knitabit

More of the same

Here's a close-up of one of the armholes on Roscalie:

Knitting, schmitting...let's change the subject. I had to make a brief presentation at a town board meeting last night. A couple of the trustees were kind of scary. My husband also had an after-work meeting with some other elected officials. We removed the residual after-effects by pouring ourselves a rum and coke and settling in for an evening of TV.

I prevailed in the Battle of the Remote to watch the PBS show about the Transcontinental Railroad. Two of my great-grandfathers were in the employ of the Union Pacific Railroad, so it's a subject area of personal interest.

Going off on a total tangent, whenever I hear the phrase "Union Pacific Railroad" I immediately think of the Woodcock character in "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid":

Butch, you know that if it were *my* money, there is nobody that I would rather have steal it than you. But, you see, I am still in the employment of Mr. E. H. Herriman, of the Union Pacific Railroad.

By the way, the antics of the Union Pacific Railroad in the 1860's make the Enron gang look downright law-abiding.

In other TV news, I am enjoying the Television Without Pity recaps of the "Lost" episodes. This last one was particularly funny.

I will be offline for a couple of days - I'm headed out to Salt Lake City tomorrow morning for a speaking engagement. I'm wondering which knitting to take with me...

Comments

Rum and coke!

This might work for me in a little flask... to take TO the meeting. And you know which meeting I mean! ;-)

Posted by: Patricia Tryon at October 13, 2004 10:34 PM