Compass, Headphones, Book

Meta: dammit. I hit the stupid back button on my mouse and lost my post, so, take 2....

Drafting Compass: I found one packaged along with a protractor at Walgreen's. It'll do, but it really doesn't have enough tension to maintain a circumference well and the point isn't overly pointy, so it doesn't stay well even on my grippy watercolor paper. HOWEVER, I have one, it'll do for the imprecise work that keeps me amused. I will go get a better metal one at some point. Point! I was able to spend some time last night doing this style of pretty color/shape theory.

Headphones: ended up accidentally spending 2x what I meant to (a whole 25 bucks) - Sony. They were right next to others that were 13, so I mistakenly thought they were, too. However, I've always found them to be a reasonably comfortable style with the extra bonus of having a right angle jack, which is a much better notion esp. if you end up winding the cord around the device as I do. Less strain. So, problem solved for now. I'll review the cordless ones when I feel more confident in my fiscal liquidity.

(Audio)Book: I mentioned last week I'm listening to Tiger in the Well. As soon as I hit the halfway point, it got better- we started to get Sally into a scenario where she wasn't just reacting ignorantly, a few sympathetic characters showed up, and now in the last 1/3 of the last half as we get to the crescendo. So, yay for being bullheaded on that? But really- knowing the author's style of not having all doom and gloom is helpful. It's how is the heroine going to get out of this, not if.

So, that's what's up at the moment. Mostly content-free.