Is anyone planning to go to the Black Sun festival in New Haven, CT (July 28-30)?
Instead of more updates on my bad mood, which is probably apparent anyway, I offer new exciting tales of spinning and knitting:
So, I decided to actually make something with some hand-dyed, handspun yarn. It's based on the "voodoo wrist warmer" pattern here on knitty, made with a version of my "rhododendron" colorway, in this case made into a self-striping DK yarn.
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So, I decided to actually make something with some hand-dyed, handspun yarn. It's based on the "voodoo wrist warmer" pattern here on knitty, made with a version of my "rhododendron" colorway, in this case made into a self-striping DK yarn.
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nullarelicta:
Good colors!
Sorry to hear about grouchiness, but it is not surprising.
Sorry to hear about grouchiness, but it is not surprising.
antihero_wraith:
O.o
Can I have a green hat?
I like hats...
Green ones most of all.
Can I have a green hat?
I like hats...
Green ones most of all.
I have really just not been in a very good mood these past few days.
antihero_wraith:
. . . . . Can't rain all the time.
Ode to safety
Oh thank you Mr/Ms/Rev TSA person, for breaking the zipper on my suitcase. I feel oh so very much safer to know that you, honorable one, a person whose job it is to open and close suitcases, can not re-zip my suitcase without catching a huge clump of plastic bag in the zipper, thus rendering it broken.
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Oh thank you Mr/Ms/Rev TSA person, for breaking the zipper on my suitcase. I feel oh so very much safer to know that you, honorable one, a person whose job it is to open and close suitcases, can not re-zip my suitcase without catching a huge clump of plastic bag in the zipper, thus rendering it broken.
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velocity:
That's most of the reason I never check a bag when I travel. I can pack an insane amount of stuff into a carry-on.
nullarelicta:
Ugh.
Well, welcome back, at any rate.
Well, welcome back, at any rate.
stubborn tumor, stubborn dad
So my dad's operation, originally anticipated at 3-4 hrs, took over 10. A very long wait in a very dreary hospital waiting room. It was a fibrous, veinous, "well fed" calcified tumor. Stubborn tumor.
The night after the operation, semi-unconscious, with a giant bandage on head, myriad tubes, monitors, and immobilized/hands tied down, my dad managed to spit out the breathing...
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So my dad's operation, originally anticipated at 3-4 hrs, took over 10. A very long wait in a very dreary hospital waiting room. It was a fibrous, veinous, "well fed" calcified tumor. Stubborn tumor.
The night after the operation, semi-unconscious, with a giant bandage on head, myriad tubes, monitors, and immobilized/hands tied down, my dad managed to spit out the breathing...
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velocity:
I'm glad everything went well. My sister's was supposed to be eight hours, and ended up being twelve. It was a pretty harrowing day. I hope both you and your dad are getting lots of rest.
nullarelicta:
I'm very happy that he's doing well. Hooray for stubborness well directed!
So I'm going to New Mexico. My father's surgery is on Wednesday. good thougts always appreciated - thank you
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velocity:
I'll be thinking good thoughts until you tell me to stop. Drop me a line if you want to talk.
nullarelicta:
Best wishes for you, your dad, and your family (and have a safe trip).
I seem to have survived yet another birthday!
So what?
Uncertain
So what?
Uncertain
velocity:
Did you wear a tiara?
surlyclown:
Well, I hope you had a rockin birthday. Mine is in a week and a half. I have no doubt I will have the same uncertainty.
tomorrow is my birthday, and I have to say that I'm not particularly enthusiastic about it
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7deuce:
mappy birthday 
nullarelicta:
TODAY is your birthday! Have a happy one regardless.
The tiara idea is a good one.
The tiara idea is a good one.
I think this house has bad feng shui or something. I've lived here almost 2 years, and things in my life just keep going wrong. Just recently, I have been surprised to find out that the landlords (who live upstairs - it's a duplex) are splitting up and selling the house; the bad feng shui got to them too, I guess. Luckily, it won't be...
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velocity:
I certainly don't feel like I've done anything. Most of it was just lounging around, reading books. My crowning achievement was getting dressed.
nullarelicta:
Houses you live in do tend to get sold, to be sure.
Try to think of it as that your presence there adds value, and landlords rush to cash in.
Try to think of it as that your presence there adds value, and landlords rush to cash in.
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nullarelicta:
Missed your last entry while it was still "live"; not much time for SG this weekend...
Hope everything is going as well as possible on the dad's-health front.
Nice pictures.
Hope everything is going as well as possible on the dad's-health front.
Nice pictures.
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velocity:
I'll be going to the post office tomorrow!
I have spent most of the day trying to untangle a gigantic tangle-ball of yarn. It was really tangled.
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nullarelicta:
It is probably good that you have dogs rather than cats, who would have tried to "help."
kwizzle:
And now there is a great sense of accomplishment. Yay!
What are you making out of yarn?
What are you making out of yarn?
The following weekend Gogol Bordello is playing at an event in northern VT; we thought about going up and camping and seeing them, but it's part of a weekend festival that doesn't even have the day-ticket option, so I imagine we won't be doing that, either.
We both need to finish our dissertations so we can get us some of them plentiful academic jobs you hear about and then have lots of, uh, money and free time.