this weekend’s going to be a blur. tomorrow, drive to columbus; saturday, con, then drive to brunswick; sunday, hang out with the craigs’ (and probably get in some good quality omgwhydidthisseasonstinksobad baseball kvetching, wherein i expect all concerned shall insult the twinkies mightily for lo, do they invite it), then drive home. then monday, 0600 shift… and the start of my first week with the pager! my coworker d. has this week solicitously advised me to get all the sleep i can this week, in light of the new night guy’s increased propensity to page versus the old night guy (who has given up his tech support ways and is trading full time). hah, hah, sez i; who needs sleep? by this time next week i may well be living in a hallucinagenic sleep-deprivation-instigated surreality. at least it’ll be colorful.
am confirmed for SP9. hooray! cannot wait. am also confirmed as doing a square for Knit a Square for Grandmother Purl. had thought i had the perfect yarn for that project — a skein of Plymouth Yarn Colorspun worsted — which was one of those yarn purchases where i am not really sure my thought process in buying it was really all that much more involved than “oooooh, pritty colors!” — but at 75% acrylic it’s outside the project’s requirements of all-natural fibers. this is frustrating because basically all my washable natural fibers are either an acrylic/wool blend, or, like, the sock yarn i’m actively turning into a sock right now. i came up with a second stash idea, namely some hunter green lamb’s pride i bought a while ago to make someone a hat (but then later on found i did not wish to invest hat effort and materials on that person, because they were mean to me (in the nutshell first-grader’s condensed version)), but they want washable too, and lamb’s pride isn’t washable. so, hmm. i’ll have to hit up the LYS and find some superwash something or other, i guess. and, dude, the colorspun would have been perfect! dang. oh, yeah, sock. got quality knitting done on the sock last saturday while sitting at the mechanic’s for !!!!FOUR AND A HALF HOURS!!!! getting new tires put on my passat. i mean, not that the tires aren’t awesome, smooth and quiet and they grip the road so much better than my old ones and i don’t squeal as i turn any corner no matter the speed or angle anymore, but, seriously, did i mention FOUR AND A HALF HOURS? ‘cos it was FOUR AND A HALF HOURS. i thought i was going to die there, and they’d come around with my keys to find my dead mummified bones blowing to dust in the wind. holding a half-complete sock. anyways, i finished the heel — MY FIRST HEEL, YAAAY — and got into the, you know, foot part. finished the first ball of yarn and joined a second. got home after FOUR AND A … you know, and tried it on … and the damned thing is way too big. i mean, i could wear it around the house, but, it’d fall down and i’d slip and break my remaining glassware or something. so i have to find a male friend of my acquaintance who wears, hmm, maybe a men’s size 9 or 10 or something, who deserves handmade socks. and who wouldn’t mind that one of them is a little wonky from being the first heel i ever turned, on my own, at a white sox game. actually, no guarantees the other one won’t be a little wonky in its own right. this whole having-to-give-them-to-a-big-footed-boy thing in mind, maybe it’s a good thing i used the blue sock yarn instead of the purple, to learn socks on circs with. because i have a feeling that if they were purple socks i’d have somewhat of a harder time finding someone who wanted them. alas. (also, how cranky am i that i knit off a women’s sock pattern, I HAD GAUGE!!, and they’re too big? what, do i have to make the child’s pattern to get socks for my own feet? i wear size 10s! dang.) in other news, i spent literally about 5 hours uploading stuff to Flickr, then tagging the photos and sorting them into sets, and trying to delete the duplicative or especially crummy photos i’d accidentally uploaded. someone promptly favorited a handful of pictures of kiyoshi. i now entertain myself daily by talking to my cat about his net.stalker. he doesn’t get the joke, but it just never gets old to me (that might be the sleep-deprivation kicking in there), so. anyways, mostly i just wanted to upload old travel photos. so that’s one thing i can chop off the to-do list. i am exercising my flickr pro account to its, well, really, its merest potential. i just don’t take all that many photos. but i did use like 4% of my 2G bandwidth in uploading all that stuff, so, go me! okay. enough rambling on about random nonsense. time to drink more coffee get ready for work. thank god i got some sleep last night, the situation was starting to get desperate.
