Nope, no excuses. Not a one. It's been over a week since my last post, and hey, it happens. Now, if I could just ignore that guilty feeling. ;)

It sure was a week and a bit of good sleep, though, because I got back onto anti-cholesterol pills, and apparently the side affect I get is longer sleeping hours. But oy, the price. $51.49 for a month. Which ( Read more... )

Yes, well, I told you, didn't I? And they laughed when I sat down to play!

102 Tuesday, 98 Wednesday, all the way down to, gasp, 88 on Thursday. During the wee hours of this morning I let Biteme perform some housekeeping I didn't dare let it do while it was so hot, lest the CPUs burn out. You know, minor little details like virus checks and so forth ( Read more... )

So I'm waking up in my usual leisurely fashion this morning... Ok, 'morning' is a slippery concept to define around here. To other people. I find it perfectly logical. My definition of 'morning' being the following: whenever I wake up, it's morning. See? Simple. Moving along now.

I have never been one of those people who rocket out of bed, unless I ( Read more... )

That utterance being in relation to more than one event.

1. The new Tricoteuses Sans Frontières/Knitters Without Borders donation total, through December 24, 2006:

$320,093

I repeat - holy shit!

And then Steph's laptop died, and things got most interesting for her, and we may have to wait a while before a further update. But, please note, that's only ( Read more... )

(Belated Hi! to the other Anonymous - i.e., not Marianne - who posted a comment about my stitch marker post. There's a reply comment back there, if you ever come back, Anonymous, and thank you!)

That's what I did, or didn't do, rather, all Friday and Saturday. Not a bloody thing, unless you want to count bouncing around reading and commenting on ( Read more... )

You've likely already realized this, but...if you haven't seen any new posts from your favorite bloggers living up in the PNW? They probably haven't had power restored after the storm yet.

Lest you wonder why it's taking so long when we don't have snow to contend with over a large part of the area, it's 'cause we aren't that thickly clustered. A ( Read more... )

Good deeds first, as I want people to see this. So it'll be a while before the "Read More" note appears. ;)

Stephanie, the Yarn Harlot, has an excellent charity competition for this Yuletide season.

After the tsunami last December, she had a competition to see how much a whack of knitters (her term, which I love ) could raise for a special group of ( Read more... )

Odds 'n sods here, because that's what's going on. As in, not much. ;)

So, last night soon after I woke up, all the floodgates of heaven opened and we had a real downpour. And I mean it. I live up here, don't I? Well, I've rarely seen - heard, rather - rain coming down this hard. It sounded like a hailstorm, but was only water. Lasted close to 10 ( Read more... )

Among other holiday seasonal-type things, I'm declaring a moratorium for myself, so as to actually enjoy this time of year. (Warning - bit of a lengthy rant here first, so you might wanna skip down to the weather and socks bit. If so, keep scrolling.)

See, I Listen to people. Specifically, I tend to Listen to a lot of troubles. Yes, that is ( Read more... )

Well, as the title says...yesterday was Interesting, here in PDX. In fact, I re-wrote practically my entire post for the day, due to Breaking News last night.

But first...Have I got a deal for you!

Ok, it's not actually me. Not affiliated, yadda yadda, in case you've forgotten the NAYY acronym and all that. But if you're a fiber freak, boy, Deb at ( Read more... )