MY LIFE

If this looks a little weird, please bear with me.   I am “playing under the hood”, getting the blog set up for 2007.    

I dunno… I’m feeling sort of ambivalent about something today.
Most of you know that Knitivity was largely started (in tangible form, anyway) as a direct result of Hurricane Katrina — what the storm and levee failure did to the city, to my psyche, to my work situation, and so many other things at a personal [...]

This afternoon I watched (on CNN) the first of several memorials for former President Gerald R. Ford.  It was a dignified and private family service, for Mrs. Ford, their children and a small number of invited guests.   The service itself was not televised, although there were cameras both inside and outside the church were Mr. [...]

This morning I went to market to mail out another package of yarn (”Happy, happy, joy, joy”) and to pick up some coffee and bananas, and discovered a pile of luscious cantelopes on sale (”Happy, happy, joy, joy”), and on the way home passed by the local strip mall to discover the “For Lease” sign [...]

I think it is HILARIOUS, but before I go printing it up on T-shirts, what do you think?

It says (in Braille)  “read me like an open book”.  It’s the kind of T-shirt someone of a flirtatious bent might wear to the nightclubs, y’know?
Whattaya think?   Would YOU wear one?  Do you know someone who would?

The Glow-in-the-Dark Jogger’s Cap!

The “white” band isn’t really “white” but a nylon glow-in-the-dark filament yarn, knit double-stranded to retain and give off more light.  Very cool, huh?  More info over at Knitterman with additional info coming tomorrow over there.
Now I need to write up some good marketing material, and come up with a market-worthy price.   [...]

Tomorrow evening I am going to visit with my granddaughter to begin teaching her how to knit.  Her older cousin got to learn how to use my knitting machine, but I think this one (just turned 6 y.o. last week) will do better first learning on regular needles first.
I walked down to Wal*Mart (I know, [...]

Today is Wednesday, the day of trash collection on my street.  I cinched down my large green bag of garbage, dropped it into my trash can and took the can to the street.  I noticed most of the neighbors had done this, too.
But what I noticed more was that my one big bag of trash [...]

wow!  after watching a bunch of movies, I went to bed around 10:00, but woke again just after 3:00.   Geez.   Well, I was wide awake, my brain was racing around inventing all sorts of projects, so I got up, did my regular email and online bookmarks routine for about an hour and a quarter, then [...]

Yesterday I was griping about how hard it was to get started on my shawl project. After thinking about it, I realized what I needed — a foundation! So I made a foundation, added some ravel cord and used that to get started. It looked like a little stem at [...]

Okay, so here i sit, committed to watching a “Dirty Jobs” marathon on the Discovery Channel while attempting to use up a pile of fingering into a shawl — simply because

It is c-c-c-cold outside
It is wwaarrrrmmmmm inside
I haven’t done any “personal” knitting in ages

That’s all well and good, EXCEPT that it is virtually IMPOSSIBLE to [...]

I do NOT like fireworks.  I like them even less when children are lighting them off across the street, disturbing the peace.   God DAMN those little fuckers, every single one of them!   How DARE they make such noise ALL THE GODDAMNED FUCKING DAY!   Have they no constructive hobbies? Have they no chores to perform?  Have [...]

muddling through my Secret Project (the main one), I find myself STUCK.   The pic I showed in the last post included the really cool split-mandala looking feature in the middle.  After felting I realize that even though that is very cool looking, it is very not-going-to-work.
And I am stuck on a geometry math problem.  I [...]

Okay, so here comes the holiday weekend — all the hustle and bustle, people traveling, getting stranded, malls packed with last-minute shoppers, and blah blah blah.
Since I have no special plans, I don’t have to mess with any of it!
I’m continuing with the Secret Project.
Can you tell what it is?   I especially like [...]

Winter begins this evening
The precise moment of the 2006 solstice will be December 21, 2006 at 7:22 P.M. EST (Dec. 22, 00:22 UT).  (according to the almanac)
and tomorrow begins the Sun’s Procession back to the North, increasing the length of our daylight hours.  if you do a search on “Winter Solstice” you can begin a [...]

I wrote a nice post this morning, and the system ate it up, all gone bye bye.  Poop!   I wonder where it went?

One week from today will be the observance of Christmas Day here in the U.S.
I have a load of lace and sock yarns to sell, but since none of my current eBay auctions are attracting bids, and all my auctions that ended yesterday didn’t even get a nibble (i.e., “no income”), I am debating the [...]

It sucks when you have a truly genius idea — so brilliant it astounds even you — and you begin to research the possibilities only to discover that every other brilliant person in your field has already thought of it and implemented it.   DAMN that sucks!
Fortunately, even though I am disappointed that the idea is [...]

Okay, I’m working on a SECRET PROJECT (which should probably be noted over on KnitterMan instead of here), and part of that project requires that I make felt samples, measure it all carefully, and do everything I can possibly do to make sure I can create and repeat the SECRET PROJECT.
So I cast on (machine) [...]