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Alison Hawke

Alison Hawke

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&

Getting served

(Back on my lovely laptop, mended and rescued by Hubby and working better than before. Huge thanks and warm fuzzies to Jeff of Bytes for a Bit who just happened to have a Win98SE setup CD with him on Sunday. Cold pricklies to Compaq for selling laptops but not giving

Goverment

Found a BBC article From soapbox to gogglebox . It's a good read. Winston Churchill never gave a TV interview, Harold Macmillan had to do an image makeover, and Harold Wilson studied John F Kennedy for how to behave on TV. Margaret Thatcher gave a pre-PM interview holding

Nashville Roadtrip

Hubby and I drove out to Nashville TN on Friday night to stay with Sehlat for the weekend. Caught the amazing fireworks display from the top of a multi-storey car park, I'd never seen shaped fireworks (heart, star, and a great smiley face) before, or the 3-

FW: 10 Things God Won't Ask

(Aye Captain, ahead rant factor thirteen) Don't forward junk email to me, it wastes time and bandwidth. If there's one thing I hate worse than forwards, it's the "Christian" version with this kind of guilt trip in: 10...God won't

The cat ate my laptop

I haven't posted this week because the laptop ate my wireless PCMCIA card settings, then decided to trash a bunch of networking DLLs I don't have a disk for, all on its own. My laptop is possessed, or possibly wanting some alone time off the internet.

Saucer

Completed the saucer to go with my teacup. I chickened out of the i-cord bind-off again and used a needle four sizes larger to bind off with, I think it worked. And this is the completed teacup: The cup is the same width as a Coke can if

Geekdom

Found a new geek blog, One Agile Coder . It's written by Brian Button, who owns Agile Solutions Group, and taught Hubby Extreme Programming. The blog is worth a look if you're a coder, and XP is definitely worth trying. Taking a piece of my own code

Teacup!

Completed the first cup of my Fiesta tea set Tuesday night and left it blocking on a can of raspberry soda. Now it's top-of-the-can shaped, and it looks good! Working on the saucer now, coming up for the bind off. This is a fast knit,

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