glittens finished

it's hard to take pictures of both your hands at the same time... so i've only got the one to show, but it's much better that the last time you saw it!




this one is fitted so the tip doesn't slide around when i close my fist.

the other one, which is green, does not have this feature... but then it's a less useful hand overall.

too much stuff?

anxiety dreams are clearly not just caused by weddings. (the last crazy dream i blogged about involved a table full of geeks, none of whom wanted to talk to me...)

apparently, they can also be caused by too many blankets (and, possibly, brussel sprouts a la green beans).

this time, the altered terrain was Goldwin Smith Hall. it was clearly late at night, and winter break. i believe i was staying overnight, due to a winter storm, and had had a few visitors to my classroom abode during the evening. having heard voices and therefore partially dressed for a trip to the loo, i realized that the people who were wandering about in the hall were firefighters, and there was clearly smoke wafting about in the hallway. occasionally, someone would knock very gently to see if anyone was inside, but i, in my passive-aggressive way, was waiting for someone to knock with reasonable loudness, while i packed up my incredibly large amount of stuff. the bulk of the dream that i can remember consists of bustling around the warm room, in my coat, packing voluminous quantities of crafting, gaming, and bedding stuff into a couple of supposedly inadequate containers.

i remember thinking, shortly before the alarm woke me up, that all the visitors had "helped" me unpack all my junk, as i hadn't seem most of it come out of the boxes. and how this wouldn't have been quite the issue had i, or they, seen fit to put things away when i/they were done with them.

of course, when the guy with the keys showed up and let them in, it wasn't a fire, but a reported toxic spill, or some other "dream-breakup" shift-of-gears. go figure...

so, is this an anxiety dream about:

a) the snow,
b) the prospect of being alone in a office overnight on a deserted campus,
c) carrying too much stuff around with me,
d) no-one helps me pack up my stuff after gaming,
e) a message to pick up as i go along?

or was i just too hot in too many blankets?

good question!

PDQ Bach FTW!

http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20081219

heh, heh, heh... PDQ Bach Engine... heh, heh, heh...


8-)

near-epic fail!

if you like the band, take easy knitting... sounds like a simple rule, no? sigh...

so here i am at Bound for Glory, listening to Small Potatoes, working on my glitten (half glove half mitten, to go with the Tabi i have yet to blog about.), when the rule comes to bite me in the kiester!

i had finished making the hand down to where i needed a thumb, and i'd made the thumb. so i went to knit the thumb in with the rest of the hand... easy, right? i got all the way around the hand and back to the thumb before i realized what i had done. i held it so my Mom could see, and she starts laughing. well, stifling the giggles, since this is the last song of the last set. so i start stifling the giggles. Helena looks over from her 2 inches of sweater, and i try showing it to her.

she doesn't get the joke. so i put it on so she can see the error. by the time that the last song was over, and the show outtro, and the two-song encore, we've mostly stopped the giggling, and i've figured out how to show the obviousness of the stupid thing i'd done...



"it was a really good last set..." sez me. this was funny, but once i'd shown it to all the knitters, including one of the performers, it was time for a few pics...



and home... i should have this finished by tonight or tomorrow night... pics of the whole "pair" then...

dani 8-)

coolest web comic ever!

so i've discovered the coolest web comic ever! it's the story of Arthur and Camelot, and all that, but the characters switch from one time-line to another! almost the perfect Dani plot!

the current strip is here: http://www.arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/

the first strip is here: http://www.arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/0001.htm

and these are worth remembering!
the Norman Invasion
a Good Point
Hadrian Collider

is great fun... is also a great time-sink... until you catch up!

8-)

one garter, all done!

so, if i was cool, i'd have in-progress pics, and pics of the bride wearing the garter, and stuff.

i am clearly not cool, as all i have is a few scans of the finished object, and later this week, there will be some back story, and some pics of the sample i'm doing to emulate the in-progress shots.

sigh...

but now? vacation! and lace day! huzzah!!

and the aforementioned scans... bon appetit!





%-)

Pratchgan

so, this is a link i gleaned from another blog... the Pratchgan...

an afghan made for Terry Pratchett, with mostly Discworld themes... it's hi-larious!

just thought you might want to know... and i might not want to forget...

dani, the geek