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More things happened to me on Saturday alone than happened during the entire work-week before it, which makes me pretty angry and is why I'm only going to talk about the weekend. Screw work and its brainsucking ways.
For instance: we found some old custom-mixed paint in the basement that MIGHT have matched our custom-color walls, and almost did, but I painted a patch of our living room wall only to find out it dried a bit darker. And glossier. Hmph. This is a matter of great drama and rising tension -- we needed touch-up paint before, but we need it more now.
I went rock-climbing with Lady X (we wanted to do the high ropes course at MetroRock, but they said we couldn't, boo). I started off ever so sluggish and weak, but got into it. Then right at the end we discovered two awesome courses, both 5.9s, that seemed to require more interesting foot placement (often with a wide straddle) and hand placement (more often low, with tricep pressing) than most of the courses. I was happy not only to have two new favorites, but also that they were both set by the same person: TRH, whoever that is. Now I sort of want to go all around and see if he/she/it set up any more. My sophistication in climbing is growing: a new favorite setter!
Yesterday evening and this morning I taught myself how to double knit, and almost entirely designed the handfasting ribbon I'm going to knit for my friend Stencil's wedding in July. So much fun! She's a knitter too, so it's appropriate to go all-out, and I'm pretty sure she doesn't know it's possible to do double knitting with independent patterns on both sides. So she will hopefully freak, in a good way, when she sees it says something like "STENCIL & STENCILSBOY" on both sides, not mirror-imaged on the reverse. :-) I've ordered the yarn for it, in a silk/wool blend in her colors, despite it being no-thing-buying time. And through lovely serendipity, the author of the book I've been learning from is giving a class next Sunday at my local yarn store.
We watched Man on Wire, which was pretty awesome. There were plenty of unintentionally creepy moments as Philippe Petit and his friends discussed spying on the World Trade Center to figure out how to circumvent its security, even renting a helicopter to fly around near the top and observe... but at the same time, I share the world's admiration for the wirewalking feat itself, and it's nice to remember that not all sneakiness has evil intent. It was an epic hack.
Finished Halting State by Charles Stross, and, with all due respect to those who like him, I am so done with Stross. So... very... done. Way too cutesy. I've moved on to Crystal Nights and other stories by Greg Egan, which is surprising me with how good it is, so at least it got me back into science fiction mode. (Did you know that Paolo Bacigalupi has a new book out? Well, almost out.)
Today's amusement: I had temporarily rigged my desk to be at a good height for standing, by setting its legs to their almost-highest setting and then stacking tomato cans under the legs. Today I managed to knock it off the cans, mid-image-edit. It was loud and scary, but nothing stopped working; the computer mounted under the desk ripped halfway free, not all the way, the monitors stayed upright, and even my coffee mug didn't break or spill. It still had an inch of coffee in it! So now I have a sitting desk again, and the tomato cans have gone to the kitchen to be used in chili one day. I think when no-thing-buying time is over, I'll order a GeekDesk.
For instance: we found some old custom-mixed paint in the basement that MIGHT have matched our custom-color walls, and almost did, but I painted a patch of our living room wall only to find out it dried a bit darker. And glossier. Hmph. This is a matter of great drama and rising tension -- we needed touch-up paint before, but we need it more now.
I went rock-climbing with Lady X (we wanted to do the high ropes course at MetroRock, but they said we couldn't, boo). I started off ever so sluggish and weak, but got into it. Then right at the end we discovered two awesome courses, both 5.9s, that seemed to require more interesting foot placement (often with a wide straddle) and hand placement (more often low, with tricep pressing) than most of the courses. I was happy not only to have two new favorites, but also that they were both set by the same person: TRH, whoever that is. Now I sort of want to go all around and see if he/she/it set up any more. My sophistication in climbing is growing: a new favorite setter!
Yesterday evening and this morning I taught myself how to double knit, and almost entirely designed the handfasting ribbon I'm going to knit for my friend Stencil's wedding in July. So much fun! She's a knitter too, so it's appropriate to go all-out, and I'm pretty sure she doesn't know it's possible to do double knitting with independent patterns on both sides. So she will hopefully freak, in a good way, when she sees it says something like "STENCIL & STENCILSBOY" on both sides, not mirror-imaged on the reverse. :-) I've ordered the yarn for it, in a silk/wool blend in her colors, despite it being no-thing-buying time. And through lovely serendipity, the author of the book I've been learning from is giving a class next Sunday at my local yarn store.
We watched Man on Wire, which was pretty awesome. There were plenty of unintentionally creepy moments as Philippe Petit and his friends discussed spying on the World Trade Center to figure out how to circumvent its security, even renting a helicopter to fly around near the top and observe... but at the same time, I share the world's admiration for the wirewalking feat itself, and it's nice to remember that not all sneakiness has evil intent. It was an epic hack.
Finished Halting State by Charles Stross, and, with all due respect to those who like him, I am so done with Stross. So... very... done. Way too cutesy. I've moved on to Crystal Nights and other stories by Greg Egan, which is surprising me with how good it is, so at least it got me back into science fiction mode. (Did you know that Paolo Bacigalupi has a new book out? Well, almost out.)
Today's amusement: I had temporarily rigged my desk to be at a good height for standing, by setting its legs to their almost-highest setting and then stacking tomato cans under the legs. Today I managed to knock it off the cans, mid-image-edit. It was loud and scary, but nothing stopped working; the computer mounted under the desk ripped halfway free, not all the way, the monitors stayed upright, and even my coffee mug didn't break or spill. It still had an inch of coffee in it! So now I have a sitting desk again, and the tomato cans have gone to the kitchen to be used in chili one day. I think when no-thing-buying time is over, I'll order a GeekDesk.
