nerd knits

I’ve been living in Colorado for twelve years now, so seeing this out my window on October 29th doesn’t surprise me.

Really, the only surprising thing is that it came two days early – usually, we get our first measurable snow of the season on Halloween.
Of course, this one was a bit more measurable than our [...]

Yanno, it’s hard to blog when:

You have no time to knit.
Your parents are in town, so you have even less time to knit.
What precious little knitting time you squeak in is devoted to a stealth project.

Really, I’m going to get this blogging thing down one of these days.
Things are still pretty awesome, for the most [...]

Greetings, my lovely friends!  I am so glad that you’re all here, and I’m glad that I’m here too.
My, what a ride it’s been these last few weeks!
I have now been in my new position for three weeks, and I’ve got to tell you…I love it.  Unreservedly, without a doubt, I love it.
That’s never happened [...]

I have a blog?
Dude…where did this come from?
So, uh, yeah…sorry about the interruption of service.  It appears that the server had a “catastrophic hardware malfunction” (I love how computer nerds always make it sound like shit’s blowing up) which resulted in my blog going down for several weeks.  No, no, nothing terrible happened to me.
Actually, [...]

So, do you remember me talking about that job that I interviewed for, that sounded really, really perfect and that I really, really wanted?
After three interviews, three computer literacy tests, and a lot of fretting, I got a call this afternoon.
I got the job!
Huzzah!
I still say “do not blog about work,” but I will tell [...]

Sorry, no coherent blog post tonight.  I had to go listen to some nerdy guys sing some songs.

(That would be Jonathan Coulton, flanked by Paul and Storm, in case you don’t know.  And you should.)
It was a good time.  I won a pack of Pop Tarts, then managed to knock over my drink into my [...]

As in, the fork has been stuck in it.

It’s not done done…I still need to block it and put the fringe on it (and, frankly, the fringe is one of the best parts) but the knitting is done.  I was feeling a little bad about my lack of progress over the weekend, so I buckled [...]

Well, PictureFail, really.  I mean, here I am, I’m blogging, so it’s not a total fail.  But there are no pictures, because I’ve been lazy busy, so it’s a little bit of a fail.
Mom’s scarf is up to 29 inches, which is a little short of where I’d hoped to be by this time.  I [...]

Hello, lovely people.  Isn’t it a lovely day?  I’ve done some lovely knitting, and some lovely spinning, and took a lovely bike ride, and had a lovely salad (with walnuts and bleu cheese) for dinner, prepared by my lovely husband.  I snuggled with my lovely cats, read many lovely blogs, looked through some lovely Sock [...]

Benign.
Wait, let me say that again.
Benign.
Is there any word more glorious in the English language?
I’ve been held in this horrible, lightless limbo for so long, and it’s such a relief to finally see sunlight.
And, really, it’s still not really over.  There’s still the unidentified mass on my ovary, still the mystery of the periods every [...]