code ninja

Tiring but useful day. Got a lot done. Bought a new template for cutting fabric to make Dresden Plate blocks. (This will make sense later, I promise.)

Would probably have more brain if I had not been preoccupied in early evening with the fascinating task of making mini-ninja-felt doll and embroidering CODE NINJA on the back. It's for a coworker. We may have ninja wars starting up. Further reports will follow.

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Five kings ruled o'er the Amorite,
Mighty as fear and old as night;
Swathed with unguent and gold and jewel,
Waxed they merry and fat and cruel.
Zedek of Salem, a terror and glory,
Whose face was hid while his robes were gory;
And Hoham of Hebron, whose loathly face is
Heavy and dark o'er the ruin of races;
And Piram of Jarmuth, drunk with strange wine,
Who dreamed he had fashioned all stars that shine;
And Debir of Eglon wild, without pity,
Who raged like a plague in the midst of his city;
And Japhia of Lachish, a fire that flameth,
Who did in the daylight what no man nameth.

-- from The Ballad of the Battle of Gibeon, by GK Chesterton