Some Days I Like Twitter

Twitter is a useful dumpster fire. I sometimes cringe at things that bleed into my feed from people I follow, but in terms of providing immediate access to current trends, Twitter does the best job of all my social media accounts, so I put up with the detritus.

Every so often, though, Twitter showers me with Good Things. The first is a young woman whose Twitter handle is @hollymathnerd. I have been following her for quite a while—long before she got to the follower count she has currently—and she’s one of my favorite people. A recent college grad with a degree in math, she is more mature than a lot of 50-somethings I know. She writes eloquently—this article on Medium.com discusses how not to be fooled by statistics—and I hope she finds a job soon that is worthy of her many talents.

I also follow a couple of Cleveland Browns-related accounts (speaking of dumpster fires), and last week, Nathan Zagura, who is the sideline reporter for the Cleveland Browns Radio Network, tweeted about some new shirts he had received. I looked further at his tweet and discovered that they had come from a company in Vermilion, Ohio—not too far from where I grew up—called Szabo Apparel. They have a Twitter account, so I followed them and also messaged the owners to let them know I would be shopping there.

My new Browns T-shirt arrived on Saturday:

But I was delighted to find a second shirt in the package, too!

These are nice quality shirts and I will be sporting them all summer. If you are looking for Browns swag, please consider supporting this veteran-owned business. They also have some really nice Cleveland merchandise that isn’t sports related. You can tell them I sent you.

[I have no idea what is going to happen with the NFL this fall, but I will carry on as I have for more than four decades as a long-suffering Cleveland Browns fan. Woof woof.]

The first batch of peas have been shelled and blanched, and I’ve got another zucchini on the counter waiting to get made into bread. I am saving my sewing for this afternoon. It’s either going to be messing around with that Noon and Night quilt block or tracing View C (the black and white striped top) of this pattern:

I’m still looking for a few tried-and-true patterns to make up the base of my fall wardrobe. I’ve got some nice lengths of French terry that I think will work well for this.