Naptime miscellany (as in, posting during)

Of Saturday's ambitious list I accomplished one item out of three: I now have patterns for four mirrors, two big, two small. Also an idea for another pattern, based on willow branches, but its success depends on my finding thicker solderable wire to use for the branch parts. I suppose I could just twist up some of the skinny stuff...or just make it a small mirror instead of a big one, so the skinniness of the wires wouldn't look quite so lost. But the wire is pretty damn skinny, I don't know if the smaller mirror wouldn't still suffer from that. Alternatively I wonder if solder itself would work - just unspool the solder, flex it into the shape I want, and try to solder other stuff to it. I'd have to use the 50/50 stuff instead of 60/40, and even that might not cut it, but maybe worth a shot. I suppose I could just cut out little tiny slivers of brown branches, too, but that would be a pain in the ass and hella fragile to boot.

Also continuing to watch True Blood in the evening. Alas, it degenerated quickly after the first two promising episodes. Too much lame-ass exposition and egregious plot arbitrariness are probably the biggest problems, followed quickly by gratuitous sex and gore. Not that I mind sex onscreen when it's used judiciously - gore likewise, but I'm much, much pickier about what constitutes judicious use - but with either one there comes a point where it just gets silly. But of course it's HBO, so there's always the danger of the writers going LOOK WHAT WE CAN PUT ON THE SCREEN, OOOoooOOOOOooo aren't we RISQUE. Showtime's Dexter (whose third season we just finished) does a MUCH better job of working with those elements, and tells a kickass story to boot.

( On to some baby-related rambling... )