first of two

 I didn't get much done this weekend; I was sick-ish (I think I ate something I had a food intolerance to; most of the weekend I felt like I was coming down with a stomach bug). It cleared up on its own today (womp womp, just in time for workweek). 

So I didn't get a lot done

I did finish the first of the pair of aggressively bright 1980s pastel colored socks

I still don't know how I feel about it. I'll make the second one, but I don't love-love them (and none of the people in my family that I might knit socks for would like those colors). Generally handknit socks do not seem to be a desired donation item (hats, gloves, and possibly cowls are more requested)

So again, I don't know. 

I (for my own memory here) used the eye of partridge heel and the standard round heel turn,  but I used the old "Socka sock" toe decreases I first learned when I first knit socks (it's a sort of wedge toe, where you do a decrease at the end of the first needle, the start of the second, end of the third, start of the fourth, then knit three rounds plain, then decrease round, 2 plain, decrease round, 2 plain, and then alternate decrease and plain 3 times, and then finally just decrease until there are few enough stitches to graft together (I took it down to 16 total). 

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I'm still reading on SPQR but I admit it's at times distressing to see so many parallels with then and now. People don't change. I guess that means they're not worse, but they also don't get better. And it does feel like some of the things we should have learned from, we have not. 

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something I ran across on Bluesky today, from an account that calls itself Chaucer Doth Tweet (the conceit of it, as you'll see here, is using a sort of Middle English spelling that is supposed to be Chaucerian): "Peacehammer 40K: Paintinge litel miniatures of gardeneres, sculptors, academics. Trimminge hedges. Makinge friendes."

And a follow up: "Peacehammer 40K: Yn the cozye glowe of the far future, ther ys onlye warmth."

and yeah; I have some friends on there who do Warhammer. I don't think the battle aspect would be for me. But making little figures of ordinary creatures that go about their lives and do peaceable things. (Someone else suggested a warhammer-style version of the Shire, but with Hobbit farmers and craftspeople, and yes. And someone else noted that that sort of thing is much of the satisfaction from model trains, and yes, I can see that too)