Another weekend afternoon of quilting madness! I spent most of the day cutting rectangles for flying geese, and doing math problems. This led us to determine that, the last time we went to purchase fabric for the square geese parts, math failed us (again) and we bought too little. My sister and I made a little emergency trip to Quilter's Palette for more speckledy fabric, as well as a new blade for Mom's rotary cutter. It was getting a bit dull after so much use.

Mom & Jenny sewed like crazy, completing the last of the patchwork squares. I tried out Mom's sewing machine to do one, and realized I'd better not use it anymore. I'll get spoiled, and then I'll want one just like it. YUM.

One of Jenny's first squares.

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Ok, not strictly a library humor piece, but this comic satirizing bookstore customer queries certainly struck a chord for me.

My favorite:

Robert Jordan writes fantasy, not science-fiction! You work in a bookstore, you should know the difference! I will now roll my ten sided die to decide your fate.

Need some geek love? Check out the April Fool's madness at Slashdot.

As always, LJ's NextGen column has some wise words to share. The most recent, and aptly titled, Is This the Ninth Circle of Hell?, points out:

Junior librarians often feel overworked and left out in the cold, rarely understanding what is going on and how decisions are made that impact them on a daily basis. They need their managers to take it one step further and help them learn the skills they will so desperately need to take over--to let go of some of the control before it's too late.