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September 02, 2003
A relaxing weekend
The first half of our Labor Day weekend was characterized by pouring rain - which makes for purrrrfect knitting weather. I am making nice progress on Lochinver:
I am truly loving gansey knitting. By the time I'm bored with a particular stitch pattern, I get to start a new one! The alpaca/wool yarn I'm using is probably a bit too soft for what's intended. It also has quite a few longer 'hairs' (much like mohair) that fuzz up the appearance just a bit. But I'm still very happy with it; it's very nice to knit with and I'm sure the finished product will be soooo comfortable. The gauge is working out right on the money, which is nice for a change.
I like the Denise needles, too. A couple of times, the needle has disconnected from the cable, but then again, I'm sure I was being a bit too rough when I moved the stitches around on the cable. A more gentle approach seems to have solved the problem.
By Monday, the rain had quit and we were able to enjoy ourselves up near Rocky Mountain National Park. We had the breakfast buffet at the Grand Lake Lodge - highly recommended. This was followed by a brief hike up to Adams Falls on the west edge of Grand Lake. A ridiculously easy hike, but fab views and little to no complaining from the small fry.
Looking around everyone's blogs today was so inspiring. (Although I did notice that all of the blogspot people were offline. More customers for TypePad, I'm sure.)
Today I finished up a huge re-design of a website that I'm responsible for at work. I had several coding problems that had me stymied all of last week, but I fixed them all today, and I'm feeling pretty smug about it, too. I'm a rank amateur & self-taught web designer. Putting this blog together has been part of my 'training' for the stuff I've added onto my other website. Here are the things I've learned this summer (well, to some degree at least): php, Dreamweaver, Fireworks (will let free trial version expire in favor of using other software I already have), putty ssh, mysql, hex color definitions, and ws_ftp. I will never touch Microsoft Front Page again. And if you know what's good for you, you won't either.