Mossy Cottage Knits

How Time Flies...

Since I am a technical editor and web editor by profession and an internet surfer and information junkie by hobby, for me, it’s pretty much All Computers, All the Time. I’ve noticed lately, however, that the hi-tech concept of “time-slicing”—where minuscule segments of time are divided into even more minuscule segments and apportioned among a variety of tasks—seems to have leaked from the computer world into my “flesh and blood” life. For example:

Last night around 6:45pm, I realized a had three tasks I had to accomplish prontissimo: (1) Send four files to work over a, fortunately, slow connection; (2) prepare a broccoli-chicken stir-fry for dinner and (3) take a shower. So this is how the next few minutes went:

6:45
Plug phone line into laptop and launch AOL.
6:45:01-6:45:59
Take chicken out of the refrigerator.
6:46
Log in to AOL.
6:46:01-6:46:59
Cut up chicken, put chicken in marinade, cover and put in refrigerator.
6:47
Transmit first file.
6:47:01-6:47:59
Start rice.
6:48
Transmit second file
6:48:01-6:48:59
Take broccoli out of the refrigerator and slice it up.
6:49
Transmit third file.
6:49:01-6:49:59
Remove jewelry, shoes, socks and shirt.
6:50
Transmit fourth file.
6:50:01-6:50:59
Remove jeans, undergarments and glasses.
6:51
Log out of AOL.

Ta-da! By 6:51pm, the chicken was cut up and marinating, the broccoli was cut up into bite-size pieces, the rice was cooking, and I was standing in front of my laptop without a stitch on. (Wait—do you think this is what the inventors of time-slicing had in mind?)

Knitting Knews
While I labor away at my next Ryan Learns Two-Handed Knitting Swatch Complete With Steek, I thought I’d post a picture of the first finished (but unfelted) FiberTrends clog.

This project had been brought to a complete halt by the fact that I had run out of the green Cascade 220. I picked up a (perfectly matching!) skein from my LYS on Tuesday, started a new heel, and discovered that what had made perfect sense to me two weeks ago all of a sudden didn’t make sense anymore, and I kept making stoopid boo-boos. Clog #2 has now been frogged a couple of times, but I fully intend to jump back on the bandwagon and beat this project into submission. No freakishly weird combination of k1, m1 and short-rowing is going to get the best of me, no, sirree!

Posted by Ryan at March 24, 2004 09:48 AM