Tuesday, January 04, 2005

Why won't that dishwasher empty itself?

Much to y'all's chagrin, I continue my endeavor to post shorter entries and more often than twice a week...

Today the cables for the other battery-munching digital camera were rescued from their former home. Drunk driver-induced scrapes are visible on parts of these cables, prompting concern that being slid along the wall with a table shoved against them caused internal damage. This evening I tested the cables; irksomely enough, they still work! Man, I hate this camera. It devours batteries. Picture quality is occasionally good, but it eats batteries as if they were corn chips! I'd hoped that the cables were damaged, rendering the camera useless, and we'd have an excuse to buy a spiffy new camera, but nope.

Actually, with my new computer setup and with the aid of the camera's power adapter thingamajig, I can take pictures of anything within a few feet from the computer and not have to deal with batteries at all... so on with the pictures.

Sock-in-progress. I detest the manner in which it stripes... but the skein looked so innocent! If you look at the cuff you might notice that for the first 20 rounds, the stripes were promising. Then all hell breaks loose! Stripe anarchy in action, people. This is not a good thing.



Picture taken in such a fashion out of curiosity... how many active readers will recognise, without the aid of Google, what album that is... unfortunately I can't promise yarn for a correct answer, as Zib has done with that sinister global map. What does Central America, southern Africa, and eastern Europe have in common with either Greenland or New Zealand?? The answer "Nobody cares about any of them" was promising until I noticed that Japan was in the same group. Then again....
Ooh, on the subject of New Zealand, an odd Google search came up with a rather disturbing image...

Check it out, if you dare.

Teehee. Sheepies in fishnets.

Too horrible to post inline... Avert your eyes! 'Tis a crocheted sock. Several times it's attempted to crawlout of the frog pond, but soon it will DIE.

Frit demanded public adoration, so here again is Her Highness. Ain't Fritty gorgeous?