Heading out!
We're flying out tomorrow, taking three travel bugs with us to place in some unknown state. We get back on Friday, no blog posts till then. Have a good week, I'm off!
Alison Hawke
Mileage
(The trouble with network outages is that you get three blog posts queued up and you can't publish them. Even your email vanishes into the void.)
Has ever a pair of three inch tall hand-knit mini-socks travelled as far as these?
Starting in St Louis, they've
Scaredy cat
We have two cats, and one is a scaredy cat. I watched Quantum and Tangle yesterday as we heard Hubby came up the steps to the front door. Quantum sauntered over to the door hoping for interesting sights and a belly rub. Tangle froze as soon as he heard footsteps
Self harm
This BBC article caught my eye: Self-harm 'growing issue for men'. The article is focussed on the pressures on men and that they are turning to self-harm to cope. Has anyone noticed that females do this for too? A couple of quotes from the article:
Young men are
Mystery tour!
One week of work to go, then we're on vacation! I have no idea where we're going, but I know what we're doing. It's our ninth wedding anniversary, and every three years we go to see a certain show (I'm
Copyright gone mad
Interesting Wired article, Copyright bill to kill tech? (Link via Jordon Cooper.)
The Senate Judiciary Committee will consider a bill Thursday that would hold
technology companies liable for any product they make that encourages people to steal copyright materials. Critics say the bill would effectively outlaw peer-to-peer networks and prohibit
Knitting updates
There is a point in knitting a sock where you're not doing any shaping, or patterns, or anything interesting, and that point seems to go on forever. Welcome to Sock Limbo, and no matter how hard you knit, you're stuck there. For me it's
Waves
Freak waves spotted from space. Surf that!
The shady phenomenon of freak waves as tall as 10 storey buildings had finally been proved, the European Space Agency (Esa) said on Wednesday. Sailors often whisper of monster waves when ships sink mysteriously but, until now, no one quite believed them. As
Sleep
Strolling round the mall Saturday we stopped at the sleep number bed place. Not that we were planning to buy a horribly expansive bed, but it was fun to try them out. It is the oddest sensation to be lying on a bed and feel it deflate beneath you, getting
Design and conquer
At what point does a knitting pattern become your own? I'm working on Sehlat's
birthday socks and I wanted to make something unique. I'm using two elements from
different patterns, and making a few of my own changes. Far as I know no-one'