Knitting a scarf

I've been knitting a scarf since the end of October. I joined in the second and last ball of yarn over the Thanksgiving holiday. At this rate, this scarf won't be finished until the end of December. Maybe I shouldn't have chosen such an involved pattern for the first time.

A co-worker gave me a link to a cool knitting site with lots of wearable free patterns and great articles about knitting. After the scarf, I'm going to make a hat, then I will embark on my first sweater, I decided on this one. I promise to my DH I will not even think of buying the materials for the sweater until I'm at least half way through the hat.

I have a bit of a knitting dilemma. On one hand, I believe it is best to support the local yarn shop (lys) but on the other I have found better prices with online stores. The local yarn shop is about a 15 minute walk from my office and convenient to the best coffee (and hopefully bagel) in the DC metropolitan area. The staff is friendly and knowledgeable and will listen to my stupid beginner questions. Their prices on the other hand are about 2 to 3 times what I have found on the net. This could be because they are in a high rent district. My compromise is I will order and purchase my yarn from them, but purchase my supplies (needles, notions, and storage) on-line.

My husband expressed his opinion concerning the sweater. In short he says, "It's ugly."

I am getting old

I went shopping with my mom yesterday. We went to foot locker so I could get a new pair of running shoes. All I could think while I was there was, "The music is loud and they should really turn it down."

Roll It Out

In anticipation of the rollout I came into work a little late. I stopped in at Ralph Lauren to exchange a pair of boots -- the box was marked with the right size but the boots were not. They were very good about finding the correct pair and even gave me a store credit for the difference between the full retail price and the sale price. In the end, I ended up getting another pair of boots for $100 dollars (the spectacular boots are here).

I haven't done this in a couple of years. A major server upgrade. We're leaving behind our RAID arrays and moving to a SANS.

2:00 AM - We are still doing the rollout. Replication is giving us a problem. The drive containing the snapshot folder continues to fill. Our workaround is to use a different drive for a coupel of the publishers. It is still slow. We can't start all the snapshots at the same time; we have to wait for one to finish and be applied to the subscriber before going to the next publication.

5:00 AM - I just walked in the door. I'm tired but I feel good. I accomplished something today.

2:30 PM - I went to bed from 5:30 to 10:30. DH took the LB to breakfast while I slept. When he brought me a bagel. After I ate it, we went to the grocery store. All is quiet so far but I won't be surprised if we are busy Monday morning.

Just Trying to Keep Busy

Okay, I found two more hobbies. Bento and knitting. Michael says I'm not allowed to start making Bento until I finish the scarf I started knitting two weeks ago.