Archive for November, 2013
the first light in the darkness
Somehow it feels like the days are getting short earlier this year. That is actually true: sunset tonight is six minutes earlier here than it is in Eindhoven, where I was at this time last year. (This surprises me – Eindhoven is six degrees further north, and I’d have thought we were close enough to […]
Three strikes and I’m out
In this case, ripping out. I’ve been making a sweater for Ted (Ravelry link); it’s knitted form the bottom up and I had finished the whole lower body section and most f the back. Unfortunately, since I’d kept the front stitches on the needles, at some point I didn’t quite get to the spot where […]
free day!
Wow. There is actually nothing I have to do today. I’ve erged for the last three days, so today is an off day. We got a cleaning service, so I don’t need to scrub bathrooms. My publisher (OK, I just like saying those words) haven’t sent me galley proofs yet, so I don’t need to […]
should I use semaphore instead?
Dear Person at Work: If you can’t see my file when I show it to you, and can’t hear it when I read it to you, than WHYINHELL WERE WE IN THAT MEETING??!?!?! Don’t mind my looking down at my laptop when you tell me this stuff. It’s not that I can’t take criticism; it’s […]
thinking about (some) veterans
It’s Veteran’s Day in countries that had reason to celebrate the Armistice of WWI, and my FB feed is awash with American flags. So was the highway as we drove home yesterday. There are “thank a veteran” messages everywhere. It kind of bothers me (in an entirely predictable way) because it all seems so oversimplified. […]
meet the new boots, same as the old boots
I’m still coughing a bit on and off, but mostly over the cold. At least if I didn’t avoid it, I managed to get a much lighter version than Ted had. (I do not know if getting the flu shot a few days before a) depressed my immune system and made me more vulnerable, b) […]