ok, so, i'm reading my book during dinner, and the narrator mentions that when he was a kid, his dad served some brief time for trading securities without a license, and now when they go to big family reunions, other relatives who also did time like to talk about it - the guy who held up gas stations, the roughneck who used to get into fights between oil drilling jobs on the gulf.
no doubt you can guess exactly where my mind went. :D
i read that line in the book and a tiny voice piped up "oh, hi, rodney". and then "i have to tell wren that...." especially since the book is also set in houston. :D
and then it occurred to me that everything that doesn't come back to the winchesters comes back to john&rodney (but not that john&rodney). i blame you.
I made our own dinner and it was average at best. Making your own dinner is highly overrated. I think you should get pizza. Or maybe Thai. I want cookies.
Mmmm, hamburger. I should get some so we can BBQ them this weekend. Yum. Tonight I'm craving a big sub sandwich on a toasted roll, maybe chicken parm with some mozzarella cheese and good sauce. Mmmmmmmmm.
I'm home, with no plans but knitting gauge swatches. So if you wanna call and babble about writing (though it might make cbpotts yell at me), I'd be thrilled.
Do you have my number? I think you do. If not, ping me and I'll share it.
*knitknitknit* why would cb yell at you for listening to someone else's babble? and what's a gauge switch? (and why did it take me three tries to spell it right?) and now i'm completely discombobulated because i left my glasses at work so i'm wearing my sunglasses so i can see (don't ask), but thank you for offering to be an ear.
Well, CB would yell at me for being involved in process when I'm not myself writing. Her rule, to me, is "No Process for You!" if the writing isn't happening. And since I'm currently in a writing dry spell (ha... I'm in a writing desert), she'd yell at me for geeking about process.
Gauge swatches are small bits of knit fabric created to figure out the measurements you are getting with your particular yarn and needle combination. Each knitting pattern has a suggested gauge on it, measured in stitches to the inch. The goal is to be knitting at the same number of stitches to the inch as is the suggested gauge so that your knitted object comes out the correct size (rather than too big (too few stitches to the inch) or too small (too many stitches to the inch)). For things such as the Daleks, the Adipose, afghans, and other non-fitted objects, gauge doesn't really matter. For a sweater, such as the one I'm about to start knitting, gauge is key.
(and that's probably *way* more information than you were seeking about gauge swatching.)
so it's not really "no process for you!" as much as it's "no one else's process for you!" hee, tho. (i'm trying to picture her saying that in a stern commander type voice and it's cracking me up.)
dude, i know nothing about knitting, so any info is good info. how do you know later which yarn/needle combo is which gauge in which swatch? or do you unravel them after you knit whatever it is you're making?
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dancing boys: each other! ^_^
yes. well. they're very well-taken-care-of, i promise.
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no doubt you can guess exactly where my mind went. :D
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and then it occurred to me that everything that doesn't come back to the winchesters comes back to john&rodney (but not that john&rodney). i blame you.
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Mmm, cupcakes. ;oP~~~
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I made our own dinner and it was average at best. Making your own dinner is highly overrated. I think you should get pizza. Or maybe Thai. I want cookies.
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sushi? :D
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Sushi icon!!!
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Do you have my number? I think you do. If not, ping me and I'll share it.
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Gauge swatches are small bits of knit fabric created to figure out the measurements you are getting with your particular yarn and needle combination. Each knitting pattern has a suggested gauge on it, measured in stitches to the inch. The goal is to be knitting at the same number of stitches to the inch as is the suggested gauge so that your knitted object comes out the correct size (rather than too big (too few stitches to the inch) or too small (too many stitches to the inch)). For things such as the Daleks, the Adipose, afghans, and other non-fitted objects, gauge doesn't really matter. For a sweater, such as the one I'm about to start knitting, gauge is key.
(and that's probably *way* more information than you were seeking about gauge swatching.)
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dude, i know nothing about knitting, so any info is good info. how do you know later which yarn/needle combo is which gauge in which swatch? or do you unravel them after you knit whatever it is you're making?
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