hmm. maybe this is an Unpopular Fannish Opinion?

[fox]

Isn't it interesting that in so many dialects of English, "fiawol" and "firewall" are (so nearly, if not exactly) homophonous?  I have decided that the latter may stand for "fandom is rarely entirely worth a loud lament", or something.  (In happier times, it could be "fandom is really empty without a little laughter.")

Anyway.  In other news, I have been bitten hard by the knitting bug.  My college roommate K, mostly self-taught, taught me how several years ago, and I bought some needles but I never picked up the habit; then Junior Dean S taught me how about a year and a half ago, made me practice, and gave me needles for my birthday.  I got them out again a few weeks ago and practiced until I was relatively confident with the, you know, extreme basics.  And now I'm about eighteen inches into a thirteen-foot scarf, my first real project, and I'm already looking at patterns for socks and hats and going "ooh!"  I own three pairs of straight needles, y'all (fortunately in three different sizes -- 5, 10, and 15, or 3.75, 6, and 10mm), and have made exactly one fraction of one thing on them, and I'm speculating about circulars and DPNs and gah.  Do I know how to join ends of a round?  Of course not.

But here I go.

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Any time you want a little help with the knitting, just ask. I can certainly show you how to start a round -- and goodness knows there are *lots* of places to get sock yarn around *here*.