Paring down

I couldn't sleep last night, so I took Tabula Rasa Plain and pared it down the bare essentials -- used the wizard to remove all the modules, colored the content in shades of gray with some orange highlights, and made unobtrusive any controls and non-content-related links.

It's not written for sharing because it's here to satisfy some very personal quirks*, and so I can't be bothered to test it in other browsers.

* I need gray and no-distractions this week like I need food (but, all my food this week needs to have some red. It just is the way it is!)

I love this entry

First three paragraphs of Great Expectations, annotated.

IT IS AWESOME.

mittens in progress

About a third of the way through my first mitten :D It's a bit scary; I'm just about approaching the point where I'd stop if it were a fingerless glove. So far it's been pretty similar though.

I need to see if I can find some soft wire to use as a stitch holder. That way, I wouldn't need to dig out a tapestry needle in order to thread scrap yarn through the stitches to be held. And I think (though I haven't tried) that it might be easier to transfer the stitches from wire back to a knitting needle, rather than from a soft yarn -- plus you can scrunch it out of the way while knitting the rest of the mitten.

The wire ties that you can find for bread or to organize cables almost work but I'm a bit nervous that the flat edges will rub against the yarn, weakening it. So, next thing to do is to find some spare wire somewhere *handwave*