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January 2008

Night of the Cookers — Baltimore, MD

Tonight we went to a concert in Baltimore, MD. Pre-concert we decided to try out the newly opened Night of the Cookers at 885 N. Howard St., Baltimore, MD. The menu is very southern, in fact, New Orleans fare predominates as the chef is from the New Orleans area. The atmosphere is very nice — […]

Moths don’t get me down — or the cleverness (maybe) of me…

Well, I unknit the sock down past where the moths had eaten it, clipped out the ends of the eaten bits, and rewound the ball. Then it was a matter of figuring out where I was in the process and continuing on. This project originally stalled because I didn’t want to do the usual short […]

January snow … really

It snowed today. The picture is from our deck looking out towards the road that leads down to the paved road. I know it’s only about a 1/2 inch at its deepest and nothing compared to New England. My mother, who lives in Maine, says the snow is almost up to the porch rails and […]

Reading — where and how

On one of the lists I read the talk has been about how to read while knitting. The topic is important for me because I read a lot of books because I review them. Reading sort of means that I can’t really do anything else but if I could figure out how to hold the […]

Moths — the scurge of all fiber and fibery-goodness…

I doubt there is anything worse for a knitter than finding a moth in the house. Well, finding a moth has eaten a hole in a beloved project or two or three. It’s been on my TO DO list for a while to go through all my stash and get it organized and figure out […]

I haven’t moved but I’m now living in ’60s USSR….

I’ve noted over the last few years that the United States seems to be taking some very unexpected turns. But with the article in CNN on New Rules on Licenses, I’ve realized that without changing my abode, I’ve ended up living in 1960s USSR. When I was growing up the Cold War was very hot. […]

Chaos breeds contentment…really

OK, so maybe for most people chaos does NOT breed contentment. Well, probably it doesn’t work for all people. I like a bit of chaos in my life. If everything runs too smoothly, I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop and badness to happen. So, I guess I’d have to say that this […]

A $2,500 car…why don’t we have one?

Okay, I was reading one of those technology sites today — I’m a geek, so tech news rocks, what can I say? Anyway, there was this article on the Tata Nano. It’s made by Tata Motors and will be sold in India. It seats 5 and is expected to get 54 US miles per gallon. […]