Okay, Back to work....
*sigh* back to work today. I had a lovely week off. The weather was beautiful most days, and just average the rest. I got caught off guard by some 70+ temps, but it was so nice to be able to open the windows at home for the day. The cats loved it, too.
I read several books, drove up to DC for a day to visit some friends from college, ran some errands, slept in, played a fair amount of Warcraft (I'm grinding out my Sporeggar rep, and have only 2 more naga runs to do before I get a shiny new dagger), etc., etc. Happy vacation-y things.
Oh, and speaking of Warcraft, I was made GM of my 19-person guild. Oh, the power!!! :) I'm thinking of starting an alt, just so I can try and boost membership. Haven't seen many 60+ players who want a guild that nearly half alts. (Yes, my solution to over alt-ness to to add my own alt to the guild. I win at guild management.)
Didn't get much knitting done. I was all excited about a pair of kneesocks from the new Knitty (here), but first I had trouble finding yarn (I finally broke down and went to the snooty yarn shop), and then when I started really working through the pattern I ran into all sorts of issues. I need to sit down this week and take an hour or two to "unvent" part of it so it makes more sense. (Why, for example, would the pattern writer tell you to add extra stitches if your calves are bigger than the pattern allows for, but then not mention how to incorporate those extra stitches into the pattern? I can guess, but I shouldn't have to. My average-sized legs and I are annoyed.)
I read Trudy Canavan's Black Magician series. It was interesting, fairly engaging, fairly entertaining, but only okay at the end. I would've given it a 7.5, but the last 10 pages really dropped it down to a 6 (the cliche death and the really, really stupid explanation for the plot development in the epilogue ruined it).
Oh, and what the hell is up with cover art these days? Do the artists not read the book anymore? Or is it just a natural assumption that any female magic-user must be scantilly clad, and any male magic-user has a white beard?