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Contest: Milestones Past

I started this blog in January 2002 and my one thousandth blog post came and went unnoticed because of a quirk in post numbering. I thought it was worth celebrating with a contest, so I'm giving away this yarn to a commenter selected at random: * Two 50g balls

WIDTW

(Title stolen shamelessly from Plaid Dragon) Finished the heel on the first Owl sock and tried starting the Column of Leaves scarf. Messed up row 1 twice, and row 2 once before I ripped it out. Maybe I need something simpler. The yarn is a good sized worsted weight, looks

TV History

Found the TV Ark a while back, and have been exploring the old children's TV programs I used to watch. The "Umpty Flump" post title came from an episode of The Flumps (intro here on Realplayer) called The Cloud, where a grey cloud follows the Flump

Music help needed

Anyone know a good classical music compilation or series of compilations? Not the most well known pieces, something with Mozart's B-sides (like Turkish March), Vivaldi's other stuff, and lesser known composers like Saint-Saëns (Carnival of the Animals)? Something with the "one hit wonders" on,

Life goes on

Over 180,000 houses are still without power in the St Louis area on Monday evening. Really good seeing people in church helping each other out, doing laundry and offering places to stay in houses and apartments with AC. Church had to move as the school we normally meet in

Power restored

Power was restored around 10am, while I was doing laundry at Rox's and helping her ply some yarn she'd spun on the Kiwi. By "helping" I mean sitting next to her and making encouraging noises, she did very well on her own. Power is

Power outage

A house lit only by candles is an odd place. They are surprisingly bright when you have a couple of tealights, two tapers, and two scented candles. We are one of half a million homes without power as of Wednesday 19th July when a monster storm hit St Louis. Our

Thursday Lists

Songs on repeat on my iPod: * Fort Minor - Where'd you go? * James Blunt - You're beautiful * The Fray - Over my head (cable car) * Toad the Wet Sprocket - Walk on the ocean * Vanessa Mae - Devil's Trill * Lacuna Coil - Comalies (the

Paused for maintenance

I'll be in Chicago next week for the Vineyard Midwest Regional Conference, offline. Meantime, this is the state of play: * I'm well over halfway on sock #2 of the English Country Garden socks and the Karaoke scarf is one ball down with three to go. I&

Spinning FO: Red BFL

Spun and plied another skein of Blue Faced Leicester, it's drying now. I've got two skeins out of the 8oz of fibre, and there's enough left for one more smaller skein. Apparently I spin better to classical music, but not the angry parts of

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