Sorry about the lack of updating lately! SciFi Man and I are preparing to move, and it’s taken up most of our time, and all of my creative time. May in particular is going to be busy, so there may not be much going on around here until June. Add Anodyne Design to your feed reader (I use Google Reader) so you’ll know as soon as I’ve added fresh content!

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SciFi Man and I are moving in a month. We drove up to our new area over the weekend, to search for a place to live, and that seemed like a good opportunity to try out our new GPS device. It’s so cool–I don’t think we could get lost if we tried. I think my favorite feature, though, is the “points of interest.” I don’t know how comprehensive it is, but if I ask it to look up restaurants, wineries, post offices or whole list of other types of locations, it tells me what places are nearby.

SciFi Man is very responsible and noted that it probably wasn’t very wise to leave the GPS in the car, so we (read, me and my purse) needed to carry it with us. He asked me to sew up a little carrying case for it. So I created a GPS pouch, similar to my card wallets, but larger, padded, and with a velcro closure (I didn’t want to be pressing snaps against it.) I put a little pocket on the back for any incidentals we may need to carry along. I’m pretty pleased with how it turned out. What do you think?

Today was Earth Day. I was afraid I missed, but a quick check of Wikipedia assures me that it’s still Earth Day today. This weekend, I picked up one of Target’s reusable shopping bags. They have them in the dollar spot for .99, which is a price you can’t argue with. What I love is that they have two types of affordable, reusable bags and the “smaller” one (which still seems quite roomy to me) folds up into it’s own pouch and easily fits into my purse. The pouch serves as a pocket when the bag is open. With it so easy to fold up the bag, I have no reason not to just keep it in my purse, ready to use even on unplanned shopping trips. Also, they are bright red and have a pretty graphic tree design on them. I’m thinking I should have purchased a few more. You can read more about Target’s reusable bags at Sustainable is Good.

Today had an unexpected start. Just after 4:30 this morning, much of the midwest (but especially my little corner of it) was shaken by a 5.2 magnitude earthquake. That may be no big deal for Californians, but in Illinois, we don’t get too many earthquakes. This one was strong enough to wake us up and rattle the house.