This just in!

...I am a little behind. On knitting, on the Intarwebs, on everything.

To wit, in the last month, I have knit:
(a) almost to the end of one Smart Capitals sock
(b) a body and half a sleeve of an hourglass pullover (stockinette country is your friend)
(c) one row of Icarus.

And for this great accomplishment, Glenna has gifted me with a Rockin' Girl Blogger award! Well shucks. Now I'll have to do things like get out the Rockin'-o-Meter to check each post for Rockin'-ness and make sure I don't fall behind. Thanks man!

Sure, the rest of the world could have taken that same month and done a Mystery Stole or a whole Icarus or three Bohuses (Bohi?), but over here, we go for the meditative approach. Really savour every stitch. Or at least that's the official story. Really, I'm just beginning the long slow painful like water-torture process of moving, as well as house-sitting til the end of August, so my goods and knitting habits are in disarray.

Technology around also seems to have upheaved itself on me. Starting with a fun little adventure in which I tottled off to a store which shall not be named to protect the guilty *cough*BestBuy*cough* for a wee little wireless card and a wee little chip of extra memory. The high point was when the RAM was so defective and/or incompatible that it started to mimic full computer death! So fun! Luckily it survived a full system restore, to wipe the drive and hopefully improve performance, but my data is all still on the backup drives. As are fun piccies. We'll see if we can't get those up and running for the next post.

As of yesterday I am the owner of my Very First Cell Phone. It even takes pictures. (I mentioned I'm slow, right?) A camera and a phone all in one? Who can live at this speed?


I tested it out last night at Lettuce Knit, where I tagged along with Glenna for some quality time with the socks and some visiting with the exciting folks there. That's her with Aven's little guy, already a yarn hound in the making. He's fun to hang out with. And likes to eat yarn labels.

And just to make this post extra incestuous, I have to give a shout-out since G's finally posted the pattern for the Brennan cardi. It looks super. Good luck to everyone who wants to give it a try. Stay strong through the diagonal rib and all that seaming. It's a dream when it's done.