A three-month membership to feelings of inadequacy.

Ignore the part in my last post where I claimed to be decent at Mario Kart 8. I recently activated the three-month membership to Nintendo Switch Online that was included with the console and tested my karting skills online. These Miis were my first opponents.

They crushed me. All of them. Including Miichael Jackson. When I shared the above screenshot with Jordi and told him about Miicheal Jackson, Jordi said, “Hee hee.”

And… that was the player’s username: Hee hee. Clever.

Anyone who knows me should be able to pick my Mii out of the crowd, but as that might not be you, this is Mii:

Less surprising should be my username: squaremeat.

My sewing project has been put on hold until I get the zig zag stitch setting back or at least borrow a machine with this setting. I want to give the pj pants I’ve been working on proper bar tack stitches above and below the pocket openings.

There’s a sewing machine repairman on the island named Bill Murray. I emailed him two weeks ago, and in two days, I received a strangely curt response devoid of punctuation marks, asking to give him a call. I’d gotten his email address off his business card, which I’d come across at one of the local fabric shops. A cursory web search was enough to reveal that he was a retirement-aged guy who likely responded to my email with two fingers. He’s probably the type who, upon accidentally hitting the caPS LOCK, JUST KEEPS GOING. He is also legendary in the sewing community as he’s repaired oodles of machines even older than mine. Bill is a hardware–not a software dude.

I guess most people would’ve just picked up a phone and made that call. Me? I opened up my machine again, turned the dials and tried to figure out how the machinery operates. I noticed a thread tightly wrapped around one of the pivots and removed that. And….

That didn’t solve anything. Shit. I need to call Bill Murray.

I’ll do that after the holidays, and hopefully before he retires.