clutch-jumpers

Good post from theferrett. The mosh pit story is not terribly relevant to me, but how he relates it to real life is:

"Look, you have to learn the lesson from this," you say. "This wasn't blind fate; you got into this situation yourself, as a result of your own bad choices. Next time, plan what you're doing, and stop relying on everyone else to clean up for you."

They nod, and look concerned, but twenty seconds after you've left the room you can hear their story changing; suddenly, [snip] Because they won't learn. There's nothing good that they will gain, because they can't see it's their error.

Oh man, I know too many people like this. It's never their fault, these awful things just HAPPEN to them, and of course they never think that they actually need to plan and do work to get their lives together.

Help, I can't find my copy

Hey, anybody here have a copy of the sock booklet Ribbing Plain and Fancy by Joy Slayton?

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I own a copy, but I can't find it. I *know* I had it in my sock bag before my recent trip out of town, but I can't find it now - dunno if I took it out before the trip, packed it somewhere else in my luggage and I just can't find it, or what.

I used the first basic heel turning directions for the lace sock I'm writing, and was ready to do the 2nd sock and actually *write it down* this time for the directions. The regular one on an even number of stitches I know by heart - but this one is an odd number of stitches, and I wanted to look over it.

If anybody has it, would they be willing to share that part with me? Please?

selenite's new game

selenite got a whole BOX full of goodies from Steve Jackson games today - cashing in his writer's voucher. One of the things he got was a new game, "Space Pirate Amazon Ninja Catgirls" - bought because it was illustrated by Phil Foglio, and hey, we didn't need any more recommendation than that. (Yep. Acronym is SPANC)

We haven't played it yet. But he showed me some of the cards, and I'm entranced.

I've now spent a bunch of the evening that I'd planned to spend in going to bed early, in messing around with my image software. So, GIP. (I made one for tygerr, too, but I don't know if he'll use it or not.)

The nice thing about this is I learned three new helpful things about my gif animation software in the process. So it was a learning experience. Right. Not a waste of time playing with cat and yarn pics while trying not to think about my dentist's appointment in the morning. Educational. Right.

If we play the game and don't like it, that'll probably be it for the icon, but I expect it'll be fun.