I've been working on a design for a cabled tie. After many different attempts and frogs I think I've finally come up with a design I like.  

There's aa site called MyMiniCity where you can "create" your own little  city. It starts out very small and grows as people visit it via their browser.  Sort of a SimCity kind of thing. I created one called Knit City. You can visit it at http://knit-city.myminicity.com/

Yeah, I'm evil incarnate. I walked over to the c-store to get a couple of things. This homeless guy hit me up for money. I'm really short on cash myself at the moment after spending two weeks not working. The dude started giving me a hard time about it and I basically told him to fuck off. This unwashed piece of scum made the mistake of grabbing ahold of me and screaming at me. I shoved him away from me and as I started to walk away this moron ran towards me and took a swing at me. Wel...

A couple of the current presidential candidates are making a lot of noise about so-called universal health coverage. I have heard many people mistakenly refer to this as universal health care. They are not the same thing. Universal health coverage simply means that the government, using tax dollars, will be paying for health insurance for citizens and possibly non-citizens as well. Ok, that may sound really nice to some people but what does it really mean? Health insurance may be nice to h...

Just a few screenshots of my current Linux desktop. It's a 3D cube. The pics show it stationary, in rotation, and with an application open. I really like the glowing theme.

I made this hat for an Applebee's waitress who asked me to make her one. The colors are what she said are her favorites. I used moss stitch for the main body of the hat which made for a nice textured pattern.

I am finally back in WI and it's freezing up here. I've checked into the hotel and had a nice hot shower to get warmed up and de-hogged, and will be walking over to Appleby's once I am certain my hair and beard are totally dry. As cold as it is out there any dampness would freeze immediately. I did manage to finish up the camo watch cap last night. It's nothing fancy, just a basic cap made with camo yarn. It fits perfectly and is quite warm. I'll be taking it easy here tonigh...

Ok, this is one really ugly hat. I wanted to learn how to work with more than one color and make more interesting designs, which entails learning the stranding technique in knitting. This hat is my practice project to learn the technique and practice it a bit. I didn't follow any sort of pattern, I just made it up as I went along, thus the ugly hat LOL. I did learn a lot doing it though.

Ok, time to change calendars, write the wrong date on checks, and generally adjust to another arbitrary numerical change in our measure of that illusion called time. Any excuse for a party I suppose. May the upcoming trip around the sun bring each and every one of you health, happiness, and blessings of all kinds. May friendships grow stronger, the tax man lose your address, and fortune smile upon you every day. Or not.

I haven't cooked a pot of pinto beans in ages but today it just sounded good. They're on the stove cooking with some cubed salt pork, onion, and garlic. They been simmering on the stove for a couple of hours now and are smelling pretty damn good. I think when they are getting close to ready later today I'll make some rice to go with them. I considered making cornbread, but my cornbread never does turn out as well as I would like, and I never have liked the mix stuff, so I think I'll just s...

One of the knitting forums I frequent got attacked by some damn spammer trying to sell cell phones. I truly despise these people and hope there is an especially brutal spot in Hell reserved for these asshats.

I found a great tee shirt that I need to order. It should cut down on some of the dumb questions I sometimes get while knitting in truckstops. Link

OK, I know that tech support spends most of their time dealing with complete morons. I get that and they are trained accordingly, but they should at least make an effort to put people into those support positions that at least have a small clue about the system they are supposed to be supporting. Come on! For at least the past couple of weeks the dsl signal here has been dropping out every few minutes. Just enough to screw up downloads, watching of videos, and online chatting. It's extreme...