Posts from ‘May, 2008’

Because I want to remember this

Saw this somewhere on Ravelry today and it finally explains clearly why I get choked up and teary eyed sometimes reading about complete strangers and their misfortune. A young boy was playing at the park and noticed over on the bench an old man who used to come daily to the park with an old [...]

a note to myself

For #13 on my list which is organizing photos, there was a question of what kind of “storage” to use for digital photos. External hard drives fail. Media fails or gets scratched. So what then? Answer: Dreamhost’s Files Forever. For 1c/4 megs, they’ll store files indefinitely (for as long as they offer the service). I’ve [...]

The FICO project

So one of my goals is to get my FICO up by 50pts. First I need to know what it is, so doing research online to figure out what the latest in fico is. * Each credit bureau does their own FICO score and yours can be different between the three . If you get [...]

Weston, just because

Took this on the 3rd because of the way Weston had folded his forearms with paws facing up.

Some motivation for the day

It Couldn’t Be Done Somebody said that it couldn’t be done, But, he with a chuckle replied That “maybe it couldn’t,” but he would be one Who wouldn’t say so till he’d tried. So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin On his face. If he worried he hid it. He started [...]

Knitting Assembly Line: the pompoms

Lesson learned: always make sure the halves of the pompom maker are facing each other correctly otherwise it’s a PITA to get them apart off the pompom. Not fond of making them so just made myself make a whole bunch so that I don’t have to for a while… kept going til I ran out [...]

speedy Jayne Cobb

Anyone who loves Firefly is familiar with the monstrosity of a hat that Jayne’s mudder knitted for him. It’s become a thing to knit/have as a badge of “fandom” and also because it’s just plain fun. Yesterday I finally went to the Michaels with my store credit and picked up yellow & orange yarn for [...]