Cabezalana

Ste. Brigid's Day

2012-02-02T09:23:00.000-05:00

I'm not sure if anyone is still doing this out there, but I like the bloggy tradition of Ste. Brigid's Day poetry, even though I've not always been consistent about it. At any rate, I thought that this year I'd share one from a poet I actually know. Dream: Intruder by Mark Wunderlich A storm boiled the ocean. The room's heavy timbers shifted as the wind pushed the town. Beside you, I

Startitis Lopapeysum

2012-02-01T23:38:00.000-05:00

I decided that I needed some quick-ish gratification, so after a bit of swatching and some calculating over the past few nights, I cast on this evening for a new lopapeysu made með tvöfaldum plötulopa að ofan I'd been trying to decide what to do with for months. That it was going to become a sweater for me was never in question, but I hadn't decided on the form. Truth be told, I'm not

Monumental

2012-01-22T12:31:00.000-05:00

I got the call this morning that my maternal grandfather had passed away in his sleep overnight, two days after his 97th birthday. I had been hoping to get to South Carolina to visit him sometime this winter, as I knew that his body was beginning to fail. My mother hadn't expected him to survive through another year and had just gone down there for an extended stay. It sounds as though he

Making Progress

2012-01-19T10:52:00.001-05:00

I'm a little past the first repeat of the first color chart on my Luke's Diced Vest. I only do one or two rounds while we watch TV at night, but I think that keeps it from feeling like a slog. The red is einband Icelandic from Frelsi Farm here in Maine, and it's haloing ever so slightly, which is pretty much perfect.

Sopapillas not SOPA/PIPA!*

2012-01-18T22:50:00.000-05:00

Fortunately, it appears that my Congressional delegation is united in opposition to SOPA (the House bill), and its companion Senate bill PIPA, which is scheduled for a vote next week. Because of that upcoming vote, though, and because I don't always trust Snowe and Collins to follow through based on their expressed concerns, I just sent them both the following: I am writing you to express my

Luke's Diced, in Progress

2012-01-08T21:45:00.001-05:00

Hopefully, this should work.

Back in a Flash?

2012-01-06T22:48:00.001-05:00

So, there really was going to be more of a report from Rhinebeck, but it seems that over several months, life has kind of continually sidetracked me from the blog. Anyway, it was a nice time. Busy, as usual, and we didn't see nearly everyone I would have liked, but such is life. We also had a nice day after hanging with my folks and seeing some of the sights in Hyde Park, so on the whole, it was

Rhinebeck '11 - Part the First

2011-10-16T23:46:00.000-04:00

That's not actually a sentiment I'm expressing, particularly as regards Rhinebeck. Caro was doing some photography work at the show, though, and David and I got recruited (without any resistance, truly) to be knitwear models. I suppose that if I took the time to poke around, I could figure out how secretive we're supposed to be. It's late, though, and I'm tired, so I'll just not say any more

It's That Time Again, Already?!

2011-10-11T21:41:00.000-04:00

Holy crap! When did it become October? A few of my favorite people are currently off visiting another one of my favorite people in one of my favorite places. And while it just makes me ache with the desire to be there again, tomorrow we're packing everything up and heading to another of my favorite places, where I expect to see lots and lots and lots of my favorite people over the weekend.

2AM Miracle

2011-10-04T22:21:00.002-04:00

So it's been another really long stretch between posts. A lot has happened, but I have a hard time lately finding the time to blog about it. So, some other time, but before I head off to bed I thought I'd share a little story.On Sunday night, I had my first migraine. That's not the story, but it happened in the lead-up to the story I wanted to share and it seemed noteworthy. I've had bad

I Can See Clearly Now

2011-08-29T12:19:00.002-04:00

Irene was a no more than a minor hitch for us, as I expected. Because the storm tracked inland, we got very little rain, and the wind was no more than we get in so many nor'easters that the weather reporters never ever freak out about. Not that we don't take the weather seriously, but we get enough bad weather of various sorts that we just tend to watch and be ready for it as a matter of course.

I Felt the Earth Move, or Come on, Irene.

2011-08-28T06:02:00.002-04:00

So Tuesday we had an earthquake. We all felt it at work, even though the news media apparently don't think anything exists north of Boston. It's not my first tremor and nothing even fell off a shelf, so it was really no big shakes (ba dum dum *ching*), but it was kind of fun to get to experience it. Now, of course, there's Hurricane Irene, which will be downgraded fairly soon to AA+ tropical

Panic

2011-08-09T20:35:00.002-04:00

Sheer criminality? Seriously, that's the best England's political class could come up with? Prime Minister David Cameron even went so far as to reject outright the possibility that the rioting going on in the UK might be due to any underlying systemic problems. Say, perhaps, the institution of austerity measures on the backs of the working class and poor? Chronic poverty and underemployment,

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2011-07-16T23:21:00.002-04:00

I'm in St. Louis right now for the American Veterinary Medical Association's annual convention and, folks, it is hotter than all hell here right now. And it's only going to get worse.Anyway, I flew down here a day earlier than I needed to for one particular reason - so I could scratch this off my list:I know you're all thinking WTF right now, and trust me, I wouldn't go to Arkansas without a good

Um, O Hai! I Can Haz Blog?

2011-07-12T12:56:00.004-04:00

Jeez, Louise, it's been a long time!So here's what happened, in a nutshell: Nobody entered into the Iceland tour drawing, then April was really busy, then on May 1, I moved from nights to a day schedule at work.That's actually been a really good move, on the whole, because I finally get to sleep a pretty regular schedule. I still have some sleep issues, but on the whole, my body has really been

Prjón Pr0n

2011-03-18T02:08:00.008-04:00

Prjón is Icelandic for knitting, and what kind of woolhead would I be if I didn't do a bit of stash enhancement in the Land of Lopi? Incidentally, I had never really given it any thought, but the correct pronunciation of lopi isn't LOW-pee (insert urination joke here). Neither the o nor the i are accented, which means they're both short vowels - LOH-pih.Language lesson aside, I mentioned that

Iceland Travelogue

2011-03-16T13:27:00.006-04:00

This is long and picture-heavy, but it only begins to touch on everything we saw and did on our too-short visit. I hope you enjoy it, and people who want to see more photos can go to my Flickr photo set here.Day OneOur flight from Boston was a 4.5 hour redeye that landed us in Reykjavík at 6:40AM GMT, which means that to us it was still 1:40AM. On top of that, Iceland is at the far western edge

Iceland Observations

2011-03-14T20:03:00.004-04:00