Fresh, Hot Wastes of Time

• Walking Dead: BRILLIANT. First time a zombie show has made me cry. #
• Frustration is making EIGHT different gauge swatches for the same project. What is WRONG with me? #
• "Did you do your homework?" "Sister helped me." "Did she tell you the answers?" "Yes. She was very good at helping me." #
• Neato, Syfy just turned into the Golf Channel! Yay! Not. #
• Ni-night, you crazy election people. #
• News.com.au apologizes for an egregious error: http://bit.ly/bkHCWy #
• Life got you down? Step one: crack up http://youtu.be/muc0kaQtCMU Step two: Die laughing http://youtu.be/kufkvrgk4xo (Watch in order!!) #
• The second video from my post yesterday: http://youtu.be/xYubZoycACw #
• Sweater ahoy! http://flic.kr/p/8QNFGb #
• Quit being so self-absorbed. Your mom's only going to be around for a couple more months. Tell her you love her. #tweetyour16yearoldself #
• The entirety of Star Wars: A New Hope in one Facebook thread: http://bzfd.it/cjeJk2 #
• The first time The Beast and the Harlot came on in RB3, I was laughing too hard to fake-sing it. Please say it's supposed to be a joke! #
• I want to KICK the knitting pattern in the NONO place. #

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Lia Sweater

Originally uploaded by addlepated

Since finishing my 10 Shawls in 2010 challenge, I wanted to branch out into something different. I really enjoyed knitting cables for the WWII Watch Cap I made a while back, and this fall’s issue of Knitty came up with the pattern that spoke to me. So I purchased the yarn – Malabrigo Chunky in Burgundy – and set off to work.

The yarn was a royal pain to wind but very nice to work with and wear. You can see more details about my saga on my Ravelry project page.

Currently I’m knitting a couple of shrugs for the kids, but I really want to do some more cabled stuff!

• On hold with Disney – they just played all of "Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow" for me. Woo! #
• Keytar is kicking my kiester. #
• Please use HTTPS when you're on an open Wi-Fi network: http://bit.ly/9evsZC #
• Zombie wound stickers: http://bit.ly/cbz9Oo #
• Pretty disappointed in Fallout New Vegas, honestly. It seemed like an expansion pack, not a new game. #
• My iPhone 4 seems to be taking a permanent nap. #
• Turns out the iPhone was just frozen up. I think it might have been SCVNGR. #
• SWALLOW YA SOUL I'LL SWALLOW YA SOUL! #

• I kept expecting the Mad Men finale to have someone wake up from the dream sequence. WTF? #
• Wow, I must have been off the Twitter grid for a while to have missed this: http://www.whatthefuckismytransmediastrategy.com/ #
• Just saw a talking head equating "chattel slavery" with "credit card slavery." Wow. #
• UPS, why must you forsake me so? #gimmefallout #
• UPS has 16 minutes to get me Fallout New Vegas before I Hulk out. #
• UPS man had until 7:00 pm to deliver Fallout New Vegas. He delivered it at 7:01 for S&G. #
• What should greet me upon startup of Fallout New Vegas but the dulcet tones of Saul Frakking Tigh! *swoon* #
• Sears hits it out of the park! Zombie shopping guide: http://bit.ly/9CSvXV #

Not a Drop

Originally uploaded by addlepated

I started this way back in May, and it was going to be my “on the road” project when we traveled to New Orleans during the summer. We ended up not going, so the poor little work in progress sat on the needles hibernating until I finally finished it in one fell swoop around September. Then it was so long that I decided to block it in half, which necessitated acquiring PVC pipe, so it sat for another few weeks unblocked. Now it has finally gotten the love it deserves and is blocked and finished.

Yarn: Wollmeise 100% in Herzblut.
Pattern: Not a Drop

• Some serious makeup skills behind this Jared Leto cosplay look: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDruPPPMK3I #
• Superman II recut: http://youtu.be/Al7FeEZrH1E #
• Note to self: do not stick head in particle accelerator. #
• UK ladies spent 24 years knitting a replica of their village: http://bit.ly/BWkZt #
• Shot for shot remake of Back to the Future trailer, starring Michael J. Fox: http://bit.ly/bc3fdw #
• P.S. If they made Back to the Future this year, they'd go back in time to 1980. Pass the Geritol, please. #
• Introducing my children to the wonder of Tom Lehrer. #
• Wolves on the M23 highway in Russia: real or viral? http://youtu.be/Lk3ibIGKTYA http://youtu.be/mMSN8HW4VFQ http://bit.ly/dforQd #
• The World According to San Francisco: http://bit.ly/90Oard (take note, Austin hipsters!) #
• When you're making something called "Kentucky Butter Cake," you just show a blatant disregard for cholesterol levels, don't you? #

• "What can change the nature of a man?" Replaying Planescape: Torment can. #
• The good news: I got the gig! The bad news: Apparently I have to pay $50 a month for leads. Waitaminute… #
• Annoyed by "cut out newspaper ad" assignments. Our 21st century home doesn't subscribe to the paper. #
• Homeless man + two Kermits + Under Pressure = Masterful performance. http://bit.ly/diXWxY #
• My gauge swatch was spot on the very first time! #
• Advertisement in Chile breaks into your house: http://youtu.be/aNQ4MKv_ayY #
• Daughter: "Quit trying to prove stuff to me!" a.k.a. "I reject your reality and substitute my own!" #
• You will never look at a duck the same way again: http://bit.ly/dtBrX5 #
• St Edwards has sent me 4 test texts so far today. No login to turn them off, since I graduated 2 years ago, and they're closed. Argh. #