Monday, February 8, 2010

Language Master

Haven't had a quiz for a while...

Your result for Guess The Language Test...

The Language Master

22 of 24 Knowledge!

You scored 22 Knowledge. You did Awesome! I hope you had fun, that is all that really matters. The best result you got is a little bit of exposure to some of the many languages of the world. If you liked this send me feedback and maybe I will make another one. If you vote that is appreciated also.

Take Guess The Language Test at HelloQuizzy



And check out this little quiz from Mental Floss; it's vertical slits from presidential memoirs; you get to guess which president from the fragment. They have regular lunchtime quizes that are quite amusing, if you're geeky enough to be into that sort of thing...

Sunday, February 7, 2010

Crip Knit

Sarah suggested I make a video of knitting with the cast, so here it is.

Unfortunately I can't edit the video, so sorry about the poor quality. You get the idea.


Slow and steady wins the race. Eventually.

Friday, February 5, 2010

Two FOs

I finished the puzzle last night, as well as Boy-child's latest hat. I had about an inch knit on the hat that fateful, icy Monday Morning-of-the-Break; it was going to be done that night at Conversations With Books.


This morning I'll find out if I can cast on with a cast.

:-P

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Caucus and Other Pass Times or What To Do When You Find Yourself One-handed

Last night was caucus night in our fair city. I was tricked into being the Convenor for my precinct, which meant some extra work. Off I went with Boy-child in tow; he was, quite literally, my right-hand-man.

Non-presidential years are good ones to be active. The group was small last night. My only difficult attendee was my (Pseudo) Co-convenor. One of my more amicable attendees was a former mayor. We had many representatives of candidates visit, and one gubernatorial candidate, (Minneapolis) Mayor R. T. Rybak showed up in the flesh. (For the record, my status is undecided).

Girl-child was in class, so she didn't attend. Boy-child watched because he refuses to declare himself a Democrat, which meant he could not participate. He and I agree to disagree on politics, although we do agree that representative democracy is special.

I am knitting a hat for Boy-child, which is moving along at a snail's pace. I've hit the decreases which are especially difficult with the cast. In the meantime, Girl-child made a mitten-cap for my fingers since I can't get any mitten or glove over the goofy thumb of my cast:
Cool, huh? The color is off but the cap is very green - looks great with the purple cast.

I've been working on the Paris map puzzle I received for Christmas too. The only pieces left are the ones that all look alike:
This color is more accurate:
Excuse the glare; I'm not home during daylight hours except for the weekend. It's pretty impossible to take photos these days:
I'm also reading The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, which is really, really good. I've already bought the sequel from Audible and loaded it into my iPod. What I can't understand is how my slacker book club ended up with a 600 page book for the February pick.

Ok, in looking up the links I have just discovered that the author is no longer living, that the three books he wrote were found unpublished when he died in 2004 and that the original Swedish title was Men That Hate Women

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Random Photos:Kids




Rough morning: couldn't zip my pants, put my sweater on backwards, bus driver forgot my stop so I got dropped off in a snowbank...