Random Thoughts of a Random Mind

Hi All!

The website has been neglected for too long, so I thought I'd post something, anything, to let you know that I am still alive and well. So here are my three random thoughts for the day:

1. Last weekend I went to the warehouse of the Krosno glass factory. While Krosno is a day's drive away from Warsaw, the warehouse is only 45 minutes outside of Warsaw. It's an easy drive, with pretty much no turns, and on a fairly decent highway by Polish standards. I was on a mission for a set of Champagne glasses. I found the perfect set, and wouldn't you know it was out of stock? I'm going back next month, and meanwhile I got my sister Megan's birthday present.

Note to Megan: No, I'm not going to show you what I got. It's on the way.
Note to Family: Send me Krosno Christmas orders, and Boleslawiec pottery orders.
2. This week, my one desire would to be in NY the FIDM (big NY fashion institute) Dressing a Galaxy exhibit. Yup, I'm a Star Wars geek, but ALL of Amidala's costumes, and her handmaidens' are on exhibit, and they actually had a fashion show with the costumes! I don't know what I like about this so much, but I was always impressed by the costume designer's use of fabric, and the way she alters the fabric with dying, pleating, embroidering, and embossing techniques.

3. And finally: don't you hate it when you want to access a website, but you have to register with the website, giving them all your personal information, just so you can read an article?? Someone pointed out a great shortcut!! A website called bugmenot will actually give you the logon for the page. It doesn't work every time, and I haven't read up on how it works, but give it a try! It worked well for me when I was looking for some pictures of upcoming movies, and even worked on a paid site (starwars hyperspace), but it took 10 account names before one worked

Well, that's all the random thoughts for today!

Written by: Melissa
Nit-Picky happy-to-glad Corrections by: Dave