Well, I went home last night, looked at my yardage calculations, figured up the yardage for the next size smaller, and realized that if the yardage estimates were right, I'd not even have enough for that sweater.

So I pulled out the circular needle, ripped out the stitches, wound the loose yarn back up, gathered up the yarn, put it away in the storage closet, and put the book on the shelf.

We will not speak of the gansey again.

(I am surprised how bummed I am over this).

I got out the yarn and pattern for Samus - I should have more than enough - but did not have the energy to start. The hurdle is the fact that you have to do repeats of a long pattern, and I don't have a good way (aside from paper and pencil) of keeping track of repeats. Thought about digging out the "Grandpa's Cardigan" pattern and the yarn I bought for it, but didn't.

I can tell my allergies are bad.

It's supposed to hit 92* here today. They've now pushed back the onset of cooler weather (which was supposed to come Wednesday) to Saturday or Sunday. It's the evil dome of high pressure again.

It's just a bad moon risin'. It's the full moon, which I thought had been disproven as a source of stupid/irritating human behavior, but which seems still to somehow bring it out. My allergies are killing me - my eyes are watering and stinging, which they never do. It's "that" week. It's unbearably hot. It's the middle of a bad drought. It seems like Mother Nature is trying to shake those bad humans off her skin - hurricanes, fires, earthquakes, flooding, mudslides. People are doing massively stupid crimes locally and it's getting reported on the news and it makes me wonder for the sanity of the human race. It's dead dark out when I drive to work, thanks to it being the butt-end of Daylight Savings (They were talking the other day on the news about how October was the worst month for traffic accidents here and were wondering why. I can tell them why. It's because most gainfully-employed folk have to drive to work in the MIDDLE of the HONKING NIGHT. And the lovely government just voted to EXTEND DST, meaning there will be more of the year we will have to drive to work in the MIDDLE of the HONKING NIGHT. I fully expect five years down the line someone in Congress will be discussing the increase in auto accidents and will attribute it to something totally unrelated to the real cause (Daylight Savings being extended far beyond when it should have) and will probably mandate that cars be made of Nerf or something in the future, you know, to reduce fatalities. If they'd just do away with damn DST, they'd solve the traffic-accident-in-October problem, they'd make a lot of early-birds happier, and they'd probably not see any increase in energy usage.)