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Pocket full of random

I do most of my knitting at lunchtime, very irritating to get out of the car at work and realise I left my knitting bag at home. Current sock is made from allegedly "self-striping" yarn (Fyberspates BFL), but three stripes per sock is going to look a

Snow day

I am lucky enough to be able to work from home when the roads are impassable. Lots of snow yesterday evening and I don't think my little hatchback would make it out there. The Missouri Department of Transport is suggesting people stay home till the roads are clear.

Want

I want a pair of these. (image from Wikimedia Commons) A set of sai. There's a way to go before I can learn to use them. But I really want to get there.

Chilled

There's cold, there's what my mother called "brisk", and then there's entirely too cold to be allowed. Yesterday was the latter: Taken with the camera on my phone while stopped at traffic lights. Yes, I'm on my way to work

Typhoid Mary

I'm trying not to be Typhoid Mary. Mary Mallon (September 23, 1869 – November 11, 1938), also known as Typhoid Mary, was the first person in the United States to be identified as a healthy carrier of typhoid fever. Over the course of her career as a cook, she

Starting the year

I only made a couple of resolutions for 2009 and I believe both are do-able goals: * Spin on my new wheel at least twice a week. * Get my karate orange belt. My first ever karate lesson was on November 17th, on December 11th I signed up for five months

Signing off for 2008

I hope you have a relaxing and fun holiday. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! I'll be off work for a week, and I have plans. My Christmas present is a Majacraft Rose spinning wheel, which has been waiting in the basement since our trip to The Fold

Go play on the highway

How many times do you get the chance to go play on the highway? Actually ON the highway, walking down the centre lane snapping photos and dodging bikes and basset hounds? A five mile stretch of Highway 40/Interstate 64 in St Louis has been closed all year. This was

Novelling Snapshot

Reached 40,000 words on Wednesday 19th and I'm only partway through chapter nine of twelve, looks like I'm writing a 60,000 word story. But it's moving along nicely and I hope to write "The End" by November 30th. The story

The original Doctor Who

BBC News: Doctor Who (before the Tardis). Newly released documents, which reveal the 1960s conception of Doctor Who, show how nervous the BBC was about producing a sci-fi show, writes Tom Geoghegan. The Doctor without his time-travelling police box is difficult to imagine, but its creators initially proposed

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