“Freedom is measured by the distance between church and state”
I was provided this link today as part of a ‘campaign’ to quit farting around with all those damned recorded “customer service” telephone computerized answering systems. According to this GET HUMAN list you just find your company (if it is on the list) and follow the instructions to get to a real human being more [...]
for just a few minutes….. winding yarns, sorting packages, thinking hard …. giving me a migraine. Lying on the floor didn’t help much, either. poop!
The world is as it should be at this moment, which is NOT to say it will always be like this. It just means that today is the only logical, rational, [...]
The Anatomical FootSock yarn pack is now available for sale! Click on the picture to find the ordering page!
took a walk to the market for a few things …. wasn’t even halfway there before something took a hitch in the lower spinal area. Holy Crap!!!! And then it went down hill from there. I don’t think there is a bone or joint in my body that isn’t hurting somehow. I was supposed to [...]
I posted a picture and discussion of the Amazing Anatomical TGIF FootSock over at the Knitterman blog, and now I’m writing up the instructions for its use and preparing to create the yarn packs for it.
well, not really. Today is SUNday, but you wouldn’t know it by looking out my window!
That’s okay.
My body is sore from mowing the lawn yesterday, but not debilitatingly sore. Last night when my boys came by, the younger one decided he wanted to try the push mower on the little patch of GGS in the [...]
hmph. It’s been two weeks since my last mowing. I figured it would be good to mow the tiny patch of front “lawn” — at this point in my life, if it’s green and growing I’ll just mow it over, I don’t care if it is “grass” or “weed” or whatever. It holds the dirt [...]
(okay, all together now… “Hi, Ray!”)
Sleep is been weird this week (but some interesting dreams along the way), and I’ve been operating at a lowered level of energy this week. Overcast skies aren’t helping.
BUT … I’m just about the start the toe of the second (revised) Anatomical FootSock for creating the kit. I want the [...]
It is a bright sunshining morning so far, although scattered clouds come and go through the day.
I am looking for colors on the Web, and I’m not finding what I want. I will always have bold (shocking?) sock yarns, but I am leaning toward fruit ices and fruit teas. I especially want to [...]
A certain percentage of the population has experienced an ice cream headache, or “brain freeze”, cause by the rapid dilation of blood vessels in the head after eating or drinking something very cold. Actually the cold stuff causes things to constrict, and the body senses that suddenly constriction and overcompensates by trying to expand or [...]
Check out this from C.Ray Nagin, the Mayor of New Orleans, in his latest public display of idiocy:
Nagin Suspects a Plot To Keep Blacks Away
I can’t believe he continues to spew such racist bullshit as this. He seems to believe there is actually some conspiracy to disperse the black population into small pockets to prevent [...]
Hmph. woke around 1:15 bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, thinking and feeling like it HAD to be at LEAST 3:30 or maybe later, and my mind was all a-racing to find a crochet pattern to whip up a cute little shamrock pin for my daughter. I have gobs and gobs of Elf Green yarn [...]
“Fancy Pants”
These are the first-shot soakers I made for my grandson, discussed more over at Knitterman. Isn’t it cute?
As I was reading through the evening prayer service for today, I could feel my hackles rise at the Opening Sentence:
I will bless the Lord who gives me counsel; my heart teaches me, night after night. I have set the Lord always before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not fall. [...]
I mentioned a while back that i’d be starting to use Louet Gems yarns. I finally got my sample kit and order forms and so forth. Yesterday I got a call from a credit card company, asking if I had made a particular purchase. In particular there were a series of purchases charged to my [...]
Now, THIS is a cool story!
Vy Higginsen - Marion West - Genetic Testing - New York Times
At a Harlem Reunion, a Rancher From Missouri Meets His ‘DNA Cousins’
This is one of untold thousand stories that could be told. We’re all made of the same stuff and we all have bits of everything in us. [...]
This article: Katrina evacuees weigh return to public housing pisses me off at several levels. This quote, from the middle of it, speaks volumes:
About 100 people attended the meeting at the George R. Brown Convention Center, where many displaced residents were housed immediately after Hurricane Katrina struck in August 2005. They were [...]
ugh! For a week or longer I’ve awakened each day with a sort of stuffiness in my head, along with intermittent itchiness and sneezing. This morning it was particularly bad (and being awakened through the night with obnoxious thunderstorms didn’t help), so I finally took a diphenhydramine (antihistamine) capsule. Just one.
And now I want to [...]
I am sitting under a gloomy gray rainy sky, and could easily fall into my normal gray-day funk, but I have done VERY well in sales today. What keeps me from turning cartwheels is knowing that such days are few and far between; I am looking forward to increasing sales so that today’s figures becomes [...]
My ‘baby’ sister turns FORTY today. I did that 12 years ago. And I still remember what I did to mark that day. NOTHING! Well, not totally ‘nothing’. I took myself to Lafitte’s to play pool, but there was nobody there so I played a couple rounds of pool by myself. A cute guy tried [...]
