Month: September 2006

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Picture Time

When Flickr’rs Gather…

Wait, Even More Cameras...

This is what happens when you gather together a big group of Flickr members together all at once. Before you know it, you have a table FULL of cameras. They met up at Franklin Coffee Shop in downtown Houston, but thanks to a mattress catching fire on I-10, Elaine & I were late. Of course, we took a photo of the fire (below) – after we quickly got off of the freeway and on to the feeder road to avoid the traffic on I-10! When we got to meetup, the coffee shop had closed, so we moved down Main Street to Tropioca. After closing down Tropioca, we wandered back to our cars, took photos (shocking!) and then Elaine & I went to Frank’s Pizza for pepperoni rolls. Mmmmm!

Bad fire on the way

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BlahBlahBabble

This One Goes Out to my Peeps…

Tara? Glenda? I was totally thinking of you when I saw this! Soccer Mom, throwin’ down the gang signs at the ghetto gas station! Fo shizzle and all that, bitches!

By the way, the Rennaisance Fair starts in ONE WEEK and I am totally psyched. Seriously. Does that make me white and nerdy?

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BlahBlahBabble

Get Out!

A post with actual knitting content *and* sweater photos (pre-frogging) and there are no comments? I’m shocked.

The new laptop is here and I looooove it. Now I’m setting everything up. What are your “must have” applications? Do you use FireFox? Are there any extensions I need to be sure check out? I already have “Session Saver” so it remembers what tabs I had open when I close it. Considering my addiction to tabs, this is a good thing.

I set up FeedReader, and I’m still adding feeds to it to make the blog surfing easier. Want me to read your blog? Leave a comment so I can add you! *grin*

(Obviously, I’m adding all the ones I read obsessively and leave comments on all the time. You know who you are. I’m a comment leavin’ fanatic!)

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Knittastic!

Oktoberfest, Socktoberfest, and Finish it Friday!

Nose Twins! Since today is “Finish it Friday!” I thought I should maybe finish posting a photo or two from July! Meeting Caro this summer was the final push I needed before I went and pierced my nose. When we met back up in July for the visit of the Yarn Harlot, I had to snap a photo of us together. This was outside of the church while we were in that Post-Harlot euphoria state!

Have you SEEN the bags and card wallets and other goodies that Caro makes? They are fabulous – be sure to check out her Etsy shop!

Thanks to Elemmaciltur, I just learned that Oktoberfest actually started last Sunday in Munich. So that means I can start my Socktoberfest socks today! (Lolly already said we could start whenever we want, but this just adds fuel to the fire to make me start them.) I am really drawn to the fall colors lately The sleeve, pre-frogging – it must be my need for cooler weather. We did actually have a “cold front” come through this week, and the other day it was only 84 at 2pm. Fall is coming!

Since today is Finish it Friday, I’m going to see if there are any socks that I have already knit that need finishing work done on them. You never know where I might have been lazy and not woven in an end! I’m also going to work on getting my sleeve back to the length it was – I frogged over half of it last night. I can’t handle pooling, so I am redoing it and alternating my balls (*snort*) to prevent it. The garter stitch needed to be tighter too, so it is all for the best.

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Geek Love

It is Coming! It is Coming!

Earlier this week, after much debate, discussion, research, and everything else, the decision was made to move me off of the Compaq Armada E500 laptop that was Mike’s old machine from the year 2000. (In the year 2000… in the year 2000!) While the laptop has served me well since the demise of the last two laptops I owned, it can barely handle running Photoshop, which I need to edit photos so I can send them off to print so that I can get back onto the timeline for Fresh Photography.

I mean … this thing is an antique in computer terms. Can you even buy a machine with the Compaq name on it? I think they are all branded HP now.

So it was off to Dell to buy a new Latitude. Just in time for school and work. I owned a Latitude for over 4 years, and it wasn’t until the keyboard decided to freak out back in 2005 that I stopped using it full time. It seems that the “m” key is necessary when you want to type .com in – or for any other number of words, really. So when it died, I used the “Itty Bitty” laptop full time. It was teeny-tiny with a compressed keyboard, and it is actually smaller than a single subject spiral notebook. That worked until it decided it would just spontaneously shut off every 15 minutes or so. Then it was on to this Compaq. I was moving backwards in time – a 2001 model, a 2003 model, and then a 2000 model!

I didn’t expect the new Dell until next week. Nice, because it was estimated to ship on my birthday next Wednesday, so not only was I getting a new computer, but I was getting one for a gift to myself. Sweet!

But guess what?!? Guess what?!? It is coming NOW! I got the shipping e-mail with the tracking number and everything, and it is scheduled for delivery TOMORROW! I´m so glad i got the gopeople.com.au delivery service. So I will have it for the weekend! How cool is THAT?!? I am *so* excited! A nice, shiny new laptop. With cool things like “Intel Core 2 Duo T7200, 2.00GHz, 667Mhz 4M L2 Cache” and a 512 MB NVIDIA video card. I still don’t know what half of that means, but I know that the 2.00 GHz of RAM and the video card will help run Windows Vista when it comes out someday. Oh, just thinking of how fast the computer will be makes me so happy! I can’t wait!

Finally, I will be able to open Photoshop without it taking so long I could go and cook dinner while it launched. That makes me so giddy!