Posted by SewPixie on November 1st, 2008 in Knitting, Yarn

The work stuff last night went well. My defrags were scheduled until 10am but they finished up around 6 so it actually fit inside the normal maintenance window. I’m not certain if it is my Windows VM or what but RPC over HTTPS is dog slow so I’m not too sure about that change.

Anyways, back to the knitting! Episode 70 of Cast On went up the other day (YAY!) so I had a listen and worked some more o the TYF Mystery Blanket. I am a little way in to Clue #6. It is pretty neat how they have it set up. Each clue starts with a question with two choices. You work pattern A or B depending on your answer. The questions are like do you have straight hair or curly hair? Do you like spaghetti O’s or pasta salad? Rise early or sleep in? Cool huh.

Clue 6 is the rise early or sleep in question. Sleep in, no contest! So as you can see in the photo I am starting to get little triangles that point down for the sleeping in. I also switched from the 24″ Addi Turbo (woosh) circular to a 40″ Knit Picks Options circular. I have quite a lot of 40″ cables. I forgot they came in packs of two….so I ordered like 3, which meant I got 6. Doh! So if anyone need to borrow a 40″ I’ve got you covered.

I have laundry and cleaning to do but I did go get groceries, and got a lot done on the blog design and new shop (I even ordered a custom stamp from the logo I made) so I am going to sit back and knit and watch some movies. There are a lot of projects I want to cast on so I wanna get going!

And a big YARRRR mateys to Jen’s little ones. Such cute little pirates!

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Posted by SewPixie on October 21st, 2008 in Daily Life, Knitting, Yarn

So my stupid DLP TV went out AGAIN on Sunday. Now the issues can probably be fixed with a soldering iron and getting at a board inside the thing but I hate the thing so I refuse to do it. So I am giving it to the ex and went out last night and bought a new TV. I got a Sony Bravia and last night it worked really well (OMG did anyone watch Heros and/or How I Met Your Mother???). My friend Devon helped me pick it out then she and I met up with Candace at Olive Garden where I had more than my equal share of the wine. Ooops.

I am working away on the TYF Mystery KAL blanket. I’ve moved on to Clue 4 and after Candy’s help I understand the stitch pattern well enough to correct mistakes. This weekend Candace and I will be going to a mobius shawl class so that should be good. And if I haven’t said it lately, if you knit listen to the podcast Cast On. Brenda Dane reminds me of my sister and there are loads of good stories as well as good music.

Oh yes…PowerShell. PowerShell is the best thing since sliced bread. I am running my script right now that goes to all of my Exchange 2003 servers and grabs the application log events and such to give me the database sizes along with how much of that is dumpster items and whitespace. It is soooooo cool!!!

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