Many Apo-Logies for the Continued Hiatus

I thought I was all settled in, ready to get back to this, but things have gone haywire for me in ways I am not comfortable discussing here. Other than that, moving is hell, and redesigning a usable workspace is a nightmare.

So, I'm probably going to continue hiating (is that even a word?), until such time as I can take some time out from other things and at least scan some older works to post.Expect weekly updates for now, and then I'll get back on schedule.

Thank you,
the overworked management

I Can Has Ravelry!!!!

I got my invite ... yesterday? Perhaps it was Monday. It's all a blur.

OMGWTFBBQ. It's great, even with the bugs and incompleteness. I'm trying to figure out how to best help with the live beta development. It was so worth waiting 3 months for (I signed up in early May or late April, I'm not sure which.), and I love it. I have only entered a few stash yarns, a few of the most interesting WIPS and FO's, and spent most of my time just browsing around and using the features. Also, it complements my other fiber-focused online stuff, instead of replacing it.

I have to say that I love having what amounts to a customized newsfeed of my favorite bloggers and online fiber-freinds, the forums are fantastic (only what you actually scroll past gets marked read, wow!), and the patterns, and the yarn, and the...

(cut for interlude of unintelligible enthusiastic blithering)

Okay, if you have not yet signed up, go ahead and do it. It's great, and I can't wait to see it in a non-beta version.

Did I mention it's GREAT? Yeah, like the cereal. I could eat it up.

Looking to etsy

I'm working on setting up an etsy shop, making my inventory, figuring out how I want to arrange cc payments (not a fan of paypal), etc. In an effort to understand how etsy works, I've spent a lot of time skimming around the shops of other people from the knittyboard, and there are all kinds of cool things I'd like to have the spare money to get.

I love these bags by Momma-Monkey. I want one, and I think I'm in love with the skull ones. Wow - I just looked again and they are already gone. Thank you, whoever you are, for saving me from myself!

I'm probably going to have her make me one so, it didn't work...

Day 72: Red Road

 

Red Road (2007) Digital photograph, digitally retouched, cropped.

Another incredible image taken on our trip, this one of a red dirt road in the Texas Panhandle.

Day 71: Hiatus over

 

I return with a striking image of the sky from our trip. Cropped, uncorrected.

Hiatus over.

Arrived.

Here we are on the Left Coast. It's actually lovely and cool here, and I am inexpressibly grateful for that, as it is reportedly like unto Hades where we came from. I'm getting used to the faint booming of explosives.

Actually, we arrived about 2.5 weeks ago, but our phone didn't get hooked up for over 9 days, and then we discovered the dialup access was less than half the speed of sloooow service we had where we were before, so we arranged for high-speed access. We got that today, so here I am.

In knitting/crafting news, I did in fact get some work done on Bobby, but misplaced him as we unloaded boxes, than discovered that I need a comfy char for knitting. I've become spoiled - when we get the new living room furniture, there will be a knitting chair and a gooseneck lamp. In a few weeks...

In the meantime, I will console myself with sewing. Or try.