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The weather has been absolutely freakin’ wonderful.
I’ve been reading in the sun, napping in the sun, planting in the sun. Love this streak of hot sunny weather.

Unfortunately, the warm weather also seems to have brought out the whackos. Frankly, I think something needs to be said about some of the recent bad behaviour.

Lets start with Stanley Cup Playoffs (and yes, the Canucks got knocked out, but this is still relevant):

-booing the Canadian national anthem is not acceptable and since half the players on US teams are Canadian, it’s pretty darn rude.

-booing the three stars if they are not on the home team is also rude.

-booing the team that won the conference because it’s not the home team, you guessed it, rude.

Grow the hell up people, nice example you’re setting for your kids.

Now on to the sad state of affairs with the Phoenix Coyotes:

-the owner declaring bankruptcy does not mean that the NHL and Bettman (hereto known as Buttman) can just take it from him.

-since the team is bankrupt and only 80 people went to the “Save the Coyotes” rally, it seems logical to allow the only person willing to buy the team to move it to a viable market. Especially when you consider that 30,000 people went the “save the Jets” rally and Buttman allowed it to be moved to Arizona anyway.

Which brings me to Jim Balsillie versus Buttman.

-Balsillie is a guy with infinite pockets who desperately wants an NHL team. He’s been turned down twice. Because he wants his team to be in Canada.

-Canadian teams make money. Consistent money. We could use at least two more.

-We lost two, lets have them back.

-Buttman needs to yank his head out his ass before someone makes sure it stays there for good. Trust me, there’s a long line of people willing to do this for him.

Enough hockey, lets say a little about knitters:

-Sock Summit is a very exciting thing. It does not give you carte blanche to be an asshole to the people running it.

-behaving like said asshole does not encourage them to make sure you can participate.

-being indecisive is no one’s problem but yours.

-honestly? Threatening people over a knitting retreat? Are you high? Did your soylent green run out? Get a life.

I let the battery in my camera go dead. There’ll be more photo content/ less ranting next time!

eta: On a recent radio call-in show, the most popular thing that people wanted Buttman to get for his birthday was a pink slip. Seems appropriate.

This is clearly a case of being careful what you wish for. A few people wanted more pics of the kitten and they have gotten their wish. He’s not the easiest creature to photograph. He has two settings, naptime and hyperactive bitey fiend.

Here, getting ready to bite me:

And here in, “I just woke up, aren’t I cute, soon I will bite you”, mode:

The napping lets me get my less kitten friendly fibre work done. When he’s awake, the act of crocheting or knitting becomes a battle of claws and spray bottles. I haven’t even tried to spin. Hate to think what the little bastard would do to a drop spindle.

Gir is enjoying having a real-live chew toy that’s screams and runs away. Of course the chew toy also turns around and whacks him and pounces on him when he’s asleep.

Good times.

We’re into the crochet section of Nihon year 4 now. My crochet skills are not exactly what anyone would refer to as skills. More like a collection of clumsy fumbling that sometimes produces a pattern. I’m not even going to talk about my technique. Let’s just call it unorthodox and move on.

Because I’ve been trying to improve my crochet ability, I’ve actually been doing non-class related projects. Okay, I’ve been forcing myself to crochet instead of knit. Easier said than done, but I did manage to finish this scarf:

Angela gave me a very pretty ball of german sock yarn and showed me this pattern. It’s quite simple and didn’t take very long. The long colour repeats in the yarn made for a great finished effect. Now I just have to choose patterns for my crochet garment and do the swatches. I’ve decided to use a very fine kid/silk blend so the stupid thing is going to take me forever.

I can be very dumb a lot of the time.

Wish me luck and speedy fingers please.

PS: My new winter boots are now on sale for half what I paid for them. Argh!