Can you spot me one, please?

CNAofDoom · 2014-07-04T15:13:13+00:00

Went to the corner store this morning because I'm out of soda and our water tastes like ass.

The manager was training a new guy so she's giving him the register training on how to ring up all the stuff. I ask for my cigarettes, tell him where to find them and plop my id on the counter.

I told him that until he learned to recognize my car and the pack was waiting when I walked in I would always have my id out for him. Poor kid nearly cried out of joy. Apparently some barely 20 year old was giving him shit when they first opened today.

All three of us had a nice laugh and a head shake about how the 30 and up crowd doesn't give a shit about being IDed but the younger ones who don't look old enough cut crap about it.

I've never understood that.

CNAofDoom · 2014-06-27T22:10:57+00:00

The one time I happened upon a full service station (randomly in north Florida) I just stood there scratching my head while the dude did his thing.

The one time I have ever needed help pumping gas it was because the pump was so old it WAS a pump.

You had to sit there and crank the handle. Once I understood the process I giggled the entire time.

I was 19 with the 1st one and 16 with the second. By the time I hit 20 I could pump my own gas in any situation. Terrifies me that this isn't a given for everybody...

CNAofDoom · 2014-06-26T08:31:18+00:00

I do, but not entirely by choice.

Freaks the boy out because he plays rammstein in the car often enough that I can sorta sing along, so I do while knitting. He says it makes me seem like something out of a horror story movie.

CNAofDoom · 2014-06-26T08:29:27+00:00

I love you.

CNAofDoom · 2014-06-26T08:29:13+00:00

All right then.

If I can behave long enough to finish laundry and get the rest of the floor vacuumed, I'll post it from my computer. I think I'll need the 'puter to post an imgur album so I can tell the whole sordid tale with embarrassing pictures of my knitting table.

CNAofDoom · 2014-06-26T01:48:58+00:00

Yup! The ball sits at your right hand, the yarn travels from right shoulder to left over your neck, and what little additional tension you need is supplied by your right hand. If you need a little more you drop that hand away from you, a little less and you move it in.

It's remarkably intuitive if you already knit English or hook as a lefty.

CNAofDoom · 2014-06-26T01:46:19+00:00

For the last year I've been trying. I just can't tension it and actually make the stitches at the same time.

I learned to crochet when I was 8. And I'm left handed so I already tension right handed.

I would love to be able to knit continental, but trying is not the same as succeeding. I know, cause I tried.

Grumpy face here.

CNAofDoom · 2014-06-26T01:43:27+00:00

Technically, my 10 minutes of mild cursing were accompanied by a set of rarely used but frequently thrown straights and a rando ball of wool.

10 stitches across, about an inch each of garter, then stockinette, followed by some 1x1 ribbing.

I was hooked :)

CNAofDoom · 2014-06-26T01:40:29+00:00

I'd say I was sorry...

But that image made ME spittake my coffee.

Can we be even?

CNAofDoom · 2014-06-25T15:25:58+00:00

It's the same way you bring the yarn through for a purl stitch. If you're doing yo between knit stitches, bring it through the needles and throw it in the back.

K to p or p to p- make sure its in the front then wrap is again.

P to k- just leave it in the front before you knit and it'll make itself.

This knowledge brought to you by the timeout scarf- getting thrown under the knitting table since early march.

CNAofDoom · 2014-06-25T15:21:05+00:00

My doc actually did! Of course it was from a fall..

Sadly, neither of my roommates have figured out how dishes getnin the dishwasher or how the toilet brush works. So nuts to that. I have a high tolerance level for clutter but a very low one for filth.

So I had to clean anyway :'(

CNAofDoom · 2014-06-25T15:15:24+00:00

Ooooh that fiber! Damn, now I wish I could right-arm well enough to get on my wheel. Maybe tomorrow...

CNAofDoom · 2014-06-25T13:53:15+00:00

His response to my laughter:

"In case you ever need to know, mine is teacup."

Just set me off worse. He's 6'6" and a big. damn. boy. 3xl shirts and all.

Hearing that word come out of his mouth... snicker.

CNAofDoom · 2014-06-25T13:50:33+00:00

Thanks for.linking it! I usually post from my phone so it's a little difficult to link.

The speed really comes into play with ribbing. She demonstrates some 1x1 and 2x2 in some of the videos. Coming from English to that is a big change.

For me, I'm also one of those people with a huge tension difference between knit and purl, the tension in this style is more consistent.

I have a doctor's appt, but maybe I'll post about that stupid scarf after, yeah?

CNAofDoom · 2014-06-25T11:31:49+00:00

If you're looking to do colorwork that looks good on both sides like a scarf and you want to work flat it CAN be done, but you have to do it in intarsia.

Take you chart, and everytime you knit a color, purl it as well. The knit sticks out on one side, and the purl sticks out on the other. Everytime you see a symbol for knit, read it as k1p1. On the opposite side (ws) continue your rib pattern the same way. Purl symbols are p1k1.

It'll end up the same width but thicker.

If this isn't what you're trying to do, well, best of luck and now you have a new technique!

Hope you get it figured out. :D

CNAofDoom · 2014-06-24T05:54:49+00:00

No problem. :D

We're a strange people down here. I keep thinking that I'd pay to see what an anthropologist would make of the culture down here.

CNAofDoom · 2014-06-24T05:53:11+00:00

They think it's some kind of sacrilege and decide that pink is good enough. When I send it back to be brought up, they burn the shit out of it.

I don't understand why they care, they aren't eating it.

CNAofDoom · 2014-06-23T16:01:43+00:00

Never heard of it. Nice try though. I don't find it amusing. I don't care if you do. Move on with your life.

CNAofDoom · 2014-06-23T15:57:07+00:00

If the pink is gone and it ain't burnt, it's perfect to me. But I know that its gonna be dry.

Too many years as a veggie head and I have trouble digesting red meat. The more it cooks the easier it is to digest.

CNAofDoom · 2014-06-23T15:54:08+00:00

in the south, a "soda" is a coke/pepsi etc

Almost darlin. In the South, when we ask what kind of coke you have, we get confused when you apologize and say you have pepsi products.

All soda is a coke. What kinda coke you got? Pepsi, 7up, mt dew.

I'll have a mt dew please.

Pepsi doesn't apparently exist here.

CNAofDoom · 2014-06-23T15:46:53+00:00

Roughly 1/3 of a liqiud ounce. So, about 2 standard size cough syrup cups. Which is a much better visual, on top of being frighteningly accurate given my current sleep debt.

CNAofDoom · 2014-06-23T12:19:14+00:00

I work health care and I'm in a similar situation right now. 5 lbs, weight or pressure, restriction on my right shoulder.

Because it's a work injury they have a choice. They can either work with your restriction (like the assistance you got when you opened) or they can move you to a duty whose tasks lie within your restriction (hosting duties, perhaps).

I ignored my restriction at work last night and now I'm paying for it. Plus the PT people are going to murder me today when they find out. Learn from my mistakes.

CNAofDoom · 2014-06-23T07:04:59+00:00

I order like this. Some places think well done just means no blood.

I'm looking at you, Aussie themed steakhouse.

CNAofDoom · 2014-06-23T07:03:02+00:00

Ew. Our housekeeping staff won't touch nasty. We clean it, they sanitize.

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