So I finished the tea-cozy hat and am now working on my first pair of socks that might actually fit me. I’m using the Universal Toe-Up Sock Pattern from Knitty. Mom’s Stole has not yet been blocked, so I’m holding off on pictures for that, but I do have pics of the hat, and the beginning of my new pretty sock…

However.

Just a couple days ago (hell, yesterday, even?) Adept pops up with a notification of updates to the OS. I look them over, and click ‘accept’. All goes well. Then, today, I plug in the camera, and poof… “An unknown error has occured.” I plug it in again. Same thing. I take the card out of the camera and put it into my photo printer to see if I can connect from there. Same error. I take my usb thumb drive and put it in… same error. HAL, my beloved HAL, is broken.

What is HAL? It’s the hardware abstraction layer for linux. It is, in other words, what makes things you plug into your computer /work/. In a nutshell. To be honest, I don’t understand it a whole lot more deeply than that, and that explanation will do. The hal was updated in the update, I know that. And everything worked fine first. And now it doesn’t. So now, I’m working on downgrading it back to its previous version, so I can hopefully get some friggin pictures up. Otherwise, I’ll have to head over to the other computer and do it that way.

On a related geekery note… Windoze is broketh, too. Explorer won’t load, so I can’t do a shittin’ thing, unless I ctrl-alt-del and click ‘run’ and then find me programs. How bloody annoying. I’m hunting up my windows disc to do a rescue or reinstall (oh dread, oh dread), but that seems to have been misplaced in the move. Can you say I’m having some bad luck? Is Mercury in retrograde or something?

Anyway. Photos coming when I can fix one of my bloody computers to do their jobs properly.

The sock. Let’s talk about the sock. I’m using Knitpicks’ Gloss, which is soooo sooo soft. Wool and silk, baby, wool and silk. Merino, at that. It’s in Cocoa, a… well, cocoa-y brown. I’m using size 1 Clover Bamboo needles, which feel terribly fragile in my hands, and I am terrified of breakage. But so far, they’ve held up through some dreaded “purl three together through the back loops” so hopefully they’ll be okay.

Either that or I’ll be hunting for some metal 1s. Brrr. Metal in this weather, not fun. Did I mention it’s been below zero?? With wind chill last night and the night before, it was in the -50s. Once, I saw it drop down to -63. Crapola, that’s cold. Tonight, ti’s somehow warmed up to friggin 22 degrees! Weird. But we’re supposed to get fierce winds, so… I don’t expect it to last. Poo.

Reminds me… must knit mittens. Soon.

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