Weather: snowing lightly

Reading: Gravity, by Tess Gerritson, and Analog November 2005 issue

Knitting: a three-color craazy baby blanket

Well, it finally happened -- I have finished The Green Sweater! I am less than two months into the year after I promised myself to finish it, and I am pleased. I am often late with things, especially things I am responsible only to myself for, so being on ly this late with a project that had as many little problems as this one did makes me pretty happy. I still see things wrong with it, but I"m not going to mention them to anyone, and no one will notice. So there. I can still add a hood later on if I want to.

My monitor is broken, and so I am using DH's computer and it's on a desk that's too high for me. I can use the laaptop, too, but it's awfully slow. Don't know why -- it's supposed to have all this power inside it. I am thinkning I might buy a used monitor just to have a monitor rather than spending hard-earned money that could be used elsewise. I would rather have something pretty or money in the bank or a bill paid than a primo deluxo monitor. It's just something to see what I'm typing or that other people have typed. That's what it is to me -- DH uses his for artsy fartsy stuff so he needs a good one. What do I do? I read and write. That's about it.

One day when I was working in the shopping mall branch of the County library three women came in asking for Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. Well, it was a small branch, and the Walt Disney version was checked out, and we had no Internet connection in those days. They were going nuts trying to remember all the dwarves' names; they could only remember six. So the other clerk and I started naming dwarves, and when I said, "Doc," they yelled in unison, "Doc!" and laughed and walked out, fully satisfied with their public library's fine personal service.