Because she asked where the people were who were downloading the pattern (and it really hadn't occurred to me), this one's for Lynn...
I did a little research into who's doing the downloading of the new pattern (which, BTW, now has 238 downloads - wow). What I found out is that while you can see who marked it as a favorite and who put it in their queue, you can only see raw numbers of downloads, no individual user IDs.
However, I did take a look through the 'user activity' on the pattern. If you review the activity in chronological order, you can see it traveling through friends in different areas, much the way we do here... So Lynn will 'favorite' a beautiful pattern, then Roberta will, then Barbara will, then I will, then Peggy will... and so on.
Well, especially in the early hours of it being posted, I could see that happen with the 'favoriting' and 'queuing' of this pattern. Then, at some point, a friend who's outside the first area will see it, and all of a sudden, there's a new group in another location who's found it. Fascinating.
Because there's no way to get Ravelry generate a report, I jotted down just the two most recent pages of activity. Most of the Ravelers in these areas favorited the pattern; I've indicated with "Q" those that put it in their queue (and a reminder that Ravelry doesn't require you to put in where you're from; it's voluntary information and you can put in whatever you want):
Cambridge, Iowa
Sacramento, California
Portland, Oregon
La Quinta, California
Fayetteville, Arkansas
Victoria, Canada
Woolwich, Maine
Darmstadt, Germany
Lappeenranta, Finland (Q)
West Virginia (Q)
Manchester, New Hampshire
Lincoln
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Lake Forest Park, Washington
Morgantown
Krems, Austria
Osnabruck, Germany
Central Pennsylvania
Littleton, Colorado
Leeds, UK (Q)
Rome, New York
Reading, UK (Q)
Lund, Skane Lan, Sweden
Remscheid, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany (Q)
Niedersachsen, Germany
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
London, UK
Wolfenbuttel, Niedersachsen, Germany
Marburg, Germany
Torrance, California
Oslo, Norway
San Francisco, California (Q)
Heidek, Germany
Neidersachsen, Germany (you think all those folks here know each other??)
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany (Q)
Tasmania, Australia
Zweirducken
Pretty cool, huh? Thanks, Lynn, for nudging me to look at this. It was fun!
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Sunday, April 8, 2012
The Flip Side of Travel
Much though I adore traveling, I seldom adore coming home. That's because I usually come down with some nasty cold or cough or other kind of creeping crud. This trip was no exception.
As it happened, we had already set up an appointment with our new GP (the previous GP is no longer in our insurance network... bummer) on Tuesday, so along with all the other info she asked for (last tetanus, last A1C result, last colonoscopy...), I also told her how crappy I was feeling. She looked down my throat and said, "Yep, I can see the drip," but wasn't overly concerned. I skipped knitting that night because while she wasn't concerned, I wasn't too sure why, and thought I must be contagious.
By Thursday morning, my scratchy throat had spread to include a mouth that felt like it was made of raw meat. I visited the urgent care center across the street and got some zithromycin for the infection and cough syrup with codeine so I could get some sleep. By Friday afternoon, I felt 92% better and by Saturday afternoon, felt I was well on my way to being alllll better. There was a small relapse Saturday night where I thought maybe the sore throat was coming back, but all day today, it's been behaving itself. I think I'm on the mend.
It doesn't matter where we go for the trip - cruise, Hawaii, Florida, Arizona - I always manage to catch some crud that lasts for about a week. I tried Airborne once, but you have to take that stuff every 3 hours and I would forget... sort of defeated the purpose. I suppose the other option would be to not travel. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I crack me up sometimes...
Poor KW, too... while we were gone, Northern California was having a nice wet set of 2 weeks. Great that it happened while we were gone (and having lovely weather, BTW), but boy, once his sinuses hit the California air, the pollens found their way in and he had an even worse couple of days than I did. He normally has problems with allergies, but every 4 or 5 years it's really bad. These few days were one of those years. He's still medicating, but at least he's not sneezing 10 or 12 times an hour any more.
For those of you trying to follow our travels, at the end of April, we'll take a trip up to Sonoma County for a wine event (yes, I'll be the designated driver), and in May, I'm kidnapping a friend for a long weekend. Then there's a retreat at a friend's house over another weekend, and finally I'm being kidnapped for another weekend. Little travels like that (2 or 3 days) don't seem to wreak havoc on my system like the longer ones do, so I have no trepidation for them at all.
That's it for now.
As it happened, we had already set up an appointment with our new GP (the previous GP is no longer in our insurance network... bummer) on Tuesday, so along with all the other info she asked for (last tetanus, last A1C result, last colonoscopy...), I also told her how crappy I was feeling. She looked down my throat and said, "Yep, I can see the drip," but wasn't overly concerned. I skipped knitting that night because while she wasn't concerned, I wasn't too sure why, and thought I must be contagious.
By Thursday morning, my scratchy throat had spread to include a mouth that felt like it was made of raw meat. I visited the urgent care center across the street and got some zithromycin for the infection and cough syrup with codeine so I could get some sleep. By Friday afternoon, I felt 92% better and by Saturday afternoon, felt I was well on my way to being alllll better. There was a small relapse Saturday night where I thought maybe the sore throat was coming back, but all day today, it's been behaving itself. I think I'm on the mend.
It doesn't matter where we go for the trip - cruise, Hawaii, Florida, Arizona - I always manage to catch some crud that lasts for about a week. I tried Airborne once, but you have to take that stuff every 3 hours and I would forget... sort of defeated the purpose. I suppose the other option would be to not travel. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I crack me up sometimes...
Poor KW, too... while we were gone, Northern California was having a nice wet set of 2 weeks. Great that it happened while we were gone (and having lovely weather, BTW), but boy, once his sinuses hit the California air, the pollens found their way in and he had an even worse couple of days than I did. He normally has problems with allergies, but every 4 or 5 years it's really bad. These few days were one of those years. He's still medicating, but at least he's not sneezing 10 or 12 times an hour any more.
For those of you trying to follow our travels, at the end of April, we'll take a trip up to Sonoma County for a wine event (yes, I'll be the designated driver), and in May, I'm kidnapping a friend for a long weekend. Then there's a retreat at a friend's house over another weekend, and finally I'm being kidnapped for another weekend. Little travels like that (2 or 3 days) don't seem to wreak havoc on my system like the longer ones do, so I have no trepidation for them at all.
That's it for now.
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