Since Mother Eve in the Garden long ago

Today I found this gorgeous black faille/blue velvet early Natural Form dress with the bodice accessioned in 1983 and the skrit in 1966. (The skirt's acc. number is, of course, written on the lining in pen.) I'm torn between a need to figure out the provenance with genealogy of the two donors and a need to just sit around fantasizing about reproducing it, because it's so cute. Oh, and a desire to display it, supposing we had a mannequin or even dress form, because being faille it's in great shape. (Cannot find a good comparison piece to link to. It has a shortish cuirass bodice with a long tail in the back, and the untrained skirt has a panel down the front made of narrow horizontal bands of faille, with velvet ones at intervals.)

Sunday is my podcast interview, I'm scared! But 400-rabbits sent me a list of questions in response to my notes on the period, and I'm going to go over them and try to answer them so that I'll be ready.

Okay, here's a bad thing about Windows 10. It's not telling me when the battery gets too low, it just suddenly flicks into sleep and coming back is twice as painful as a total restart. Not crazy about that.

It is a really nice feeling, being able to not just fix whatever's making Firefox laggy and other software issues, but to also be able to open up the computer, look at what's inside, adjust, and put it back together again. I may end up opening it again and use epoxy on the power jack as I held it together with Elmer's before (thinking it wouldn't actually work anyway).

Bought Owen a signed/sketched-in copy of the new Dr. McNinja collection this morning, as I've saved myself almost $300 and can afford it. I'd say 90% of my Christmas shopping is done now, halleluja!