A while back, Mom bought a Canon iP2600 printer. I’m installed it last night and was amazed at the results. I printed a few of my works on the sample photo paper and got stupified at the results. They’re wonderful.

It’s a bit early for me [considering that I had posted in the wee morning], wondering a few things. Like, for example, should I dye some yarn now? Should I wait until later?

Y’see, I need some samples of handpainted yarn for a local gift shop later this week [I agreed to do it before I got home]. I don’t think it will sell, but heck, who knows? If not, there’s always Etsy. Anything for a bit of [extra] money.

As mentioned before, I’m still looking for a vest/sweater pattern and I might have to get out Knitting In The Old Way and Knitting Without Tears and make my own. Maybe with some nice mosaic work at the border. Or some geometric pattern in the front. Hmm…

…sorry…

Due to recent events [events that the family has asked me not to make public], I must cancel my trip to Anthrocon. I am very sorry to let everyone down.

Hmmm…

So I’m at the library reading Discover magazine, and I find a small blurb of how Naltrexone lowers a kleptomaniac’s urge to steal.

If you think about it, it does make a kind of sense. Nalt. is an anti-addiction drug, and if we consider kleptomania as a sort of addiction – in this case thievery – then it should be able to work.

It’s a thought.

FO: Joey Hat!

Yes, the hat is finished [actually, it was finished Wenesday. shhhh]. A change from the other hat, which included two of the motifs, but I decided against it. Anywho…

One ball of Paton’s Classic Wool Mereno, half was kettle dyed with some Wilson’s Royal Blue coloring. Knitted with US6 doublepoints. Came out wonderfully, if you ask me. I don’t want to let it go really, but it is for someone else. *sigh*

Every Saturday we get a game down in the park
And we drink our beers until the afternoon grows dark
There’s no audience but that don’t mean a thing
We’ll still be there till the early spring
–Even Elroy: Another Song About Life

It’s graduation night at the highschool and I’m at home. It’s okay. Nothing’s going to happen to it. I’ll be fine.

Now, this week was Senior week. One of the things that happened was on Tuesday, when all of the Seniors [including ours] go into the gym and basically have fun. And lunch. Yay.

Now a bit of back story: I was subbing for one of the other classes for a while. I didn’t know the kids in that class were graduating until that day. I found one and congradulated him.

As I was leaving, the kid yelled out, “I hope you’d be able to be a teacher later on sir! I know you can do it!” I paused and looked at him. He continued, “Be a math teacher! I know you can!”

Now, as I was walking away, I was a bit shaken at that. Y’see, I’ve long entertained the idea of being a math teacher, but never really got hooked onto the idea. Until then. To have the gods give me that moment is a Sign. A Sign that means something else is to happen in this wild adventure known as Life. I’m sure of it.

Gah!

I have a problem, but first a bit of news.

I have mostly everything fixed with Anthrocon. Mostly.

However, due to money problems, I have to go by bus instead of plane. It’s alright. It’s half the cost of the plane and I’ll get to see the scenery in the meanwhile.

However, checking Travelocity, I can get a roundtrip for $351, which is a nice deal, considering the price of travel nowadays…

Now I can’t decide which is better. Help!

Hey

So I’m here at Jason’s Deli eating and enjoying the free wifi.

What?

Songs and colors

Y’know, my thoughts keep turning to making handpainted yarns. To make them and sell them on Etsy. Probably go about and turn to spinning also. Something like that. What say you?

I just need to weave in the ends of the hat and I’ll be done. It’s kinda small, but it should fit.

So I’m listening to Pandora, and they bring up Traffic: Medicated Goo, one of my favorite songs, and I can’t help but wonder how it could be a colorway. Different greens, some bright but mostly dark. Because medicated goo looks that color in my mind: a rainbow of greens, mostly sickly ones. 😀

Rod Stewart’s “Do You Think I’m Sexy” would be pink and black with traces of punk red.
Steely Dan songs…hmmm…I know a few that could easily in blues.

What?

Points of Interest

• After waiting for the check to come in, I finally have a year’s membership for Pandora.  Honestly, after six [seven?] years of listening for free, I don’t mind dishing $30 for it.  Especially when it is ad-free.  Brings back the early days. 😀
• For some reason, AT&T is charging $40 for a $20 dsl account.  Unless, of course, that was a limited deal, then suddenly went back to its original price. 😐 I’ll be checking tomorrow.
• I’m trying to save for AC.  The only way to save as much as possible is not to go.  But I want to go.  Darn it.  I can only hope it’ll be worth the spending.
• Yesterday Diana and I went to Pan-Am Brownsville, she for paperwork for music scholarship, me for tagging along.  Found there was a Barnes & Nobles bookstore there and got two Pratchett books on sale [Mort and Pyramids].  Also found the library which I visited during sixth grade.  Brought back memories.
• As said before, this is the last week of school, and I can’t help but feel that everything is going to snap like a frayed rope.  Everything will just…fall apart.  Of course, teachers are exempt from whipped cream bombs and kitten stampedes. 😀
• I’m almost done with the hat.  Changed the design and liking it.  Dunno what he’ll think of it though.
• We’re getting thunderstorms!  And hail!  I’m excited…or would be if it didn’t happened when I was asleep! 😐
• No ‘last day of school’ parties, due to the fact that everyone is going to be testing.  Geeze, what happened while I wasn’t there?!

And that’s it.

It’s packing day today as we went and packed lots of stuff today: boxes, files, cabinets…

Oh yes, they were those dismantable plastic cabinets that you just have to pull apart. We did six of them and packed them all away to the corner of the room. Also put all of the packed stuff there.

We also had the S.E. students from the ninth grade acadamy come over to visit a bit, get a feel of the place. Hmph. Dunno about them, can’t get anything pointed on them.

So, apart from sore hands and wrists and a mildly aching back, I’m alright. One more week of school! Whoo!