We had to take the monster truck in for service this morning, and on the way across the Narrows Bridge, I FINALLY saw some work actually taking place on the new bridge. I drive across the bridge fairly often, but I’ve never actually seen any work happening on it, it just kept changing little by little, but this morning I actually saw the spinners going. It was all kinds of cool. It’s like that goofy railroad bridge in Ballard that is always open (it’s right next to where the Ballard locks let out, so it is always open so the boats can get by) - I think I’ve seen that thing go down twice in my lifetime. I know it happens every day, but I just never see it.

Want to know wtf I’m talking about? Go look here for the bridge project (pictures! lots of pictures! and cool info on how they actually build a suspension bridge) and here for the locks (And omfg. Nobody should ever let the army corps of engineers build a website. Canals yes, websites no).

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Word to the wise: You *know* you’ve been watching WAY too much Buffy when you go to the opera*, and half way through the first act you actually think to yourself “Ok, so the vamps are going to come out of that corridor over there, and Buffy will (obviously) come in through that window on the left. Cool. This’ll be good.”

Oh… Wait. No. At least it was a (very) comic opera (oh, excuse me, operetta thankyouverymuch), so my giggle fit at my blondness was totally disguised by the general audience laughter around me. Otherwise I would have had to blame the champagne. Which I hadn’t gotten into yet. But it was coming. Oh yes. Yes it was.

And no. No progress on Rogue. I managed to get the shoulder seams sewn, and got the stitches for the hood picked up, but that does not, in my book, really qualify as ‘progress’.

And on a COMPLETELY different note… My OCD? I have TOTALLY found a project to funnel that at. OMFG. Check it out. 133,110 stitches. Done on 32 count linen it would be… what, 8 1/2″ X 15 1/2″. 130some-odd colors, 133,110 stitches, and roughly the size of a legal size piece of paper. I got your OCD projects right here, baby! Or maybe this one, or this one. Discuss.

*In general I am NOT a fan of opera in English, and there are few things in life that make me itch like musicals. So this being an operetta in English did not bode well for it, but it really was fun, and Jane Eaglen totally rocks my world, even though someone I know says she’s losing her edge. The day Jane can no longer make me cry with that first note I’ll admit she’s losing her edge, but until then, STFU.

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The body of Rogue3 is done. I’ll get started on the hood this afternoon/evening, and the sleeves can get started… Friday? Then if I just knit ALL day on Saturday, I might have a chance to get it done. I seem to remember the sleeves going faster than most of the rest of it. Don’t they? They should. She’s got tiny little arms, so it’s not like the sleeves will be all that big. Hope! Hope is still alive!

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The race is officially on. The race, that is, to finish the Booger’s new Rogue in time for her birthday next week. She’ll be down here for her birthday over the upcoming weekend, so I only have until Sunday morning to get it finished. Ipe! I’ve been working obsessively on it while obsessively watching Buffy, and have made significant progress, but it’s at this point in the sweater that I *always* think I’ve made significant progress, only to discover that there’s still all that damn cabling on the hood and the endless sleeves and the making up and the blocking yet to go. The fact that this is Rogue #3 should make the cables less wonky and the hood grafting less manky. Hopefully. So… yeah. The race is on. And yeah, once again I’ll try to get around to posting some pictures. Soon. I promise.

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Bwah! Sorry. Had to go there.

I finally got around to the starting to play with the new loom thing last night (and yes, Angela, this means you’re officially On Notice…), and managed to do all my warp calcs, and measure it all out (omfg my arms hurt after that), and got started sleying the reed. I got the reed about 80% done, and just have to finish warping all the rest of it, at least some of which I hope to get done tonight.

And… other than that, there hasn’t been much to report. Critterboy got me the Giant Box O’ Buffy for my birthday, and I’ve been rather engrossed in that (having never previously seen much more than bits and pieces of a few episodes).

OOh! And in the You’ve GOT To Be Kidding arena, may I present the online license tab renewal service of the Washington State Department of Licensing. Other than being REALLY peeved that I had to get new plates for my car (the DOL said so), I was really surprised at the whole thing. It couldn’t have been easier to do - the whole process took, oh, five minutes? And having renewed the tags and plates online on Thursday, I ’bout fell the hell out when the new plates, all tabbed up for me arrived in the mail on Saturday. As Squagel said “damn that prison labor works quick!”… So! Rock on with your bad selves at the state DOL and at the Port Orchard licensing place that actually did the mailing of the plates. Who knew I’d ever have anything nice to say about a licensing office?

And, oh, on the knitting front. There has really been no progress on anything. At all. Well, there was progress on the first sleeve of Durrow (for which I got 15 glorious skeins of Jo Sharp Silk Road Aran Tweed for my birthday), but then I realized that I’m a dumbass and a)hadn’t washed my swatch before I cast on, so I don’t have a damn clue if it’s going to grow or not, and b)I, at least last time I checked, am not an orangutan. So all that lovely cabling and ribbing is going to get ripped out and reknit. Lame. Lame lame lame. There has been a teensy bit of progress on The Blue Scarf, and on The Second Sock, and none at all on the Sock! sock, and again with the none at all on the baby cabled sock, and even more none at all on the green shawl or the red shawl or the silk shawl or the kitty hat or… omg! Angel! naked! oh, wait, was I talking about knitting? Right. That.

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