KnitTech

List Day!

2009-11-12T16:41:00.002-07:00

There were four cars at the bar this morning
It was also pouring rain
I have one more inch to go before I start the toe on Grilltech's sock
I've started the thumb gusset on my first mitt
I should have three of them knit by now, I've started it twice now
My computer has been updated, now I can't see the internet
Stupid proxies, once they've been reset I'll be able to surf
Yesterday we watched the neighbor's dog Speedy and Havac playing
Havac is about 1/3rd the size of Speedy, it was way cute
Grilltech made THE BEST chicken last night
We're having soup on Saturday
Fourth reboot of the day and it's only 0630
I'm back on the internet
The air conditioning is on in here
I've started the toe
odd, turns out the Gnome really isn't a demon
Convert and BBQer about died from laughing so hard
I'd have to say as a team no one is looking at the For All to Read folder because I found something that was misfiled four days ago
Which means complaints about stuff being filed wrong will increase
Whew, last night's couscous got hotter today
There was something I was thinking I wanted from the LYS, but right now I can't remember what it was
Grilltech has offered to get me a scale that posts to twitter
I've declined that awesome gesture
I guess I could get it, I don't twitter
There is snow in the foot hills, rumor has it, the snow might make it down here in the valley on Friday
Ick, not ready for snow
My sunstone showed up today

Monday, Monday

2009-11-09T14:49:00.001-07:00

I am not having a good morning. Did not want to get out of bed this early. Wanted to stay and get more quality sleep time. Was three minutes late to work this morning, okay that's not so bad. On the desk this morning there was a letter from the cow-orker stating the other machine wasn't on the network and she had put in a ticket to get it fixed. I could log on to another machine and work from it. Hum, no, I can't. I have specialized software on my machine, so I can't run my morning reports. Convert called in sick, so she isn't here to run them either. My admin password isn't working, so I can't move the files from her profile to mine so I can run them on her machine. I think I'd like to go home and go back to bed.

BO came in and got me back to the network about 15 minutes after I asked Troll to run the downloads. I'm having a fun day. On the plus side, Wednesday is a holiday.

The Alpaca is software and colorful. The pattern looks pretty sweet on it. When I do pictures later this week, hopefully I'll have one completed. I have been making progress on the blanket. Very slow progress, but it's progress.

I finally got out of the datamine almost 1.5 hours later. Bed is calling, not sure if I'll do any knitting, but I'll think about it.

List Day!

2009-11-05T15:20:00.004-07:00

There were six cars at the bar this morning
In the long straight stretch, someone hit a skunk
Today is knit day down at the LYS
Lace Knitter (LK) asked the best way to get there from here
Yesterday I brought my big coat and didn't really need it
Today I brought a light jacket and wished I brought my heavier one
It appears the report is back to taking a long time to run
Long time is both good and bad
It appears it was a bad long time, the report failed
So now I have to run it again and in smaller batches
We watched V last night, WTF? What is up with the TV IN THE BATHROOM?
I won't allow Grilltech to have one in the bedroom, much less the bathroom
I gave away my fingerless mitts to Redheaded Knitter (RK), because she didn't have any and her hands were like ice
I'm thinking about pulling out the killer alpaca and making myself some mitts
Doing something different, spending more time getting set up then working
I've got a guy sitting in the bay across from me who is shaking my desk
I loathe that
The job I'm doing, pretty boring - and the monkey pushes the button
Dessert?
Knitted for a while, now I'm pretty much too tired to anything
I did find the alpaca
I really need to go start dinner
But, no Amy has sucked me into yummy, yummy hot guys video's

Drive by Posting

2009-11-04T14:03:00.001-07:00

Best comment ever?

Perky: Mom, you should rise the bowl instead of letting it sit for three days!

I about died laughing.

Catch Up

2009-11-03T06:44:00.003-07:00

On Sunday I took pictures of my pretties.

First up, is the final package from my Secret Pal:

Some awesome sock yarn, love the colors. Size one bamboo's, which will come in handy when I wear out the metal ones on the blanket. A bit of left over sock yarn, that she made me a great pair of socks out of. The socks weren't in the picture because they were in the washer since I had worn them. They're great! Thank you Pal!

Of course, no photo shoot is complete unless I have a cat over seeing my work. Uggy managed to make it three feet out of the house. Saw that I looked her way, and back in she went.

Peaches on the other hand, settled in on the warm bricks to watch.

While thinking of my next big "project" I pulled out the pink frilly yarn for D's requested scarf. I think I have enough left over for a hat, trying to decide if I really want to put myself through that.

Two weeks ago this coming Friday before I had finished Grilltech's vest, a package from Donna Lee showed up. She sent a box of yarn. It sat on the coffee table until I had finished the vest, because of Roxie's proclamation.

Roxie had also sent me a package of sock yarns, which I didn't have to wait a day and a half to open.

I dumped them together on a towel. That's one huge pile of yarn!

I have the best friends ever!

List Day - Double Shot!

2009-10-29T15:42:00.004-06:00

Counted five cars at the bar this morning
The half full moon was a lovely shade of peach and lovely to look at before it disappeared behind the horizon
Saw another meteor falling this morning, it was more grayish than green
I think it was due to the cloud cover
DQ is trying to fall asleep at the switch
There is a lace knitter in training (at work not training to be a lace knitter), he wanted to know if he could knit on the floor
Told him, I didn't have a problem with it, I did - however - point out his supervisor may have something to say about it
Honey at our age the sexy maid outfit complete with the blackfish nets shouldn't be worn in public; even if you are rail thin
The Gnome doesn't read his e-mails otherwise he'd know why the server was being rebooted often
The fans sound like rain, but it's not raining outside
While coming out of knitting today, I found a 20 on the ground
I took it home with me because it needed a good home and mine is good as any
If you lost the 20, send me an email describing it and I'll get it in the mail to you ASAP
There were eight cars in the parking lot on the drive home
I think I'm going to to knit more

List Day!

2009-10-28T15:39:00.004-06:00

There were no cars at the bar this morning

Today is Thursday at work

Most depressing part?

I was really looking forward to watching yummy, yummy hot guys tonight

Until I realized it was only Wednesday

I've got to take some pictures

And give a BIG shout out to Donna Lee

Contest

Stupid, stupid pattern!

I'm typing up the pattern for the little lace cardi because it forces me to read it first and it's MISSING A ROW OF DECREASES

GRRRRRR

At this point, I'm almost ready to say fuck-it

It only comes in a extra-small to medium and I'm going to have to do math anyway

Roxie, you're killing me at work

I did laugh hysterically then asked Grilltech to come up with a list

I need to bring a comb to work, running my hands through my hair only makes it static-y

I've always wondered what the Start Process button does, it takes you to the log in screen

Very handy for someone who just signed in

I think it's time for chocolate

Oh yea, I'm trying to eat better

Since Monday reports from one server haven't been working correctly, and we couldn't figure out why

Today it hits me: duhhhh, the server thinks daylight savings has happened

Troll has spent the rest of the day running updates on the server in question
Told him yesterday, I was going to hex him if he didn't behave

He didn't believe me then...

Went and knitted with Red after work

It was a lot of fun
Now I'm starving and nuking the salamon for dinner

Thank God for the food saver, it's more than paid for itself

Grilltech likes the idea of another vest

First I have to get my sweater done

Maybe I can knit him a pair of socks to distract him

1000 Words

2009-10-26T16:24:00.004-06:00

Such a distint lack of trust on the part of some people... Of course, I am a spy, so I don't always play by the rules. So here we go:

No photo shoot would be complete without a supervisor, Fran decided it was up to her again.

I didn't get the biohazard buttons, or any Fima to make them.

Its done.

But some people won't be satified with a picture of it on the deck. Fine.

Last weekend, I tried it on to see how it would look and Grilltech gets a worried look on his face. It's not going to fit me! I think it fits him fine.

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

2009-10-24T16:31:00.001-06:00

I finished it at 1619!!

List Day!

2009-10-23T15:12:00.002-06:00

There was one car at the bar this morning
A black and white kitty crossed five lanes of traffic in front of me
The fact I was the only car on the road is irrelevant
Grilltech's vest should be done by this weekend
Except, I don't have buttons for it
A new addiction to take more time away from knitting
I think I'm going to go exchange the 24 inch size 0's for a 32 inch, the 24's are too small
It appears to be the day of failed reports
Which makes my job much more difficult
Day is half over!
I'm having to ask Grilltech how to do percentage questions
Then I double check my answers by looking it up on the internet
Yes, it is a kids site, but it works - and NO BIG WORDS
I've got 30 minutes left in my day and I'm out of water been that way for about 20 minutes now
I still reach over and grab my cup to take a drink
Damn, I've got to run another eight reports
And I'm still out of water
I want to get Grilltech biohazard buttons for his vest, but I can't find any
I suppose I could pay through the nose and have them made
Then that vest would really be EXPENSIVE
My weekend is started, have fun everyone

Monday WIP/FO

2009-10-19T14:14:00.003-06:00

Today's photo shoot is supervised by Fran!

Started another pair of socks. What's so special about these? Nine inch needles!

Not so sure I really like them.

Wait, I'm not sure I like the lighting on this one... Cats! Ice Queen for someone's birthday.

I'm sooo close to being done with the vest!

List Day!

2009-10-15T16:52:00.001-06:00

Yesterday there weren't any cars, today I counted five at the bar
Yesterday Grilltech got a flu shot, today I feel like crap
Fixed the vest issue, I held it up to him asking is it 13 inches yet?
I don't need to comment at how much he laughed at me
BLT's for dinner tonight; a co-worker brought in the last of his tomatoes
Its raining hard enough to hear the pounding on the roof
I've really got to quit playing Bejeweled 2, it's sucking up all my time
I did manage to get a load of laundry done yesterday, but I spent four hours playing the damn thing
My right hand is itching like mad and the house is filthy - stupid Bejeweled
The socks are done and given to Perky, I didn't like the after thought heel
Next time I knit them, I'll do a regular heel
The rain has stopped and the sun has come out to play
Went to knit time, it was fun to see everyone again
Roxie, there were three on the way home

2/5th of the Week

2009-10-13T15:09:00.003-06:00

What has two thumbs and is a dumbass? That's right! ME!

Case 1
I was note taker during the meeting today, and as usual I worked on my knitting - Grilltech's vest to be exact - I put it down, picked it up later started the new row. Finished one side, moved to the next and the cables aren't matching. WTF. It's now in time out, because I don't want to deal with it right at this moment.

Case 2
I'm cleaning up MP3's, which will make Grilltech extremely happy. The music folder in question is from more than a year ago, when newsgroups had MP3 folders. So some of this isn't easily found. Rename them all, move a bunch into Perky's folder, then proceeded to delete the directory instead of the list of songs.

Case 3
Turned on autofill on the iPhone, it upped my song list from 838 to 1100. Awesome! Or so I thought, it moved a bunch of Christmas music over. I went and deleted all the songs off my phone and now in the process of reloading. Okay, that wasn't really a dumbass thing, but more of a learning exprience.

Work? Do I really hafta?

2009-10-12T14:36:00.004-06:00

On my list of things to do this weekend, pulling back muscles wasn't one of them. Wasn't anywhere near the top ten or 1000 even. But I managed to do it. It's not a bad pull - during the day - just annoying enough to remind me not to bend over to pick up my shoes, but use my knees. However, trying to sleep at night? WAY different story, rolling over wakes me up. But enough of me whining.

Also not on the list was ripping back about five or six rows on Grilltech's vest. Best quote ever? Oh great, now it's in time out and it will never get done - Grilltech. Which was completely unfounded, I'm on the home stretch I want that bad boy off my needles. Almost as badly as I want my socks off the needles. I tried them on last night and they may be a bit tight on the instep. But I'll take a complete even if I end up giving them away. Oh yea, I said enough of me whining, didn't I?

Fine, look at pictures:

Three knitting bags

Grilltech's vest, getting so much closer to being completed.

Blanket folded in half, so I could get a picture of it

My socks mere rounds away from being finished. They won't be coming to work with me tomorrow!

Non-Pictured, Picture Post

2009-10-09T18:24:00.002-06:00

Last night, I was smart and moved Promise Rock and Grilltech's Vest pattern over to the phone so I'd have them. Synced and went to bed. I get up late, grab the phone then make a mad dash to work. I go to pull up the pattern and it's not there. It doesn't take a genius to figure out Promise Rock wasn't there either. I sent Grilltech an e-mail asking him to send me a copy of the pattern, but he didn't check mail today. I've sent a text to Perky, but so far I haven't heard back from her either. I have a half an inch before I'm ready to do the arm hole bind off. Then 13 more inches before I start the band, but that's neither here nor there. The end is in sight.

List Day!

2009-10-08T13:40:00.001-06:00

I counted two cars this morning
It's amazing what a shot of chocolate does for the attitude
Course it also does for the waist line
We were watching disc five of Fringe last night, and OMG Astrid had on a sweater I thought was amazing
Grilltech is going to grab a screen shot of it, so I have a design guideline
Apparently I was thrashing around in my sleep last night
I'm not feeling very rested today, I wonder if the two are related
One more inch and I start the bind off arms
I caught myself turning to purl back after only finishing one side
Maybe it's not a good idea to be knitting something this important while not feeling well
Or maybe I should be paying attention to what I'm doing instead of being on auto-pilot
Nasty mirgraine is forming, so much for knitting this afternoon

New Math

2009-10-07T13:59:00.000-06:00

Happy Friday Eve, Eve. The only thing making me remotely happy is the fact it's the day before Friday Eve. I'd be even happier if it was Friday. This morning while grabbing my stuff to bring to work, I couldn't stand the thought of working on my socks. Instead I pulled what was needed out of my bag and brought my knitting bag. As I worked across the first front, was halfway across the second one and realized, it already had the cable done. WTF?! I tinked back the second front, then purled back the first one to make them match up again. I don't know how I got off by two rows. The fronts of the vest are currently at 16.5 inches, only 3.5 more to go before starting the arm hole and decreases. I can't wait. Oh yea, knit more on it and it will be done.

I think Grilltech is feeling pretty blah as well. He hit snooze four times this morning, then rolled over and went back to sleep after telling me he wasn't working the OT. I think if I would have told him, I was calling in sick he would have done the same thing. But I didn't call in sick, ~~only because I had some uploads I needed to finish~~ because I'm not overly sick; just crabby, whiny, bitchy. The trifectia. I guess he did mean for him to be out sick. Not fair!

Perky, I think you need these shoes.

Last night, the blanket was measured - at this point is it really a blanket? Two squares is four inches long. I used 72 squares to make two rows (or four inches), so if I want it to be 80 inches long I'll need 1440 squares to make the blanket the size I want. Which works out to be a grand total of 737,280 stitches. Not quite a million, but close. How big does the project need to be upon completion before you send me more sock yarn Aunt Roxie? Meaning, after the vest? Would a dishcloth count?

Signs

2009-10-06T13:25:00.002-06:00

Autumn is defiantly here. Last night while taking Havoc on his walk, I saw several yellow leaves poking out of the green foliage. The morning drive had patches of light, almost ethereal fog. The moon's silvery gleam gave the night almost a magical glow. It was lovely.

Today's work so far is better than yesterday's. I think standing in front of a firing squad with a blindfold would be better than yesterday. The general overall feeling of blahness is easing a bit. The rabid bitchess is fading but not gone - I don't think that will ever go away. The overwhelming desire to nuke the planet from orbit - just to be sure - is easing.

My blanket is going to be 75 x 100 = 7500 squares. 7500 SQUARES on size 1's. I'll be knitting forever and a day. I won't go where one square is 512 stitches. (Okay, I did go there it's 3.84 million stitches.) I think I'm going to go lay down. Then recount, because I counted not just the bottom ones, but the joins as well. So, it might be 50 x 75 = 3750 square or 1.92 million stitches. With 77 square done I'm only 2% done with my new math

I think I'm going to go work on the vest for a while.

Snappy Title Here

2009-10-05T15:37:00.001-06:00

Hi, my name is Saren and I'm a bit stupid today? Need proof? I forgot my bank account number while writing it on the front of the deposit envelope. I didn't bring my lunch. I'm not knitting during hour glasses because I'd forget to look up and see if it was done. Thank God the spreadsheet has the formula's built in otherwise I couldn't say it would be done correctly. I'm doubting I'll make the whole day at the rate I'm ~~doing~~ going.

Is your company ready? I don't think mine is either.

I've forgotten how much of a resource hog access is at times.

I showed amazing restraint by not telling a supervisor what a dumbass he was because he couldn't figure out remove is different than change.

List Day - Double Shot!

2009-10-02T23:13:00.001-06:00

Too lazy to do a real post today

I suppose I could do pictures, instead... oh yea, lazy

Unlike the Yarn Harlot the heat was turned on last night

When walking back to the bedroom and I could feel the temperature drop five degrees it was time

Even the cats in the mornings weren't leaving the bed to supervise me getting ready

Granted this morning, they stayed on the bed where it was warm until the last minute

I'm still pretty cold here at work also

As of 0800, I'll have my 40

Too bad we're doing OT

Finished the second heel

Don't trust anyone

Right?

FR (fisherman's rib)

Mom, I don't like these needles Perky said while throwing down her knitting to pull a set of addi's out of her hair to use

At that point in time she had two sets in her hair

Don't ask me, I'm just her mother

The Convert is now binding off her dishcloth

Hmmm the Convert's has a V in the middle which looks very spiffy

I'm now warm enough to take off the jacket

I was hoping to get out of here early to watch the boys, but I didn't make it

My own fault really, I could have left this stuff until Monday

List Day!

2009-10-01T19:13:00.001-06:00

It was a four snooze morning

Counted six cars at the bar

I haven't seen Jupiter in the mornings recently

Amy made me cry this morning, but I can't tell anyone the reason why - Happy Birthday honey!!

I'm reskilling a site, so I can't do anything on the other computer

Oh wait, I guess that means I can work on this one...

Damn

Damn, reskill is done, now I have to work

I accomplished very little in the way of knitting yesterday

I did however, take Havoc for a long walk

Cow-orker behind me has a lovely stitch pattern sweater on: k5; FR 1; k5

Database latency today is allowing me to finish the heels on my socks

The convert is rows away from finishing her washcloth

She had decided she wants the baby blanket to have the above mentioned stitch pattern

So it will be reversible

Figure a nice lace border, will make it very pretty

2/5th of the Week

2009-09-29T16:11:00.001-06:00

Yesterday's gym nearly killed me. (Note to self: ~~e-mail~~ call Grilltech and have him grab my gym bag for me.) Tonight I'll need to load Amy's story onto the Ipod and read it while at the gym. Otherwise I'm just wasting time playing bejeweled. I bought it yesterday, because Teris wasn't quite distracting enough. Hopefully by next week, I won't be so wishing-I-could-die by the time I'm home.

Last night, I did several rows on the vest. I didn't have the energy to make squares. I'm getting closer to the arm hole shaping, which means I'm that much closer to being done. A second ball was added, another sign of being close to done.

Today I discovered Ravelry will now allow posting of pictures from other locations than flickr. Which means I'll be posting more pictures out there. I've started updating slowly. Is it slow when I added three of them today? While at work...

Weekend Recap

2009-09-28T14:14:00.004-06:00

It was a so-so weekend. It was also Grilltech's ~~45th~~ 44th birthday on Saturday. He had to work in the morning. He did come home to a semi-cleaned house. I picked up most of the yarn that began to ~~accumulate~~ gravitate around the black hole of my desk. It's not to say, I still don't have a bunch of yarn still on my desk, just not nearly as much.

Let's see, where was I going with this - oh yea - Grilltech's birthday. For dinner, we had barbequed baby back ribs. I know, I know, how could I force him to cook on his birthday. But it's what he wanted for dinner and loves to do. So who am I to stand in his way? Besides, we're not really celebrating until next weekend. Anyway, he started the ribs about 1500, said they'd be done about 2100. Apparently they cooked faster than he'd liked because they were done by 1800 and way over cooked by his standards. I thought they were good and tender, but he kept stating the ribs wouldn't be good for competition. Men!

The kids got him the expansion to Pandemic. He was very excited to get it. At about 2000, the other married couple of our gaming group came over to give Grilltech his present. We played Pandemic until 0100. We've figured out the name of the virus:

Black: Solanum

Blue: Captain Trips

Yellow: Andromeda

Red: Snow Crash - but I think it should be Nerve Attenuation Syndrome

Purple: Thing Cells

We take our gaming seriously. Very Seriously.

Sunday was a normal movie watching/laundry day. Neither of us had any energy to do much of anything. The wasn't any real reason for the blah, we just didn't have the motivation or desire to much. Did watch the The Great Escape and get some knitting done. I've added another inch or so on the vest. It's really a fast knit, but it's not holding my attention at all.

Today I showed Convert how to purl correctly, now she's off and running on a washcloth. She's discovered the joys of database hourglasses. I got two rows done!! I guess Suporvisor* (aka the Gnome) walked by and asked if she was waiting for something. It's almost amusing.

Oh yea, that's what an hour of cardio feels like. Me? Cook diner? Don't think so, I'm ordering in.

* Seriously, that’s how he spelled it.

List Day!

2009-09-24T17:04:00.002-06:00

I've been late three times this week

I saw a green meteorite on my drive in

Animal watch this morning: a fox

Counted five cars at the bar

I should have been working on the vest yesterday

Note the word should

Instead I finished four more squares

Amy you are helping. The top picture the pink square is yours

It helps if I run the report for the whole week, not just today

I think there is a fire on the ridge east of town

My hands are freezing and guess who forgot her gloves

Instead of gloves, I've put the USB blanket on

Happy Friday!!

Oh wait, that's just us

Lovely, the database slammed shut on me

We watched Mercy last night, it was interesting to see Janeway as a drunkard

The attendance VM is down, we're having to take calls manually

It cuts down on the long meandering messages talking about anal leakage

Yes, I did have a VM like that over two minutes long. I quit listening after 40 seconds

I forgot to get pictures of my socks

I can start the heel for them any time now, maybe tonight at home

Yea, who am I kidding? More blanket knitting time

I have an hour more to go in my day at work

I can hardly contain myself

The Gnome offered to buy us lunch!!!

It must be Friday, I'm talking stupidly to the computer

I have an overwhelming desire to go get a perm

So far I have managed to fend off this hair-killing thought, but I might cave when we have money

Yea, it must be Friday, I giggled like an idiot when the guy behind me said Yea, I'd work weekends if I can get off early

I'm heading home

What have I been doing?

2009-09-23T15:45:00.002-06:00

Some of these:

More of these:

A herd of them:

It's almost to the point of looking like a blanket. But I think I'm going to add another twenty blocks.

And I've managed to add a couple of rows to Grilltech's vest:

Grilltech's birthday is on Saturday, think I can have his vest done in time?