Yearly Archive: 2012

Having finished watching Heroes, I have started my next series. I realized that I’ve never seen past Season 5 of The West Wing (and anyone who insists on spoilering anything will be summarily executed), so I’ve started over from the beginning.

I was watching S2:E17 (17 People), and I noticed the distinctive book that Charlie is reading while waiting for the meeting between Toby, Leo, and Bartlett to end. I was curious as to what it is. I open a browser window and start searching for “what book is charlie rea” at which point the Google predictive search kicks in to give me “what book is charlie reading in 17 people”. From there, a single click to this page, wherein I find my answer:

• Charlie is reading – The Cornel West Reader (ISBN#:0465091091)

Sometimes, I loves me some InterWeb.

I’m working on the Incredibly Intricate Project™, and am ever so close to joining in the round. I am, in fact, on the last row before I get to join in the round. Unfortunately, this row is a ‘purl 257’ and my brain has a mental block against it. I’ve picked it up about 4 times, and I think I’ve actually purled about 60 stitches. At this rate, this row will be done by lunch.

Fool me 493 times, well… you know.

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Somehow, my day has gone from ‘things going pretty well’ to ‘almost nothing going right’.

I hate that.

Even though I ended up completely restarting my crazy intricate knitting project (despite the fact that I was about 20% done with it), it’s probably going to be a good thing, in the end. This time around, my stitches seem more defined, and the structure more set. So, I’m going to declare this to be a win, overall.

As many of you know, my primary domain name is covert-ops.org. I’ve been using it for about 16 years. In fact, that would be exactly 16 years, yesterday.

It seems that yesterday was also the day that covert-ops.org expired. I swear I remember getting email notifications of such things in the past.

If you tried to send me email at covert-ops.org at any time after midnight, chances are good that the message bounced. If that is the case, I’m terribly sorry. Things should be working now, and please resend the message.

Cranky teenagers. Hrmph.

My ball winder and I are having something of a hate / hate relationship these days. I suspect that it’s actually the fault of my rather rickety, cheap, and old swift, but I can’t be sure. I’m pondering the necessity of replacing one or both items, and would like some input from the fiberati as to what their favorites are. So, speak up. Favorite yarn swift? Favorite ball winder? Other necessary accessories of the sort?

I just finished watching the last episode of the fourth season of Heroes. Like many things before it, there should have been only one.

Let’s see. On the ‘good day’ front, I last updated on Thursday. I have had an unbroken streak of good days since then.

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One of the projects I’m doing is fairly small, in terms of “actual finished product.” However, it is knit on US 2 needles, which are pretty tiny, so it’s a very fine fabric that’s being produced. It’s also a very intricate pattern, which means a lot of switching back and forth between staring at the yarn and staring at the pattern. But, thus far, it’s been zipping along pretty quickly. I’ve gotten about a third of the way through the physical project in about 3 days of knitting. This lulled me into a sense of complacency, thinking that I’d be able to tear through the rest of the project equally quickly.

Little did I know that the “intricate” work that I’d been working on thus far was really easy, and the intricacy had not yet begun. I noticed that there seemed to be a decent number of cables in the part I was working, and looking ahead to the pattern, there were many more. In a fit of madness, I thought I’d count up just how many more.

470. 470 cables total in the project. Of which I have done about 30.

Oh boy.