I'm closing in on the heel-flap of the second Undulating Ribs sock. I'm glad that the "pooling" or "flashing" of the colors is the same in both socks...I've had some variegated yarn where the two socks looked totally different.

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Diann, I'm so glad it got there. I was starting to get a tiny bit concerned (sent it Priority Mail on Thursday, but it was late in the day). And I'm so happy you like it! As I was working on it, I kept thinking, "This looks kind of like Diann." No, not literally...I mean the kind of things you like.


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I'm on one of my periodic news-fasts. (Or Escapes from Mock Reality, if you prefer a grander term). Turned on the semi-local news and they were doing a story on OH NOES ECONOMY IS TANKING STOCK MARKET IS FALLING LET US ALL RUN AROUND IN CIRCLES AND SCREAM NOW. And I'm getting tired of it. Yes, I know the economy is not great - but it is better than many places in the world. Like Zimbabwe, where it's literally cheaper to use the currency as t.p. than to go out and buy some. Or like the old USSR - I had a friend who knew a man who emigrated from there, and he broke down crying the first time he walked into a U.S. supermarket - he could not believe the choices and availability of food.

So yeah, some stuff sucks. But it doesn't suck nearly as badly as people would have you believe, and I don't like feeling like I'm slowly being tricked into believing it.

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So I'm watching Cartoon Network as my bubblegum for the brain these days. They've done one of their periodic "sweep away all the shows that have grown familiar and replace them with new stuff." Which I kind of find unsettling, because you know? I liked Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, and now it's apparently gone and replaced by other stuff, including something that looks and feels like a knock-off of SpongeBob SquarePants.

And of course, the Powerpuff Girls are long gone down the memory hole. (If they ever appeared in a picture with Russian dignitaries, they've long been airbrushed out of it).