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in which i am becalmed
After several phone calls with yarn shops in the DC and Boston metro areas, trying to find any way at all to have this thing finished both (a) on time and (b) with the same dye lot all the way through, I have found peace with the idea (advanced by ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
ellen_fremedon -- public thanks, Ellen! -- who made other good points too, by the way) that waiting for the right dye lot to finish the thing properly is not at all the same as the normal way knitted gifts are never finished on time; and, in consultation with my brother, have agreed that of the two criteria above, (b) is more important, because on time is just one day, but dye lots are forever.
The other dye lot really is very close. In natural light it does look the same. But my first impression was that it didn't look the same at all, and I'm afraid enough that it would be jarring enough (or different enough, if I tinked back and alternated rows for a bit to blend it in) that I'd always see it, and in any case I'd always be looking for it, and I'd always wish I'd held out. I'm going to give TLE a call and try to wheedle them into expediting, possibly with having FedEx come and get it from them, but at this point the worst-case scenario has the finished object arriving at my parents' house on Wednesday rather than on Monday. I can live with that.
Bet you all wish you could have seen me hyperventilating, though. :-) I bet it was pretty entertaining.
ellen_fremedon -- public thanks, Ellen! -- who made other good points too, by the way) that waiting for the right dye lot to finish the thing properly is not at all the same as the normal way knitted gifts are never finished on time; and, in consultation with my brother, have agreed that of the two criteria above, (b) is more important, because on time is just one day, but dye lots are forever.The other dye lot really is very close. In natural light it does look the same. But my first impression was that it didn't look the same at all, and I'm afraid enough that it would be jarring enough (or different enough, if I tinked back and alternated rows for a bit to blend it in) that I'd always see it, and in any case I'd always be looking for it, and I'd always wish I'd held out. I'm going to give TLE a call and try to wheedle them into expediting, possibly with having FedEx come and get it from them, but at this point the worst-case scenario has the finished object arriving at my parents' house on Wednesday rather than on Monday. I can live with that.
Bet you all wish you could have seen me hyperventilating, though. :-) I bet it was pretty entertaining.
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Interestingly, OED gives the first definition as "calmed, quieted, stilled", and doesn't talk about "motionless for want of wind" until the second definition (and doesn't require the sea at all, so presumably by def. 2 a windmill, e.g., could be becalmed). Merriam-Webster goes the other way, talking about wind first and soothing second, but we know which one I'm going to give priority. :-) In any case, I was going for the causation entailed in the be- prefix. I'm goofy like that. Heh.
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I grew up with Merriam-Webster, then with OED, so tend to think in a MW direction first, with influences from three generations of sailors before me.
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I'm not sure if the nit is the egg or the bug, as I have only done the operation with a flea comb on a cat that was not thrilled with it.
Sometimes we are all ahead of OED and M-W, and far ahead of the American Heritage Dictionary (and the less said about that bit of mess, the better).