Alas, alack, and well-a-day; knitting-heavy events on successive weekends --> tendonitis in both elbows. I am picking up ice bags instead of needles for a while. How the hell am I supposed to watch TV without something to knit?
I get the bit about (not) pressing with the spatula. But why, O Hive Mind, is flipping more than once a Bad Thing?
It sounds like grand heaps of shiny fun, and I hope everybody
running over to the starboard rail to get a look doesn't swamp the ship.
Which is to say, I want my Making Light! And as glorious as the
comment threads are, and the particles, and Jim MacDonald's posts on
How Not to Die Just Yet -- well, dammit, I miss hearing from P&T in
here.
Got no standing to tell you two how to spend your time. Just sayin'.
"This is the year I really do something about all this clutter." I've been saying that for at least a decade. Began actually doing something about it (what a concept!) last year, and the process picked up TONS of momentum when we hired a professional organizer -- for the first business day of 2008, as it happens. Talk about first-footing for luck!!
Momentum is really the word, too. It becomes easier and easier to look at the next object and say "Nope. Don't need that."
We are in NO danger of doing away with the "lived-in look". But I will gladly pass up the semi-panic of not finding my passport this morning. It was right where I left it when we came home from Thanksgiving vacation: in a tote bag dumped on the couch. Which I've seen every day on my way out the door (or when dumping another bag next to it on the way in), and then left for "later".
Leaving things for "later" is selling your future self into indentured servitudefor a mess of pottage.
#64: I am much heartened.
Now, can anyone here point to soundtracks or compilation albums for the Winter Solstice Show? The radio stations keep pumping out holiday music, but they're all from the sappy TV-movie remake....
I'd like to have winter songs to sing, without pledging allegiance to gods I don't believe in.
On reading the original post: OK, now I'm worried about the writers' strike. This is not someplace we want the series to end, or even linger unduly.
Graydon #877: Just because the bag's two sides clip together at the top center doesn't mean it's closed closed, alas. Have another look at their photos, especially the two samples in plum.
I have a Knitter's Purse from Jordana Paige that does the same thing -- the uprightness and accessibility that are so wonderful when you're knitting with the bag at your feet becomes a liability under other circumstances. Hmm, checking her web site, she doesn't seem to be selling that version any more! Now that Knitter's Messenger Bag has promise...
I like the way JP's bags have two main compartments, so I can bundle fiber and needles into one side, and miscellaneous--sometimes snaggy--necessities of daily life into the other.
[Re particle] My ideal knitting bag has a sealable top such that when I stow it under the seat in front of me, nothing falls out and rolls down the aisle.
We had gerbils. Housed them in aquariums. Mom figured "they're desert animals, give 'em sand". So, a few inches of sand in the bottom, some toilet paper tubes to run through and kleenex to shred for nests, and they seemed happy. We dumped the sand in the back yard occasionally and gave them fresh.
We had to upgrade the design after my brother took his gerbil to school for Show & Tell. It escaped from the coffee can used for transport, and once home again, it looked at the open top of the aquarium with new eyes! Got out and went for the dresser, where it chewed straight down the corner of a pile of folded shirts. (The neatly darned "hamster shirts" became my favorite handmedowns.) We put wire mesh on top of the cages after that.
,,,it's not a matter of being "punitive," but the fact is that different book editors have different views about when it is and isn't appropriate to take an editorial credit.
Just so the ones who don't believe in taking credit aren't the same ones whinging about not getting credit come awards time.
Something I feel the lack of when working on Hugo nominations: any real sense of what a given professional artist has done for us Lately. The artists' web pages serve as general reminders of work done, but rarely indicate when.
What they deserve is a meditation retreat in Gitmo until they achieve enlightenment.
Not that I'm bitter or anything.
Joel -- my take on that is that you could go just about ANYWHERE in Manhattan and happen across things that will make you say "Oh wow! I'm in New York! !!!!!!"
My first time there was under very similar circumstances to yours. I spent far more time that weekend staring longingly at the skyline from my grieving in-laws' New Jersey apartment than I did on the ground in NYC. But we did get a few hours over in Manhattan, and I saw the Dakota. I saw hot dog stands, and heard the taxis, and had lunch in Greenwich Village. And lo, it was good.
Is there a book or movie set in NYC that you're fond of? Some food you've always wanted to try? Pick one thing and go for it, and be open to serendipity around it.
Too vague? OK. These'll kick-start your itinerary:
* Go stare at the Flatiron Building, Broadway & 23rd Street. It is a weird and wondrous thing and it gets talked about on Making Light a lot.
* Veselka Restaurant, 144 2nd Avenue at 9th St. Ukrainian. Good. Never closes. Go there. Eat.
* Grand Central Station. Feel the energy, watch the crowds, gaze at the ceiling. The food shops and the Oyster Bar in Grand Central are also worthwhile.
Mayor Nagin himself appeared on the DVD, telling people that they wouldn't be evacuated, or any support provided.
Wow.
Apropos of skim milk masquerading as cream: there's this wiki project, the Katrina PeopleFinder project. The idea is, use distributed labor to collect/collate info from many different "people lost & found" lists & sites into one, more easily searchable, database.
My first reaction: Woohoo, something I can do!
Second reaction was to do a little poking around. In blog comments over here someone raises concerns about "taking people's private information--which they've made public in a limited forum--and making it available in a much more public, organized way". Oh, yeah...Uber-databases with lots of personal information are generally considered a bad thing in my circles.
So do they have a point? Or is this one of those places where due process is trumped by circumstance (as in, for instance, driving a commandeered school bus full of people out of the drowning city)? I'm interested to hear what the denizens of Making Light have to say on this.
Can anyone explain to me how/why there's a city in that particular location in the first place? Presumably the Watery Sword of Damocles wasn't so blatantly dangling from the rafters when settlement started, and then the next generations lived there because "we've always lived here". But if that's it, what changed?
T, that bit with the S.O.S. is priceless.
...wearing one feels like you’re being continuously molested by an octopus vacuum cleaner salesman.
My take on it is "personal hovercraft strapped to my face and trying to take off", but then I have a model that covers both nose and mouth. They tried me with the nose-only version first, and quickly gave up because that only works if you can (drum roll) breathe through your nose.
Ironically, I now can, thanks to 5 months of mask and humidifier. Maybe I could switch to the smaller nose-only mask; maybe I won't rock the boat. (No hay fever! Night OR day! Wheeee!)
Further natter about sleep study & life w/CPAP available beginning here.
My David once referred to something as being in East Milwaukee. I was startled. "What, you mean Lake Michigan?"
ohhhhhhhhhh.
I haven't seen the trailer, and don't "aim to", because my personal Spoiler bar is set extremely low. (I figure there's only one time in my life that I can see any movie completely naive, and have all the surprises BE surprises.)
But Mal can come misbehave at my place any time.
Is anyone else now trying very hard NOT to picture Margaret Dumont with cinnamon-bun hair?
In the I Am Not Making This Up department, the Muppets do Wizard of Oz.
I wish we had more issues of Bento on line; I could point gleefully to #11's cast list for the Muppet J. C. Superstar.
Good for you!! Teresa, I'll be staying with Lise the weekend of April 30. Might I come by and see the garden?
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