sundry and various

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1. Four-year-old plus swift and ball winder: wow, he was interested in that for a lot longer than I'd have expected.  He wound about a hundred yards of yarn; I only had to rescue it from entanglement five times (from when he started winding in the opposite direction).  Overall, kept him occupied for a bit, and no harm done to the yarn (but don't try this with laceweight).

2. Highs are still in the 90s F/low 30s C, but we have nonetheless managed to get our first household cold of the season. Bleah.

3. Today's time sink:  Mean Fat Old Bat. Book review blog, mostly romances; first blog in a while that I've found so entertaining that I keep hitting "Older Posts".  Recommended.

4. Still gestating assiduously.  Approximately 75% through.  Still in denial about the fact that there will be a newborn in the house in December. Still hoping to take advantage of one local movie theater's Baby Day -- won't be the optimal environment for seeing Hobbit Part I, but beats not seeing it in the theater at all. (And if Ethelbert runs more than a week late, what better way to invoke Murphy's Law than by trying to see Hobbit in opening week?)

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First two kids showed up before their due dates, so we'll see whether this one follows the pattern or decides "hey, I like it in here, and I still want to try for Mayan Calendar Reset Birthday".

Younger son has been very good at wiping up his own spills since he was about two; an adult still has to get the last little bit, but he does the bulk of the work.

I recall enjoying household tasks that I didn't *have* to do, but hating the ones that were my expected chores -- I'd still rather clean toilets than wash dishes.