learned about Mervyn's: for my first wedding we registered at Mervyn's; I had no idea what a charger is, had no idea why we would want one, and after that argument just walked around lettering her put anything she wanted into the registry without comment.

I bought a lamp for my sewing room today but it doesn't work. Of course I figured that out after I took it out of the box and broke down all the cardboard. I got in back in the box in a reasonable fascimile of how it started so that I can return it. But I really didn't want to run any errands tomorrow.

And I have a sewing room! It still needs a lot of work (paint, new curtains, minor stuff like that) but I boxed up everything that's still being stored in there and pushed the boxes against the wall. I got a desk at IKEA for my sewing machine and now I'm ready to go. Except for the lighting issue.

Sounds to me like the Soooooo...... thread has turned into the Shopping and Sew thread!

;)

It's one of those really big plates, right?