Category: Life in general
Social Media and the Glib Meme
My friends on Facebook might have noticed: I am on a mission to root out sharing of memes that are false, partly false, intentionally misleading, etc. I don’t care what it’s about. I’d apologize to any of my Facebook friends who are annoyed or just downright pissed off at me about it, but the apology […]
The Yarn Diet
Yes, I’m a fiberholic. I love yarn. I love knitting. (I used to crochet and now not so much as I prefer knitting.) And yes, like so many knitters, I have a stash. A large one. Large enough that it could definitely be classified as SABLE (Stash Acquisition Beyond Life Expectancy). I take some comfort […]
The women’s bathroom on the 17th floor
I have to admit: I don’t get out much. For over 20 years, I had a home-based business. Like other busy moms, my social life centered around the social life of my children. I got out of the house, but it was to go to school and social events related to my children. When the […]
Why I love Ravelry (and knitting)
I took over one of the spare bedrooms for my sewing and knitting and towards the end of last year, got it cleaned up and (mostly) organized. Like many people who hobby, be it sewing, knitting, or anything else, I stash. I stash yarn. I stash fabric. Given enough space and money, the stash would […]
Job History (Part 3) Working for Napoleon
What the hell is a biome? When I took the Ecology Center job, I had absolutely no clue. I’m not sure I even had much of a clue when I left the job. As best as I was ever able to determine, researching one involves taking a section of wilderness somewhere, marking it off into […]
Job History (Part 2): Copy and collate
When I left my first job, I went to work for an engineering company that was located in an old home in the downtown area of Logan, near where I lived. This company did a lot of document processing and used the same word processor I had mastered. The word processing manufacturer had also given […]
