Trinity Blood: Episode 2

The religious institutions and secret dark mysterious organizations are so way over the top *wheeeeeeze*

LOVE IT.

(Tres: Positive.
Tres: Positive.
Tres: Positive.

tickles me, it does. *snicker snicker* Has he ever said "Negative", or does he have some other word for it?)


ETA: Hmm, Nightroad is just like a vacuum cleaner, isn't he? Long floaty-haired, red-eyed, nano-machined vacuum cleaner).

I wonder why the art here looks so familiar? Has anyone on my read page posted pictures about these before?

I like Eris, who is the kid. She's adorable in the rather angst-filled way these stories go.

Tres has a sense of humor (or is that justice)? WHAT OMG

And he said Negative.

*falls over*

That last scene is way too unsubtle *snickers*

*hugs her new-found over the top dark series*

Scarf for Grandpa

Oh man, my mom wants me to knit a scarf for my grandpa and she's so enthusiastic about it, that she bought me four balls of cashmere (two dark brown, two light tan) to knit into a scarf for him.

I'm somewhat overwhelmed. It's like she's become the soccer mom of knitting! She's taking the scarf I knit (need to take a picture) and showing it around the family table and she keeps boasting about the fact that I'm knitting and I basically sit on the sidelines and try to act dignified and not like I'm laughing my ass off.

I think it's hilarious that she's going to such lengths to promote me in my knitting. But I draw the line on her trying to help me pick out a pattern she wants me to knit for grandpa, or at her trying to get me to get my grandpa to pick the pattern I want to knit for him -- shooed her away from that idea as firmly but politely as I can; I want some bits of this to be a surprise. In fact, most of it will be, since my grandpa thought I was using some local gold-flecked red (SO VERY CHINESE) fuzzy novelty cotton-blend yarn which my mom made me show him, but this was before she handed me four balls of cashmere.

(No, seriously. Yes, SERIOUSLY!)

I'm nervous about knitting this stuff, though. It feels so much more expensive than what I usually knit, and I'm terrified of messing it up. But I found a nice masculine pattern: http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/seamans-scarf, with the only negative being that I don't think I can make it look nice as two-toned.... unless the cabled portions are a darker shade, and the neck portion is lighter? Trying to decide if that's a good idea.

I'm nervous enough about working with new material (cashmere) + working with new technique (cabling), that I think I'll need to drop by the local yarn store for a consult, and probably cable needles. I have tried cabling with some acrylic yarn; the no-cable-needle method was awkward; the with-dpn-substituting-for-cable-needle-method was slightly less awkward, but still a lot unwieldly and possibly dangerous.

Anyway, back to my mom and her reaction to my knitting. Maybe I should teach her to knit, and then she won't have to hang onto my knitting, ahaha. Oh no. Oh yes. Oh... maybe. Hmm.


ETA: aveleh suggests that with wool that nice, I could get away with a simple striped scarf in either 1x1 or 2x2 ribbing (I have not knit any full projects with ribbing, though I am familiar with the technique, so I am just not sure whether I'd prefer the effect of 1x1 or of 2x2.)

Then with this random stripe generator, I can come up with random stripes easily. Colors not entirely accurate, but good enough.

Other major life update: CREDIT CARD

Yay, I just got my first credit card!

Delivery man came by the office to drop it off; I have been bouncing happily since yesterday. There's a bunch of stuff online I'd like to buy or pay for, but which I have never been able to do so, because I don't have the means to get my money from point A (my wallet) to point B (the seller's wallet).

And now I can.

I'm trying to figure out how to budget so that I don't get hit by sticker shock when the bills come in, but it feels great to have some measure of ability to buy stuff online :-)

Buying stuff from, say, Amazon just got so much easer. And then there's all my other current obsessions hobbies.

I have already gotten recommendations to try yarn.com -- and offers from friends to act as intermediaries for shipping from knitpicks.com. I'm trying to be disciplined and shall work off my current stash first.

I have twelve balls of bamboo-wool blend, plus the four balls of cashmere PLUS the merino wool I mean to make into a top PLUS the everything else I want to play with, and I'm trying to be responsible about using up stuff before getting more

*wibble* Being responsible is hard.

A day's worth of Twitter ($17.00)

09:18:58	—	grrrrrmn I just realized how to make the front page panels movable/hidable for the non-JS case. but will have to come back to that later
09:19:03	—	@kareila @teshiron *melts* Let me try to knock down my stash a bit, first (ahahhaha) but *meeeeelts* <3
09:20:07	—	@rickybuchanan I was wondering if I'd missed something in this season's bones *g*
11:37:09	—	oh, very nice. "hg qdiff" and "hg diff" have a "--stat" option, which shows a summary of what's changed (files + number of lines)
12:08:59	—	pleased; managed to post two tutorial-type things in two days (with tons of editing help from my subscribers, wheee).
14:10:16	—	I have decided to have ribs for lunch (not 1x1 or 2x2, but still ribs)
15:52:40	—	oh good heavens. I finally found the code I'd started for bug 117 -- it was, predictably(!!!!) in my mercurial patch repository
15:53:40	—	picking up bug 216 *g* let's see what to make of it
15:54:27	—	hmm and the other half of what I'm looking for is in my email inbox.
17:04:31	—	@niqaeli it is very cool, isn't it?
17:21:25	—	Argh! I somehow managed to lose the past half hour's worth of changes.
18:07:46	—	hmm, meant to finish bug 2104, but just realized I need to know whether to use user or userid. shelving for now
18:17:03	—	@godiane good luck to you for jlpt!
18:46:55	—	hmph, bit off more than I could chew trying to improve bug 2069. Do I want to construct an IN(...) joined string in perl?
18:48:58	—	my desire to move on to something else says no! :-)
19:25:57	—	yay end of day. looking at non work stuff while waiting to go home :)
23:55:16	—	reading "perldoc Test::Tutorial"

Total: 17 tweets

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