near the food court

Chris and I have been hired to play at Whole Foods (the one at 601 North Main Street) tomorrow from 5 to 7 pm.

We'll be playing with no amplification, and I will be playing the guitar only (no piano or accordion). Also, we've been asked to play only blues songs.

This should be really weird. But hopefully fun. I think my biggest concern is that we will start laughing in the middle of a song and won't be able to stop.

also

I started skein #4 on the little blanket I'm making. This might be the last skein, or I might need to do a little knitting from a fifth. (Partly this depends on whether or not I add another stripe. I'm currently leaning towards no, but someone mentioned to me the other day that the existing colors are all pretty traditionally masculine, which made me worry about being a gender normative enforcer and think about adding a stripe of orange or something, but it may be best to leave well enough alone.)

I think it will take a month or less of work to complete this, but I'm going to put this at least partly on hold shortly, because my nephew's birthday is in a few weeks (he's turning three) and I have an idea for something to knit for him. I think I'll start working on it at SNB tomorrow. (I won't say further about it here, because my sister and her husband might read this.)

( a couple of pictures of the in-progress blanket )