Blog archives for November, 2008

From 12:30 until probably 9pm today, my day is planned. So I think I’m going to take an hour now to try and salvage my mood so that it doesn’t badly influence the day itself. I am therefore going to write a list of 7 things that make me happy, 7 chosen because it’s supposed [...]

Lou’s Upcycles. Excellent.

Dear Stock Market, please stop being all over the place. Not that rising 6% is as much now as dropping 7% was a few weeks ago…

Today’s projected high is a measly 30˚F (“realfeel” 12). This is what I look like on days like this:

Also wearing basic stockinette socks. Brrr. It’s cold out there!
There is a fantastic bright side to this, however. It’s this cold because the sun’s out rather than hiding behind grey clouds that go on forever and keep [...]

I can’t decide if this article on teens socializing online is really telling us it’s okay or not saying anything at all. Journalism sucks lately. Never tells me what I want to know.

I realize I still haven’t shown off the finished Corsica yet, but I have to beg you all to be patient with me (and my lack of writing). It’s all I can do these days to take good quality pictures for here (not that there’s been any SUN to help with that; far too grey [...]

Ha! Amazon wants me to buy economics books. I like this one. Wonder if the library has it? Oh, never mind, it was just published a month ago…

This will be short and sweet, since I’ve got little time lately. Most posts from now until Dec. 15th-ish are going to be short and sweet, since time is not really on my side…

Details on Ravelry.
Here’s a sort of better close up of the pattern. Pictures are hard to do well lately; it’s been snowy [...]

Throwing money at Wall Street hasn’t worked, so now let’s throw money at Main Street. I wish I understood the implications of this. Where are all those econ majors when I need them?? I worry.