With less than half a month remaining until 2008, and having now completed the last challenge I signed up for in 2007, I think it’s safe to post a list of the challenges I completed in 2007 so I archive them from my main page. I only started doing challenges in July, and managed to […]
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I’m done with the Armchair Traveler Reading Challenge! For the challenge, I read the following books: I’d made a point of picking books from different parts of the world (though the Sahara and Yemen are probably a bit too close, even if they are in different continents, but oh well.) I really enjoyed reading about
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Read for the Armchair Traveler’s Reading Challenge This book is the companion to the Sahara travel series that Michael Palin filmed in 2001. I’ve seen the last half of the series, so I had a certain visual frame of reference for some of the book that I didn’t have for the rest. (Though there were
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I love a snow storm on a weekend. There’s something wonderful about being able to watch it snow and know that you don’t have to go out in it. I did some knitting, and some cleaning, and some nice relaxing with the Sunday paper. The boys (BF and D downstairs) took care of the 6ish
Do you use any of the online book-cataloguing sites, like Library Thing or Shelfari ? Why or why not? (Or . . . do you have absolutely no idea what I’m talking to?? (grin)) If not an online catalog, do you use any other method to catalog your book collection? Excel spreadsheets, index cards, a
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I’m pretty well cruising along on Mom sock #1. (Though can I say, the colors look much less scarily pooly in person than in this picture.) Sadly, I finished Season 4 in the Babylon 5-athon last night, and we don’t own Season 5. I’m at a bit of a loss tonight, trying to figure out
I got my invite for Ravelry! I didn’t sign up for an invite for a while, because I still feel like a pretty basic knitter, and sort of felt like I might be getting in over my head, but I keep seeing some pretty cool posts on people’s blogs, and broke down a little while
The mobius scarf for my mother is done. This means I can now concentrate on her socks. I managed to add about an inch to the ribbing for sock #1 last night. The Christmas tree is up and mostly decorated. I say mostly because we had a slight snufu involving crunching of lights on the
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Read of the Armchair Traveler’s Reading Challenge. This book follows the author’s journey westward from Shanghai along the old Silk Road. There are many interesting glimpses of Chinese and other minority cultures along the way. I’d not realized that the Chinese had long considered a trip along the Silk Road a form of exile. Xinjiang,
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I raked 15 bags of leaves this weekend, 13 of which I had to wrangle on a rather blustery Saturday morning. Fortunately, my backyard is rather sheltered, so I only had to work around the worst of the gusts, but I definitely have some issues with Mother Nature deciding it would be fun to have