Alex broke his glasses the other day, and when he was going to go to lenscrafters to see if they could fix it, his car wouldn’t start. It’s been sitting for a couple days now, doesn’t make a clicking sound when the key is turned, lights won’t come on, and his attempts to jump start it were not successful. I’m guessing the alternator is bad, but I’m no mechanic. Here comes an adulting lesson for him! He’ll have to arrange getting it towed to a repair shop. And I’ll have to arrange paying for it over the phone. And speaking of his glasses, when he finally got to Lenscrafters (a friend gave him a ride) he found it was closed because they had no power. Yep, he lost power at his apartment. As did most everyone else in the area, it seems. They had a big windstorm… a “bomb cyclone” and “atmospheric river”… in the northwest and it blew out power to millions. Alex’s power was off for a day and a half or so. 

The soup season continues: Friday evening Beth and I went to set up shop at the show in Columbia City. Due to somebody’s poor planning this year, they have a conflict with a basketball game and the gym was not available for use. So all of the craft vendors were moved into the cafeteria and hallways instead. The Soup Lady was put into an empty space in the cafeteria area, so we were open on 3 sides (just backed up to one other vendor). It looked awful and didn’t seem like traffic would flow very well so we figured the best we could do was get another table and set them up like an L with the shelves forming the back of the booth. It worked well enough, wasn’t perfect but things went ok. The show was steady, we did lose some traffic because of the game, I thought. We sold well, didn’t set any records but did pretty consistent with how that show usually goes. Beth forgot her stool so she was pretty sore by the time it was over.