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Looks like I'm going to spend today in the water truck. Expect phone calls, droogs, I'm tired and will need entertainment to keep me awake. Ah, and the noon-thirty staff meeting. Can't forget that. Blech.

All I did yesterday was chase around looking at sick trees, and pull weeds. Very exciting. By had a much more interesting day than I did yesterday. He took his kilt hose in, and met with a gal who's going to do a kilt for him. She managed to find the PERFECT plaid to match the dark taupe yarn, a kind of kelpy green and brown, very nice. (And, she was impressed with the hose, and interested in what I'd charge to do some for her and her husband. Can we say "sewing in trade" boys and girls?) He spent some quality time talking with one of the merchants from fest, about where he wants to go with the merchants at fest this year, and came away with a positive reaction and offers of help, which is very very cool. Got 70-odd pieces of metal roofing from Albert, and is supposed to pick more up after work today. And he went to Costco for groceries, so the pantry is happily full again. (And he got me treats. I know he loves me when he buys me wasabi peas!)

Finally decided that getting the cabled tree pattern workable on socks was going to take way too long, so that's been tabled for right now. I'd pulled a pic a while back, of a cable someone had designed from the knotwork patterns on the doorposts of the great hall at Rohan in The Two Towers. It's a 27-st cable (at least, as I charted it), which ought to be bold enough to fit T's legs nicely. And I *think* I've got the silly thing figured out--all I had was a pic, no charts or instructions. I'm going to start another pair of aran sandal sox for myself, to try out the cable. (It's called making your swatch useful. Or, according to the non-knitting-enabled, rationalization :) )

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Third tank filling for the day. Joy. It's humid and hazy today, so watering myself along with the trees does nothing towards cooling me off.

Had to rescue the boss this morning, because he didn't know how to prune yews, and his supervisor was getting pissy about the shrubbery outside the main office. *snark* Predictably, I did most of the pruning. This is another of the areas Nemesis has let go, because the VP doesn't walk through that part of campus. Bastard.

The main item of note during the staff meeting today was the announcement that overtime was authorized for next week, so we can get caught up on inner campus beds. Not bloody likely I have too many interesting things (and people) to do on my weekends, and they don't pay me enough to be in here for FIVE days a week. 40 hrs and 4 days is plenty. And we (the collective "we" of the ground staff) told New Boss that. He told us he'd relayed that to his supervisor, that overtime was not the golden reward that said supervisor thought it was. Nice to know that New Boss isn't completely clueless. I doubt they're try to make ti mandatory overtime; the college doesn't go in for that.

On the up side, I've managed to design and start another set of aran sandal sox for myself, using the Rohan cable for the front "main" cable. Got 3 1/2" done. Go me!