nerd knits

Have fun, be safe, and by God, let’s get this year OVER WITH.

1.  As taught by one of the opening bands: I really hate reggae.
2.  I’m not willing to pay $42 to get drunk on beer.
3.  Flogging Molly puts on an awesome, awesome show.
4.  Flogging Molly’s fans are insane.
5.  At a Flogging Molly show, the pit is everywhere.
6.  My very wonderful, very large husband is very good [...]

It is good to have a husband who loves you.
It is better to have a husband who listens to you when you go on (and on and on) about knitting and spinning.
It is the best to have a friend who can answer desperate e-mails from your husband asking “what is the name of that thing [...]

The Christmas knitting is finished, the presents are wrapped, and Bradon and I are settling down for a cozy night on slaughtering Alliance scum.  I’ll be away from the blog until Monday, as I spend the next few days navigating the inlaws, opening presents, drinking too much, and praying that we don’t drive off a [...]

As I was driving home from work today, I passed a car that had its trunk bungee-corded closed around a larger-than-life-size plaster goat.  Someone’s going to have a hell of a surprise under the tree this year.
This, naturally, reminded me of one of my favorite stories:  Lo, these many years ago, when I was eighteen [...]

It occurs to me that it is not, in fact, the fiddly fingers that make knitting gloves a bit tedious.

It’s the bajillion ends.  Sure, it’s not the most ends-laden project I’ve ever knit, but that’s a lot of ends for such a little piece of knitting…especially considering that there are two of them.

No time to post…late to a Chrismahanakwaanziyulica Party.  Have a great weekend!

Despite the bitching and moaning last week, I did sit down and spin.  In fact, I pushed myself and finally finished the silk singles.  I felt terrible, because the silk is lovely and soft, but I was so very done with it.
So I was pleased to start plying tonight.  We popped in The Gods Must [...]

1.  If someone thinks you are an idiot, arguing incessantly with them about how you’re not an idiot will only prove their point.
2.  If you ask for honest opinions, do not be surprised when you receive them.
3.  People disagree with you.  Get over it.
4.  If you cannot get over it and whine about people disagreeing [...]

I awoke at 4:00 this morning to the sound of our apartment building’s fire alarm going off.
It was not the annoying-but-bearable screeching of our smoke detector, with which we are intimately familiar since it goes off every time Bradon puts anything in the oven, which has nothing to do with his cooking and everything to [...]