Daily Archive: 2012.09.25

While it may not sound like a big deal to clean out one’s car, this was a special case.

Back when I parted ways with Noblis (in February, mind you), my poor officemate Brian was stuck with the job of packing up my side of the office. I finally went and picked up all the boxes and other stuff he’d packed only when he was about to get another officemate. I’ve been driving around with this stuff in my car ever since. So, yeah, for like 7 months or so.

With much help from G, the boxes and other stuff has been sorted into keep / toss, the toss dealt with accordingly, and the keep brought inside. There’s a little bit of cleanup left to do in the car, but it’s minor compared to having the entire back of a RAV-4 filled with stuff.

Also, now that that’s taken care of, I can take advantage of the super-duper interior detailing GroupOn that I picked up a couple of weeks ago. This will be fabulous, as my car hasn’t had a good cleaning in a couple of years, and there’s a lot of dust and former-smoker-grime in the vehicle that I would like to have go away. And this way, my car will be all spiffy and clean before Liv, Carel, Ivo, Tara, and half the world show up for MAAWG next month.

Many many thanks to G, without whom this would have been impossible.

I’m attempting to knit a pattern (more on the whole block-atorium in a second), and I am completely unable to wrap my head around a key transition in the pattern. I admit that I’m test-knitting an as-yet-unpublished pattern, but I’m confident that the designer is quite talented, and she’s tried to help me through the transition in three different ways. It seems that I’m just not meant to knit this pattern.

In the past, there have been patterns that I’ve consistently screwed up on while trying to work it, but this is the first one I’ve encountered that I just couldn’t manage to knit at all, and it’s bumming me out.

About that whole, “I’m not supposed to be knitting because I’m supposed to be blocking” thing, well. Blocking requires standing and kneeling, neither of which have really been possible for the last couple of days, thanks to my latest malady: my knees are doing their best to not work. I never really realized how much one uses one’s knees, until every movement started to hurt.