So, I spent three hours yesterday looking through the free sock patterns on knittingpatterncentral.com. And printing out bunches of them. (I am not distractable, no indeedy.) Then I spent an hour or so going through my “orphan” balls of yarn. I finally settled on four different sock patterns and four kinds of yarn, which I [...]
Read full post hereSo, it’s T minus 5 days to the China trip, and travel panic is starting to set in. Me being me, I am blithely unconcerned about plane tickets, money, passports, whether I’ll have the right clothing, whether I’ll get lost in a foreign city and be totally unable to communicate with local passersby, and [...]
Read full post hereDeliciously funny:
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/non_doping_cyclists_finish_tour_de
I was watching the Tour de France with a certain amount of cynicism this year: it’s pretty obvious that, at that level, everyone is doping to stay ahead. It’s just that some of them are smart enough to avoid getting caught, that’s all.
I applaud their efforts to clean up the sport. I [...]