Bought the sideboard today.

Between waiting on its delivery (thanks to the nice guy who sold it to me - he made arrangements special to bring it today) and waiting on the plumber ($*&% wax seal on the toilet went out for the THIRD time in the 2 1/2 years I've owned the house...must have a wax-seal eating toilet), I got some desultory knitting done.

Most of the work was on the "dream scarf". There is something comforting about knitting on scarves, I've decided - I don't particularly care for the "all garter stitch, all the time" scarves (either to make or to look at once they're done), but the ones with simple stitch patterns - patterns that can be memorized and where it's easy to remember (or to figure out) where you were when you put the thing down are nice. They're good "autopilot" knitting, and with a repeated pattern, you get the feeling of "wow, I did 3 repeats just while waiting on hold" or something like that.

My latest order from Carodan Farm (a week or so ago) contained some of their on-sale Cashmerino in a blue-green for the DNA scarf that June Oshiro made up, and that was in the latest Interweave Knits. (I expect that if I wear it to work, I will have people either wanting to "commission" one or take my scarf, once they figure out what the cable is supposed to represent. It's too bad there aren't many cool cable patterns representing ecological things. I could do a knit-purl representation of an ordination diagram, but most of those are kind of ugly and not a nice symmetric pattern. I suppose I could do the 'wheat ear' stitch and the spider that Barbara Walker graphed out....)

I also worked some on the edging to the Trinity Stitch shawl. I'll be glad when this one is done. I'm getting close, thanks to the SpongeBob marathon that was on this afternoon.

Tomorrow, back to work. There's only so long I can sit in my house without going nuts.

Oh, and:

NO MORE JURY DUTY!!!. When I called today, it turns out the "term" has ended, and they will be going with a new batch of folks when the court starts up again. Thank God. I don't have to worry about planning for my classes to be taken care of....