MarQ1

At work—for conference calls where I have to pay attention and can’t actually work through them, yet don’t have anything to contribute—I have a bit of knitting I started, a scarf, and have been futzing around with a pattern. It’s in Baby Ull on #3 Am (3.00 mm) Swallow straights, so it’s in a fairly small gauge, but it’s just knits and purls, so I wouldn’t call it particularly difficult to knit. What’s been difficult was working my pattern out in my head. I tried working it out on paper, but my notebook isn’t big enough, so I turned to MS Excel, which can provide a decent grid.
Is a 102 row repeat excessive?
Four or five of them should yield a nice scarf.
I’ve put the pattern chart in a PDF here. I tried a table in HTML, but it wouldn’t print.

Once again, I spent a beautiful Saturday afternoon glued to my computer, but not to glued to my Mac, but to the soul-sucking monster at work. Why do I spend the weekend at work? Because other people procrastinate as much as I do and I put off nagging them much too late.
Around 4 o’clock—there’s not a soul around and hasn’t been all afternoon—very faintly I hear something on the PA system. A small bit later, I hear, very faintly, the fire alarm. Hëll, I had half a dozen spreadsheets in edit mode.
I called Security—after saving everything—and she said it was a drill. Two minutes later, they did it all over again. Still very faintly. I hope it’s louder when it’s real.

I could give you a knitting photo, but it would be a picture of defeat. The red diagonal scarf has a dropped stitch on the edge, ten rows down. This scarf is going so slowly, probably because I find it boring and I hate these bamboo needles. I’m switching to aluminum—the gauge can’t change that much.

I’ve been playing around with PHP, the programming code that runs underneath WordPress, which is what this blog runs on, and at the top of my sidebar (to the left) you see my first bit of live PHP coding. Everytime you enter or refresh this page, that counter will update (until Mom asks me to remove it.)

Counting down until my sister turns fifty just seems more fun than counting down until I do.

I think I’ll go knit.

So you should be seeing a little icon next to my web address in your browser if you use Firefox or MSIE.
The joys of amateur geekdom.

It was a beautiful day in Brooklyn, a tad windy, but 61° F at 4:15. But I didn’t enjoy get to enjoy it. I spent the day at the office working on the flowchart from h e l l.

So why am I sitting here at the computer? Just waiting to go to dinner.

With the inexorable pull of CSS coding, not to mention raw HTML, and other knitting blogs, I have again stayed up too late.

We did watch the first two episodes of the PBS show about the French & Indian War. Just this side of fascinating. Makes you dislike the French, Indians, British and Americans, though the British do come out looking worst. It is interesting to get at least part of a Native American point of view for a change.