everything's so green!

• New Thing Learned for 27 April: The IL business-number form constitutes a DBA, so far as the state is concerned. (I'm still not sure which piece of me the city wants, if any.) [Source: emailed an inquiry about the form after sending it.]
  
  
• New Thing Learned for 28 April: Niddy-noddies are much less tiring to use when the cross-arms are the correct length, so that you're not dodging them on every stroke. [Source: birthday gift from rennie_frog.]
  
  
• New Thing Learned for 29 April: Resin buttons can be made by stamping them from a sheet like coin planchets, slicing them from a rod like lettered candy, or even compressing plastic-powder like a pill. Yes, I do watch "How It's Made" rather more than is really healthy. [Source: How It's Made.]

I sincerely hope that that smell is the rain washing Neighborhood Cat's territorial pissings away, and not merely reactivating them ad infinitum from now on... Arghh. Must plant lavender seedlings as soon as it's a bit less squashy out there. But at least somebody seems to have addressed the gutter issue that's been threatening us, from the looks of things out there as the rain passed through. Mmm, homeownery concerns.