Tuesday Morning Rambly Bits

[gnomi]

-- BSG fans, should I be worried that I woke up this morning with the Jimi Hendrix version of "All Along the Watchtower" playing in my head?

-- I'm mostly making my own fun after work this week, because mabfan is working on a project for his class, and it's eating all of his available evenings and likely a decent chunk of the weekend. So far, my fun seems to be a combination of working on various freelance projects and getting together with friends.

-- I knit my way through the non-Shabbat portions of Readercon and at the end had a 99% done sock. I have since finished that sock and cast on the next one. I spent some time sitting on a chair at the doorway of the dealers' room on Friday, knitting away as mabfan chatted with some folks, and people kept stopping to ask me what I was working on or (if they were knitters themselves) what yarn I was using.

-- Learned while knitting in the dealers' room on Friday: If you are sitting in the doorway of the dealers' room, people will think you want to see their badges.

-- Going back to knitting, I'm up to the final rows of the back of the cardigan sweater I'm currently working on, and I have to say that a 264-stitch row takes forever to knit, even if you're a decently-fast knitter. I'm not going to be sad when I hit the end of this section.

-- The headphones I use at work are being bizarre. If I move them past a specific point along the tightness spectrum (tight against my head, I mean) to where they're most comfortable, the right ear goes dead. Considering these were relatively inexpensive headphones from Radio Snack Shack, I figure that the 3+ years I've gotten out of them is a good run. I may have to invest in another relatively inexpensive set soon, however.

Comments

[cbpotts.livejournal.com]

Did you hear this story about the declining number of yarn stores, originally aired on NPR? (http://marketplace.publicradio.org//display/web/2008/07/21/yarn/?refid=0)

Thought of you.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Oh, thanks for the link; I hadn't heard the story.

It doesn't surprise me, however. I mean, yarn is a luxury, and when people can't afford groceries and gasoline, yarn is going to fall by the wayside for most folks. We have a large density of yarn shops in the greater Boston area, and so far they all seem to be surviving the non-recession OK, but some of that, I think, is sheer luck.

[arib.livejournal.com]

BSG fans, should I be worried that I woke up this morning with the Jimi Hendrix version of "All Along the Watchtower" playing in my head?

That depends, do you have hallucinations of James Callis? Or maybe a head-mabfan?

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Not yet, thankfully.

Though do we know that the Four have head-Cylons the way Baltar does? I didn't get that impression.

[michelel72.livejournal.com]

Well, Tigh kinda sort has a Chip!Ellen now. Not in the same way as the others, though; more in a "Cylon psychology is based on projection" way ....

[stealthmuffin.livejournal.com]

...I'm sorry, my brain has snagged on the word "head-Cylons" and is now hearing it spoken a la Ms. Bitters in Invader Zim.

"Gaius! You've got head-Cylons! Go see the school nurse!

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Heee!

[madfilkentist]

You were a Dealers' Room Guard armed with knitting needles.

Is that legal in Massachusetts?

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

They were under the legal size limit and they're made of wood, so they were acceptable. Larger, metal ones are suspect.

[jenwrites.livejournal.com]

It cracks me up how Radio Shack offers replacement plans for cheap headphones. I mean, seriously, if I get a year out of my $20 headphones, that's fine with me.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Yeah, exactly. I'm fine if they die after a year or so; the fact that these have lasted more than 3 is somewhat surprising.

[michelel72.livejournal.com]

Headphones-wise, for a bit more ($34 at Amazon), you can get a very good pair of headphones with a lifetime replacement guarantee. The style may not be the kind you prefer, I don't know, but I have much love for these myself.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

I'll have to ponder. I'm usually fine with the cheap ones from Radio Shack, since I only use them to listen to the radio or CDs while working. Thanks for the recommendation!