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While I was driving my daughters to their swim class tonight, I had the radio on, was flipping through channels as is my wont (I have no patience), and stopped when I heard some familiar chords--"Free Will" by Rush. I remember being very young, listening to that song, thinking it was very deep. An odd bit of memory there :).

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My isp is having fits again. Emails sent to me have been bouncing, mail lists arriving days late and out of order, and very likely some mail lost entirely (I haven't answered any ADF office mail in a week because I haven't received any). So if you've tried to email me, and I haven't written back, I may not have gotten it yet, or I may never get it at all. Supposedly my isp is doing an upgrade over the next few months; in the mean time I'm looking into other local options. Not that my isp is local anymore--two buyouts ago it was, now I have no idea where they're located in the physical world.

Grr.

On the plus side, the spam is down as well :).

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While at Wal-Mart (I know, I know) last night, I picked up a bin to store yarn; today I went out on the back porch where I was pretty sure I had put some yarn I'd purchased many years ago (like before I was married!), got it for some project and never made it. (Unfortunately not a thing I am unknown for. :))

Imagine my surprise to find not only several skeins of soft fuzzy yarn in magenta, bright blue and black, but a small partially-completed piece and a large piece in the same pattern. The latter is finished except for weaving in the ends. Well, I'm sure it isn't actually finished, given that I found another partial piece and given that it's a very odd size--too long for a shawl, too narrow for an afghan--but since I don't have the pattern any more I guess it's what I've got. It's very pretty, and surprisingly undamaged although some of it was gaily festooned with bits of sunflower seed--however, apparently mice don't eat acrylic or nest in it (can you blame them?) because it seems fine otherwise.

I'm not sure what to do with it. It would make a nice altar cloth for a very long altar. I wish I had a very long altar but I don't. However, it's also a lot more complicated work than I had any idea I would have been capable of at any point in my short and distant knitting career (I vaguely remember being able to purl but that's about it--so this is a nice surprise). So, barring being able to find the pattern (unlikely since I'm sure it was in one of those thin booklets you get at the yarn store), I guess I've got more yarn and a lovely but unusable piece. (Thinks of knitting altar cloths, hmmm.)