Record Doctor V dust covers

A few months ago, my friend Mike Thomas asked me to sew a dust cover for a machine he bought for cleaning his vinyl records, the Record Doctor V.  Once it was completed, he was kind enough to include the cover in his YouTube review of the record cleaner.

I've been contacted by a few people since then asking me to make covers for their Record Doctors.  I made a couple yesterday, and made a couple of changes to the original design.  I cut the main body as one piece (shaped like a cross) and just sewed the four "cross" pieces to make a box.  I also eliminated all of the grosgrain binding on the edges, instead using a seam that traps the raw edge inside.  I'm pretty happy with the result -

If you happen to own a Record Doctor V and need a cover for it, these are available for $30 plus shipping. Custom colors and other features are available.

I'm a bit of a stickler for correct grammar usage, and I once even had a small business doing proofreading and copy editing.  Sometimes I wonder why people are so bad at using English correctly, and then I think of things like the following:

When you have a number of distinct items (flowers, for example), and you take some of those items away, you have fewer items.

When you have a quantity of something (like water), you have less of that something.

So you have fewer flowers, and less water.

So, if you increase the number of flowers,  why don't you have manier flowers?!?

English is screwed up.

"The Perfect Mojito" recipe:

As seen on my Youtube video, "How to make a perfect Mojito," here is the perfect Mojito recipe.

For one Mojito:
12 large mint leaves
1 lime, washed, cut in half and one half cut into four pieces
2 oz. simple syrup
2.5 oz rum (I prefer Gold)
Club soda to top

Place the mint in a cocktail shaker.  Add the four small pieces of lime, squeezing their juice into the shaker before tossing them in.  Squeeze the juice from the other lime half into the shaker and discard the lime.
Add the simple syrup and rum.  Add ice cubes (about one cup), and vigorously shake in the cocktail shaker for 20-30 seconds.  Pour into a glass and top with club soda.  Sip through a straw and enjoy!