Misc. Random
Feb. 19th, 2008 01:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hrjI indeed started bicycling to work this week ... which caused it to rain on Tuesday. I claim full credit for helping add to this year's water table. While the light is sufficient for safe bicycling now, it's still quite cold out there -- I kept my jacket zipped up for the entire lunchtime ride without raising too much of a sweat. The shoreline ride produced a great variety birds -- at least one each of all the usual suspects: coots, scoters, perhaps a goldeneye, cormorants, curlews, black-necked stilts (which always look way too exotic to be native), snowy egrets, terns, and of course the ubiquitous gulls and ducks.
Sunday evening I worked up a new doublet pattern, interpolated between my old early 15th c. one (which I don't seem to have kept a paper draft of) and the Pandolfo Malatesta fragments from Textile Conservation, which are closer to the decade I'm aiming for. I then proved the effectiveness of my fabric stash database by querying it on what yardage I had with the specifications fiber=wool, width >=54, remaining_length >=51, weight=medium. When I sorted through the dozen results and eliminated anything where the available length was greater than 150% of my target (since that would be wasteful), it reminded me that I had this lovely little piece of dark burgundy-brownish satin-face wool in bin #22 that would be just perfect. So that's all cut out and ready to sew. I had less luck turning up a length of wool that would inspire me for the outer garment. Most of the longer pieces I have are in the red range, which doesn't sit well with me against the doublet fabric. There's also a bright peacock blue, but I just don't think so. There's a very soft camel-colored piece that's the right weight but ...nah. I keep leaning towards something in a dark green, but the only length I have in that color range at the moment is too light weight. I may have to shop ... alas.
In preparing for my 100,000 mile checkup ... um ... routine physical exam tomorrow, I've been throwing together some lists of minor questions and issues to bring up. The sort of thing it isn't worth seeing a doctor for, but since you're there anyway .... And besides which, part of the point of scheduling a major-birthday-physical is to ask about this sort of stuff. And while typing up my notes, I figured I'd chart out my recent (as in, the last decade) monthly cycle data. Particularly since I've recently had one unusually short and one unusually long cycle and I wanted to check whether that was within normal variation for me.
The data matches my recollection that I've been abnormally predictable for the last 5 years or so, with an annual mean falling between 26.5 and 28 days and a standard deviation running between 1.5 and 2.5 but mostly falling right around 2. Until this past year when the standard deviation jumped to 5.6. The standard deviations had been a little higher in the first part of the last decade, but even so the highest had been 3.5 (for means running very consistently in the 29-32 range). Prior to the last half-year, the min-max was 24-37. During the last half-year I've had a 17 and a 43 (and still counting at the moment). Now, back in my 20s I was regularly irregular -- all over the map. But the last decade (which is easily accessible since it's all on my PDA calendar) has been predictable enough that this recent data seems Meaningful. *pondering*
Sunday evening I worked up a new doublet pattern, interpolated between my old early 15th c. one (which I don't seem to have kept a paper draft of) and the Pandolfo Malatesta fragments from Textile Conservation, which are closer to the decade I'm aiming for. I then proved the effectiveness of my fabric stash database by querying it on what yardage I had with the specifications fiber=wool, width >=54, remaining_length >=51, weight=medium. When I sorted through the dozen results and eliminated anything where the available length was greater than 150% of my target (since that would be wasteful), it reminded me that I had this lovely little piece of dark burgundy-brownish satin-face wool in bin #22 that would be just perfect. So that's all cut out and ready to sew. I had less luck turning up a length of wool that would inspire me for the outer garment. Most of the longer pieces I have are in the red range, which doesn't sit well with me against the doublet fabric. There's also a bright peacock blue, but I just don't think so. There's a very soft camel-colored piece that's the right weight but ...nah. I keep leaning towards something in a dark green, but the only length I have in that color range at the moment is too light weight. I may have to shop ... alas.
In preparing for my 100,000 mile checkup ... um ... routine physical exam tomorrow, I've been throwing together some lists of minor questions and issues to bring up. The sort of thing it isn't worth seeing a doctor for, but since you're there anyway .... And besides which, part of the point of scheduling a major-birthday-physical is to ask about this sort of stuff. And while typing up my notes, I figured I'd chart out my recent (as in, the last decade) monthly cycle data. Particularly since I've recently had one unusually short and one unusually long cycle and I wanted to check whether that was within normal variation for me.
The data matches my recollection that I've been abnormally predictable for the last 5 years or so, with an annual mean falling between 26.5 and 28 days and a standard deviation running between 1.5 and 2.5 but mostly falling right around 2. Until this past year when the standard deviation jumped to 5.6. The standard deviations had been a little higher in the first part of the last decade, but even so the highest had been 3.5 (for means running very consistently in the 29-32 range). Prior to the last half-year, the min-max was 24-37. During the last half-year I've had a 17 and a 43 (and still counting at the moment). Now, back in my 20s I was regularly irregular -- all over the map. But the last decade (which is easily accessible since it's all on my PDA calendar) has been predictable enough that this recent data seems Meaningful. *pondering*
