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So, shmoo and I have started doing Plated as of last week. We are also in a group imessage chat that’s basically being treated like an IRC conversation amongst the group, and it’s been going on for about a year now.

When we mentioned doing Plated in that chat, there were a ( Read more... )

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Bolting is finished! It only took 18 months and 4 days to do it. That’s not to say I was knitting that whole time. I wasn’t. For instance, I started the cast off back in September, and was just under halfway through it, and it sat there for months because I hated that fuzzy ( Read more... )

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Holy shit I actually finished a knit! Two if you count them as individuals.

After a long ban from homemade socks, shmoo managed to wheedle himself back into my good graces when I said I was knitting socks because I wanted a small project for our traveling, and my current shawl ( Read more... )

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I read a story for Pseudopod again.
You can find it here:

PseudoPod 489: The Devil In Rutledge County



I liked the story, and quite enjoyed reading it. Hopefully the podcast listeners will as well.

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Shmoo and I play a game called The Long Dark by Hinterland Studio Inc.
It’s still in beta on Steam, and is multi-platform.

Shmoo bought the game for me a few months after he got it, because I used to constantly yell at him while he played that he was going to die because he ( Read more... )

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So I didn’t spin a damn thing for Tour de France/Fleece.

I knit instead. And I almost managed knitting every day for a while. But then I stopped and have only randomly picked it up here and there.
I am working on Stephen West’s Bolting.

It’s been to several baseball games ( Read more... )

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This year MSW hit the same time it always does… the first full weekend in May.
The problem with that of course, was I was still pretty tired from the tonsil surgery, and we had Senators/Baysox games Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, and I knew I would not be up to all 3 games and ( Read more... )

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I know the calender disagrees, but we officially consider it summer once the top comes off the jeep.

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I never drink water; that is the stuff that rusts pipes.
~W. C. Fields

Tuesday, February 17th, seemed pretty normal for most of the day. Shmoo got home about 15 minutes before me, grabbed the dog and took her out back to potty. When he got downstairs, there was water ( Read more... )