An Old Knitty Lady

Category: General

  • Back to Work?

    That would be paid work, for lawyers. I should be grateful. I dinged the agency my availability online; they called me right back; I have an interview tomorrow; and could be back on payroll on Monday; but I am kinda miserable. The interview is over, and I am less miserable, cautiously encouraged even. It was,…

  • Black Sheep Gathering 2024

    I am old. These days people will tell you that 68 is merely one’s late middle age. Bugger that. It is old. And old people who rent a U-Haul van and hit the road for six days get just what they deserve: wrecked. I am recovering, slowly. I suppose it could have happened even to…

  • Five Months … Quite a Lapse

    I did not think it had been that long, three, maybe. Whatever have I been doing? I just went to check out my temp agency website dashboard, because I truly cannot bring any of it to mind, this minute, which is a little disturbing. I worked all March through April, two months. And, of course,…

  • Catching Up

    I still have an entire November and some bits of December to account for. I have been volunteering with the East Bay Heritage Quilters: three more days since the quilt show in San Mateo mentioned in the October 18 post. First was the working party organized to produce the patchwork postcards that they sell at their…

  • I’ve Been Off

    … because I took a temp assignment at a nice mid-sized law firm. But never mind about that. What do you think of my auto decor for Autumn? I’m a little worried about spontaneous combustion. The car sits in the sun in the BART lot all day, and it’s been hot again. I’ve even driven…

  • Make Work

    Hmmmm. I’m noticing a theme to my recent post titles. Well, it is how it is. And there’s good news! My best box of crochet hooks is recovered ! . . . along with my listed Etsy merch. So I have no excuse for not bounding forward with the Etsy merch listing process. Alas ……

  • It’s Still Too Hot

    But I drove out to my favorite sitting spot in Point Reyes Station, because there is almost always a breeze in that spot, and there was, I got a little bit done. I took some photos that may be useable. Don’t know yet, because I have not pulled them off the phone, though it’s been…

  • Dithering …

    It is too hot. Mind you, in the San Francisco Bay Area we have no business to complain. The citizens of Arizona have been sweltering in the 100s for weeks. But those of us acclimated to these Mediterranean environs get a little cranky when the temp gets over 80. Me, I cannot cope at all.…

  • And It Worked …

    At 200-and-some miles, on the over-the-hilly bit between Paso Robles and San Luis Obispo, the vehicle engine commenced to misfire in a very worrying manner. (I now know that this is what the previously intermittent rumblings were about, engine misfires.) On the way back, the loss of power up several grades got so pronounced that…

  • There Is a Trip Planned …

    An extravagantly reckless trip that may blow up the engine of my vehicle. The Conference of Northern California Handweavers is having a do, down in San Luis Obispo, in early August, and during a manic phase a couple of months ago, I paid for it. But the vehicle does not like to spend more than…