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    September 2005



    SMOG Tests and Some Knitting Content - Thursday - September 29, 2005

    Thursday, 29 September 2005 6:32 P GMT-08
    Being that I am a dutiful wife (stop snickering over there!), I used some of my valuable "working from home" time to take the Spousal Unit's elderly pickup truck for an oil change, and then for the SMOG test required before the registration
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    Dying Hard Drives and New Projects - Wednesday - September 28, 2005

    Wednesday, 28 September 2005 7:41 A GMT-08
    It's official:  I have startitis.And I have it bad.Since Sunday when I cleaned out my knitting bags, I've started 3 sweaters and a shawl, and I'm not done yet.  There are at least 3 more sweaters, a bag or 2, some scarves and a couple more shawls,
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    What Obsolete Skill Am I? - Tuesday - September 27, 2005

    Tuesday, 27 September 2005 9:22 P GMT-08
    You are 'Latin'. Even among obsolete skills, thetongue of the ancient Romans is a realanachronism. With its profusion of differentcases and conjugations, Latin is more than alanguage; it is a whole different way ofthinking about things. You are very
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    Wedding Weekend - Monday - September 26, 2005

    Monday, 26 September 2005 7:25 A GMT-08
    Mr. Ken and I attended a Polish Catholic wedding in Monterey this past Saturday, and spent part of the weekend at Los Laureles Lodge in the Carmel Valley, where the reception was held.  It was a perfect day for a wedding and outdoor reception, and w
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    Sunset Sky Picture - Friday - September 23, 2005

    Friday, 23 September 2005 8:18 A GMT-08
    Since XXXXXXXXX asked for sky pictures, here's mine. This is the view from the front of my house looking due west, last evening about 7 pm PDT.  We don't get a lot of interesting sunsets here, unless there's "weather".  Either the fog obs
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    A little bit of this, a little bit of that - Thursday - September 22, 2005

    Thursday, 22 September 2005 11:02 A GMT-08
    I'm all over the place today, and so's this entry!Autumn begins today at 3:23 pm PDT, and I am so ready.  It's been a strange summer, weather- and other-wise; extra hot for the area for several weeks, but overall, much cooler than usual.  Things di
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    A Good Weekend - Monday - September 19, 2005

    Monday, 19 September 2005 10:12 A GMT-08
    There was destruction (on purpose)!There was knitting!There was dinner with a knitting friend!There were good silent movies!There was even a bit of antiquing and farmer's marketing!In short, it was a very good weekend.  The weather cooperated nice
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    Is it Friday Yet? - Thursday - September 15, 2005

    Thursday, 15 September 2005 12:59 P GMT-08
    It's official:  I hate my current job!  I hate conference calls at 5 a.m.; I hate conference calls at 11 p.m; it makes me absolutely crazy to be unable to go out for the evening 5 nights a week without having access to a phone for an international
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    Just A Quiz - Tuesday - September 13, 2005

    Tuesday, 13 September 2005 3:07 P GMT-08
    WATER OF WATER. Pretty lady! Fair and gentle, your empathy attracts others to you. Possibly psychic, you are pure emotion and are more likely to act on feeling rather than practical thought or logic. You think that's just fine because imagination is
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    Rest In Peace, Sylvia - Saturday - September 10, 2005

    Saturday, 10 September 2005 11:59 P GMT-08
    Sylvia     1996 - September 9, 2005Sylvia died Friday afternoon.  We miss her terribly, and I feel so guilty.Sylvia was a wonderful cat.  She was feral with 2 3-month-old kittens when Mr. Ken started feeding her.  It took most of the summer, b
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    Attack of the Killer To Do List - Friday - September 9, 2005

    Friday, 9 September 2005 9:21 P GMT-08
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    Random Thoughts - Thursday - September 8, 2005

    Thursday, 8 September 2005 5:09 P GMT-08
    Ever since the horror of Katrina was first reported, local radio stations have played 15 second ads from the California Earthquake Authority (if you have earthquake insurance, it from these folks):"Remember, every day is earthquake season in Cal
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    Rippit, Rippit - Tuesday - September 6, 2005

    Tuesday, 6 September 2005 8:53 P GMT-08
    Yup, I have negative progress to report today.  I worked from home again (and will continue to work from home on any days that start with a 5 a.m. conference call and end with an 11 p.m. conference call) and took a longer than normal lunch "hou
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    Labor Day - Monday - September 5, 2005

    Monday, 5 September 2005 1:34 P GMT-08
    Erica inquired about my Bookworm Vest.  I'm knitting it from Patons Fireside Tweed 8 ply (90% wool, 5% acrylic, 5% viscose) in rust tweed.  I've posted little about it since starting it in May 2004.  It's my soothing TV-watching knitting, or was
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    Autumn Magazine Review, Part 2 - Sunday - September 4, 2005

    Sunday, 4 September 2005 12:00 A GMT-08
    Knitting - perhaps a couple of the tops (Pina Colada) and the reprint from Vogue Knitting and the Vogue Books.  Otherwise this is pretty forgettable.  Also, can I whine?  There are crochet patterns here, and I'm getting really tired of knitting ma
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    Autumn Magazine Review, Part 1 - Saturday - September 3, 2005

    Saturday, 3 September 2005 11:43 A GMT-08
    Vogue Knitting - The Annie Modesitt cardigan is lovely but would I make it?  I also like the eyelet pullover, the orange cabled cardigan, the Cascade 220 cabled cardigan, the Anna Sui suit jacket, and the Pierrot coat.  The cropped cardigan is nice
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    August Wrap Up and New Patterns - Friday - Septermber 2, 2005

    Friday, 2 September 2005 10:04 A GMT-08
    Earlier this week I decided I'd been good long enough.  For months - maybe years - I've wanted to make the Reynolds Sunburst sweater in their Mandalay silk yarn.  I wasn't sure I was experienced enough, wasn't sure that I deserved silk yarn, whatev
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    New Old Yarn - Thursday - September 1, 2005

    Thursday, 1 September 2005 6:31 P GMT-08
    This week has been strange.  Not bad strange and not good strange, just strange.   I've not had a chance to photograph the finished items for August yet, and I just got my Fall Knitters today and haven't read it yet.  So those posts will probabl
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