Category: Computer Crap

One toe short

I fell off the blogging traincar for awhile there. Part of it is the general ennui that accompanies the grey and rainy spring we’ve had. No doubt some of it is all the political turmoil that has been sucking the soul out of everybody I know. It’s pretty easy to get dragged down into the news/social media cesspool these days. I finally decided to just delete my twitter account last week. There’s one less thing to be outraged over.

Another reason for the post-avoidance is the blog mess that happened two years ago when the blog got hacked, then I lost a whole bunch of photos when I managed to get it up and running again. I’ve been trying to upload those photos to the correct blog posts, but it’s a tedious process, and some of them have been unrecoverable. I decided last week to say just fuck it, and leave the old posts as is. Probably nobody goes back to look at those, and I do have project photos on Ravelry if anyone does get some burning desire to see them. It’s a bit like mourning a favorite possession that you’ve lost. Sometimes it’s just time to move on.

I have been knitting, but mostly I’ve been working on a secret baby project. Said baby is due in June, and I should be on track to finish that on time, as long as I don’t get all distracted and cast on dozens of new projects.

Those socks up there should be done by the end of the day today. I now have a sock drawer stuffed full of hand knit socks, which makes me a very happy person.

I have almost that many more in the sock laundry bin. And of course, John has his own sock drawer.

Next time I’ll drag out the other things I’ve been working on!

Back in business!

After a lot of gnashing of teeth, I finally got this mess fixed. And I take back any disparaging remarks I may have made about my host server.

It ended up being a boat load of malware selling a variety of pharmaceuticals. At some point it loaded so much crap that the Bluehost tech whiz found two dozen processes running in the background. No wonder it finally just quit.

So I think I’ve got all the old posts. I need to sort out whether all the photos were reattached to the appropriate post. I think I still have some work to do on that.

So how about some knitting, since this is a knitting blog? I finished the last lace baby surprise thing, it just needs blocking. No photos of that, then. I started another lace baby surprise thing.

It’s hard to tell from that photo due to the background color, but that’s a cream merino. This is from Acme Fibres. I have a ton of their undyed yarn in the stash.

That’s all I have. Fingers crossed that this uploads!

Blog Malfunction

WordPress has been driving me a bit nuts. I mostly post from either my iPhone or iPad, but photos taken with an iOS app end up going sideways when you look at them on a desktop. I’ve known about this for awhile, but figure most people are like me and use mostly the phone/ipad and not my desktop.

I waded in to this today, which turned into a couple hour black hole. You can rotate them all you want on either phone or desktop, and they still come out screwy. So this is one of many attempts to try to fix it.

I’ll hit post. If it’s sideways, I’m going downstairs and pouring myself a big glass of whisky.

And yes, that’s new yarn up there. It will probably be the last for awhile, since we have a couple of big trips coming up that we need to pay for.