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The banged-up knee feels much better. It's got an ugly bruise, but I can bend and straighten it freely and I'm glad, because when it hurt it hurt a lot.

Everything else feels worse. I have muscle aches today that I didn't have yesterday, which combined with the unusual nastiness of these bug bites has given the tiny part of my brain that goes "oh, wait ..." a bit of something to chew on. Of course it's nothing - quite apart from anything else, I saw the mosquito that was attacking me the other night and I killed it myself, so I know it was a mosquito - but there are big ol' nickel-sized bruisy spots around each of the bites, and I've written down where I have these bites today in case there turns out to be something else still biting me (if, that is, I have more bites tomorrow), and I wish all my muscles and half my joints didn't ache and I weren't exhausted for no reason. That would be great.

knitting update

Blocks in complete afghan: 55
Blocks completed as of this evening: 49 (which you'd think would be 89.09090909...%)
Actual percent of work done: 89.1666666...
Target date: August 17
Today's date: August 4
Days remaining: 13, less a few for shipping
Blocks remaining: 6
Blocks per day to stay on target given 13 days: a little less than half a block; blocks are of different sizes, etc., as I've been saying*
Blocks per day to stay on target given, say, 7 days: a little less than a whole block, assuming can work on the thing every day etc.

*BUT LISTEN YOU GUYS, I have just finished the last large square apart from the large square that is the last block in the whole project. What remains is four rectangles, one small square, and that large square at the bottom corner. I'll totally cast on one of the rectangles tonight, and as before I'll get work done at the weekend - the small square is a single-day chunk, etc. WOO-HOO.

Also, my folks will be out of town the weekend before their anniversary (a Monday), so if it arrives on the Monday I'm golden.

update to the update

OH! And you guys. I may not have to buy more yarn after all. I've got a small square, a rectangle, and a large square to do in the main color - the equivalent of seven small squares, which is about how much I get out of one skein, and I've got a little less than a full skein left - but I've gathered up the salvage from the end-trimming, and while the inch-long actual ends are obviously not usable, the complicated process of tightening the seams after each block is complete tends to yield "ends" that can be as long as my arm, which can totally be usable especially toward the end of a block where the rows are much shorter.