6 hours of knitting so far (broken up a bit with breaks here and there) while watching Battlestar Galactica Season 3.
Started round 1 of the Sweater Bag (first round after the 12 rows of ribbing) and am currently about to start round 17. Definitely not knitting very fast.
Half of the 100 stitches are involved in cable work which isn’t too bad once I get a feel for how the cables are running. Then I don’t have to keep looking it up to see which way to twist the stitches.
However the problem is that the “plain knitting” on what will be the interior of the bag is done in purl. Purl is much slower for me than knitting.
I’m knitting this on Denises and at first I was using too long of a length but even with one that’s 3-4 inches shorter, still feel like I’m struggling to get the yarn around the cable.
A little more than another hundred rows to go. At least the strap should be quick and easy.
In other news, frakkity frak frak!! The Hollywood post office continues to shock me with just how badly organized and committed to their job they are. I’ve never had much trouble with any post office in the past but this one? They’ve lost 4 of my 6 packages mailed on a single day. Disappeared into the ether. They piss and moan and then get nasty with attitude when I try to get them to scan the paper that registers packages as being received by the post office. And they didn’t even know what it was! Hello… this has been around for some time now, do you have no training at this place?
They’ve told us that our bldg is located on an “open route” which means it’s passed along to whoever is free to do it that day. Problem is that some of these carriers are fucking lazy as hell. They won’t check the outgoing mailbox next to the mailboxes. I bought a clip and put it on the box so we could at least clip the mail to the OUTSIDE of the box so they couldn’t miss it. Twice in the past two weeks, I’ve seen mail in the clip in the morning before they’ve come and seen it still there afterwards when the mail had been delivered.
But boy they bitch and bitch about us getting the mailboxes fixed. They’re all fired up about doing THAT right.
Another time I happened to walk out and the carrier had a package too big to put in the box. I saw him trying to use the “call box” which according to the tenant (and former bldg mgr) who has lived here for 18 years… has NEVER BEEN hooked up. I told him “that doesn’t work, it doesn’t go to any of us, you have to go knock on the door”.
I then watched him pull out a form, fill it out, open the boxes back up and drop it in and then get in his truck and drive away. Lazy son of a bitch couldn’t be bothered to go to the door of a 8 unit bldg and knock!
A week or so ago, I had to go to the post office which was also the same day the carrier didn’t pick up the mail. I took it with me and asked to speak to the supervisor and entered a complaint about the shoddy service we get. And of course it happens again this past Wednesday.
And now today, I’m given another reason to go back and register another complaint. I’ve a package that was not delivered last week. Usually the carriers leave it at the door but at least one person who does the route refuses to do so and writes out orange slips instead and sticks it in the door (not the mailbox! which means the wind can blow it away). I know that they don’t leave packages if they think it’s not secure but nothing ever gets taken here and packages are left all the time without a problem. The inconsistency bothers me big time.
Anyways so I get a 2nd orange slip and remember that I can request redelivery. I did it Wednesday night to be delivered today when I would be at home. Carrier gets here and I go out and…. he has no package for me.
Who wasn’t surprised at this? Who actually expected it to be the case? I doubt anyone’s got the time to notice or care that the person requesting the redelivery was the same person who took the time to file a complaint but gee…. awfully coincidental.
Oh well, I’ll go in tomorrow with a print out of the redelivery request (I took a screenshot of the page for proof) and file another complaint and get my gorram package.
Sad really because until this sorry outfit, I’d never had any real problems with the post office and had good feelings about them even with long waits in lines and etc.
Oh, why this rant is in the Ravelympics diary is that it contains the indie dyed yarn from Squibstitcher’s Fresh From the Cauldron line that is intended for an original design of fingerless gloves that I’ve got queued as a Ravelympics Designer Discus project. But at this rate, I don’t even have the design charted yet nor have I seen the yarn in person and figured out if I’ve got the right colors (can’t always be sure that the color as I see it on the screen will match in person – as what happened with the yarn from the Sweater Bag).
Oh well, it was a pie in the sky thing anyways. Maybe I’ll put it as one of my Fantasy Knits instead which I have to finish doing this weekend.