DAMMIT!
It is a flipping GAUGE SWATCH...so why can I not get this thing to not look like ass?
Here's the first clue - I can't read knitting charts worth diddly.
This will be my 4th attempt at this sucker.
Barbara Walker - I both love and despise you.
Twisted Trees...you look awesome, but why must you suck like a Hoover to figure out?
It is NO secret that I loathe swatching.
(Although I know I must do it, I don't have to like it.)
Grrrr....knitting is supposed to be RELAXING!
miffle
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Friday, February 6, 2009
Tower Mart Aliens
Behold the Tower Mart in Lathrop, CA
They are EVERYWHERE!
This is the image you get when you stumble in the front door.
These are the bread aliens.
Kind of brings "loafing" to an art form, doesn't it?
One of the many spaceships, and the silvery thing in the right corner is a space kitty!
I LOVE Roadside Attractions.
This place is worth the 65 mile drive from San Jose.
They are EVERYWHERE!
This is the image you get when you stumble in the front door.
These are the bread aliens.
Kind of brings "loafing" to an art form, doesn't it?
One of the many spaceships, and the silvery thing in the right corner is a space kitty!
I LOVE Roadside Attractions.
This place is worth the 65 mile drive from San Jose.
Blogger, what is your deal?
I had to fight with Blogger to get back into the bugger so I can post.
Blah, blah, blah...cookies, clear cache...whatever.
I am working on a pair of socks at the moment and being peeved at the idiotic way some instructions are written out.
K1, K2tog, YO, K3...The chart says it covers 6 stitches, but the math doesn't work out because it actually covers 7 stitches.
ARGH!
Calculator...you are my friend.
Blah, blah, blah...cookies, clear cache...whatever.
I am working on a pair of socks at the moment and being peeved at the idiotic way some instructions are written out.
K1, K2tog, YO, K3...The chart says it covers 6 stitches, but the math doesn't work out because it actually covers 7 stitches.
ARGH!
Calculator...you are my friend.
Monday, January 26, 2009
Long Lost UFO
Poor mateless half-finger glove...it has been what?
3 years since I knit you?
Second Sock Syndrome hit me HARD when I knit you, so there you sit, forlorn in a sandwich bag...dreaming of the day when you can come out and play.
Your salvation is on it's way.
The cuff to your mate is done and now I working on the thumb gusset increases.
Yes, I know you were a needle-eater, but not to worry...I have new, stronger, nearly idiot-proof needles.
Rest easy, oh lonely glovelet...your friend is on the way.
3 years since I knit you?
Second Sock Syndrome hit me HARD when I knit you, so there you sit, forlorn in a sandwich bag...dreaming of the day when you can come out and play.
Your salvation is on it's way.
The cuff to your mate is done and now I working on the thumb gusset increases.
Yes, I know you were a needle-eater, but not to worry...I have new, stronger, nearly idiot-proof needles.
Rest easy, oh lonely glovelet...your friend is on the way.
Monday, January 5, 2009
Ticket Bastard...or Scalping, the Legal Way
Ticketmaster says pricey resale tickets protect consumers
Excuse me, Ticketbastard, but are you HIGH?!
"Ticketmaster received complaints after an AC/DC show in Vancouver sold out in minutes, only for tickets to be quickly available for higher prices on TicketsNow. The resale site also charged up to $1,199 for a $44 face-value ticket to a recent Killers concert in Toronto — roughly a 2,500 per cent markup."
Sorry kids, but this is nothing but out-and-out SCALPING, and any moron that gives these clowns a dime DESERVES to get ripped-off.
I HATE Scalpers with a purple passion, always have.
The ONLY thing that was more irritating than a Dead Head on ticket Sunday were the scalpers, but at least they weren't my friggin' co-workers.
I worked for Bass Tickets, which is what Ticket Master was back when Bill Graham was still alive. (Miss you Bill, you were a gruff little shit, but you put on one hell of a show...and actually CARED if people had a good time.)
People wonder why I don't go to shows anymore.
Facts are, they aren't worth it anymore.
Concerts used to fun, and they didn't cost a mortgage payment for a few hours of entertainment.
I don't know about y'all, but I haven't had a raise in two years and the concept of paying more for ONE concert ticket than my car payment, insurance, phone bill, and rent combined just isn't gonna happen.
To be perfectly honest, I wouldn't cough up that much money to see ANYONE play, no matter how much I had in the bank.
Ticket Master owning TicketsNow is sickening to me.
I have one word for both of these greedy entities: BOYCOTT
Excuse me, Ticketbastard, but are you HIGH?!
"Ticketmaster received complaints after an AC/DC show in Vancouver sold out in minutes, only for tickets to be quickly available for higher prices on TicketsNow. The resale site also charged up to $1,199 for a $44 face-value ticket to a recent Killers concert in Toronto — roughly a 2,500 per cent markup."
Sorry kids, but this is nothing but out-and-out SCALPING, and any moron that gives these clowns a dime DESERVES to get ripped-off.
I HATE Scalpers with a purple passion, always have.
The ONLY thing that was more irritating than a Dead Head on ticket Sunday were the scalpers, but at least they weren't my friggin' co-workers.
I worked for Bass Tickets, which is what Ticket Master was back when Bill Graham was still alive. (Miss you Bill, you were a gruff little shit, but you put on one hell of a show...and actually CARED if people had a good time.)
People wonder why I don't go to shows anymore.
Facts are, they aren't worth it anymore.
Concerts used to fun, and they didn't cost a mortgage payment for a few hours of entertainment.
I don't know about y'all, but I haven't had a raise in two years and the concept of paying more for ONE concert ticket than my car payment, insurance, phone bill, and rent combined just isn't gonna happen.
To be perfectly honest, I wouldn't cough up that much money to see ANYONE play, no matter how much I had in the bank.
Ticket Master owning TicketsNow is sickening to me.
I have one word for both of these greedy entities: BOYCOTT
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Stockinette that Never Ends
As much as I love the sweater that I am knitting, and the yummy dark purple alpaca/wool...I must admit that I am getting tired of the endless stockinette stitch.
I don't think I have ever been so happy to get to an armhole bind-off in my life.
Mind you, I still have two sides for the front and the sleeves to go before I get to the lace panels that I don't know how to do, but that never stopped me before.
Truth be told, I really want to be knitting socks at the moment but I am afraid that if I put this sweater down I will never finish it....and I really do want to finish it so I can WEAR IT!
On another note, my LYS is closing soon, which I predicted 6 months ago, but it still sucks to be right.
I KNEW that space was WAY too big to keep up for the lack of sales.
That, and in these trying times, a lot of people are just knitting from their stash and not buying as much yarn, or are buying online.
This WAS my spiffy little tree with my LSG tacky ornaments.
I don't think I have ever been so happy to get to an armhole bind-off in my life.
Mind you, I still have two sides for the front and the sleeves to go before I get to the lace panels that I don't know how to do, but that never stopped me before.
Truth be told, I really want to be knitting socks at the moment but I am afraid that if I put this sweater down I will never finish it....and I really do want to finish it so I can WEAR IT!
On another note, my LYS is closing soon, which I predicted 6 months ago, but it still sucks to be right.
I KNEW that space was WAY too big to keep up for the lack of sales.
That, and in these trying times, a lot of people are just knitting from their stash and not buying as much yarn, or are buying online.
This WAS my spiffy little tree with my LSG tacky ornaments.
The tree is now in my closet.
Why?
Fucking cat.
Merry Christmas from the scooper of festive poo.
Thursday, December 4, 2008
I Want my Tax Dollars BACK!
Yeah, I know I don't update this thing enough, bite me...I'm knitting.
For those of you who don't know how LIVID the whole concept of bailouts makes me, gather round...because I am about to pull out my soapbox...again.
Starting with our little buddies at AIG.
For those of you who don't know how LIVID the whole concept of bailouts makes me, gather round...because I am about to pull out my soapbox...again.
Starting with our little buddies at AIG.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aqyRUyX83Uqg&refer=home
"AIG May Double Some Salaries With Retention Payments "
"AIG May Double Some Salaries With Retention Payments "
Excuse me?
"Some executives in the group of 130 recipients will get more than $500,000 to stay through 2009, about 200 percent of their salaries, said the person, who declined to be named because the information hasn’t been publicly disclosed. An undetermined number of lower-paid employees will also get cash awards to dissuade them from quitting, the person said. "
For you kids that don't have a calculator handy, that's $5,000,000...to "retain" the fuckwits that ran the company into the ground in the first place.
So...you run a company to ruin and not only do you NOT get fired, you get TWICE what you were getting paid BEFORE you asked Uncle Sugar for some Tax Payer candy?
There isn't a "FUCK YOU!" big enough in this UNIVERSE to cover how I feel about you fools.
Bend over...I'm putting on my taint-kicking boots.
I am not even going to get into the Big 3 whining about losing money.
Sorry American Auto, but I drive a Toyota for a reason.
I have owned 4 Fords...you couldn't GIVE me a fucking Ford at this point, they aren't worth it.
The SECOND I found out about the Job Bank, where union workers get paid to do NOTHING, I lost any ounce of pity I may have had for the American Auto Industry.
You suck.
Your products are crap.
I would work for Toyota.
I would work for Honda.
I would kiss Tesla's founder's butt in Macy's Christmas Window display for a job.
I would NEVER work for you 3 assclowns.
DIAF!
Wall Street...you are, have always been, and will always be, a bunch of con-artists.
I hate you.
NONE of you jerks should have been given a dime of tax payer money.
If your business is "too big to fail" then it is too big to EXIST!
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