So it wasn't my birthday, but evannichols's 51st on Saturday. There was very yummy breakfast-eating at Slappy Cakes, kilt wearing (him, not me), a wander around the beautiful campus of his alma mater, Lewis & Clark College, and then being taken out to birthday sushi by
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It's been a challenging couple of weeks. Work continues to be a variety of things, including disheartening and perhaps a short-term environment for me after all. More details in a day or so in a non-public environment, just in case ( Read more... )

I've been working on a couple of knitting projects, and hadn't really posted about them or shown photos. I did borrow evannichols's camera and finally took some pictures, now below the cut:
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So Jen came down on Saturday from Vancouver, WA- this is my dear friend that I stayed with in Eugene my first days back in Oregon. She's just relocated across the river from Portland, so we'll get to see each other on a much more regular basis- and using the bus systems, it costs $4.55 one way. Not bad! :D We did a lot of lounging, much ( Read more... )

I've been writing some about this potential new career to do with getting involved with the aging/retirement community, the upcoming approach of the large Baby Boomer generation in this, and my personal desires and drives to be doing something fulfilling and that is an intuitive use of my skills. Yesterday I had an information-gathering meeting ( Read more... )

I don't think I've posted this many pictures since my trip to England last summer! But both of my cardigans are completely finished now, with buttons and everything, so I thought I'd post pictures. I think I mentioned that I'm working on this Mystery 1980s Cardigan™ that my grandmother was working on a few years ago and frankly, neither she nor ( Read more... )

I finished the knitted sugar-glider and gave it to my stepsister's daughter Dahlen on Sunday. Here are 3 pics of the finished item, by itself and with me and the recipient.
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I'll need to take a couple of new pictures of my spring openwork sweater project, the one I started back in [cough] 2004 and had about 3/4 done and then totally dismantled and started over. I've completed the front and back and am now working on the sleeves. I've been spending some time at my account at Ravelry, updating pictures and projects and ( Read more... )

This is a gift for all of the Ron/Draco people on my flist: I'd mentioned over in sexyscholar's LJ that I'd found a gorgeous picture that looked like Ron/Draco to me. At long last, I've scanned said picture and will soon be making an icon out of it. In the meantime, here's the picture! It's from a manga called "Lies and Kisses" by Masara Minase. In the manga ( Read more... )