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Alison Hawke

Alison Hawke

The Word Wrangler and the Pointy Stick

Way back in the mists of time in November 2007, there were two Municipal Liasons for the St Louis region of NaNoWriMo, Denise and Jen. It was decided that since we were engaged in regional Word Wars with the I-70 corridor, we needed an official cheerleader, someone to rally the

Tweets for the week of October 23rd

* In work ridiculously early and no-one can find the light switch, not me, not former boss, not big boss, all wandering around in the dark. * Stupid light switch hiding behind stupid fake tree in the lobby, we have light now, former boss found it. Who hides a light switch? * Have

Three things

Three knitted things were lost in the move from one house to another. Three things I initially thought I wouldn't use, and then used constantly. Casualty #1: Roll-brim hat This hat was an experiment with two-colour knitting using Rowan Cocoon, which is not the best for colour work,

Almost, but not quite

Finished half of the Flutter scarf at Saturday morning knitting with Karen in Borders cafe, picked up the stitches for the second half in a quiet room at home and had a horrible time re-starting the pattern. I need to rip it out several rows, a pattern and a half,

NaNoWriMo meme

Swiped from Merinda's blog, originally from Benjamin Solah, who has a list of other people who have done the meme. When and how did you find out about NaNoWriMo? How did you go? I spotted it on Shirl's blog in 2004, and Hubby suggested I give

Tweets for the week of October 16th

* Alert level holding at two teaspoons of sugar in tea: in work till 3pm, wedding at 5:32pm, meeting Hubby partway there, NaNo meetup tomorrow * At home, fixing recalcitrant sock for the third time after a major rip out. Someday I will actually finish something, and it will be good.

Have you seen this boson?

BBC News: 'Magnetic electricity' discovered. Researchers have discovered a magnetic equivalent to electricity: single magnetic charges that can behave and interact like electrical ones. The work is the first to make use of the magnetic monopoles that exist in special crystals known as spin ice. Writing in Nature

Mathematical progression

I really do knit, but I'm ripping a lot out right now. I don't subscribe to the "trotting horse" school of dealing with errors (if you couldn't spot it from a trotting horse, leave it be). My horse would be the one

Tweets for the week of October 9th

* Printed a picture of Sai for motivation, I get to train with these for the next kata but there's a purple belt test between me and weaponry. * LD50 for kitchen cleaner is the dose needed to half kill the user. Apparently about an hours cleaning work is the

Gearing up for NaNoWriMo

I'm a little distracted right now and it won't go away till December. I'm going to be writing a novel, gearing up for Christmas, taking my purple belt test, and doing a bunch of work on the house. And doing a full time job

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