Yes, it's snowing.

It's not supposed to amount to much over the next couple of days. Less than an inch total, they say. The fog draped over the city like tufts of discarded batting is a bigger problem right now.

I'm chipper today. Nice change, huh?

The Great Eye Plague turns out to be some kind of thing on my lower eyelid. It was already getting humongously better before I went to the eye doctor's but it doesn't pay to take chances with your vision so I'm glad I went.

Turns out the only "treatment is for me to put hot compresses (read: washcloth wetted and nuked for 30 seconds) on my lower lid 5-6 times a day and massage the area gently. The eye was getting better and maybe it still is, but soaking it in hot water 6 times a day and rubbing the fragile skin there is reddening it back up fast.

This office never has visitors. We go to the clients or do our meetings by conference call. Naturally this is the week we're having people in every day and twice on some days. Because I look like I got smacked in the eye by someone.

Warning: I Hate Yarn discussion approaching!

A friend of mine, Meghan, suggested that if I'm frustrated by the slowness of knitting, I try learning to knit "continental style" which is apparently also called "left-handed knitting." For the first time, I found a real use for YouTube because they had a very interesting video there.

But it was all a lie.

It wasn't "left-handed" at all and I had to keep stopping the video to mentally translate everything the woman was doing into left-handed terms.

Then I realized that I don't actually "knit" because it's awkward for me (I purl), so I had to spend ten minutes knitting (the "regular" way) to fix in my mind how it worked. After that, when I tried out the "continental" method, it produced the nastiest mess even I've ever produced, and I've produced some ghastly first attempts at things.

I watched more videos, becoming ever-more puzzled. I accept that all of those people were knitting. Who'd lie about something like that? But I couldn't find anyone who was doing anything that looks like what I do, not even in the videos of people ostensibly doing "left-handed knitting."

I tried many different things with my own little yarn and needles. Eventually I realized that I was getting half the "continental" method mixed up with "regular" knitting and forgetting that I actually purl anyhow.

That's a weird and complicated way to say that I didn't find the "continental" method successful for me.

It was fun to play with, though. I learned to knit (my way) and I learned what combining rows of knitting and rows of purling produce (a very "flat" product). I got bored before I started switching stitches in the middle of the row, though. I can't spend all evening sitting there messing around with yarn.

/end I Hate Yarn

Eventually I sat up too late reading (Sharpe's Eagle) but I managed to wake up this morning anyhow. If I didn't have this compulsion to finish every book I start, usually at one sitting, books would last me longer. :(

Workwise? I'm snickering evilly today. Or at least meanly. The tech expert evaluated the infamous servers and recommended e-Bay. He says we can expect to get $300-$400 each for them. I can't wait until Bernie lays eyes on that information. Hee hee hee.

Did I mention that DiamondGirl emailed and passed me a job opportunity on Tuesday? It looks like my kind of thing except for the salary range (it tops out at the measly salary I accept from Bernie) but maybe I can negotiate them upwards. I started digging around for that paper resume copy last night. I saw it recently, so I know it can't be too deeply buried, but I can't put my hands on it at the moment. (Mem. In the future? Keep copies of stuff on both computers. And maybe a CD as well.)

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P.S. On the plus side, the eye doctor's office replaced the screw missing from my glasses and tightened up the rest of the screws and assured me I won't have to replace them for another year or two!