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I never drink water; that is the stuff that rusts pipes.
~W. C. Fields

Tuesday, February 17th, seemed pretty normal for most of the day. Shmoo got home about 15 minutes before me, grabbed the dog and took her out back to potty. When he got downstairs, there was water ( Read more... )

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So.. it snowed a lot in D.C. this past weekend. LIke.. 3 feet or so.

Check this time lapse someone did of all the snow.

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This past weekend was also shmoocon. Which I wasn’t attending this year, but shmoo was going to, until he had to cover for people not showing up to work ( Read more... )

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Seriously. It’s been a hard month.

Daisy is fine btw, still some left side weakness but expected to recover fully. Her staples are out and she’s going to have a small scar, but that’s ok. It seems like you shouldn’t come through something like that without a scar.

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(stay until your love is….) Sorry…. couldn’t resist Simple Minds.

I’d like to have the time to post about how I feel now that I am officially in my mid-to-late 30s… (I hit 35 on black friday!)
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So, like.. it’s cold. Fall is definitively here and I just want to say, I’d like a little more of cool late summer back please!

Vacation was good and much needed.

I got yarn.


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First, I promised a picture of the Shmocks.


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That pretty much sums up my knitting life. :)

I did cast on for Kate Gilbert’s Syncopated Caps from IK Summer 07.


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So, it didn’t suck this year. At least not for me. Admittedly my take on it isn’t the normal geek attendee experience, but I have been for 3 of the 4 years it’s been held, and volunteered all 3 of those years, so I figure I get to have an opinion. And my opinion is, it didn’t ( Read more... )