So.. it snowed a lot in D.C. this past weekend. LIke.. 3 feet or so. Check this time lapse someone did of all the snow. This past weekend was also shmoocon. Which I wasn’t attending this year, but shmoo was going to, until he had to cover for people not showing up to work and [...]

Seriously. It’s been a hard month. Daisy is fine btw, still some left side weakness but expected to recover fully. Her staples are out and she’s going to have a small scar, but that’s ok. It seems like you shouldn’t come through something like that without a scar. 2 feet of snow this past weekend. [...]

(stay until your love is….) Sorry…. couldn’t resist Simple Minds. I’d like to have the time to post about how I feel now that I am officially in my mid-to-late 30s… (I hit 35 on black friday!) Or how I seem to be dealing with that by deciding to learn to play guitar. No idea [...]

So, like.. it’s cold. Fall is definitively here and I just want to say, I’d like a little more of cool late summer back please! Vacation was good and much needed. I got yarn. DSC00869 DSC00871 And new awesomely awesome shoes, which it is now too cold to wear…. DSC00867 And my mom caught a [...]

First, I promised a picture of the Shmocks. shmocks Done with Blue Moon STR med weight in Loch Ness, Basic two at a time toe-up, plain foot, short row heel, and 4×1 ribbed cuff. He wears them, and asked all on his own about how to wash them, so I am guessing he likes them. [...]

That pretty much sums up my knitting life. I did cast on for Kate Gilbert’s Syncopated Caps from IK Summer 07. But I messed up the color dominance by not paying attention, and I have a specific way I want do it, and certain rows I wish to swap on, and I totally did it [...]

I seem to have come back from shmoocon with more than just a t-shirt. Or maybe I am just meant to get extremely sick at Con time every year. Shmoo has suggested that the geek germs are just too much for my seemingly fragile immune system. After a horribly shitty Sunday night, I crawled to [...]

So, it didn’t suck this year. At least not for me. Admittedly my take on it isn’t the normal geek attendee experience, but I have been for 3 of the 4 years it’s been held, and volunteered all 3 of those years, so I figure I get to have an opinion. And my opinion is, [...]

Ok so here’s my sappy Valentine’s day story… Shmoo and I met playing Warcraft on the Doomhammer server. (My mage is named Sassafras, his hunter’s name should be obvious) I started playing about a month after it was released, and he started playing that June while killing time waiting to be approved to go back [...]

Shmoocon ftw!