Sewing Mishaps and Server errors
Jun. 24th, 2008 07:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
isabelladangeloWork was just made of fail today. Actually, can we just rewind this week so far? Starting about eh, 1 pm Sunday? Not that anything bad happened today, just not good.
You see, I was running late this morning, which was okay, until I got to the Metro. I got a parking space. I walked all the way from the very back of the parking lot to the entrance for the trains (for those not in the area, think of your favorite amusement park's parking lot). I waved my little card, got in through the gate, walked up the stairs and saw....that my partlet had fallen out of the sewing purse. Yes, the Eleanor of Toledo partlet fell out somewhere along my route to the trains. Not fun.
So, I walked all the way back to the car, looking the entire way and praying, ended up going up the wrong aisle, found my truck, looked inside and...nothing. Started to walk back hoping someone turned it in when, there it was, right in the middle of the road just lying there. I grabbed it and it's fine. No one ran over it or at least it doesn't look like it. So, I worked on it a bit on the train and made sure it stayed in the sewing purse when I was walking up to my office.
Two of my co-workers from my old unit came over to help test the system today. We crashed it. Just three of us making up all sorts of great stories (I wrote up a Suspicious Activity Report, under the name Jean Grey-Summers, about a Godzilla like creature, named Clover by the DoD, attack Manhattan....okay, so maybe I didn't make it up and just have been spending a bit too much time with comic books and movies again.). We crashed it over 6 times today. After 3:30, the guys gave up and went home. The engineers are saying it's a "server" error. uh huh. Then why did it work fine before y'all messed with it last night?
On the sewing front: Mom's Florentine is now a Venetian (1530's). She wanted a front lacing bodice, which is easy for either depending on the time period. Since she liked the kirtle so much, I decided to go with a straight front, rather than curved front, for the bodice of the dress. This makes it more in line with the Venetian look around the 1530's. I'm also doing a pleated skirt now rather than the gored one (it's easier for one thing). It is out of mint green silk dupioni, which should work. I might add some nice, simple, gold trim, a la this dress just because it looks nice. Image that dress with this dress' lines and you get a good idea of what I'm making.
You see, I was running late this morning, which was okay, until I got to the Metro. I got a parking space. I walked all the way from the very back of the parking lot to the entrance for the trains (for those not in the area, think of your favorite amusement park's parking lot). I waved my little card, got in through the gate, walked up the stairs and saw....that my partlet had fallen out of the sewing purse. Yes, the Eleanor of Toledo partlet fell out somewhere along my route to the trains. Not fun.
So, I walked all the way back to the car, looking the entire way and praying, ended up going up the wrong aisle, found my truck, looked inside and...nothing. Started to walk back hoping someone turned it in when, there it was, right in the middle of the road just lying there. I grabbed it and it's fine. No one ran over it or at least it doesn't look like it. So, I worked on it a bit on the train and made sure it stayed in the sewing purse when I was walking up to my office.
Two of my co-workers from my old unit came over to help test the system today. We crashed it. Just three of us making up all sorts of great stories (I wrote up a Suspicious Activity Report, under the name Jean Grey-Summers, about a Godzilla like creature, named Clover by the DoD, attack Manhattan....okay, so maybe I didn't make it up and just have been spending a bit too much time with comic books and movies again.). We crashed it over 6 times today. After 3:30, the guys gave up and went home. The engineers are saying it's a "server" error. uh huh. Then why did it work fine before y'all messed with it last night?
On the sewing front: Mom's Florentine is now a Venetian (1530's). She wanted a front lacing bodice, which is easy for either depending on the time period. Since she liked the kirtle so much, I decided to go with a straight front, rather than curved front, for the bodice of the dress. This makes it more in line with the Venetian look around the 1530's. I'm also doing a pleated skirt now rather than the gored one (it's easier for one thing). It is out of mint green silk dupioni, which should work. I might add some nice, simple, gold trim, a la this dress just because it looks nice. Image that dress with this dress' lines and you get a good idea of what I'm making.
