Upgrading My Tech

I had a haircut scheduled for noon yesterday, so I went into town early to run errands. My list was long. It included a stop at Best Buy to purchase a new laptop. I have been using DD#2’s hand-me-down Macbook Pro, purchased in 2013. I’m doing enough Zoom interviews and meetings now that it’s not keeping up. I’d also like to have something I can use when traveling. I bought a Macbook Air, which is plenty for what I need.

After that, I headed to the Verizon store to see about a new iPad. Mine has been randomly locking me out, requiring a restart, and recently, the touch screen has been glitchy. The kid who was helping me pulled up my account and said, “Oh, I see you have a Gen 2 iPad! You know they’ve come out with 14 newer models since you bought that, right?” (I knew it was old, but not quite how old.) We’ve been with Verizon for 12 years, so I got some nice loyalty discounts and walked out of there with a 9th gen iPad.

I spent a chunk of money, yes, but I’m not capriciously replacing devices every year.

The husband fixed my favorite frying pan for me:

I have a Farberware 12" frying pan I received as a wedding present 34 years ago. This little helper handle fell off a few weeks ago. It was in pretty bad shape, which is why it had fallen off. I’ve already replaced the main handle once. An eBay seller had the helper handle for sale, so I ordered it. It came in the mail on Wednesday, and by the time I got home from Missoula, the husband had attached it for me.

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Anna Graham at Noodlehead has come out with a new bag pattern—yay! This one is called the Oxbow Tote:

I buy every pattern she releases and have made most of them. I may use this as a carrot for getting those generator covers made. I’ll reward myself with this project once the covers are done. I’d like to do a bag start to finish on the 1541, and I have plenty of canvas—waxed and otherwise—to play around with.

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My neighbor, Theresa, stopped by last night with a gift for me. She and her husband went to Vienna and Munich to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary and visited all the Christmas markets there. She brought me a beautiful apron, which deserves its own blog post. The fabric comes with some history, too, and I want to research that a bit more before writing about it.