I have a hankering for a huge bowl of really good chicken noodle or chicken matzoh ball soup. For those from the DC area, my standard for said soup from The Parkway Deli in Silver Spring. (more…)
I’m not sure if I mentioned that G gave my dragons a friend, in the form of Sauron. I’ve got the little collection going on my table in the family room. They hang out with me while I geek and knit. But, Sauron has little feet (who knew?) and is very top-heavy. He tends to fall over unless he’s propped up by his dragony friends.
So, I have this incredibly goofy desire to build a dragon pen, complete with coin beds (pennies), and overseer (Sauron). And, in my brain, it’s made out of popsicle sticks.
Sometimes, my inner child is not so inner.
I was doing some research on Dropbox, and a warning came up that some of my files aren’t being synced because of bad characters in the file names. I clicked on the link to start the “Incompatible files and folders” tool. Once it got started, this status message popped up:
Think my secret identity is getting too well known?
It was brought to my attention that I haven’t made my annual announcement that I have been designing custom planners (think DayRunner™ or DayTimer™ or Franklin Covey™, but based upon your designs) for more than 20 years. (That’s right. Since high school.) If you’ve been fighting to work within a system, instead of working a system, I might be able to help. Drop me a line, and I’ll work with you to design the planner of your dreams. (Or at least one that isn’t based in nightmares.)
After the “cuff too long” debacle, I ripped out the second sleeve and started over. I very carefully did not overshoot the length on the cuff this time, and switched to stockinette stitch, as required by the pattern.
This time, I was only 2″ past this point when I realized my mistake: I forgot to switch needle sizes (also as required by the pattern).
At least it’s tinking, and not frogging, I guess.
About 7″ into the second sleeve, I decided to check the cuff length against the first sleeve. (You know, something I should have done with the while I was knitting it.) Turns out, I knit 10 extra rows on the cuff of the second sleeve. There is much sighing and frogging taking place. Because this is going to help the second-sleeve syndrome.
I appear to be suffering from Second Sleeve Syndrome. This is, of course, the older brother to Second Sock Syndrome. (After having finished one sock it becomes difficult to go on and finish the second one to make a pair.) I am working on a sweater, and you start by knitting the sleeves. The first one just seemed to fly by, but man… this second one is taking forever. But I suppose that knitting a sweater with one sleeve would just be silly, right?
I’m looking for a solution (or set of solutions) for a small business. I need things in two realms: group project management (notes, files, timelines, tasks), group calendaring. (more…)