in which I write about stuff
One more feature of a good pattern for meetings: short rows or circular knitting. I’m working on a hat right now that’s mostly knit flat, and the rows are fairly long. That means I have to judge at the end of each row whether I think the meeting will continue all the way through the [...]
Back in January I wrote about “cold spring” and “warm spring”, because that’s the way I remembered it…now we’re actually getting into spring, and I’m feeling a need to adjust from my earlier comments, partially because spring is so erratic. I’d almost say at this point that there’s a mild wet spring and a bright [...]
Another thing about patterns for knitting in meetings: they shouldn’t look too complicated to other people. So the piece I’m working on now — a pair of fingerless mitts worked in the round — is really simple, but DPNs (double-pointed needles) look freaky complicated. And that distracts other people, even if I’m just fine. (I [...]
So I’ve found that I can focus in meetings where I’m not participating much if I have something to knit. It keeps the fidgety part of my brain out of the way, keeps me from doodling about things not related to the meeting or futzing about on the internet. So I actually listen better. But [...]
It’s been a long time since I’ve written about depression — I think a lot of the people I know (online and otherwise) weren’t around the last time I was really candid in this space. (I think I wrote quite a bit around 2005-06.) But it’s been weighing on me, and I’ve decided to just [...]
It’s odd…by any objective measure this (the eee transformer tablet+keyboard) is too small to write on, but this morning when I sat down to write, I started up my computer…and decided that I’d rather be writing with the smaller device. Maybe it’s the distance between my eyes and the screen, or just the smallness of [...]
low battery and low mood, so I’m not sure how much I’m really going to write today. Feeling the accumulated effects of the dark seasons, lack of exercise, and what else? Also, this morning, a bit of a sinus headache. Ugh, none of the thoughts that bubble up in my head sound fit to commit [...]
[Apologies to my non-D&D-playing readers.] Trying to remember/work out how long it’s been since the player characters in the D&D game have been off on their current adventure, and what might have happened elsewhere in the area in the meantime. They left their supposed stronghold (Quasqueton, from the module B1, Into the Unknown) and went [...]
Oh, huh…little visual tweaks to the WordPress Android app on the tablet. Probably a long time ago. I just updated most of the software on here after procrastinating for months & months because I needed to remove C’s account and wasn’t sure if there’d be side effects. There weren’t any. Today I brought some potting [...]
In the time that I’ve been doing web design and development, I’ve worked in four organizations. Curiously, all of them have had primarily women employees, and the marketing departments that I’ve worked in have been overwhelmingly female. But all of them have had overwhelmingly male IT departments. United Way: about 30 employees, when I started [...]