Rescheduled

The Fiona Drawstring Bag is going to trade places with the Mermaid socks in my project schedule.  This is for several reasons: * It's spring.  I won't be wearing wool socks until autumn. * The Fiona knitalong starts on Saturday * I have a yarn store trip planned for

Googleblog

The official Google blog is up.  (link via Jordon Cooper)

And so it begins

Three-big-trees-raining-white-fuzz season has started.

House related panic

The house external-scrape-and-paint job starts on Friday.  The fence rip-out-and-replace job starts when the wood arrives at the fencing company.  Both jobs will be finished hopefully by the end of this month but I get twitchy and panicky about spending large sums of money.

Motivation

It was an accidental purchase.  We were in England, in Bournemouth, which is on the south coast, and it got cold.  Foolishly I had not brought a coat, not even a summer coat.  Summer coats are for when it's too warm for the winter coat, but too cold

Not so you'd notice, but...

I just finished overhauling every single page on this site, blog included.  The end result is absolutely no visible change whatsoever.  You won't even see it with a "View Source."  But now I can skin the whole site from within two files, instead of having to

The Plan

Thanks to everyone who left guilt- and anxiety-inducing comments on my last post, I can feel it motivating me!  So here is my brand new project queue, with no more than 3 WIPs at one time.  I can't take any more than that.  I came out as

Stress

The first major piece of knitting I completed coincided with my GCSE exams when I was 16.  Chronically stressed and convinced I was heading for nine D grades, Mother helped me out by getting a big cone of yarn and a Fisherman's Rib sweater pattern.  I was stressed,

Diet busting

I broke my yarn diet, but it's yarn for the next project in the queue, not just stash enhancement.  It's for the umbilical cord hat from SnB for Jen's baby, which is due in the next couple of months.  Lion Brand Cotton Ease in

Superstitions

I'm trying to resuscitate my software project, Chronicle .  It's a Java blog publishing program, or it will be.  It was a tragic victim of the SourceForge Kiss of Death.  Fledgling software projects get registered on SourceForge with great enthusiasm, until the Kiss of Death strikes, and