Quiltalong, Twitter, personal space.

• So Trish managed to someone con me into leading a very informal quiltalong. Please consider joining us. There are no rules, no time frame, no pressure, no nothing. Just fun to all chat about it together. We're using #hexchat on twitter and there's a flickr group. The basic tutorial is here, and I'll write up a couple more posts soon. There's nothing original here, you can google and find it all, but it's fun to do with friends.
• Speaking of Twitter- did you know that if you @reply to someone, that only people who follow both of you will be able to see that in their feed? So if you're talking about something you'd like your other followers to see, you could precede the @ with a period or a word? 
• This has been a very long couple of weeks at our house. Mike had inventory this week and worked more hours than he didn't.  Stress and tension was high. Fortunately, I had kids and cats to "keep me company." If you look hard you can see the Bug's head in the background there. Also, my cats hate each other, this is as close to each other as they are willing to get, and only with me between them.

What I Read This Week:

• The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson. I want to like this and mostly I do, but the writing style often throws me. It feels like the author couldn't decide if this should be an informal memoir or a piece of serious non-fiction.
• And Then He Kissed Her by Laura Lee Guhrke. No, it's not on the list. I needed something easy and highly recommended.
• Working Stiff (Revivalist, Book 1) by Rachel Caine. Also not on the list. I've only read a chapter, not sure where this is going yet. 
• Death Masks (The Dresden Files, Book 5) by Jim Butcher. I never did really enjoy this one, but I did finish it.