My mother and I decided to set the twist in our stash of unset handspun. I had two skeins and she hand three, and they’re currently almost dry on the fence in the backyard. This inspired me to do a little blocking of the sweater that I’ve been dreading for some weeks.
And you know, I let it soak for a long time, and I have it laid out on our blocking mat and, by gum, I actually kind of like this sweater now. I was able to sort of mold the neck line into a slightly more appealing shape, and with luck, it will be a good sweater. It’ll be a couple of days before it’s dry, and hopefully it’ll soften up a bit (as this yarn typically does.)
In other knitting related news, I’ve begun reknitting the sleeve that we ripped out yesterday. It was cathartic, but not as much as I would have liked. And I have a lot of knitting to do to catch up with myself. Sigh.
In other knitting news (look folks, a whole post with only one topic!) my mother has set a project goal with herself: she’s going to make ten pairs of socks before she starts on any more lace or sweater projects. Well, she’s already started the first two pairs of socks, so eight more to go, and she expects this little endeavor to take until June.
Because she’s recalcitrant and doesn’t have (or want) a blog of her own, I’m going to be posting entries with updates of her projects whenever she sends me pictures. Because, you know, I can, and it seems cool.
I’m sort of making my own knitting goals. Finish the projects that are currently in progress. Knit from stash. Never have more than one sweater on the needles at once, or if you do, don’t have two color work or two plain sweaters in progress at the same time. Less interesting perhaps, but I think they’ll add a bit of much needed structure to my life.
Structure here I come! Onward and Upward!
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I still don’t know anything about graduate school.
I still need to find more regular employment.
I still need to do more work on tealart, and write in a more focused way.
But, I got into Knitting Camp this year. And not only that, I got into camp 3. Which is super cool, because not only is my Camp Roomate/Buddy going to be there (obviously,) knitting mentor R, and others that I’m looking forward to meeting. There are, by my count going to be 4 men-folk at this camp (counting myself), which seems pretty cool.
I am, of course, quite excited.
Also, happy leap day. Lets ignore the fact that just yesterday, in a moment of brain-hiccup, I said, “good thing it’s not a leap year, because it’s ‘06.”
Sigh.
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- My comptuer was anoying all morning. On the upside I now have a new torchwood episode to watch.
- Dose anyone else know if XTorrent is particularly unstable on PowerPCs? Because it’s comically bad on my computer. I know there are other programs that I could use, my logic in using this one isn’t good admittedly. Just wondering.
- I did some playing around with R last night. I like it. I’m not sure if my failure to grok properly is the result of having a pretty elementary understanding of statistics, or the fact that I have a pretty elementary understanding of programing. Or the fact that, by all accounts the documentation seeems to be written by a non-native speaker, which might be complicating problems 1 and 2. But it’s very cool, and I sort of get it.
- I’m thinking of running some sort of basic study this spring/summer on my own using some publicly available content as data. Like newsgroup postings or some such. With the hopes of being able to understand these tools in time for next year, and hopefully I’ll get something good out of it.
- My turn to looking at these statistics programs and what not, I’ve gotten back to reading about object oriented programing and smalltalk, as it’s at least a little relevant, which I enjoy because it inspires a way of logical thinking which I don’t get to spend very much time in. And that’s inspiring in it’s own way.
- Not much knitting or writing news, alas. Still haven’t written the sleeve, and I had work and dancing last night and I have something this morning before work, so not much opportunity there, and I’ve spent what time I have writing this note to you.
- No grad school news.
Onward and Upward!
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In lieu of actually making a podcast, I’m going to list a few songs that I’ve been listening to a lot on repeat over the past couple of weeks. Because you know, I can. In no particular order
- Fiest - Mushaboom
- Linda Thompson - Versatile Heart
- Richard and Linda Thompson - Dimming of the Day
- Richard Thompson - One Door Opens
- Jorma Kaukonen - Stars in my Crown
- Linda Thompson - Katy Cruel
- Kitka - Subrali Sa Se Subrali
- Kitka - Pustono Ludo I Mlado
- Richard Thompson - The Old Changing Way
- La Bouttiine Souriane - Le Zigezon (The Sunspot Song)
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It’s been days since I wrote a journal entry. This reflex to blathering about my life is a sickness.
On the up side I’ve started writing more things that are, not this kind of entry on my own, so that’s an improvement. At the same time, I’m having a hard time conceptually holding together the argument for an essay for any length of time. Maybe I’m just out of practice. Anyway, this concentration/focus/mental discipline issue is something I need to spend some time on.
Perhaps it’s a good thing that I’m not really successful at trying to write fiction at the moment; I think that I would really be displeased with the results.
I wrote a knitting pattern yesterday. For a toe-up sock. This is my basic “easy/mindless” sock, and I really like the way that it turns out, so it’s good that I’ve been able to write this sort of pattern out for the general good. I plan to do some layout/production work, and get it up on the tealArt site. Woot. There are other knitting related writing projects that I’d like to get more finished so I can queue them up.
I’ve also begun to make it possible for me to post entries to tychoish.com that won’t get cross-posed to my live-journal. I think some rants and what not are better kept off live-journal, and I think modularity is a good thing in this regard.
I just did my taxes. That was both easy and impressively uninspiring all at the same time. Feh.
I think I’m going to wait till I hear (good news) from (a) graduate school(s) to make the new computer order. It’s reasonable, it’s not that long, I don’t think I’ll regret anything. I’m really, surprisingly conflicted about this, because it feels like a luxury and not a need thing. Zoe–current computer–was a luxury as well: my mum needed a computer for work and it made sense at the time for her to take my 12″ g4 iBook (which remains a very good/useable machine) and me to get the PowerBook. It wasn’t a necessary upgrade, but I had a really good justification.
Ok, I’m cutting the rest of the blather about the computer to below the fold, because, that just seems reasonable. There’s not much else for me to report, really. I’ll be in touch. You be too!
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Here’s an entry where I dither on about the pros and cons of upgrading the computer system.
Mostly it’s kind of boring, except if you want to know what runs through my head when ever I make a decision of any sort.
If that’s the case, I pity you.
Continue reading Pros and Cons
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