Libertarian friends at Tir na Nog in Raleigh last night. Well,
'finished' except for weaving in the ends, which I can already see is
going to be my downfall. I guess I need something 'unfinished' about
everything I do... weird. Anyway, I'm pretty pleased with the
stitching and now know that I love working with cotton. Want to make a
cotton blanket, but it may turn into a throw or shawl instead :) But I
need to find something nicer than acid green or the red-white-blue
cotton I have. A flag-dishtowel is OK; a flag-blanket would be Too
Much :) ¶ 9:14 AM 0 Comments Links to this post
off. Hoped to finish at lunch today but got chatty with a friend (hi,
Paul!) ¶ 1:12 PM 0 Comments Links to this post
the beagle is the model (i.e. lump under the work) this time. She
sleeps by me and doesn't at all appreciate having knitting needles
stabbing her in the head every so often. You can see the pawprint
pattern forming (at least *I* can:) ¶ 8:19 AM 0 Comments Links to this post
interesting. The low light made the green look actually mellow and
sort of sage-like, which as you can see from the daylight pic it most
certainly is NOT. ¶ 1:16 PM 2 Comments Links to this post
know that color can be hard on the eyes.
Had a lovely lunch break in the sunny side of my car, knitting and
listening to the radio.
show my sister - it came out better than I expected. It's the first
third of a dishcloth I am knitting. It will have a pawprint pattern.
It's draped over Toad (colliething 2.0) for the pic.
I am liking working with cotton more than I expected to. Who'd'thunk
that knitting a dishcloth could be so satisfying? I knit a small one
to practice various stitching patterns and Bill and I are both
enjoying it, even though it's (1) too small, (2) in red/white/blue
(hey - it was on sale!), and (3) has ribbing in the middle, which
constricts it in a funny way. This one should be more respectable in
shape and size. The yarn is a sort of acid green which I probably
would not have chosen if there had been other colors (besides
red-white-blue, which I also got) in the 'one pound mill ends sale
bags' section, but actually
I'm staring to like it.
"The mission of the Department of Biostatistics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is to forge advances in science that benefit human health through profound and paradigm-shifting innovations in biostatistical methodology and theory as well as the thoughtful implementation of biostatistical methods in practice."
Paradigm-shifting, even! Spare me.
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downstairs breakroom...
* Thanks for ruining my evening's plans. The Libertarian Party
specially, and the freedom movement generally, is materially suffering
from your lack of consideration. What WERE you thinking?
* It's a damn good thing I discovered it on the way OUT of the
building, rather than on the way IN - although in retrospect it may
have made the workday more pleasant, on the whole.
* Are you the same person who left the cakeplate with a morsel of
yellow cake and GOBS of cream frosting in the upstairs breakroom?
Because if you are, you really are more of a sadist than is evident
from your carelessly (or WAS it mere carelessness?) leaving one DF
novel around.
inadequate morning light. At least it was cool enough this morning to
get away with wearing it and not looking -too- silly. Open-toed shoes
and a bulky knit scarf - right, not silly at all. February is
confusing in North Carolina!
The yarn for this is a brown fuzzy acrylic/wool?/nylon/mohair thing.
The nylon is thread-of-gold, which of course doesn't show up too well
in the pic. At my neck you can see the strand of orange bamboo fabric
I knitted in just for the hell of it - I got the bamboo for another
project and couldn't wait to see it in -something- :) The stitching is
simply knit-knit-knit in a garter-stitch (knit every row), but I did
do a few rows of stockinette (alternate knit/purl rows) near the
beginning just for a little change of texture (unfortunately it
doesn't show in this picture). I also put in a random rectangle of
stockinette stitching near the orange thread, but got worried that it
would warp the shape (such as it is) because it was on one side only.
It didn't, but it was only a ~4x8 bit.
Can't decide whether to play next with the bamboo stuff (probably an
indoor-wear scarf), try my hand at a hat, doink around with some 100%
cotton I got (in red-white-blue, if you can believe it - hey, it was
cheap!), or actually break down and do one of those 'fun-fur
knit-in-an-evening on giant needles' scarves. Maybe all at once :)
there and he is always hoping to score a fresh egg or three. ¶ 11:23 PM 0 Comments Links to this post
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/President44/story?id=6795650&page=1
The interesting thing to me about this nomination wasn't the tax
thing, which seems to be amusingly/annoyingly prevalent among cabinet
nominees (remember 'nannygate'?) and only serves to punctuate the fact
that the tax code is ridiculously complex and that congressmen are,
basically, idiots. No news there. What IS interesting to me is
Daschle's existence as a de facto (but 'unregistered' lobbyist) - some
'change', eh? It's my strong suspicion that the LOBBYING was the thing
that Daschle was about to get hammered about, and the tax fiasco
served as a convenient excuse to get out while the getting was good.
Now, instead of Daschle being remembered as a sleazy more-of-the-same
influence-peddler type, he will be enshrined by the Dems as a 'victim'
of a simple mistake and partisan hounding. That's a nice glass of
lemonade Daschle and the Obama admin have squeezed up, I'm thinking.
Unless of course Daschle had a moment of sense and sanity and realized
he was much better off as a low-profile government profiteer than a
high-profile 'public servant'. But somehow I doubt that.
