I’m definitely not giving knitting priority in my life. I haven’t been keeping meticulous track of any figures to support this claim, but I think I can justly reach that conclusion based on two pieces of data.
During the original Knitting Olympics in 2006, I completed a pair of plain kilt hose in two weeks. [...]
I got really sick this weekend and made an appointment to see my doctor first thing this morning. As I was sitting in the waiting room, I was distracting myself by reading World War Z, a novel about a zombie plague. (I forgot my knitting.)
When the nurse took me into an exam room [...]
So, two years ago at Rhinebeck, Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, the Yarn Harlot, persuaded me to buy a big cone of merino yarn. “It’ll make awesome kilt hose!”, she said.
It was only later that I realized how scratchy the stuff was. So, this evening in Austin, I presented her with my instrument of righteous revenge:
Being [...]
My poor, neglected blog.
I just haven’t had that much to share lately. Most of the interesting things going on in my life right now are not things that I want to post on the Internet. And all of my witty quips have been directed towards Twitter (I’m @druzziel on Twitter). But there [...]
I was leaving for work one morning last week and I saw a couple of twigs in my mailbox. “That’s funny”, I thought, “I guess the grounds guys were going a little nuts with the weed whackers this morning.” I was running late (as always) so I didn’t stop to clear out the [...]
I went up to Austin yesterday for the final Recreational League game of the season and saw some really great derby action. If there’s a league near you, go. It’s the honorable thing to do.
I hate the night before a trip. Hate hate hate it. I usually have to get up very early to catch my plane, and I am a horrible planner, so I find myself in a harried state the night before which makes it really hard to get to sleep. Which makes me [...]
I had the honor last weekend of going to Scarborough Faire and to camp out with the knights of Noble Cause. They are a great bunch of people. I went this year, as I did last year, to see and photograph lots of chivalrous carnage. But this year I got a candid [...]
The Austin recreational derby league had a game this weekend, and derby troublemaker organizer Obi-Mom Kenobi asked me to head up and take pictures. Which I, of course, did. You don’t need to twist my arm to get a chance to add more derby queen photos to my collection.
This weekend’s lineup was the [...]
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