Knitting, with Dogs

Well, I'm back...

Remembering my dad

At my wedding rehearsal:

My dad, me, and my brother at the Lawrenceville hamfest.  I became a ham radio operator so I could talk with my dad on the radio.

Dad in a reflective moment at my wedding:

And even though it's a crappy lo-res PDA photo, this is one of my favorite pictures of my dad from
Christmas a few years ago.  That's my mom's picture behind him.
 

My dad died a year ago today.  I have days when I want to go all Inigo Montoya on the universe and cry, "I want my father back, you son of a bitch!" 

My dad forgot a lot of things in his last few years.  But he never forgot he loved me.

I miss you, daddy.

:rolls eyes:

Two things:

1.  I drank the Kool-Aid.  I signed up for Facebook.  /facepalm/

2.  If you're going to do something crazy on Teh Intarwebz, at least TRY not to be stupid when you do it!( (Internet dramaz = entertaining.)

Two other things:

1. I signed up for a handspun/roving swap on Ravelry.  I've dyed my roving, now I've got the spinning to do.  I need to do 8 oz. by the end of February.

2.  Thing-a-Day 2009 is starting up on 2/1.   I tried to do this last year, but was interrupted by my dad's final illness and death.  :(  I think I'll try again this year, unofficially, because I have a bit of superstitious dread about starting over again.  (As in: what if I start again and someone else dies???  I know, not logical, but that's why it's SUPERSTITIOUS dread.  Because it's NOT logical.)

I've got some ideas of what I want to do, but we'll see what happens.

Lego love

If you guys haven't seen the Inauguration, in Lego, go look.  Now.

I don't have anything like enough patience in my whole LIFE to do something like this. 

Amazing.

Is Obama President yet?

Oh yeah.

It was just me and the dogs at home, watching the Inauguration.  Well, just us, if you don't count the Twitter feed, the chat room and the Inauguration thread on Ravelry that I was watching.

All my best wishes and good hopes to the new President and First Family.

Insomnia. I has it.

At least some times.  Like last night. 

I was working on a pair of fingerless mitts for a friend a catching up on the last couple of episodes of Season 1 of Dr. Who.  I thought, "I'll just get both done and finish darning in the ends and knitting the thumbs tomorrow."  But when I finished both main parts, the show wasn't over, so I kept watching and knitting.

I finished both mitts and then I was partway through the next-to-last episode.  So I pulled out the yarn and needles for another project (Entrelac Cowl).  I had a little problem with the instructions as I was knitting it, so the last episode of season 1 ended and I'm still knitting. 

And it was about 2:30 am.  I wasn't really tired, but I thought, let me just make sure I understand how to end this row and start the next one.  So I kept knitting.

I knitted through a "Make a bazillion bucks through questionable real estate deals" informercial, through a "Take advantage of the tax misfortunes of people around you to buy up their houses" infomercial, and a fitness program for people who appeared to have been athletes or Navy Seals or something before they started the exercise program.

 Hey, I was busy knitting, and couldn't be arsed to change the channel.   Sue me.

And then it was 4:45 am, and I figured I should put the knitting down even though I STILL didn't feel tired.

But I ended my row, made sure I could turn and go back, and then turn AGAIN for another round.

And yes, when the fatigue finally hit, it knocked me down hard.

Oh well, better now, and hopefully I'll sleep tonight.

Sometimes you just get a craving

Waffle House lunch, with waffle and hash browns, scattered and smothered (i.e., cooked with onions).

Mmmm mmm gooooood!

Great zeus...

I've just spent the past 3.5 hours restoring my lil 'puter. It burped and told me it couldn't find a system file, so I just did the restore from the system disk. (First time I've done that on a computer. Thank Og my sister gave me that external DVD drive for Christmas, and that it WORKED! I lost a few things, nothing too important. I'd backed up most anything I wanted to save. And honestly, I was thinking about going through and doing this anyway, though RIGHT AFTER I'd done a backup, in a CONTROLLED manner. Oh well, as something I read the other day said, my Higher Self made the computer make the decision for me. Or something. Anyway, so far, so good.

Task list

Wash curtains that Jasper pulled down by lying on the hem and rolling. -- check

Curse poor bracket mounting skill that caused curtains to be so poorly mounted that they'd fall so easily -- check

Try to figure out how to re-mount the curtain brackets without making a big ass hole in the wall -- check

Hang out in chat room reading/talking about Teh Dramaz -- check

Suffer eye strain from excessive eye-rolling at people who have nothing better to do than cause issues -- check

So how was YOUR Sunday??

The next project

I've started CeCe, the Bonne Marie Burns (ChicKnits) pattern.  I've got about 7" done so far.  I'll have to write out all the steps for the front shaping, because I'm a moron who can't do that stuff in my head.

My little laptop is a godsend for stuff like this.  When I start a new project, I open up a Notepad file and just make notes there.  Because I also can't remember anything anymore.  When I'm not doing something else, I ALWAYS have my Eee PC handy, so it works better for me than a notebook did.  I always misplace notebooks.

In other news, we watched Cloverfield today.  I think I'm now spoiled for monster  movies, because I'll always be thinking of the poor schmucks on the ground.  :(  

We also watched some of the extras.  When they talked about the Cloverfield monster being a baby, I immediately thought of Gorgo.  Anybody else remember that one?

Saturday is Distaff Day at the Peachtree Handspinners Guild.  Hope to see lots of the local spinners there!