Softball and Sewing Machines

Yesterday evening I visited a friend and played softball with youths from her church. 'Twas an evening sans pareil. There was plenty of the yack factor, and it was great fun singing along as she played the piano. We topped it off with some good ole' laughing bouts. Hm, here's a good place to "tell one on me." We arranged early in the evening that I would take her to the airport Friday morning. Prior to going to sleep, she was delineating the planned busy-ness of Wednesday night through Friday morning, and along with that came mention of her Friday departure. I here cluelessly asked, "Are you going with someone?" and she thereby lost it because, clearly, I was supposed to be taking her.

I did very little at work today - ordered some pieces of DNA and went to a lab safety class. In between times, I tootled off to a local second hand store and investigated two portable sewing machines. I purchased one (a Sears Kenmore model 28 - the linked picture is not precisely what the machine looks like, but it is very close) for $10, thinking it a pretty good steal although the bobbin case was missing. I then went to the sew and vac place in town and purchased a new bobbin case for $9.95. Strange that I should pay the same amount for a part as for the machine itself.
The point in buying a portable sewing machine is that I will be at J & O's quite a bit this summer, and will not have access to the treadle machine I normally use. My wardrobe is pathetic and needs a major boost, so hopefully this machine will help do the job. Besides the fact that I more or less needed such a device, I enjoy messing around with old sewing machines, figuring out how to thread them and wind bobbins and all that.