recommendation for tailor/seamstress who makes new clothes from old

[acechorizo.livejournal.com]

 I am looking for someone who would be able to create a jacket for me based on a jacket I already have. Does this service exist locally? Recommendations please! I already checked the clothing tag, nothing jumped out. Thanks!

See a play about Somerville this weekend

[ron_newman]

Local playwright John Shea, a lifelong Magoun and Ball Square resident, will present a staged reading of his new play, WELCOME TO SOMERVILLE: Permit Parking Only, tonight and tomorrow night (Friday and Saturday) at First Church Somerville, 89 College Ave. The show starts at 7 pm. Tickets are $15 at the door.

My earlier DSLJ post about the play, in which Shea responds to some comments

Joe Lynch interviews John Shea on SCAT's Greater Somerville TV show, October 19

Boston.com article on the play by Danielle Dreilinger

Cross stitching

[versonic.livejournal.com]

Do any of you cross stitch? And if so, where do you go to buy your supplies?

I'm preferably looking for someplace in Cambridge/Somerville/on the 77, but I also work and go to school in the Fenway and Columbia Point areas, so if you have a better idea around there, I'm open to it.

Thanks!

Somewhat fishy visit from a maintenance worker

[prog.livejournal.com]

This afternoon some guy mashed the doorbells on the house I live in until I (a home-office type) answered. He identified himself as from the City of Somerville, come to look at the house's "meters" (I didn't catch which kind), because they were emitting "bogus" readings.

He interrupted my workday, so since my mind was grinding away on other tasks, I robotically let him inside to diddle around in our basement without getting any ID or name or nuthin, or even looking outside to note the presence or absence of a Somerville-branded vehicle. Presently, the man emerged to report that all was in order, and left.

As you are aware by reading this far, I now feel like an idiot, rather aghast at how far away I let my head float. My landlord (who I emailed about this) is understandably like "wtf" at me.

Help me, I am stupid: Does it even make sense that a city worker would care about "meters"? Isn't that more the provenance of utility companies? If it does make sense, who would I call to confirm that they sent a guy out? (And would they be open on the weekend? Can you understand why the fact this all happened late Friday afternoon would make me more paranoid?)

More to the point, has this dude maybe visited anyone else with a similar goal? He was a 40/50-something heavy-set white guy in work clothes. Seemed sane and apologetically professional. So he either was who he said he was -- which is, I imagine, the more likely case -- or I totally got pwned, and have no idea what kind of horrible plots are even now hatching underneath my kitchen floor.