Okay. Calmer than yesterday, but still irked at the USOC. *grumbles loudly under breath*
Anyway.
I just ran across this video and discovered that it is THE Bob of Ravelry fame!
*diez*
Poor Bob. Cookie? No cookie. Cookie? COOKIE! LOL
Cheers!
Thursday, June 21, 2012
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
so mad I could just spit
Well. We have less than 50 days to go to the Olympic Games (gee, can I talk about it? I'm not PAYing anyone, so is it an infringement?) and the USOC has decided to piss off 2 million people at once.
How?
Knitters Outraged After U.S. Olympic Committee Squashes Knitting Olympics—and Disses Knitters
Really?
This has to be the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen. How many other items, events, and ideas have the suffix"-lympic" as common use?
I'm am totally disgusted by the actions of a money-grubbing group that claims to have the athletes 'rights and dedication' at heart.
Maybe more later. I'm just sickened by the idiocy of the USOC.
How?
Knitters Outraged After U.S. Olympic Committee Squashes Knitting Olympics—and Disses Knitters
Really?
This has to be the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen. How many other items, events, and ideas have the suffix"-lympic" as common use?
I'm am totally disgusted by the actions of a money-grubbing group that claims to have the athletes 'rights and dedication' at heart.
Maybe more later. I'm just sickened by the idiocy of the USOC.
Monday, May 28, 2012
she wants to take off
747 in a boneyard in the Mojave. What winds!!
The only other thing that's going on...okay, one of a couple things...is that I'm working on my Gemini with Sue and Wendy. Not much else - trying to stay cool. It's going to be downright COLD (for June) by the end of the week!
Cheers!
The only other thing that's going on...okay, one of a couple things...is that I'm working on my Gemini with Sue and Wendy. Not much else - trying to stay cool. It's going to be downright COLD (for June) by the end of the week!
Cheers!
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
waino es bueno (and is back!)
(Edit: MSN apparently took down the great vid and replaced it with something with a weird person on it.)
Complete game. Was very emotional during post-game interview.
Yes, he made me cry. Welcome back, Adam!!
Cheers!
Complete game. Was very emotional during post-game interview.
Yes, he made me cry. Welcome back, Adam!!
Cheers!
Sunday, February 26, 2012
knitting of a different sort and catching up
Hi all. Yeah! Still breathing! Just not doing much besides work, sleep, repeat.
I did finish a project that I'd started a long time ago - it needed about 2-3 more inches of rings and the clasp.
This is a Byzantine design chain, with 4.5mm sterling silver and red-clad copper rings. Yes, that is a quarter. Finished length without the clasp was 22 inches long. I had a wild idea that I'd like to learn how to make the European 4-in-1 sheet, and realized I'd not finished this one. I think there's a pair of earrings in the box that needs to be put together too, and then I can play around with the 4-in-1! Trying to stop the start-it-now-itus before it, well, starts.
I knit my fingers off for Christmas, and have been carrying a 2 color brioche stitch scarf to and from work for over a month. How many rows have I knit? About 20. Just not motivated. Lisa showed me a poncho that someone was wearing that she liked, so I've been looking for a pattern for a turtleneck poncho/cape. I may have a pattern in mind, but I'll have to see how the ribbing works out.
I got a Kindle Fire for Christmas, and it has been the reason for my lack of good sleep for the last 2 months. I have only read a few things, but I have been collecting a lot of cookbooks and trashy romance novels/novelettes from Amazon's freebies. The problem is that I'll get involved with a game or scrolling through a bunch of recipes and *poof* it's 4 AM.
I finally learned how to make pot roast. yes, I'm going to be 44, but hey, I don't cook for anyone but me, and pot roast is usually a family dinner. I've made two so far, both in the slow-cooker, and have been tweaking the recipe as I go along. Most of the recipes for slow-cooker pot roast call for cream of mushroom soup, but I'm not using it. I've also decided I need to make my own onion soup mix, cuz the first one was waaaay too onion-y. Wish me luck!
I did find a cardi I'd like to make for myself:
It's from the Bond-America people, and why yes, I do have a knitting machine (of course!)...what do you think of the cardi?
Breaking news: SPRING TRAINING HAS BEGUN! FULL SQUAD! AAAIIIIEEE!!!!
Ahem.
Time for sleep - the dog is snoring away and the infomercials have started on the TV.
Cheers!
I did finish a project that I'd started a long time ago - it needed about 2-3 more inches of rings and the clasp.
This is a Byzantine design chain, with 4.5mm sterling silver and red-clad copper rings. Yes, that is a quarter. Finished length without the clasp was 22 inches long. I had a wild idea that I'd like to learn how to make the European 4-in-1 sheet, and realized I'd not finished this one. I think there's a pair of earrings in the box that needs to be put together too, and then I can play around with the 4-in-1! Trying to stop the start-it-now-itus before it, well, starts.
I knit my fingers off for Christmas, and have been carrying a 2 color brioche stitch scarf to and from work for over a month. How many rows have I knit? About 20. Just not motivated. Lisa showed me a poncho that someone was wearing that she liked, so I've been looking for a pattern for a turtleneck poncho/cape. I may have a pattern in mind, but I'll have to see how the ribbing works out.
I got a Kindle Fire for Christmas, and it has been the reason for my lack of good sleep for the last 2 months. I have only read a few things, but I have been collecting a lot of cookbooks and trashy romance novels/novelettes from Amazon's freebies. The problem is that I'll get involved with a game or scrolling through a bunch of recipes and *poof* it's 4 AM.
I finally learned how to make pot roast. yes, I'm going to be 44, but hey, I don't cook for anyone but me, and pot roast is usually a family dinner. I've made two so far, both in the slow-cooker, and have been tweaking the recipe as I go along. Most of the recipes for slow-cooker pot roast call for cream of mushroom soup, but I'm not using it. I've also decided I need to make my own onion soup mix, cuz the first one was waaaay too onion-y. Wish me luck!
I did find a cardi I'd like to make for myself:
It's from the Bond-America people, and why yes, I do have a knitting machine (of course!)...what do you think of the cardi?
Breaking news: SPRING TRAINING HAS BEGUN! FULL SQUAD! AAAIIIIEEE!!!!
Ahem.
Time for sleep - the dog is snoring away and the infomercials have started on the TV.
Cheers!
Saturday, November 12, 2011
wonderful wandering world
I was going to bed - really, I was - but ran across this little map thingy. You click on all the states (for the US map, of course) that you have visited/driven through/etc and it gives you the HTML. Cool! Here's mine:
visited 27 states (54%)
Create your own visited map of The United States
Why yes, I *do* like to drive. Why do you ask? ;)
Cheers, and goodnight!
visited 27 states (54%)
Create your own visited map of The United States
Why yes, I *do* like to drive. Why do you ask? ;)
Cheers, and goodnight!
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
baseball, life, and @meteoritemen
Well, it’s the baseball off season. What to do? The Rams have one win on the season so far (yes, we are on what, Week 8?) and the Blues are off to a rocky start. Albert Pujols goes on the full free agent market at 11:01 PM tonight, we’ve lost our 16-season manager to retirement, Yadier Molina won the Gold Glove for the fourth year in a row, and David Freese seems to be following Justin Bieber from one talk show to another. And oh, by the way, the guys won the World Series. Yeah, just a little thing.
Isn't that video great?? It aired on Channel 5 on Sunday night and the guy who produced it (Larry) posted it on Twitter last night, He's @ksdk_sports on Twitter.
Monday night was Halloween, and was mostly a recovery night from the weekend. Last night, however, some more of my Twitter timeline was available (outside my #stlcards tweeps, that is) and I saw that Geoff Notkin was posting about the upcoming Meteorite Men Season 3 premiere following a Season 2 marathon of the show on Science.
Their seasons are 8 episodes, but they are enjoyable. The premise of the show is the space-rock pursuing adventures of Geoff and his fellow hunter Steve Arnold, who uncovered the world’s largest oriented pallisite. I love the description of that find – equipment was listed as ‘sophisticated modern metal detecting equipment (…) and a backhoe.’ I’m so used to people digging things out of the ground with hand tools and brushes that the backhoe reminded me of the line from Indiana Jones: “You would use a bulldozer to find a....china cup...” Geoff is very particular (my impression) and Steve is very much a ‘jump up and let’s go get-em!’ guy. The thinker and the do-er, paired up to hunt for bits of space stuff. They are a LOT of fun to watch. It's like David Bowie vs Led Zepplin. heee
Geoff posted several messages on Twitter last night, and one of them was that he was also a blogger on a website in Tucson, where he lives. All of my exposure to Geoff has been via the TV, and so I was curious about the blog. What else to do in the off-season?!?
I’m glad I clicked.
Geoff had a good friend who passed away a few days ago, and so he put up a couple of blog posts about this friend. I read the second one first, as it was the most recent entry, and was really struck with not only the tone of the post but the insight into Geoff.
First, I have to agree that there comes a point when a person with a terminal illness just has to say ‘stop, enough is enough.’ Most of you who read this blog know that my stepfather passed away earlier this year after fighting his stage 4 cancer for over 3 years. He decided in November that he’d had enough of the treatments and that he was done. Some of you may know that I lost another friend in December of 1995 due to aggressive bone cancer. In his case, the cause of his illness was not found until it was far too late to fix the problem, and anything that could be done would have just been for quality of life. One of my last memories of Tom was watching a Rams football game with him on a Thursday night. Isn’t it odd what we remember?
Second, anyone who thinks that choosing to stop treatment is tantamount to committing suicide needs to have their own head examined. There is a point when the non-terminal person or people involved need to think of the terminal individual and not themselves. Yes, I know that is the most difficult thing to say and do, and no-one wants to just give up, but I would hope that if I was incapacitated, and someone else had to make that decision, they would think of me and how I would live from that point on and not of themselves. It irked me that Geoff had to address the individuals who considered the act of choosing to stop treatment as a sin – deal with it in your own life and then get back to me about it being a ‘sin’. Grrr.
I haven’t been to the intentional suicide point, thankfully, but I’m saddened and somewhat amazed by those who take that route. I’ve been dogged by depression several times, but not to that level.
I have to say, however, that I am envious of those who have the courage to drop everything and take a leap of faith that Geoff did. I am very glad that he had a friend who had the ability to help him detour from the path that would have lead to nowhere. If she hadn’t been there for him, how would all of us (who are still going about our mundane existences) have been entertained by two guys looking for rocks from space? Thank you, Anne Husick; you don’t know me from Eve, but thanks. I wish I had the courage to be that bold.
Gee, I think I’ve written more in this ramble than I have about anything else for a while.
I would recommend Geoff’s blog on the Tucson Citizen site. It’s an interesting read, and has things that sometimes will make you go Hmmm. I really liked the post from Sept 13 and the one from Sept 11 made me cry. Again.
By the way, the season premiere for Meteorite Men is on November 28.
Go think happy thoughts. Baseball pitchers and catchers report in 108 days!
Cheers!
Isn't that video great?? It aired on Channel 5 on Sunday night and the guy who produced it (Larry) posted it on Twitter last night, He's @ksdk_sports on Twitter.
Monday night was Halloween, and was mostly a recovery night from the weekend. Last night, however, some more of my Twitter timeline was available (outside my #stlcards tweeps, that is) and I saw that Geoff Notkin was posting about the upcoming Meteorite Men Season 3 premiere following a Season 2 marathon of the show on Science.
Their seasons are 8 episodes, but they are enjoyable. The premise of the show is the space-rock pursuing adventures of Geoff and his fellow hunter Steve Arnold, who uncovered the world’s largest oriented pallisite. I love the description of that find – equipment was listed as ‘sophisticated modern metal detecting equipment (…) and a backhoe.’ I’m so used to people digging things out of the ground with hand tools and brushes that the backhoe reminded me of the line from Indiana Jones: “You would use a bulldozer to find a....china cup...” Geoff is very particular (my impression) and Steve is very much a ‘jump up and let’s go get-em!’ guy. The thinker and the do-er, paired up to hunt for bits of space stuff. They are a LOT of fun to watch. It's like David Bowie vs Led Zepplin. heee
Geoff posted several messages on Twitter last night, and one of them was that he was also a blogger on a website in Tucson, where he lives. All of my exposure to Geoff has been via the TV, and so I was curious about the blog. What else to do in the off-season?!?
I’m glad I clicked.
Geoff had a good friend who passed away a few days ago, and so he put up a couple of blog posts about this friend. I read the second one first, as it was the most recent entry, and was really struck with not only the tone of the post but the insight into Geoff.
First, I have to agree that there comes a point when a person with a terminal illness just has to say ‘stop, enough is enough.’ Most of you who read this blog know that my stepfather passed away earlier this year after fighting his stage 4 cancer for over 3 years. He decided in November that he’d had enough of the treatments and that he was done. Some of you may know that I lost another friend in December of 1995 due to aggressive bone cancer. In his case, the cause of his illness was not found until it was far too late to fix the problem, and anything that could be done would have just been for quality of life. One of my last memories of Tom was watching a Rams football game with him on a Thursday night. Isn’t it odd what we remember?
Second, anyone who thinks that choosing to stop treatment is tantamount to committing suicide needs to have their own head examined. There is a point when the non-terminal person or people involved need to think of the terminal individual and not themselves. Yes, I know that is the most difficult thing to say and do, and no-one wants to just give up, but I would hope that if I was incapacitated, and someone else had to make that decision, they would think of me and how I would live from that point on and not of themselves. It irked me that Geoff had to address the individuals who considered the act of choosing to stop treatment as a sin – deal with it in your own life and then get back to me about it being a ‘sin’. Grrr.
I haven’t been to the intentional suicide point, thankfully, but I’m saddened and somewhat amazed by those who take that route. I’ve been dogged by depression several times, but not to that level.
I have to say, however, that I am envious of those who have the courage to drop everything and take a leap of faith that Geoff did. I am very glad that he had a friend who had the ability to help him detour from the path that would have lead to nowhere. If she hadn’t been there for him, how would all of us (who are still going about our mundane existences) have been entertained by two guys looking for rocks from space? Thank you, Anne Husick; you don’t know me from Eve, but thanks. I wish I had the courage to be that bold.
Gee, I think I’ve written more in this ramble than I have about anything else for a while.
I would recommend Geoff’s blog on the Tucson Citizen site. It’s an interesting read, and has things that sometimes will make you go Hmmm. I really liked the post from Sept 13 and the one from Sept 11 made me cry. Again.
By the way, the season premiere for Meteorite Men is on November 28.
Go think happy thoughts. Baseball pitchers and catchers report in 108 days!
Cheers!
Sunday, October 30, 2011
happily ever after
Cards win!! Cards win!!! Cards win!!!! Eleven in '11!!! Woot!!
By the way, if you weren't aware, my baseball team won the World Series last night. Still on a bit of a high!
I ran across this blog posting via my Twitter feed, and loved it!! Please read. It's the epic story of a remarkable journey:
Once upon a time, there was a baseball team.
Cheers!!! *bounces around the room*
By the way, if you weren't aware, my baseball team won the World Series last night. Still on a bit of a high!
I ran across this blog posting via my Twitter feed, and loved it!! Please read. It's the epic story of a remarkable journey:
Once upon a time, there was a baseball team.
Cheers!!! *bounces around the room*
Friday, October 28, 2011
on to game seven
Still in shock here. This is why:
David Freese HR Mike Shannon KMOX by ariashe
And here's the link to the video, with Joe Buck echoing his father Jack from 20 years ago:
MLB Video
Love these guys!!!
Cheers, and GO CARDS!!
David Freese HR Mike Shannon KMOX by ariashe
And here's the link to the video, with Joe Buck echoing his father Jack from 20 years ago:
MLB Video
Love these guys!!!
Cheers, and GO CARDS!!
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
rally squirrel goes national
MLB has added a fifth 'legend' for the postseason: the St. Louis RALLY SQUIRREL!
The Cards just won Game #3 of the NLCS. Two more to go to get to the World Series!
Oh, and Chris Carpenter rocks.
MLB won't let me embed the video, but here's Carp's "Legend" vid:
Link to MLB Video
Cheers! (I need to goto bed!)
The Cards just won Game #3 of the NLCS. Two more to go to get to the World Series!
Oh, and Chris Carpenter rocks.
MLB won't let me embed the video, but here's Carp's "Legend" vid:
Link to MLB Video
Cheers! (I need to goto bed!)
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