What SHALL I do with this sock pattern?

So the SixSoxKnitalong just posted Sock#Six.

It's a stranded two color sock. GAH. I weep. My style of knitting, how I hold the needles and yarn and move them, is fundamentally incompatible with the good methods of doing that kind of knitting. It's going to be miserable.

Yes, I could just not do it. But darn it, I'm an obsessive completist competitive type, and I've done all 5 so far. I went through all that stuff with the beaded sock, and then the spiral toeup sock, and gah, I can't stop now.

(But when this is done, I'm DONE. Most of the list wants to go on for another year - not me.)

So here's a couple links, because, O Flist, I want your input.

The pattern pdf itself

Pictures in a ListMom's blog, of the testknitting

So what shall I do with this? Clearly I will NOT be doing anything sports team related. I have a fervent dislike for sports teams. There is NO WAY I'm knitting for them, especially not [bangs head again] stranded knitting.

I could do a pair for Karl in MIT colors and just have "MIT" on them, I suppose.

I'm certain there must be more creative interesting things relating to our lives that I could do. So, suggestions? Help me out here.

Advice from the ListMom's blog - "Knit the stranded sections much looser than you think you should." Oh, man, I am so so so dooooooomed. Doomy doom doom doomed.

Beatles!

For DFW area people - turn your radio to AM 1190 if you like the Beatles. This just showed up the ORAC mailing list - a local station is dropping sports, temporarily being All Beatles.

"This is not an April Fools gag. At midnight last night, KFXR 1190 AM dropped it's automated Fox Sports Radio format and after giving a legal ID of "KXFR 1190 AM Dallas/Fort Worth/Liverpool", flipped formats to
All-Beatles All-The-Time."

They're apparently going to a new music format, but first they're doing 10,000 Beatles songs in a row. "Essentially commercial free"

I've got the radio on and I'm so enjoying it. This is great. I forget how good they were when I haven't heard them for a while. And it's good for me. I really should have music on more often, but usually the kids are competing for videos or napping, and I don't get to have music.

Well, for now I DO.

Woe is me, no right channel.

DAMN.

That's right. This old radio/CD/tape player has a dead speaker.

And the Beatles fully utilized stereo.

GAH. I'm missing half of Eleanor Rigby. And lots of other songs.

I'd forgotten, that's yet another factor for why I don't play much music.

Nice hearing the lovely cello parts, though. I still remember some of the fingering for that one.

Karl, honey, I want a new music player...

Hammers, hah

Okay, so zoethe was posting about the updates on the Pope's condition, and someone commented that when Popes died, they would be hit with a silver hammer to the forehead three times.

I asked about it, and got further details.
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As I'm opening the comment email and reading it, the All-Beatles program starts "Maxwell's Silver Hammer".

Snork. What are the odds?

I expect there's some twisted individual out there that could filk it.

[disclaimer, the man deserves respect, and I wish him a peaceful passing. But I have a twisted sense of humor]

LJ April Fools

Have you seen the lovely trick LJ is doing today? Go update your journal from the webpage, and see what happens when you go to click on "Update Journal". Then try again, and see what it says.

Thoughts on the Beatles

Okay, I understand that with them doing 10K of "Beatles" songs, that this is going to include the post-breakup solo work. And Wings stuff. And stuff they did with other people. "Ebony and Ivory" didn't surprise me. But I'd managed to successfully block out of my brain that Paul McCartney had done a song with Michael Jackson. I hope they don't replay THAT one. Shudder.

Not surprisingly, I find myself thinking about the Beatles and their work as I listen to this. Hearing a couple Wings songs reminded me yeah, it just wasn't the same. Paul McCartney is talented, but he needed John to be great. The two of them together produced amazing work. I should go dig up some decent bios of them, I wonder if there are any decent ones that aren't media hype or dirt dishing. I was listening to Got To Get You Into My Life earlier, and thinking that frankly, it makes as much sense to think of it not as as generic love song, but as a song for Paul and John together and their working relationship. They needed each other.

(Of course, given that I've been reading funny stuff from slasher types I know, that could be why I'm thinking of such things.)

Dear flist, why yes you ARE doomed to lots of Beatles entries today

"And in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love, you make"

Lovely line. I wish it was true. It ought to be true. So I suppose it is true in that sense.

Dear Station, this is the 3rd time today you've played "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band". I like it, sure. But I wish you'd play "I Will".


Abbey Road


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If this goes on I'm going to need a Beatles icon.

kid pic

Maggie and Jamie, in some of the new t-shirts I got for them. Maggie's all in pink - pink panties, as well as shorts and shirt, she chose 'em, and when we got downstairs post-bath she insisted on finding her pink flowered hat. Jamie isn't showing color preferences yet, so I picked green for him.

Yeah, he's trying to chew on the book. He's doing a LOT of that this week. I wonder if he's teething again. Maybe the canines are starting to come in.

( okay, and a shot of my new spring dress which finally got here )

Bang bang

I don't believe it.

Karl got home, and we were chatting about various things, including the news of the day, and I went online to check on the news. I was commenting on wanting to check news channels, because I was curious what kind of recurring news banner they would come up with for the Big Story Du Jour - like back in LA during rainy season we'd get these big "Winter Storm Watch 2000!!" things if it rained. So what are they doing for Pope Watch, I wonder.

Anyway, as I bring up the news, the Beatles station starts playing Maxwell's Silver Hammer again.

Heh. selenesue calls it the Radio Fairy.

Karl is commenting on the tradition. He says it makes him picture, way back in history, someone shouting "Monsignor! What are you doing?!?!" "Umm... it's a tradition! That's right! Hadn't anyone ever told you?"

Yes!

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/04/01/birth.control.governor.ap/index.html

Gov. of Illinois "approved an emergency rule Friday requiring pharmacies to fill birth control prescriptions".

"Our regulation says that if a woman goes to a pharmacy with a prescription for birth control, the pharmacy or the pharmacist is not allowed to discriminate or to choose who he sells it to," Blagojevich said. "No delays. No hassles. No lectures."

"When medical professionals write prescriptions for their patients, they are acting in their patients' best interests," Trombley said. "A pharmacist's personal views cannot intrude on the relationship between a woman and her doctor."