I did get a fair bit of knitting in during various sessions (beats
sleeping as an aid to concentration, it turns out), and played with a
small patch of 'diagonal' knitting (see pic). I also got experience
pulling out stitches (whole rows of them) and learned the valuable
lesson that the simplest sort of knitting (that is, stuff not
requiring counting) is what I should focus on when trying to pay
attention to a speaker.

I forgot to take along a book (shocking!, but I'm so enamored of
knitting these days that I thought I wouldn't need it - ever tried
knitting in the bathtub?) so I wound up in the tub with Gideon and
Samuel. No, this was BEFORE I started drinking!

Opened the bible at random to find a passage I'd read -about- but
never really -read- - the bit where Samuel-the-judge tries to warn the
Israelites that a King is Bad News, but they - the original Sheeple -
insist on having one anyway (or So Says the Bible. Ya gotta wonder. I
think peeps are smarter than that, myself).

I just looked it up to revisit the passage and here's an hysterical
description of those particular verses:

http://michaelreadsthebible.blogspot.com/2008/04/1-samuel-8-12-israelites-get-government.html

Naturally, Saul's first act as king is to institute a draft and invade
another country. Go figure :-/

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