Geek Knits

So, at PAX they made fun of the hammer on a scarf I had then. They called the hammer a penis. I decided to make a real penis scarf.

The head was giving me a lot of trouble. I couldn’t get the increases and decreases right to make it actually look like a penis. Apparently it is easier to make a penis on accident than on purpose.

Though, everyone I’ve shown the start of the current prototype to has agreed that it does look like a penis, so… here it is:

So, long time, very long time.

I went to see Tim, it was nice. I miss him, The trip home though… that was rough. I was supposed to leave Portland at 11:50am on the 17th and arrive home around 10:30pm. There was an ATC (Air Traffic Controller) Delay on the first leg of my flight, into Philedelphia. The flight kept getting pushed back until it would have made it impossible for me to make my connecting flight. So I went to the counter and they rerouted me through DC, the flight to DC was boarding right then, went and got onto that plane. Pilot gets on and says, “I have good news and bad news. Good news: plane is deiced and we’re ready to go. Bad news: There is a plow, it broke down, in the middle of the runway, we can’t go around, the airport is closed.” About an hour later the plow was out of the way and the plane was deiced again. Got into DC about 10 minutes before the connecting flight was supposed to take off. When I got off the jetway the person had a new route for me. I was stuck in DC for 13 hours. The new flight was to Phoenix, it arrived in Phoenix late because of winds. I *almost* missed the flight to Seattle but there was an air stop issued in Seattle. There was a backlog of planes waiting to land in Seattle because of the snow. I finally landed in Seattle around 2pm, 15.5 hours late. Suitcase wasn’t on the plane that I was on. Talked to the baggage people, filled out my claim. Called mom to get my ride home. She refused to come get me, because of the snow, told me to take a cab and she’d pay for it. Got in the cab line, it took two hours for me to get to the front of the line. The driver didn’t want to take me to my area because the snow was worse in the area than in other places. I cried and was all “it’s only on 4th”. He agreed to go, because 4th wasn’t anywhere near as bad as the other areas around the house; I live on one of the hills that you can get to without going uphill. Made it home at 6:30pm, 20 hours late. Suitcase showed up three days later.

So, as it turns out I am going to be doing custom knitted hats and scarves through the comic book shop that my “brother” Brock owns (Platinum Comix and Games; Burien, WA).

Tonight Brock took me to see some local bands play down at the Studio Seven in Georgetown/The SoDo District  and in one of the bands, Mökshya, the lead singer was wearing this hat. Being the geeky knitter I am, I decided to get a closer look at the hat and see if I could knit something similar. Thankfully Brock is friends with the guys in the band so they let me see it.

So, after talking to the guy I am going to make him a hat, he will wear it at his shows and will “pimp the product”.

I am now the knitter of geek stuff and band apparel. Go me

About ten years ago my “brother” Brock found a stray all white kitten, took her in, and named her Spooky. When he worked at Wendy’s he’d bring home chicken nuggets and they’d eat them together. Watching a cat nom-nom-nom on nuggets is one of the cutest things I have ever seen a cat do.

Yesterday morning Lauren’s (his wife) dog killed the cat, by snapping her neck, in the kitchen. So they put both of the pits to sleep yesterday. Both because the other one had been acting up and showing all sorts of aggressive behavior.

All three of the four legged pets gone in one day. Crazy shit.

So, I was dorking around on ravelry.com and found a link to this blog. A knitter is making a scarf of the entire first level (World 1-1) of Super Mario Brothers NES.

Now I want to make one, but I’m thinking one of the castles without the princess the whole “your princess is in another castle” thing would be funny as hell on a scarf. Only problems are that I have way too much crap in my queue already that I *need* to finish and I have no money to buy yarn with

The Mario Scarf Blog

So, first time I got to go to PAX because we didn’t go down to Oregon for mom’s company’s Christmas Party. Was fun, exhausting.

Got to meet a bunch of new people, Tim’s EvAv people, they adopted me

Need to make one of them a real penis scarf.

I miss Tim

Today mom got an e-mail from one of her corn husker cousins saying that another one of them went to the emergency room with an ear infection and ended up having an MRI and a colonoscopy then never came out of it.

Found out that she’d been having strokes and seizuers and not telling anyone. She’s in a coma now from the sedation of the colonoscopy and doesn’t have much longer to live.

The sister of the woman in the coma hasn’t spoken to any of her siblings since their mom died, about fifteen years ago. Mom, or her cousin, had an address for her and they did a search and came up with a number, called and left a message. So now I’m charged with telling the sister, if she calls, what is going on with her sister that she hasn’t spoken to in over a decade.

Talia called me yesterday and told me that her mom gave her a bunch of yarn and stuff to give to me. So I went over to her house to get it… two paper bags and a box overfull of yarn plus three old issues of Knitting World: June 1980, October 1989, and the scary one… December 1982. The issue from the month I was born, crazy stuff.

Now I have a 45 gallon Rubermaid tub on wheels and a 95 quart tub full of yarn and other knitting supplies.

My GM got the e-mail from EAMythic with 75 codes for our guild for the guild beta on Wednesday. A crapton of people I don’t even remember have been showing up asking for codes, I do know a fair chunk of them or at least recognize their names but some of them I’m wondering who the hell they are. Two of the guys I know that only I and the GM have a clue who they are; one a long, long term friend of mine and the other my boy toy ^_^

One of the other members though was throwing a bloody fit on the guild forums about how all these people are coming out of the woodwork because of the codes. There are 75, you’re getting one, why the hell do you care where the others are all coming from? Pissyhead buttmunch, I swear.

I’m going to laugh when half of the people given codes won’t be in beta because of their shoddy systems. I even posted on the site about how I think the graphic sliders aren’t in yet so it’ll require pretty intensive specs but I’m sure most don’t have anything that can really handle it. My best guess is that if a comp can run AoC on middle settings that will be high enough specs for WAR beta. I know my machine can, mine can run AoC on high ^_^

I’ve sent the second geeked out WAR scarf off to someone at EAMythic but have not heard anything from them to signify if they have received it or not so I am holding off on posting a page on it. The third geeked out scarf I have started and frogged a couple of times and I’m satisfied with the way it is turning out this time so I’ll continue with it as is for now.

Also, Tim got his hat and has said that it is now his favorite hat

The label has survived the washing machine! \o/

It faded a little bit but I still consider it a success.

So I made an entire sheet of them to attach to every project I finish from here out.