Entries in take it personally (6)
a little glass of whine
After posting yesterday, I realized that it sounded a bit too "oh-poor-me-little-suburban-American-white-girl-my-expensive-toys-don't-work-right."
Have no fear - the knitting content and the goofy running commentary will resume asap.
And just this very moment? It's 9:30 am, and beautifully sunny, which means it's getting warmer out there by the second and I really really don't like running when it's hot.
And I knew that when I sit down at the computer to check e-mail and read blogs, that's one step in a direction away from running this morning... and this afternoon it'll just be hotter.
So here I go.
See you out there.
(p.s. We're up to 60 minutes and about 5 miles now!)
akabini
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in which I whine (but only a little)
Well, we're entering Week 2 of Life Without A Computer of Mine Own...
and really, it's not for lack of trying on anyone's part.
• the guy on the phone at Tech Support was super-sweet;
• the folks at the Genius Bar deserve the name;
• and my in-house Genius Bar (thanks, Snej!) has been checking in every few days with some new ideas...
and the back-up new computer still just hasn't shipped yet.
So we're trying to enjoy Limbo-Land, and remember what the *@&% it was that we all DID before we could surf three hours a day and type up every single little thing and save everything to a spreadsheet or word-processing document...
I remember now.
Before I geeked out, I used to garden:
So that's what I did all yesterday afternoon.
This photo was taken at sunset, which comes around 4:30 pm these days here in the upper parallels-
the day had been simply too beautiful to spend inside. About 55 degrees F, sunny and still - just right for working in a long-sleeved shirt in the garden.
Now our veggie beds are all tucked in for their winter nap, under straw eiderdowns.
I even snapped a shot of our kale bed, sporting a magnificent colorway I wish I could translate into Fair Isle for Janine:
If this computerless state carries on for much longer, I'll have to resort to entertaining y'all with photos of Boyhood mopping the kitchen floor or something!
what i got
It's an early Thanksgiving around here at casa akabini:
I got
• a husband who encourages me to spend an overnight in Bainbridge to knit with my homies;
• great friends who also happen to be colleagues;
• still more friends with en-suite studio apartments wherein I may lay my weary head after much knitting;
• a chance to learn at the feet of Feralknitter today;
• license to play with color and yarn and pencils and charts and oh my oh my.
And lo, the latte was good. And she drank of it, and was happy.
Photos of color play tomorrow!
oh, and Dad?
That Master's degree I slaved for?
That I haven't really been using because of the whole knitting thing?
Used it today - to help a blogger in need solve a language-related knitting mystery.
So there!