I just have my three shopping bags that need their pictures taken, but everything else is up to date on the knitting blog. The entries are dated by close to when they were actually finished so you'll have to go through the monthly archives if you want to see everything.
Also... the RSS feed on the main page works now. It'll grab the latest entries across all the blogs, just like the main page does.
It's been rather chilly here the last couple days and the jeans I bought this past spring no longer fit. I realize this is a good problem to have, nonetheless, I hate clothes shopping in general and pants in particular.
I know I've told the capri story before. I am short. Petite pants are even too long, they need to be hemmed. But they do get close length-wise. A lot closer than "normal" pants. Unfortunately the top half of petite pants really don't fit at all. So I end up buying "normal" length pants that fit on the top half but are then 6 inches too long.
I think I tried on at least a dozen pairs of jeans before I found one that basically fits. They're waaaaay too long, but they'll work.
It's probably a really good thing that I'm just babysitting the 10 tonight 'cuz I'm not sure I'm going to conscious by then, let alone be able to do anything horribly useful.
But on the plus side, BBC did finally air half of the 3rd quarter and all of the 4th quarter of the US/GB game. The gold medal game will be tomorrow at 8am (EST). So, still early, but not as bad and I'm off at 11 tonight so hopefully I'll actually be able to get some sleep before then!
Go USA!
So I figured out how to watch stuff on BBC's website (there's a proxy involved).
Their player for the Paralympic coverage says "Live!" on it. So silly me thinks that means live. So I get up at 6 am (after being at work last night until nearly 1 because stupid football made us start late) to watch the US vs. GB rugby game. I thought they'd have it. It's starting to look that "live" means what they're airing on the BBC right now, not actually what's live right now. They've had track and swimming so far which is all stuff that happened earlier today.
Grrr!!!
Every time I think I've seen every weird thing drivers around here do, something new and strange happens.
On my way in to work this afternoon I was behind someone turning left. So I'm waiting for them to make it through the intersection, they finally get through but on the yellow. The light turns red, and I stay put to wait for it to turn green again.
After maybe 5 or 10 seconds the person behind me starts beeping at me. I figured I'd completely zoned out and the light switched, glance up... nope, still red. So I point at the light and look back at him going "It's red!" The guy is behind me gesturing and all disgusted at me. It looked like he wanted me to go through the intersection. On the red light.
It finally turned green and I went through and this dude turned left behind me so I only saw him for a few more seconds, but he went through his turn just shaking his head all disgusted at me.
It didn't make me mad or anything, it just confused the daylights out of me. What exactly did he want me to do? How is stopping at a red light a bad thing? It makes me wish there were some way to track the guy down and ask him what on earth his problem was.
I just got handed a DVD that has the episode of Bones that'll air this Wednesday.
I now have something to watch when I get home from work tonight! Yay!
So a couple things have happened over the past few weeks that resulted in me buying a new laptop today before work.
Thing the first: I got a lovely little surprise at the beginning of the month; I was picked for the employee of the month. That comes with a monetary bonus. So that on top of the OT we've all been getting lately means that I have a bit of extra cash.
Thing the second: Mass is doing their tax-free weekend thing this weekend.
So I ended up at Best Buy today. I went in knowing exactly what I wanted since I knew it would be a madhouse and there'd be no way to actually look at things or try them out. I did that last weekend. Having heard all kinds of horror stories about Vista I was more than a bit apprehensive about that. But I figured I'd buy the thing, see how it works, and then decide if I want to deal with it or if I want to do a little reformatting myself.
After messing around with the thing at work this afternoon for about two hours... I'm gonna be reformatting when I get home tonight. Vista is driving me absolutely nuts. I brought a couple programs with me so I could see how it works as far as installing things goes and it just refuses to cooperate. I keep changing settings, using different accounts... had to go into the command prompt to find the administrator account! I keep getting "access denied" messages no matter what administrative powers I give myself.
It is just not intuitive at all. Settings aren't where I expect them to be, or they're hidden three menus down, and that's assuming the menu bar even shows up!
It's pretty, but that's about it. And even the pretty is rather annoying (at least to me, I'm sure that's not true for everyone). The menu boxes have to do a little animation every time they pop up. It wastes time and it's distracting. I don't care if it's pretty! I just want it to work!
I've already gone looking and all the drivers I'll need to make sure the hardware keeps working with XP exist. And I have an old copy of XP at home, so tonight I'll be joining the ranks of the "downgraders."
I think I finally have my vacation pictures uploaded and tagged and titled and descriptioned and all of that fun stuff. The rugby ones in particular don't have a ton of description on them, I mostly just went through and tagged them with as many players as I could.
They're all separated into sets that are part of the "Summer Vacation 2008" flickr collection here.
And if you know what set you want already here's the direct links to those:
Home (Wisconsin)
Seattle
Vancouver
Rugby 1 (Saturday morning, US vs. Canada)
Rugby 2 (Saturday afternoon, US vs. Great Britain)
Rugby 3 (Sunday, Championship game, US vs. New Zealand)
First off... Rugby was awesome! I had a ton of fun watching the games and seeing it in person. So cool!
Went to two games on Saturday, the first one against Canada and then the one in the afternoon was against Great Britain. By the end of the second game I was feeling like I had a slightly better feel for how the game works. I mean, I already had the basics from the movie and from reading Zupan's book, but it's a whole different thing watching a game all the way through and not all cut up the way it has to be in the movie.
Then on Sunday was the championship game, got there plenty early and caught the second half of the 3rd place game (Canada vs. GB) and then watched warm-ups and all that fun stuff until the actual game started. They were playing New Zealand in that one. There was quite a bit more knocking over of players in that game than in the other two.
And we won. Yay!
I did take an absolute ton of pictures, but taking pictures in a gym is a difficult prospect, it's this balancing game between blurry and enough light. I pulled my shutter way down so I at least had a shot at non-blurry pictures, but that means I have to brighten every single one of them to have any hopes of getting a decent picture. That is going to wait until I get back to Rhode Island, because the laptop just isn't quite up to the task of that much photoshopping! But it looks like there's at least a couple that approach decent so I should have some that'll be ok.
And after finally managing to get my nerves up I went and asked Mark to take a picture with the frog. Oh, I should explain the frog.
There's this wooden frog that is always waiting for me in the guest room at home whenever I go home on vacation. (I'm not sure where he lives when I'm not there) He always has a note of some kind for me when I get there. This time his note said that he wanted to see Seattle. So I snuck him in my bag when I left and I've been taking pictures of him all over the place.
So... there were a couple other people asking Mark for pictures so I went over and did the "I have a ridiculous question to ask... I have this frog and would you take a picture with him." And he said sure and then I said that I might possibly have a book that I'd love to have signed as well and he said "even better." And he asked someone else to do the picture taking so I could be in it too and was totally cool. I'll post those once I get back to RI too. I had the cover for my DVD of Murderball in there too and the pen I had wouldn't write on it so he went hunting up a Sharpie for me.
And as an aside to Mark (on the off chance you ever stumble across this)... I'm not usually that much of a shaky spaz. I get all freaked out whenever I have to initiate a conversation with someone I don't know. Really doesn't matter who they are and then it of course goes fine (it always does so I don't know why I freak out, there's clearly no reason) and all that pent up nervous has to go somewhere and I get shaky.
So all in all Rugby rocked and I really have to figure out if there's any teams that play anywhere near me.
I'm needing to pack up my stuff so I'm ready to go when Keva gets home from work this afternoon. We're going to Vancouver! Yay!
I have no idea if I'll be able to get on-line from there, we shall see. Theoretically my phone is supposed to work up there, but I haven't been able to post from my phone as of yet, but I should be able to get e-mail (the phone e-mail, not my regular one) and IM's and all that fun stuff on it at least.