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Je suis desolée

I removed the commenting option. The only “people” using it were the spam engines, so there was no real need to keep them. Someday, I’ll get around to upgrading myself to a WordPress blog, which has better spam and comment control. Until then, I’ll just be talking to myself, wondering if anyone’s really hearing me out there. And you know what happens when a person talks to herself for too long, right? All kinds of crazy stuff starts to come out!

In not so crazy stuff (or maybe it is?) I have lost motivation yet again to clean my apartment. There was a chance I’d have a houseguest later this month, which is always the *perfect* motivation for all kinds of things, but now the houseguest is not so much, so my tolerance for untidiness has returned to its usual very high levels. Very sad. Also sad that I won’t get to see said houseguest, for that matter.

But! That leaves more time for knitting for Christmas. 😀 See? Bright side to everything!

And in other news, I owe about a gazillion “things about me”, so let me go get started on that.

Contemplating Christmas presents….again

So I made a list of the people I’ll probably be gifting this year, and it’s about 23 people–GAH! I wish I’d made this list two months ago, as now I’m thinking knitting my way through as many gifts as possible, while stressful and not at all easy, will at least be cheaper, ’cause yo, seven boxes of stash!

At the moment, I’m contemplating the Birdhouse Bag from Elann.  The pattern looks easy enough, but I’ll have to check the colors of my feltable yarn to see if they’re suitable.  If it’s manageable and I can make them quickly enough, it could be the gift of the year for as many as six little girls that are on my list!

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Oh goody

Someone’s been trying to break into my system. There have been numerous failed login attempts in the past couple of days, usually overnight, but one just 30 minutes ago. Oh joy. The spam attacks on the comments I expect, but trying to hack your way in? That’s just malicious. Their mothers must be so proud.

Completely off-topic rambles

It’s been another taxing day at work, and tomorrow promises to be no better.  I’ve done no knitting yet today, but hopefully will tonight while I’m watching Bones.  I played some Scrabulous during lunch, removed some patterns books from my Amazon wish list that I no longer want, and read a disturbing blog post about an elderly Japanese man who was removed from a train in Connecticut by security for the horrible crime of photographing pretty scenery from the train and not understanding English when (conductor?) told him to put the camera away. (I’d link it, but I don’t have the window open anymore, and I’m too lazy to look it up. Also? It made me very angry, and I don’t want to revisit that.)

Also also, I 100% support the striking writers of the WGA.

It’s freezing outside of my cube, but nice and cozy here where I sit, because I have my space heater on full blast.  This is why I’m still in the office at 6:30pm–I don’t want to leave my space heater.  Alas, I must go, mostly ’cause I’m hungry. 🙂

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Feeling sick to my stomach

An old Japanese man is removed from a train for taking pictures of pretty scenery

Why have we let our country reach this point?