No, no…your eyes do not decieve you. That is green grass. No, we didn’t have a glorious meltdown and quick growing season. This is an old photo. Why? Well, because I’m playing around with a plugin, of course! It allows me to handle my images a little easier.
So, y’know, I can bring you such quality pictures like the one over there. Because there’s just not enough bags of yarn in the world.
I just reformatted my computer. Actually, to be honest, I had just reinstalled WinXP…and realized afterward that I had considerably buggered up the process. It had to do with some pretty uninteresting problems with partition management. Needless to say, I installed XP on the wrong partition (damn XP for singling out the BIG partition!), and wound up having to reformat everything. Decided, while I was at it, to try installing Ubuntu Linux and all the extras that I’d originally been thinking of working with.
Right now I’m working on reinstalling WoW…in Linux. We’ll see if it happens. The process seems to have changed since I last tried. Then again, a lot can change in about 6 months. I’m hoping that this installs nicely so that I can be happy with this OS. The only thing I *don’t* like is that Lexmark refuses to make linux drivers for their printers. How much trouble can it be for them to extend themselves far enough to widen their support scope? I mean…I know that most companies don’t support linux due to its configurability, but at least they could provide some as-is drivers and tell us “Use ‘em if you want to, but if you muck it up, don’t come crying to us.”
In other geeky news, we played Vampire: The Masquerade (tabletop RP) last night. Old 2nd Ed / 3rd Ed rules. None of this NEW World of Darkness crap. Very fun. Very very fun. Robin got an idea of the type of characters he was dealing with…a bunch of egghead occultists! Where the gangrel forensic archaeologist is the “heavy”. Hee….too cool. We’ll probably be doing it again in another few weeks, when Robin has a chance to get some NPCs fleshed out and stuff. 
All in all, not a bad way to begin a weekend.
It’s Pink! It’s Green! It’s Yellow! Man, it’s BRIGHT!
Yep. I updated the look of the site. New template. I had Colin The Awesome Server Admin do a little updating to the back end of the website, and it b0rked a few things. I’m not going to worry about that. The comments should now thread & stuff. It’s all good.
I would have just updated everything myself, but the connection kept timing out. And it’s good that Colin did the deed, since things *did* b0rk, and I’d rather not be freaking out at the thought I’d done something horribly wrong, when really I haven’t.
Say it with me again…”It’s all good.”
We’ve gotten addicted to Katamari Damacy in the past couple of weeks. It’s one heck of a video game….weird language pattern for the main character(s), and the fact you have to “roll up the world” in a ball is really funny.
Yes, I’m a nerd. Sorta. I found a crochet pattern that I’m going to have to buy. It’s the little Prince from Katamari Damacy. Of course, to actually MAKE it, I’m going to have to learn how to crochet, but that’s not the point. The point is that I could make little Prince dolls.
It’s amazing the things we see on the net.
Got a few rounds done on the Monkey sock yesterday, and a few rows on the Persephone scarf. Thinking of writing out the Persephone pattern so that I can take it to work, but I’m not going to stress on it. Still waiting for my order from Lime & Violet to get here. I had picked up two skeins of yarn when Miss V updated the store. I’m hoping that there’s just a little delay from customs, and that it’s not a matter of the postman misdirecting our mail, or a neighbour deciding that they suddenly need wool. I find the misdirection by the postman a more likely event, mainly because the guy’s a lazy arse. We get mail for other folks all the time. Yeesh.
In other news, have been eating mostly properly for the past few days, and it’s making a difference. I’d been gaining and losing the same 5 pounds for the past two months, and it’s been driving me nuts. I guess it could be worse… I could have ballooned back up to my highest weight. At any rate, I’m on the way back down, and I hope to break the barrier that’s sorta sprung up at that 10 pound mark. That is…I seem to hit a glass wall at every 10 pound mark. It keeps me within a certain 10 pound range for a while, then allows me down to the next 10 pound range. Maybe it’s just the way my body adjusts; I don’t rightly know. I just know that the past 2 months have been pretty frustrating.
Of course, eating all that ice-cream to counteract the insane heat wave earlier this month didn’t help (grin).
We’re trying to strike a balance in our eating habits. Cutting a lot of the junk carbs has really helped. I have to admit that the goal of getting rid of the next 30 pounds is exciting. That will put me at the weight I was when I first got to Calgary. Another 10 pounds beyond that, and I’ll be the weight I maintained in college (of course, by “maintained” I mean “kept off by eating Smarties, fried rice, and orange-pineapple juice & walking everywhere because the trolleys moved slower than my own 2 feet!”).
Very exciting stuff. Now time to get ready to go to work (pout)…don’t wanna!!! 
I tell you…the nice part of waking up at 5am for a 7am shift? You get to come home at 3:30pm. The drawback? You have to wake up at 5am. ***THUD*** (sigh)
Allrighty. Last night was Night #1 of our new Karazhan group. For those who are not partaking of the Crack that is World of Warcraft, Karazhan is a 10-man dungeon (aka “instance” or “raid”) that you can only go to if you’ve maxed your character’s level. Clicky the link if you want to learn more about it. It is filled with many things to kill, most of which take the effort of you and your 9 buddies. Last night we managed to kill five bosses and do the Opera House event.
One of the bosses is called “The Shade of Aran”. The first time someone killed him, Guild Chat was filled with “Aran down! We killed Aran! Yay!’
I wanted to know why they were killing a sweater. And how. Did they unravel it? What colour was it? Did they repurpose the yarn?
Right. Two fandoms clash…WoW and Knitting….hm. Unfortunately, unlike the Molten Core dungeon, I can’t spend my evening knitting between pulls in Karazhan. In the 40-man raids, you have more tardlings going AFK…so when this would happen, I’d knit. I got a good portion of some socks done around Christmas that way!
Anyhow. We made progress last night. Much better progress for a “new” run than many established runs have had. It’s all good
In other news, I have turned the heels on Robin’s socks and have about an inch on the legs. I find that working both socks at the same time is working well for me. I’d like to see if I can do the same sort of thing for some of the Way Cool Patterns on the net right now (mainly Cookie A.’s patterns), but we’ll see. I’m also grooving on all the yarn out there. Two of the folks on my Ravelry “friend list” are yarnies….they dye and/or sell this yarn. It is all verrah verrah yummy. Very Apple Macintosh for the lick-factor. I may have to save up the sheckles and get permission from He Of The Accountancy Family Background to use my Visa card and make a couple of orders.
Because, y’know, a girl can never have enough sock yarn. Never. Despite what he may think…
(I also signed up for secret pal 11. which will raise some eyebrows around here when I start putting together care packages for a person I’ve never met. The trick will actually be MAILING the darned things. I know that I am postally challenged. I accept this, and am willing to confront the Evil Postperson. I shall start by anxiously awaiting my pre-ordered copy of The Last Freakin’ Harry Potter Book in a couple of weeks. The Training is so strenuous 
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“Did you wake me up by attacking me with a sock?”
Yeah. I paraphrase. It was something similar. Robin, who seemed very confused, was watching me playing on Ravelry, and it reminded him that somehow, somewhere….a sock played a part of his wakeup process.
Robin works graves. Sometimes he’s awake when I get home from work, sometimes not. I thought he was fairly lucid this evening, and decided to get an idea how much more of the foot I need to do before turning the heel. Approximately 1/2 an inch to an inch. Apparently he wasn’t as awake as I thought.
I’m forcibly keeping myself from digging out the Regia stashed downstairs, and a couple more pairs of needles. If that happens, these socks are never getting finished…and I distinctly remember hearing a sleepy “Yay…I get socks…” as I was leaving the bedroom with the pair presently on the needles. I admit it. I get ADD when I knit. Bad enough that one of my co-workers has decided to prompt me about Robin’s socks when she sees me…I don’t need to try and justify a distinctive lack of Project Monogamy. Particularly with another pair of socks. People can understand wanting to “switch it up” with a quick scarf, or pair of hand warmers…they aren’t quite so forgiving when it comes to a second pair of socks.
Luckily enough, Warcrack has been a little slow the past couple of days, otherwise I’d be feeling bad for not working on my character. Oooh yeah. I could be grinding faction rep, bay-bee! I’ve never been the best at grinding (uh…not as in “bump and…” for those of you not familiar with the term. It basically means working on a particular task for long periods of time, like killing a certain kind of enemy, or working on a quest chain, etc. Thus ends your gamer slang lesson of the day). I’ve been a good little gamer for the past couple of months. For those (admittedly 3 people) who will understand: I now have my Heroic Keys for Keepers of Time and The Sha’tar. Do I deserve a break? Damn skippy!
I still have Thrallmar, Cenarion Expedition, and Lower City rep to grind out.
It’s probably a blessing in disguise that my local YarnSmack Dealer is renovating right now…
Turned off the Livejournal crossposting plugin. It doesn’t allow me to specify that the default be set to “off”, or to specify which authors can crosspost to which journals….it just wants to crosspost everything to my livejournal by default.
And while it’s nice that someone mistakenly thought I’d gotten some work done on a sweater….I’m still not up to that challenge yet. I’m still enjoying socks, thankyouverymuch.
If another, more specific, crossposter becomes available…maybe I’ll switch back. For now, I go through the inconvenience of updating two blogs. Hee.
Hokay.
I’ve just gone through and turned off comments and pings on old posts.
I’ve also gone through and deleted a ton of porn and car spam from trackbacks & pings.
About once a week I’m going to go through and close commenting and pings. Spam will be deleted as soon as I can get to it.
Really, I’m just tired of the spam. I didn’t want to do it, but now one needs to be registered to comment, and I think I turned on the option for the admin to approve all comments. Since I don’t get a ton of traffic, this isn’t a big deal, really. It’s just annoying.
