Annie's Blog

Woo Hoo!!!

Got it! Thanks to Elaine B , I now have a blog with commenting capabilities that doesn’t look quite so cobbled together. That whole tabling thing in html is going to take some practice and visualizing, that’s for sure.

I’m excited, because tonight will be another SBSTT gathering at the bookstore here in Louisville. Viki and Anita will both be there, but Brigitte and Cindy won’t…but maybe some new faces will show up. That would be great. And I’m hoping Anita got my message about putting her Bosworth Book Charka in her magic bag so that I can both try it out and get some silk spun for the miniature bag I want to do for the Small Bag Exchange. I’m thinking that I may have to purchase some different beads than the ones I have, though. I don’t know much about beads in general, but the ones I have, while beautiful, are very small.

The Louisville Mayor is not available to come to my event on Thursday, so I guess I’ll have to drum up the media coverage on my own. Hopefully at least _one_ reporter will show up. Tomorrow I’ll be making personal invitation phone calls, that’s for sure.

Work progresses slowly on my scramble exchange project. I actually managed to knit about an inch more on the project (took the better part of ninety minutes…the repeats are getting very long). One down, six more to go. Thank goodness Deb Bodmer is not as tall as T!!!!! I feel bad that it’s taken me so long to do this project…I’ll have to scope out and send her a good prize along with it when I’m finished.

OK, time to go back to work. Thanks again to Elaine for her help, and to Wendy for her offer!

–Annie

Ok, so now I’ve got the comment doohickey available (even though the service is unavailable for a “few days”), and I’m driving myself nuts trying to figure out how to position it under the graphic on the left so that the page doesn’t look so awkward. I know some very basic html, but the whole tables and alignment and positioning thing is a little beyond me. If anyone has a few minutes and wants to take a look at the source, edit it, and e-mail it back to me, I’d greatly appreciate it. And you have to promise not to laugh or groan at how I’ve botched things up so far by trying to manipulate their template.

I am actually ready to start doing the toe on the second sock for my brother (in handspun superwash of the most amazing turquoise blue!), so I should be able to finish that today at lunch. Then it’s on to finish the scramble project (I hope), and then on to spin silk for the small bag exchange. I want to try to do a bead-embellished silk bag with some macrame or icord embellishments as well. Darn it, I was at the library the other day and didn’t check out that Knitted Embellishments book by Nicky whatshername. That might be a good trip for tomorrow afternoon when the kiddos are napping.

I guess I should get back to work now. I’m trying to get the Louisville Mayor to agree to present the graduation certificates to the public housing residents who are finishing their technology training course. It’s kind of a cool thing–when they finish the 20-hour course, they actually get to keep the internet-ready computer they’re working on. If I can get the marketing guy to upload the release to the website, I’ll drop a link.

later!
–Annie

Ok, don’t shoot me! I had to go out of town on Friday to a teacher technology training seminar in Maysville, Kentucky (which was about a two and a half hour drive at o’god’thirty in the morning), then the weekend hit, then company came, then yesterday at work was a zoo. So here I am…

But the good thing about the technology seminar was the time in the car since a.) the drive was beautiful, through the bluegrassed hills of Kentucky, and b.) I managed to turn a heel and knit the better portion of a foot on the second sock for my brother (see very first log entry). No, I didn’t work on the scramble project…the sock was much more portable.

Still have company–my brother is in town for at least another day. I would have liked to have finished his sock before he leaves tomorrow morning, but it doesn’t look like it’s going to be in the cards.

For the record–I’m really liking my new job at the McConnell Technology and Training Center www.mttc.org Check it out if you get a chance–there’s some hardcore Navy Technology stuff, but also some really nice community-centered technology training and computer literacy programs.

OK, time to go back to it. Catch you all later. –Annie