Update-ish thingie
We have tickets to Can't Stop the Serenity on Saturday (benefitting Equality Now). It's their fifth anniversary, and we've attended for at least three of the previous ones. This time we've decided to re-watch Firefly first -- got through "Serenity" yesterday, which had some great bits I had forgotten about, including Mal saying "I'm a bad man". Tonight we'll have "The Train Job", which is one of my favorite episodes. I love that Inara, not Shepherd Book, is the respectable one.
We've had over 12" of rain in the past 36 hrs, and in the last hour we got another inch or so. I went out to the grocery during a break in the rain earlier today, and when I opened the garage door coming home, earthworms rained from the bottom edge of the door. I knew you'd want to share that gross-out moment. =P Our pool pump isn't working, but my pool guy thinks it was probably submerged in standing water last night and should be ok when it dries out. I'm grateful that the pool overflowed into our overgrown and messy back yard, and not the other way around. Pool Guy says he has a customer whose pool was the high point on the property, so when it overflowed the entire front and side yards became part of the pool and washed all sorts of crud into it. I'm also grateful to last year's roofers, because none of the 13" of rain has ended up in my front room.
Fandom-wise, Sherlock owns my heart lately. (There's no danger of me writing for it, though, because I'm thoroughly American and increasingly Texan, and I'd just make them sound like a bad Douglas Adams ripoff.) I've designed a sock pattern based on Watson's sweater, and it seems likely that I'll actually manage to publish the pattern (unlike others I've created, which languish at 75% written up). You can follow my progress and the Watson sock's outings over on my knitting blog.
I just got The America's Test Kitchen Healthy Family Cookbook, and I'm hoping that with the hint of cooler weather I'll actually do some cooking (we'll be back up to 97F this weekend, though, and won't get autumn weather for another 2 months or so).
I'm playing WoW a bit more seriously than usual lately. For the first time, I'm raiding a few times a week, using Frosts as fast as I get them, and I broke down and installed GearScore despite my philosophical objections. So there's been less knitting and less tv-watching, which my lap cat is not in favor of.
Good thing: football season starts Sunday! Bad thing: the Redskins season opener is against the Cowboys. We have a new coach and a new quarterback, though, so I spent the money for the NFL season ticket. I plan to knit and watch... that way, even if we suck as badly as last year, at least I get knitting time and nice finished objects out of it. Also, queso. Chips and salsa and queso and seasonal hatch chile pepper sauce are on my agenda for Sunday.
We've had over 12" of rain in the past 36 hrs, and in the last hour we got another inch or so. I went out to the grocery during a break in the rain earlier today, and when I opened the garage door coming home, earthworms rained from the bottom edge of the door. I knew you'd want to share that gross-out moment. =P Our pool pump isn't working, but my pool guy thinks it was probably submerged in standing water last night and should be ok when it dries out. I'm grateful that the pool overflowed into our overgrown and messy back yard, and not the other way around. Pool Guy says he has a customer whose pool was the high point on the property, so when it overflowed the entire front and side yards became part of the pool and washed all sorts of crud into it. I'm also grateful to last year's roofers, because none of the 13" of rain has ended up in my front room.
Fandom-wise, Sherlock owns my heart lately. (There's no danger of me writing for it, though, because I'm thoroughly American and increasingly Texan, and I'd just make them sound like a bad Douglas Adams ripoff.) I've designed a sock pattern based on Watson's sweater, and it seems likely that I'll actually manage to publish the pattern (unlike others I've created, which languish at 75% written up). You can follow my progress and the Watson sock's outings over on my knitting blog.
I just got The America's Test Kitchen Healthy Family Cookbook, and I'm hoping that with the hint of cooler weather I'll actually do some cooking (we'll be back up to 97F this weekend, though, and won't get autumn weather for another 2 months or so).
I'm playing WoW a bit more seriously than usual lately. For the first time, I'm raiding a few times a week, using Frosts as fast as I get them, and I broke down and installed GearScore despite my philosophical objections. So there's been less knitting and less tv-watching, which my lap cat is not in favor of.
Good thing: football season starts Sunday! Bad thing: the Redskins season opener is against the Cowboys. We have a new coach and a new quarterback, though, so I spent the money for the NFL season ticket. I plan to knit and watch... that way, even if we suck as badly as last year, at least I get knitting time and nice finished objects out of it. Also, queso. Chips and salsa and queso and seasonal hatch chile pepper sauce are on my agenda for Sunday.