We went up to Casco yesterday for the house inspection. There are four or five minor points and one more thing to get looked at professionally, plus radon tests to be done, plus the septic system inspection. There’s a gorgeous view of (snow-capped, as of two weekends ago) Mount Washington from about two miles before …
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Lopi Sweater – Finished
Wednesday night I really did all the last knitting on Charley’s sweater. Thursday morning I sewed down about a third of the collar, enough that I could try it on and get Arlene to take a picture of me wearing it: I went over to Black Sheep on my lunch hour and said, “I wanted …
Dumpster Diving Chair
… or just sitting on the curb. On my way home from getting bagels last Sunday I noticed some furniture on the curb in front of Linda and Dixie’s house, in particular one very substantial-looking chair, but didn’t stop for a closer look. Arlene went out later in the day. When she got home, she …
Cutler Park walk I
I walked around the pond at Cutler Park on my lunch hour today. That was supposed to be one of the attractions of this job. It worked — the pond is really there, and I can walk around it in 38 minutes, including side trails to the Charles and to a little point jutting into …
Sprint to finish
All the knitting is done on Charley’s sweater! I still have to bind off the neckband, fold it in half and sew it down, and weave in lots of loose ends. I grafted the underarm stitches at the start of tonight’s knitting, just so they wouldn’t be hanging around to do when everything else was …
Bike to work
I did bicycle to work my second day at the new job. Even in my out-of-shape state, it only took 18 minutes (of course I looked at my watch!) It was as nice a ride as I expected, down the hill on Nahanton street through the golf course, over the bridge on the Charles and …
New job
Also, today was my first day at my new job. So far so good. My boss spent about half his day getting me set up on the computer. They want me to do a lot of web-based training on their product before I start monkeying with it. Probably a good idea. I have an ID …
Finished Non-Fiber Object
I finally got to work on the coptic binding book I had started a couple of weeks ago. The covers are cereal box cardboard covered with Japanese printed paper that I bought at the stamp convention back around Memorial Day. The directions for the binding were, natch, on the web. I used way too much …
Sock yarn
We went over to Charley’s so Arlene could plant bulbs in his yard. I went over to Mind’s Eye Yarns in the meantime. It’s in Porter Square, Cambridge, only a couple of miles from Charley’s place near Teele Square, Somerville. I’ve met the people from there a couple of times, at Gore Place and the …
Between Jobs
That’s what I am! Yesterday was my last day at the place that I was hired twelve years ago (well, I started on Feb 1 1994, so it’s three months short of twelve years, but close enough) and Monday is my first day on the new job. It was very emotional leaving after that long, …