K2, P2 - A Knitty MMP

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Thanks, Mork, for the quite exhaustive review! I went with 64 bit Vista on my new laptop–I was planning on going back to XP64 but there was one important bit of hardware that had absolutely NO XP drivers–my wifi is a new chipset and there’s zero backwards compatibility. I’ll be go to hell if I’m gonna run native drivers at ALL, let alone trying to limp along without specific drivers for my wireless… Since I have 64 bit drivers for everything, I think I’d be set for 7, assuming that 7 supports Vista drivers?

Dual boot ain’t real practical on a 150 GB HDD but I might go ahead and snake a copy of 7 and give it a try. I’m a big fan of 64 bit OS even if for no other reason than the enhanced virus resistance and I’m not a fan of the bloatware in Vista, even if it is a stable environment. I’d like the extra room, and I like running lean & mean. I was getting bored with this build anyway… :wink:

Gotti, I was referring more to relaxing and accepting the financial disasterpiece of the cruise without worrying too much about what’s going to happen beyond that… :smack: On the other hand, whatever floats your boat, I guess! :stuck_out_tongue:

Don’t worry, gt, getting to crone is the best part, far as I’m concerned–I’ve been heading that way fast even when I was a young woman… Crones make the world go 'round and make sure the younguns know their asses from their elbows. It’s very much a state of mind, not necessarily a function of age–there are some women who never do get there at all, bless their hearts… :dubious:

Doggio, do you really think Gordie can read that? :smiley:

I’m with **Sherm, Haze, **don’t you DARE go running around on that crotch rocket without a helmet, and please do get some leather over your hide. My cousin bailed off the back of a Harley wearing a halter top–and landed in a barbed wire fence. Yeah, lots of scars all over her back, shoulders and chest, lots of infection. Leather jacket, helmet, leather chaps would be ideal, and REAL BOOTS. Not flip flops, not tennis shoes, get some darned boots on. Then, learn how to be a good rider–which first means NEVER lean away from a turn! Have fun!

FCM, call her Ziploc. I don’t know why, but that sounds like a funny kitteh name…

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I voted :slight_smile:

Livni. I don’t trust Bibi even where I do agree with him… :smack:

Yesterday was Tu Bi’Shvat, which is the “New Year for Trees.”
So we end up eating a lot of fruit. And I’m not sure what the trees tried to do to us, but we definitely won! :smiley:

I hear you. Oh, how I hear you… :eek:

I am someplace warm and breezy! I just can’t get away from all this indoor work to go out and enjoy it!! :o :stuck_out_tongue:

**Shelli **-- sucks about having your car broken into. At least not too much was taken (and, I take it, no windows nor locks broken?) I’ve lost two radios and a window to car burglaries. Luckily, I leave nothing but the registration and my music (which no thief would want :D) in the car. And the first radio and the window were covered by the leasing contract :slight_smile:

Going to J’lem with the family to see Special Teen soon – back later!

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Haze, that’s not a bike, that’s just something to annoy passings wasps with. This is a bike! Glad to hear you’re at least getting yourself a skid-lid but I’d recommend some decent biking gear as well, you never know when your rider’s going to dump you on the ground and that stuff hurts.

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since it’s been many years since I’ve knitted, I may have gotten it reversed, but I have tried putting the needle in front and I get all spastic. Trust me. Manymanymanymany people have tried to get me to see how “easy” it is to just reverse a few steps and voilá! I’m knitting and perling. ::shakes head:: just can’t be done.

Off to work. blurf.

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Lunch- and restful… warm, breezy and RESTFUL! I will keep shouting at you until you are RESTFUL!!! (wha…?).

Some of those trees you’re celebrating are mine! My Bat Mitzvah tree, the tree I collected weeks of quarters to fill up my donation card for, the tree for my high school graduation… Happy New Year, trees!

Anyhoo- didn’t sleep much last night. Wired… Facebooked waaaaay too much… weird, screaming animals outside my house freaking me out, chatted with my sister in California…

I tired now. Must go teach.

Just checked. Still can’t knit- reversed, normal, any way. :smiley:

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Off to catch the 0648. Tis still dark out. :eek: But it’s already warm. We are having one day of spring–the same day I am stuck in HR, learning all about my new place of employment. Karma. Oy. :rolleyes:

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This post has caused me to dip my toe in the waters of the MMP, get tangled in my yarn, and generally mix my metaphors…

Left to right, or right to left? Back last year, a friend who was brought up in the US of Russian emigre parents, expressed great surprise at the way I knit. From right to left. She seems to knit from left to right. The next project for me (in addition to the ones on the needles, which include Embossed Leaves, Cable Rib, and Austrian Socks from Interweave’s Favorite Socks) is to establish which nationality knits in what way.

Said friend mentioned yesterday that when knitting socks, you should have the right side out. And laughed at me when I told her that I always knit socks wrong side out. Perhaps it’s time to change my ways…but so far, wrong side out has worked for me.

As for the MM part of it - I’ve been browsing the many patterns in this thread and trying to keep the cat from savaging the parsley - I need it for the cooking, dammit!

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:Makes mental note to get sewing machine fixed this week:
Morning, everyone. It’s warm, grey, and drizzly. On the bright side, Nat’s still asleep, and I only had to get up three times during the night, which is some kind of miracle. We need to clean the kitchen and wash 10340130 dishes. Maybe we could also take the sewing machine in? It’ll require a car.

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I knew I had class this morning, but I still stayed up late last night. So friggin’ tired…

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Heh. Me too.

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Morning…had to come in here when I saw you were talking knitting.
Even though I don’t knit, but I’m sure you’ll forgive a crocheter, right? Right? please?

ANYway, this weekend I got to plunder a friend’s yarn-she’s-not-going-to-use, and I now have a 30-gallon garbage bag full of yarn. Mostly wool, and mostly finger weight.

I make baby blankets out of Worsted weight, acrylic. I have no idea what I’m going to do with all that yarn. Except, of course, send some to CatsMeow, but I’d really like to use some of it myownself.
I’ve checked Ravelry already and…yeah, I just don’t need another scarf, or a shawl, and IMO making things out of wool for babies is just wrong, since you can’t WASH the dang things.

le sigh…

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Morning! It’s warm and drizzly here.

I like the pic of the bike, Haze! This is a pic of an '83 Harley Sportster - which I’ll have when the rebuild project becomes priority for Mr Rebo. :rolleyes: He bought a used bike, and bought a bunch of chrome accessories, and it’s all in storage. Hopefully I’ll have it by fall. :wink:

Lots of work to pretend to do…

Seeya!

(Oh yeah - welcome all y’all yarny newbies!)

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I love the Dope cos you can do something like tell people to google encaje de bolillos and get what the heck is it called in foreign.

Back to work. Not having a good day. Got sick yesterday (not sure if it was general nerves or political talk over lunch), tummy stilll crappy, and I got a call from my agent because Sheboss called him last Friday about “being sick of my lack of attention.” Color me confused… in every single correction she’s sent me in the last three weeks, the item she’s added was already there.

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Mornin’
Work is busy.

I did not get much knitting done last night. But, that’s ok, my hands and wrists have been bothering me. I’m starting to fear carpal tunnel, but there isn’t anything I can do about it. I think I’m going to try the other style of knitting…I don’t ever remember which is which, but I usually carry my yarn in my right hand, and want to learn to do it in my left. It’s supposed to be faster that way, which sounds good to me. I almost always feel like I’m moving more slowly than I should.

I love the shawl pattern that was posted yesterday. I will have to try it.

That wreath is adorable!! I love it.

Shelli, make sure you call the Social Security Office and report your card stolen. That’s a pretty big thing to have stolen, even though it might not seem like much now. There’s a booming business in this country selling stolen SS cards to illegal immigrants. Though your credit might not be good, someone could still use your number for employment or insurance benefits…

Feel better Nava

Have I just missed Mama Tigs?? A knitterly MMP without her doesn’t feel right.

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Our garage door opener broke yesterday. Yippee. At least it was warm enough to leave the car outside last night, but it’s not going to stay warm enough for long. Hopefully we can get it fixed or replaced soon. Bleh.

That sucks about having your car broken in to, Shelli! But I’m with mousie, report it to the social security office!

I knit left to right. I think. When I start a row, all the yarn is on the left needle and I move it to the right as I knit. Isn’t that the normal way of doing it? That way you right hand is doing the work, which for right-handed people would seem to be the logical way to do it. Or is that backwards? I’m confused.

I made chipotle cashew chicken for dinner last night (It’s a semi-regular recipe around our house.), and I added the chipotle powder (We use that instead of the chipotles in adobo… easier to keep around for longer periods of time.) to the pan when it was too hot. Instant vaporized pepper. Sort of like spraying pepper spray throughout the whole house. We had to open windows and still were coughing for a while. Oops. The recipe’s really good though!

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If you are not a Knitter you are a Muggle.

I am surrounded by Muggles.

Knitwit I am assuming you have heard of Ravelry and Knitty . Yarn Pron. You are welcome.
I am stalled on Leftovers because my first, true, sparkly rainbows and unicorn kinda LURVE has returned to me after my muse, the whore, left me. Writing. It’s all crap, but it is theraputic crap where I can kill those in real life that annoy the crap out of me. I’m writing about vampires, so there will be carnage.

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MamaTigs is hibernating, or so she says. I did mention this week’s thread topic to her. Concerning the topic, I don’t knit, but I do cross-stitch.

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Oh yeah! I’m LauraMcB on Ravelry. And I’ve done so many Knitty projects, I should have my own blog on the subject.

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I’m wearing one of my new sweaters from my outlet adventure last week. It’s a lovely lavender color with a big wide neck… and a big V that dips way lower than I thought. :o <-- A bit embarrassed.

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I’m jealous about the yarn.

Making sweaters isn’t all that hard and that’s what I’d do if I had a bunch of wool. Free yarn is a great thing to learn on. Are you brave enough to try that?