Tour de Fleece 2009

The Tour de Fleece is coming up, from July 4th to July 26th.  It is the spinning analogue to the Tour De France bicycle race. Last year I made valiant efforts to spin every day, but circumstances thought otherwise and I skipped several days. One Tour De Fleece goal for

US Citizenship

Our swearing in ceremony took place on the 28th floor of the courthouse on a blazing hot day.  Twenty applicants with friends and family milled around in a marble corridor with great views of the downtown area.  We recognised three people from our citizenship test.  A court official got us

Tweets for the week of June 19th

<li>Pleasantly surprised I can still walk this morning. John said the worst will hit me on Saturday... <a href="http://twitter.com/QuantumTea/statuses/2129973594">#</a></li> <li>Finished the short story just in time for the

The anonymity of bloggers

Blogging about work under a pseudonym is a more risky business today than it was last week.  There was a British police detective who blogged anonymously under the name NightJack and received an Orwell Prize for it.  A reporter for the Times newspaper decided to find out who was behind

NaNoWriMo 2009

November is a way off yet, but I have an idea for National Novel Writing Month.  Actually, I had the teeniest grain of an idea, I tossed it out at Hubby, and he handed me a fantastic idea to play with.  I'm a big fan of outlining the

Fungus the Bogeyman socks

When we lived in Stowemarket, I got a book from the library called Fungus the Bogeyman by Raymond Briggs.  It followed a working bogeyman through his day travelling to the surface of Britain, where his job is to scare the humans.  I raved about how wonderful the book was to

Spinning FO: Polwarth

Finished a Navajo-plied skein of Polwarth yarn, 126yds of thin sport-weight yard, 2.5 ounces in total.  I really like this skein: The fibre is undyed Polwarth I got while visiting The Fold last year.  We went out of town for a weekend to see the Chicago aquarium and test-drive

State of the Write

My writing goal is to finish a short story every other month, and come up with a cool idea for NaNoWriMo. The current short story in progress is for our post-NaNo group, my second attempt at a first person perspective, and I have the beginning and end written, but not

State of the Spin

My goal for spinning is to follow the Yarn Harlot and use Tuesdays for spinning.  I have a chunk of time between work and karate group class that can be spent in the front room with wheel, spindle, and NCIS re-runs on my laptop. Right now I have some tawny

State of the Knit

My knitting goals are to finish the Eris cardigan before autumn and make another fingering weight shawl this year, probably Sivia Harding's Waves in the Square.  Ambitious goals, given my usual level of output.  Lunchtimes are for knitting now the citizenship revision is over. There needs to be