2005-05-23

 

I am as nimble as a forest creature. Some days. But not today. Today I am feeling a bit sickly, so I'm catching up on some work from home. There's a lot of work to be done and it's not the most convenient time for me to be feeling poorly, so there you go. What else are you going to do, you know? But later this evening I will continue my modification on the silver chenille sweater Karen left in my care a few months ago. It used to be a turtleneck/cowly kind of thing, but I've ripped the neck all out and am instead putting in a simple crochet neckline. I think it will suit Karen much better.
Well, that download is finished, so back to work. <sigh>

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2005-05-18

 

Oooh.... This is way cool - How to fake fingerprints. I have got to try that some time, just to see if I can really do it. It doesn't look that hard.

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2005-05-16

 

I did work from home some today. But honestly, it was more like a half-day of work-work, and a few hours of thinking about how we can do more cool stuff work, and another hour or so of just daydreaming and petting the cats. So I'll take a half-day for this one. Anyway, I just finished reading Barnes?&?Noble.com - Throwing the Elephant: Zen and the Art of Managing Up. Though it deals much more with traditional executives in traditional corporations, it was interesting to consider in how many ways it could be applied to our company. While we're still a small and generally iconoclastic bunch, I will need to consider the lessons from larger companies that can be applied to us. In some ways, just the action of putting a bunch of people together to accomplish any task and dividing up the labor makes some features of the traditional large company take shape, even when the company itself is small and appears to have none of those features at first glance.
Well, enough about work here. I'm not going to be one of those crazy fools fired for blogging about work. Nuh-uh. Not me.
On the knitting front, it's been all about dishcloths this week. Stevie reported that the ones I sent his mom are looking a bit thin, so I'm trying to whip out some replacements. Blah - BO-ring. Oh, pizza's here. Gotta run. More fun tomorrow.

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2005-05-14

 

One last very lame observation before sleep. I buh-booped (that's Tivo for "watched on fast forward") through a recent Knitty Gritty on scarves today. I also watched a recent Law & Order: SVU today. Mariska Hargitay was wearing on of the scarves showcased on Knitty Gritty: the Skinny Scarf. That was a weird mini-continuity.

posted by bethanye 11:56:00 PM   

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I am blogging from bed on my Stephen's new PowerBook. Which I originally typed as "PoserBook"... so I wonder why my fingers are trained to type "poser" instead of "power". Maybe this is telling about words I use in IM? Or wouldn't that be "poseur"? At any rate... I used it to set up his very stark (which suits him) web page today. Yes, I can use fonts in Photoshop. Fear me. It's boring, but so is the boy, so it all works out.
And I'm working on some super cute new socks to take some of the monotony out of being on Sleeve Island with Audrey. I have around 6 inches (and that's six actual inches, not what most men think constitutes 6 inches) completed. Out of many more than 6 inches. I'm doing both sleeves at once to try to get it over with, but you know how that goes - it takes just as long, you just don't have the false sense of completion when casting off the first sleeve.
Other than that.... not much to report. They're doing some sort of 24-hour walkathon thing over at the high school, and we can hear it pretty clearly from here. Now that I think about it, it's probably much louder at Karrie's place. Stephen's playing God of War, which is way too scary to watch to be working on anything else besides socks when I'm in the room - the 2x2 ribbing on Audrey was requiring lots of repairs when I tried to work on the sleeves. It's a very beautiful yet incredibly violent game. He seems to really enjoy it - it's challenging, but not completely miserable until you play it on "very hard" mode -- the one he's schlepping through now. Seems too much like work to me.
Well, it's past my bedtime. Maybe I'll find some batteries for the camera to take pix of the WIPs. I have been very good on my yarn diet, but I'm itching for the acquisition of new fibers...
One more thing - did anyone catch that bit on Knitty Gritty where they did the needle felting? I've never seen that before. I don't see how the design doesn't just peel right off the fabric. Anyone done this?

posted by bethanye 11:42:00 PM   

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okay, I read the URL before the webpage and was trying to figure out what absurd play on words "Shuts On Blount" was supposed to be. =) Of course, S. Hudson is much better.

# posted by  MollyB : 5/15/2005 8:35 AM

 

okay, I meant HUTSON is better, I'm really not trying to rename Stephen. Just can't type.

# posted by  MollyB : 5/15/2005 8:37 AM

 

Oh is that what is going on over there. i had no idea other than my street was full of cars all day.

my projects seem to be in a similar state to yours - i am avoiding my trip to sleeve island and i am about to start some cute socks. maybe i'll see you on tues!

# posted by  kweaver : 5/15/2005 9:40 AM

 

You're supposed to go over the design with the felting needle like a hundred times or more for it to stay put.
--Debbie from knitting

# posted by  debbie, not a snack cake : 5/16/2005 11:01 PM

 

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2005-05-13

 

2231 to 20. That's the number of messages that were in my email Inbox yesterday versus the number in there now. Lots of filing and throwing away, and oddly satisfying. And that's NOT a full year's worth or anything. It's some of the emails (the ones that didn't immediately get trashed) since, oh, November or so. I get a lot of email, I guess.

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