look at all my trials and tribulations...

Okay, life is overall good, last night's severe thunderstorms don't seem to have spawned any tornadoes, and the kids remain cute. But I may be offline for a bit. I'm not ignoring anybody's emails or comments, but the computer has some serious troubles, and I haven't been able to fix them. And I feel terribly *embarrassed* that I haven't been able to figure it out and fix them myself. And I am now going to try to get professional help. So I'll try to be back soon.

Jamie milestones

Jamie is now routinely getting up on hands and knees and rocking back and forth. (He had been doing in on hands and TOES, but not knees) Clearly preparatory to crawling. And between rolling, pivoting, and squirming, he's all around the room.

(Still trying to get computer help, still can't use my default browser, grrr)

annoying browsers

stupid mucking alternate browser...

still waiting to get computer help. In the meantime I seem to be able to avoid the worst disasters by not touching IE.

Darn it, I need to get the fluted banister sock pattern pages written and up. Main info and gallery picture page, and subsidiary pages for the four variants of the pattern.

I'm used to working with IE. I used to work with Netscape, used to prefer it, although I checked both browsers for readability. Then I gave up with Netscape, because the newer versions would not properly recognize height restrictions when displaying an image. I'd restrict the image size, either by absolute pixel height or by percentage, but Netscape would show the whole bluidy thing. And yes, I could go reduce my image in size, but I don't want to do that, because then I end up with a picture with less resolution and then if I want a print of the thing it's awful. So I gave up on Netscape in disgust.

But at the moment it's all I can use. Bleagh. Anybody know a way to make Netscape reduce the size of an image in html? In IE it reads fine if I use [img src="urlofimage" height="60%"] for example.

ferret knitting

I want you all to know that I'm serious about my knitting, I plan things out, do the math, and sensibly progress from what needs to get done soonest, gifts with deadlines, on through knitalong projects and other

Oooh! Pretty! [ferret boinginess]

the sock knitters LJ group is doing a mini-sock swap, and I joined last minute. They're tiny, they didn't take much time...

with the obligatory quarter for size comparison. Oooh, quarters and flash. Do not look directly at the quarter without special goggles.

For the green one I mostly followed the recommended pattern, went off and fiddled some for the other, made it slightly bigger. (Why? 'Cause doing it the exact same way both times would have been boring)

Now I mail them off and see what two mini socks I get in exchange.

it will be all her own fault

Maggie Catsbane is up to her old tricks again. Following the cats around, trying to pull tails. If she gets scratched again tonight she will have earned it.