DSL

Still need a router and ethernet card(s?) to get my box into the high-speed loop, but for now it's wonderful to be online the same time th'Mr is; not to have to take turns using the one phone line. He, wanting to demonstrate how fast pages load :) asked me to give him a url to a page I thought he hadn't ever been to... so I sent him here.

Continuing the new high-tech lifestyle, I now have a cellphone. Last time I had a cellphone they didn't make the "folding" models yet. How luddite-like is that?

About knitting, Friday night I'd made it all the way to the shoulder join on Q's modular Zimmerman only to --Saturday morning in the tub-- doublecheck the book and realize I'd done the split wrong - 1/8-1/8-1/2-1/8-1/8 instead of 1/8-1/4-1/4-1/4-1/8, and after only a little thought (and after getting out of the tub) ripped it back to the row where I cast off for the sleeve holes. Saturday afternoon I worked it back to where I'd been before frogging! Gratifying. But then, instead of continuing on into the hood during last nights' movie I chickened out and instead cast on a pair of socks in the Bernat pattern (I think that's where I'm going with them) in cranberry wool-ease. Aranmor waits patiently, within two rows of changing to larger needles.

I worked Friday, making a fifty-hour week, and th'Mr made the 200-mile round trip to pick me up at work, making my weekend a little longer. Tomorrow morning (Monday) he'll take me back to work.

Some time today I hope to finish the modular and get back into Aranmore. In the meanwhile th'Mr has requested another pair of "house socks," and hinted he'd wear a hand-knit cardi, as long as it isn't too colorful or textured. I welcome pattern suggestions.