In Process -- Feb 2019

Persephone
One day I wrote about 1500 words!

Wind/Water/Salt
Chapter 14: This is the gating item that kept me from posting this status update at the actual end of the month. I still haven't finished it and posted it.
Ch 15: did a draft.
Also, I meant to finished taking up chapter 3 but never got around to it.

Connecting
Critted 8
Got back 5

Subs

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Knitting
Celtic Gang Girls of the 70’s (Rowan and me). This finishing on this was insane, but it’s over now. So many danglers! So many seams! This took just over a year and a half.
FI Corset belt. Started month with 1.5 inches done. Moved this to the “hard” project bag after finishing Celtic Girl Gangs, and… well. It’s black on dark blue, and the pattern I was knitting in was basically invisible. The bottom was curling because I didn’t do purl-when-you-can. The dark blue yarn I’m using is a mess. So, I plan to rip it out and started over. Haven't done that yet however.
Drachen (knitty Fall 2018). Started the month with 11 inches of body, which is close to the divide for armholes. There was an error in the pattern at the front neckhole divide, and the designer compounded the error in correcting, I think, so I just knitted it to look like the picture. I’m a couple of inches past the divide now, still wondering if I’ll run out of yarn.
Boomerang socks (New directions in sock knitting). Started these while I was thinking about what to do about the FI corset belt (above). A really nice, fun pattern. I finished one sock and started the next. Also wondering if I’ll run out of yarn.

Best TW feedback ever

Over at the dayjob, SMEs are feverishly trying to get documents back to me all marked up, in preparation for the release that's supposed to happen the week I'm back from VP. Today's best comment: Unfortunately not true. SMEs, they're so cute.

What I read: August 2023

"The Absolute Book" by Elizabeth Knox. I got it for Christmas. It was delightful, even if maybe some stuff wasn't explained completely. Or maybe that's part of why it was delightful. "Crucial conversations" By Joseph Grenny and three other old white men. Another office book club selection. The word "candor" comes up a lot. I really resented this book. LHC #220: "The Goldfinch" by Donna Tartt. There was a girl at my previous company who wanted to have an office book club, and she had this book on her desk for months and months. I can totally understand this. I found portions crazy stressful to read. Like, I would be skipping ahead to see how much more in the section, could I get through it, pacing around, etc. I wanted to know how it ended, sure, but I was having weird stress dreams and stuff. If it wasn't a library book I might not have finished it at all. It was such a relief when Boris showed up again and something happened. I di

In Progress -- July 2023

Wind/Water/Salt Chapters 39-51: Still n eed to take up comments and revise. Persephone (probably not its real name): Nothing but thoughts. Short Stories: As I mentioned last month I had a dish-washing epiphany on a story that wasn't going well. I'd already changed the POV character, but I knew that wasn't enough because I had no ending. It has an ending now. Critted 4 Got back 0 I really need to post something new. Submissions 0 Out there 0 Rejects 1 Knitting Tay Tartan cardigan (Martin Storey). Finally finished the danglers and minor seaming and chose buttons, then had to wait to block because the space I normally block in needed to be cleared, and this would be very disruptive to my work, so I waited to block it for the night before I went on vacation. It would appear that the finishing of this sweater took 4 months, which may be a new record. It fits for the most part. Yay! Cathar (self). Started the month just about done with the body edging.

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