{"id":903,"date":"2006-06-05T15:18:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-05T19:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=903"},"modified":"2006-06-05T15:18:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-05T19:18:00","slug":"cant-stop-the-signal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=903","title":{"rendered":"Can&#8217;t stop the signal!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Charlotte Serenity screening, which was off, <a href=\"http:\/\/shindig.ash1.com\/\">is back on again!<\/a>  And this time it&#8217;s only a couple of miles from my house!  Yay!<br \/>\n<!--more Serenity Now!, knitting, weird foreigners, dead trees, and yummy whipped creamy goodness.--><br \/>\nThe Raleigh screening is a couple of weeks away and they&#8217;re already more than half sold out, I believe, so I&#8217;m glad Charlotte&#8217;s getting their own screening too.  Needless to say, I&#8217;m donating a Jayne hat.  I&#8217;m also going to come early and help with ticket taking, prize registration, whatever needs doing.  Equality Now is a good cause, and Serenity&#8217;s a good movie, so I&#8217;m glad to help!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m knitting like the wind this week, as it&#8217;s the last week before my daughter is out of school.  After that, it gets harder to crank &#8217;em out as quickly as I&#8217;d like.  U.S. orders are down some because it&#8217;s hot as blazes out, although convention season is upon us and so that generates some orders.  However, it&#8217;s plenty cold in Australia, so orders are continuing strong from down there.  Also, I&#8217;m pretty sure the Aussies are totally making up their place names.  I thought names like &#8220;Ottery St. Mary&#8221; and &#8220;Wokingham&#8221; in the UK were comedy gold, but the Australians are pulling ahead in this area.  Sadly, I can&#8217;t tell you any place names, because the orders are still pending.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I live in a country with towns like &#8220;Dry Prong&#8221; &#8220;Tightwad&#8221; and &#8220;Frog Level&#8221; so maybe I shouldn&#8217;t be casting stones here.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/hotwaterbottle\/hotwatercozydone.jpg\" \/ height=\"225\" border=\"3\" hspace=\"5\" align=\"left\"><br \/>\nSpeaking of my daughter and knitting, the hot water bottle cozy was finished a few days ago.  She seems to like it.  It did get peed on the first night, but since then, no accidents.  That&#8217;s good, since it&#8217;s made out of Cascade 220 and I&#8217;d like to avoid washing it constantly, lest it felt up.  I didn&#8217;t stitch up the bottom straight, which accounts for the cable kind of meandering to the right.  However, I didn&#8217;t feel compelled to match it all up perfectly, since it&#8217;s really only going to be used in the bed of a seven year old.  It&#8217;s not like she&#8217;s taking it to the opera.  She&#8217;ll appreciate it regardless.<\/p>\n<p><br clear=all><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/misc\/persimmongone.jpg\" \/ border=\"3\" hspace=\"3\" align=\"right\" height=\"225\"><br \/>\nThe persimmon tree I waxed eloquent about a while back finally went the way of all flesh today.  I went to pick my daughter up and it was there.  I came back and it was in chunks on the ground, being fed into a wood chipper.  Sniff.  I&#8217;m gonna miss that tree, and I expect a fair amount of wildlife in the woods will too.<\/p>\n<p><br clear=all><br \/>\nAnd lastly, My daughter has broadened her palette to include whipped cream.  Specifically, the whipped cream on top of the frappuccino I got today.<br \/>\n<center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.booboomonkey.com\/tvini\/Boomochasmall.jpg\" \/ border=\"3\" hspace=\"3\" vspace=\"3\"><br \/>\n<i>Someone&#8217;s been eating my porridge, and she&#8217;s still here!<\/i><\/center><br \/>\nLike mother, like daughter.<\/p>\n<p>Hats up for California, New York, and Oregon.  Saaaalute!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Charlotte Serenity screening, which was off, is back on again! And this time it&#8217;s only a couple of miles from my house! 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