Fiberaddict's Fiber Fumblings

and much more eloquently than I could do. Go here for a well thought out entry and (so far) polite discourse on it.

Also, did you know that sometimes, when a 'puter mouse dies, it does so with a firey finish that leaves pyromanics in awe? It's quite an impressive way to commit suicide, I'll give it that, but a bit disconcerting when it does it *as you're trying to update your webpage*. (Seriously - sparks flew everywhere, and it got reallyreallyreally hot. To the point that I yanked it out of the back of the box and threw it into the sink hot.)

And, Thrallmart is not the best place to go at 6:30 AM to replace said mouse. Too many perky people snapping up bargains.

tonight and possibly tomorrow. I just talked to Sprint and did a whole bunch o' changes to my phone bill.....dumped the one-way metro, added high speed internet; since I'm not sure exactly *when* the one-way metro will disappear (she said "within 24 hours"), I won't risk using my dial-up (which is LONG DISTANCE from my home phone. Which is why I had one-way metro in the first place.)

I still have access up here at the office, and the new modem is supposed to show up *here* tomorrow. We'll see.

The upshot of all this is a $40/month savings on the phone bill (even with *adding* the high-speed...strange, no?) PLUS a $15/month savings on my (antiquated) AOL. (Yes, I have AOL. Get over it - I've had it for-freaking-ever, and am too lazy to go around changing all my contact info.*g*)

Happy? Oh, yes - I'll finally be able to do website updates from the comfort of my home instead of having to dump everything onto a CD, hauling it to the office, dumping it to this PC, then uploading from here. Lots of work for simple changes, no?

My webpro brother said he'll try to get one of the shopping carts up and running for me, so that's even better. AND my SIL is doing better, so that's good.

1) Website it up and running. Can't figure out the stupid shopping cart, so the strorefront....isn't, but they fixed my storage space and I think all the links work. (Feel free to go browse and play with it. If something's broke, I need to fix it, but I've looked at it so much I'm blind.)

2)The Zoey-monster decided her tail was possessed last night. I woke up this AM to a scene out of a horror flick - blood *everywhere*. Every time she wags her tail, blood flies. Spent 2 hours this morning mopping and scrubbing, and it's still not all up.

3)Mother/daughter/friend banquet at church. Italian food for lunch - not enough garlic. At all. Mom, me and Herself sang a song - it went over well. Except for the lack of garlic-ness, it was good.

4)Walmart didn't have a swimsuit that I even wanted to think about trying on. However, the kids both have new ones now, and we have food again...so that's good.

5)I broke the Kubota. The PTO won't stay attached - it clicks into place, it's snug, I engage the PTO...and the damn thing walks right off and flops all over the place. I just wanted to mow my stupid yard!

6)I've got most of my yarn re-skeined for new photos for the website. Some will definately go up on the sales page - I have way too much handspun sitting around. I need more wool. It's win/win - once I figure out the *(&&^%*(&(* shopping cart script. (It's Agora, if anyone has a clue to offer me. I can also use OSCommerce (both are included in my web hosting package), but Agora looked more user friendly. HA!)

I'm tired, I need a bath (covered in Tractor Grease, dirt, and partially cut grass...ick!), and I need to do laundry. Laters!

a blue ring finger, and a purple pinky! EE Dyes will do it every time - and the wool is *fabulous*!

4 oz of a lovely spring green, 2 oz of saffron yellow, 2 oz of rose-ish pink, 2 oz of purple, and 2 oz of blue. So far. I still have 2 oz ready to dye, and another pound of wool sitting around. Guess I need to break out the Kool-Aid next! *g*

And, anyone got any good domain registrars? I need to transfer my domain from my brother to me.....I can't use godaddy, since that's where he's at, and they won't let me transfer. :pout:

Thanks!

I updated the webpage (finally...it took a LOT; damned thing kept bombing out or saying the disk was full...I ended up deleting my gallery (which I never really used) so I could get all this stuff on.) *sigh*

Anyway - we now have a page for the Fair.

And..a button for it on the related pages. *g*

Have fun!

to the website, that is. I've uploaded a *ton* of pictures, to most of the craft pages...but.

You need to go here and check out the closeups of my Norwegian wheel. Words just do NOT do justice to her!

I am aiming to get better pics of my Scottish wheel this week/end, but we'll see. Gotta get the tree down, first!

I've been playing with the webpage today. I updated the knitting, socks, weaving, and warping pages (you wanna see, just go to the main page and hit the links..I'm lazy today *g*).

I took new pictures of almost all my socks, added some socks, added a hat, and tried to clarify my warping instructions. I still need to add pictures to the Dye page, and retake pictures of my wheels and CSM, but this'll do for now.

I've come to a conclusion - I need a set schedule for all my fiber pursuits, or I'll never get anything done. I'm going to *try* to weave on Saturdays and in the early AM; I will crank out socks on M/W/F, and I will spin T/Th/Sun. Handknitting I will carry with me as a travel project each day - socks are small and portable (plus, I'm on a sock kick right now). Except for this week.....*eg*

I have changed my next spinning project - I was going to spin up the green and purple lambswool from the last mad scientist day, but I woke up this morning with a desperate need of Autumn-themed socks. So, tonight I will dig out some wool - either Ramboillet or Border Leicester - and dye up 2oz lots of brown, orange, yellow and mossy green. I'll card each color seperatly, then stack them a'la Deb Menz, card them again, and pull a roving out of 'em. I want to get this done before the Library demo.

The purple fuzzy sock on the CSM is coming along - I'm ready to turn the heel. I discovered that if I stand up, shove my left hand down into the sock and crank, the CSM hums along nicely. If I don't, it skips stitches, snarls, and growls at me. Picky thing. *g* I may or may not work on it tonight - I gotta dye wool (see above *g*)


My current hand-knit sock is coming along...but - HORRORS - I am going to run out of yarn before I finish sock #2. I got this roving when I bought my Joy wheel, so I know it came from the Woolery, but that's all I am sure of. I *think* it was from Bonkers; I remember it being touted as a "sock blend"...and it's synthetic, but that's all I know.

I need *MORE* of this! The batt was layered - Magenta/Blue/Brown with bits of green and yellow. Butt-ugly. Spun up muddy...but knits up divinely. Anyone out there have anything resembling this in your stash??? I'm begging, here....

The Woolery has something that sounds similar, and I will be placing an order on payday, but I'm not sure it's the same thing. I'd like my socks to at least resemble each other....

Why am I running out? I haven't a clue. I think I found the yarn so revolting I passed the rest of the batt on...but I don't *know*. I may have let people play with it while demo-ing - I know I demo'd this stuff; the colors are wild enough that they catch people's attention. I just know that I had 1 ball of 2-ply (in between sock and sport weight, mostly), and a very very very small bit of unspun batt.

I'd hate this sock to be an orphan....anyone got anything remotely resembling this? :whimper:

the website is all of a sudden back up. i have *no* clue what's going on there....but. i have changed all the blogring links to come directly *here* (to livejournal) instead of pointing to the embedded page on the website.

not much going on *here*. i am going to work, coming home, feeding the zoo, then hitting the sheets. every day. not sure where the exhaustion came from....but it *has* to go by sat. when the kidlets return.

*yawn* well, off to bed for me!

I need to upgrade the graphics card in my PC. It's a HP Pavilion, about 1.5 years old, running M$ XP.

The reason? Himself has discovered that you can *play*games* on the computer! Games about *Star*Wars*. And *Legos*. You can even play a *Lego* game ABOUT *Star*Wars*.

Or, you could if your Mom's PC had a graphics card that supports Pixel Shading v1.1. *sigh*

I have NO clue what to look for when upgrading PC parts. I've looked at cards, and it's all gobbly-gook to me.

I talked with a tech at EDS....he had me "download" some "upgrade" for Windoze....and told me it would work. Ummmmmmmmm, yeah...if the PC is *telling* me it needs a new card, why would a download work? But, I sighed, and did the download, then went to "install" it...and it turns out I didn't Need the Download, I already Had that version of whatever......and Himself still can't play Star Wars with Legos on the Computer, and he's just going to Die if I can't get it worked out.

Or so he says.

So, anyone wanna offer me some advice? So I don't look like a total n00b in front of the 'puter place people? Please?? *g*

Cheap would be nice, especially since I'm probably gonna have to pay someone to stick it in. I don't like messing around with the innards of my PC...it makes me nervous. (Anyone wanna hold my hand with *that*, too?)

Thanks muchly - I will be in your debt. And so will Himself!

I'm working on customizing this silly thing. You might see some.....errr.....interesting stuff, if my experiements prove anything.

*sigh* HTML is *easy* compared to customizing LJ!