So, what’s up?

What’s up? Work, knitting, DnD, knitting, illness, knitting.

And did I mention the knitting?

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 sees the light of day. Yay. Thus is an obvious yet partial explanation of the recent absence of blog-ness. See also previous posts.

There is a post or two still in holding. This is just an interstitial post, between the lines. One that requires no thought, as the haze of Nyquil doesn’t allow much in the way of thought. Easily-connected thought, in any case. Which is why knitting is the perfect sick-day hobby. I spent most of today kicked back in a chair, wrapped in sweats and blankets, with a hot cup of tea, some cough drops, the TiVo remote, and a set of DPNs and this fluffy black nylon yarn. I’m making fingerless mitts. For the girl whose hands always get cold yet can’t yet knit herself gloves with real fingers.

On Friday night, I finished the striped mohair scarf with the faint rainbow gradient that I had started eons ago. It is lovely, if long. I considered beading or fringing it, but I think I’ll end up leaving it plain and simple. Tonight’s blocking might have convinced me to try to block it a bit, though.

k. and I finished the felting/blocking on several projects this evening, both a bit delirious on cold medicine. We pinned out m’s grey and blue angora scarf and k’s first charlotte. We also stretched the i-cord for this burgandy felted purse she’s making and stuffed the purse to dry. It turned out fabulously — burgandy wool with a black fur edge on the flap.

I’m sure she’ll post pictures eventually.

Other than the launch of RHEL4, the knitting, and now the illness that has descended upon our abode, things are typical. Good typical. Seeing friends, planning birthdays and weddings, the business of life moving along one stitch at a time.

Now, I’m gonna go shoot more Nyquil and get back to sleeping, deeply.

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