Blogiversary! Sixteen years ago I hit “publish” on my first post. I’ve slacked off from time to time in keeping up here, but I’m still finding it a rewarding way to connect with the many friends I’ve made over those years.
I almost missed it, I’ve been just a little preoccupied with work, and when I’m home, I have tended to just go brain-dead in general. I’m working three days a week in clinic doing primary care internal medicine, so don’t have the exposure that I would if I were working in the hospital, but it is still very stressful right now. It doesn’t help that I’m in that “over-60” group, and so is John. I am very fortunate in that I work for Kaiser Permanente—we’ve had a somewhat heroic response to the pandemic in the past few weeks, in terms of getting ready for what’s undoubtedly coming our way. I think we are miles ahead of other medical groups elsewhere, and certainly anyone that is in private practice.
As someone who likes things that are nice and orderly, and doesn’t enjoy big changes, this has been a challenge, but I’m doing OK. John and I certainly are in a privileged position in that my job is pretty secure, we’re both healthy despite the age thing, and we have enough “stuff” of every variety to outlast any epidemic. I certainly have enough yarn around here to last through an apocalypse.
Since this is in fact a knitting blog, here is some knitting.
I’d like to try to finish those this week. Since I can’t leave the house until Monday, that is a possibility, even for a slow knitter like me.
I think I actually have managed to match the stripes on these.
I still haven’t fixed all of the older photos from the blog after I deleted everything earlier this month. It’s sort of tedious going back into individual posts, finding the photos (if I still have them), and uploading. Right now I’d much rather be doing something less annoying.
Take care of yourselves, wash your hands, and stay home unless you have to go out. There, I’ve covered both the “knitting” and the “doctor” part of the blog!
and the situation is much the same in the SF Bay Area. We have a couple of knitting groups meeting by Zoom once a week. I have enough yarn, fiber, thread, fabric to last several lifetimes. I sort of ignored the Blogversary thing this year – website/blog since 2007. original mailing list (remember those?) continuous since April 1998 altho there has been a bit of turnover….
Socks? Do I need socks? nah… but love the stripes, ever so cheerful!
Good job of matching up the socks! Happy Blogiversary (sp)
Great job on matching the stripes. I seem to have a lot of fraternal, rather than identical twins. Glad you are managing to stay relatively safe. The only way I can seem to stay sane is to not watch the news! Bill’s monitoring things and letting me know anything important. Not sure I have the apocalyptic stash you do, but I’ve got a puppy and that’s helped tremendously!
Happy blogiversary! Sending healthy thoughts your way!
Good to see you’re maintaining, cuzzie!
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Happy blogiversary! And nice job on the socks and the matching of stripes. I’m working on striped socks and didn’t even try to match; I decided I’d rather have them be far off than close-but-not-quite-matching!
So wonderful to see such bright pretty socks amid all the other news of the world right now! Happy Blogiversary to you, too. Always enjoy reading what you’re up to! Stay safe.
Happy Blogiversary! Lovely socks. Very cheery and bright.
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