sometimes i wonder if i'm making the best decisions.

my mom is giving me her old computer, which is a dell dimension 8300 from 2002. no one uses it, and i need a second comp for geeky purposes. (so i can run a private maple story server for my buddies. yes, i know.)

i kinda want to buy some more memory for that comp since it's only a 512, but it's like $50 per 1gb stick and you can only install it in pairs, which = $100 for an old ass computer.

i can get a blazing fucking fast desktop tower (since i have 2 monitors already) for like $400. should i even buy the memory or just wait till i get my tax money back and just buy a new laptop? i really hate that you can't get a new computer anymore that isn't running vista, though. i'm having a problem deciding what to do. help?

it's frigging freezing today. the weather forecast for tomorrow, according to my firefox weatherbug, is "igloo."

my heat works like shit so i'm sitting here under a blanket. i came home from school today (my room is a cozy 55-60 degrees during the school day; we're not allowed to change the temperature so we have to cover the box in wet paper towels to trick the heat into coming on) and just passed out on the couch under a ton of blankets. i'm getting in bed early tonight just so i can be warm.

we're officially halfway through the year, and though it's not as crappy as last year, i'm pretty tired of the stupid kids. how many times can you get kicked out of class and still think it's cool? at any point do you stop to think that you're just an asshole? i can totally understand where those teachers who don't teach are coming from ... how nice must it be to just run off 100 copies of some worksheets every day, sit at your desk, and tell the kids to shut up and figure it out?

anyway, i was working on a yarn yesterday but i'm way too cold to continue tonight. i'm so happy we have a 3 day weekend! i will greatly appreciate this personal time.

i dyed a ton of fiber on sunday, then finished up the last batches last night. i like to do two of each, because if i dye something i love, i have a hard time putting it up for sale. this way, i know that there's at least one left for me :-)

i wish i had more time. i really want to spin, but i have so much school stuff to worry about that i'm having a hard time scheduling it in. i DO have a 3 day weekend this week, though, so i guess i'll take advantage of it.

anyway, those ridiculous pink/purple/orange batts are made from some of that fiber that holly sent me a while ago. 75% wool and 25% alpaca. i love love love the way it spins. so hairy and wonderful, like romney. the hard-to-see lime/purple/teal batts underneath those are 50/50 wool/alpaca. i'm excited to work on those!

i need a longer dayyyyyyyy. oh, and more money. because i don't have ANY.

Labels: carding, fiber, spinning

jessica has decided to move to blogger. that's cool, because you can syndicate your blogger posts to LJ, and people who don't feel like using a newsreader can still read your posts from their friends page.

this made me remember the frustrating amount of time i was spending trying to find a suitable crossposting client. when the greymatter blog program was discovered to have major, serious security holes, i sort of abandoned my blog on faithinpoison.com for LJ. i did use blogger for a while, but it's not the same, and posts coming from blogger to LJ looked like poop to me. i do like blogger, but i love LJ. everything i want is in one spot. there's really no substitute for it. it's frustrating, though, that people seem to use either one or the other and not both. it's too much trouble to post here and there again, reformatting everything. nonsense.

so i've been tooling around in semagic, because i've always used it to post to LJ, and i was like wtf, why are there blogger posting options? so i configured the shit and tested it, and it posts to my blogger blog. and what's this setting i never noticed in the journal menu? i can post to multiple journals now?? have i always been able to do this!?!?

so problem solved. now i feel like my domain has a purpose again, instead of just sitting there costing too much money.

and if you knew about this capability this whole time, i kinda hate you, but it's not your fault since i haven't written about it since sometime last year.

testing one more time; permissions were wrong.

Labels: test

test test, to see if this shit will crosspost.

Labels: testing

on a lighter note, here's the yarn that came from my dyed batts. there was absolutely no problem spinning them except for a few spots that weren't carded as smoothly as i'd liked, but other than that, this yarn came out fabulous. nice and super thin, and i haven't yet measured the yardage yet, but i know that it's at least 500 yards - probably a good 550.

the color isn't quite what i had expected, even though i still like it a lot. i expected it to be a lot lighter, but it was so thin that it darkened up quite a bit. also, since i was spinning from a batt, i tended to start spinning from the fold because it's quicker and easier and requires less concentration, but that made really weird color blends that weren't so great.

the third thing for next time is to make smaller skeins. this took forever from start to finish, just like pink elephant did. next time i'll either spin two smaller skeins or just sell one set of the batts, or something. i was literally in pain after finishing plying this beast. NEVER AGAIN!

the other photos are on flickr but there's no info yet. i'll do that later. sometime i'll post a little process post, because i know some people are interested in/curious about the whole batt dyeing thing.

Labels: carding, fiber, spinning, yarn

aw, shit. kurt vonnegut died.

my favorite quote ever, from Timequake, on the topic of evolution: "No matter what is doing the creating, I have to say that the giraffe and the rhinoceros are ridiculous."

Labels: funerals, sad

1. Go to google.com.

2. Click on Maps.

3. Click on Get Directions.

4. From: New York, New York.

5. To: Paris, France.

6. Then, read line #23.

7. Laugh.

8. Repost.

Labels: funny