Mental Suitcase

Friday, 18 July 2008, 17:07 | Category : Cyberspace Life
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Can you hand me my bikini, please?  It’s the one with the purple flowers on it.
I’m taking a bit of a blog vacation, folks.  I know, I know…I haven’t really been back long enough to warrant a vacation.  I’m taking one anyway.  Truth is, I’ve got a writing project I want to work on, and [...]

Revelations

Monday, 14 July 2008, 18:49 | Category : Meatspace Life
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Two things.
1. I have a lot of anxious dreams. Usually, they’re claustrophobic dreams. I’ll be in a public place – often a mall, sometimes a school building – and I’ll be looking for an exit. I’m wandering around, and the ceiling is getting lower and lower. I’m stooping, crouching, crawling, [...]

Weekly Spinning: Week 8 (and weeks 6 and 7, for that matter)

Thursday, 10 July 2008, 19:37 | Category : Meatspace Life, Spinning, Weekly Spinning
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Still spinning along on this strange, strange pencil roving. I really wish I could remember what it is. My inclination at this point is to turn it into a “true” three-ply, mostly because I’ve never made a three-ply before – I’ve Navajo plied, but never plied three singles together. Whatever I do, [...]

When Good Socks Go Bad

Tuesday, 8 July 2008, 18:03 | Category : Socks
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It started off, like almost all socks do, as a good, sweet, innocent sock. It was to be a simple sock, a sock to carry with me, a sock that didn’t need a pattern. It was to be stockinette. You can’t get much more simple than stockinette.
Since the last time I knit [...]

Ping!

Monday, 7 July 2008, 17:26 | Category : Gardening?, Moss Grid Hand Towels, Socks
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Apologies for the radio silence – I had a nasty bout of the flu last week, and spent nearly all of my free time sleeping. I did manage to get my spinning in on Wednesday night, and I did (mostly) recover in time to have a wonderful weekend, full of movies, Mexican food, putt [...]