Sewing 101

So, yesterday I went with my friend Jill to a Sewing 101 class at Craftorama, a new craft shop on South Congress. They've got great modern fabrics and the class was nice and small. The owner, Hayley, taught the class and was very helpful. Both of our bags ended up looking awesome. I feel like I can finally pull out the sewing machine I got several years ago and not worry so much about breaking a needle in two!

Internet Radio Equality Act

Representatives Jay Inslee (D-WA) and Donald Manzullo (R-IL) introduced a bill today called “The Internet Radio Equality Act,” to reverse the Copyright Royalty Board’s controversial ruling which sought to increase royalties to eight cents per song per listener retroactively from 2006 to 2010 for internet radio stations. Copyright Royalty Board’s ruling would render many independent internet radio stations economically inviable.

The SaveNetRadio campaign asks that you take a moment to call your Congressperson to ask them to co-sponsor this legislation. As an internet radio listener, I would love it if you do that too.

To find the phone number for your Congressional representative, visit http://capwiz.com/saveinternetradio/home/ and enter your zip code.

Birthday Weekend

Well, we spent Kyle's birthday weekend camping (sort of)

and hiking on a different planet (sort of)


Seriously, Enchanted Rock looks like it belongs on Mars or something, doesn't it? The dogs were totally wiped afterwards:

And then on Sunday headed over to some friends' house to celebrate with a real carrot cake and a game of Settlers!

Northcross WalMart

Uck Uck Uck

WalMart is trying to come to our neighborhood - we just got this fancy shmancy flyer inthe mail today which is absolutely ridiculous. I can only hope that this means they are actually encountering problems, and realizing how badly the neighborhood DOES NOT WANT WALMART. My main objection, personally, is that the location they are proposing is no-where near a highway, which means the semis are running up and down the local roads 24 hrs a day/7 days a week. Additionally, there have been studies which prove that crime goes up when WalMart goes in, and that cities end up having to increase their police forces to accomodate the increased crime. If people want to shop at WalMart, that is your own choice, but I really hope that everyone reading this will join in the boycott of WalMart until they are no longer a part of the Northcross Redevelopment. Lincoln Properties needs to look elsewhere for tenants, because we certainly don't want what they are offering.

Easter

Great Easter weekend, spent with family, eating wonderful food