A great SFGiants game - beautiful weather, a win for the Giants, and a shutout for Tim Lincecom. Niiice...
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Setback
Aunt was having trouble breathing yesterday, so they've put her back on the respirator. Word from dad this morning was that they were able to turn it down (meaning her own breathing was getting stronger), so that's a little bit of good.
It's times like this that I wish we lived a 2-hour drive away instead of a 5-hour plane ride away.
Edited 5/25: Thanks to everyone for all the good thoughts being sent to me and my aunt.
It's times like this that I wish we lived a 2-hour drive away instead of a 5-hour plane ride away.
Edited 5/25: Thanks to everyone for all the good thoughts being sent to me and my aunt.
Another Knitfest!
Lots of fun at today's semi-monthly knitfest gathering at the ranch! It was "Monkey day," the day when most of us cast on for a Monkey knitalong. We have 3 of us doing two-at-a-time toe-up on Magic Loop, 5 doing cuff-down on Magic Loop, and 1 doing cuff-down on 2 circs. There were monkey tablecloths, monkey sproingy-hangy things from the light fixture, monkey water bottles, and monkey lollipops... and lots of yummy food (as always - we're a talented bunch in the kitchen, too!).
I got all my toe increases done with the gang today, and am now about a half-inch into a one-inch buffer between toe and starting the pattern. I'm using Pagewood Farm Denali yarn in a gorgeous turqoise color. Mmmm... It's not only beautiful, it's a lovely yarn to knit with, very squooshy. I'm a wee bit afraid it's too squooshy to be sturdy on the sole, so I decided to make the instep on US#1.5 needles (2.5 mm) and the sole on US#1 needles (2.25 mm) - tighten the sole stitches up a little bit. If I really want to make it tough, I should use US#0 neeldes, but... ugh... I've done that with a couple of pair before and they're just toooo small for me. Seem to take forever to knit.
In Aunt I status, she's still in recovery/ICU, but dad and Joan got to see her today. She's still being somewhat sedated, and will probably hurt a lot more before she starts to hurt a lot less. Her back problem won't help matters, either. She told dad that she thought she had pneumonia. Let's see - they cracked her ribs and took out two chunks of her lungs, and she's self-diagnosing pneumonia. Um, as dad told her, let's see what the doctor says. They're waiting for the final pathology, but the surgeon was fairly sure they got all the bad bits, and the oncologist doesn't think she'll need chemo or radiation after all. Hooray for little victories. If that's the case, she'll want to get better quickly so she can start her MMM chemo again (it was on hold while she did the surgery thang).
Finally, Sock Summit registration opens at 10:00 on Tuesday, 5/26. Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy!
I got all my toe increases done with the gang today, and am now about a half-inch into a one-inch buffer between toe and starting the pattern. I'm using Pagewood Farm Denali yarn in a gorgeous turqoise color. Mmmm... It's not only beautiful, it's a lovely yarn to knit with, very squooshy. I'm a wee bit afraid it's too squooshy to be sturdy on the sole, so I decided to make the instep on US#1.5 needles (2.5 mm) and the sole on US#1 needles (2.25 mm) - tighten the sole stitches up a little bit. If I really want to make it tough, I should use US#0 neeldes, but... ugh... I've done that with a couple of pair before and they're just toooo small for me. Seem to take forever to knit.
In Aunt I status, she's still in recovery/ICU, but dad and Joan got to see her today. She's still being somewhat sedated, and will probably hurt a lot more before she starts to hurt a lot less. Her back problem won't help matters, either. She told dad that she thought she had pneumonia. Let's see - they cracked her ribs and took out two chunks of her lungs, and she's self-diagnosing pneumonia. Um, as dad told her, let's see what the doctor says. They're waiting for the final pathology, but the surgeon was fairly sure they got all the bad bits, and the oncologist doesn't think she'll need chemo or radiation after all. Hooray for little victories. If that's the case, she'll want to get better quickly so she can start her MMM chemo again (it was on hold while she did the surgery thang).
Finally, Sock Summit registration opens at 10:00 on Tuesday, 5/26. Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy!
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Another Bit of Good Newts
The company DH is contracting with as their CIO just gave him a raise. In effect, they doubled his contract time for each month. A little financial breathing room... Nice...
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Enumeration
- The IRS audited our 2006 tax return. They want $2600 more.
- We were going to try to refinance the house next month. Rates are great. A house 2 blocks over (same floorplan as ours) recently sold at the toilet-bottom price of $300,000 less than what we paid for our house (admittedly at the peak). Thanks to this sale, our house won't appraise high enough to get us an acceptable LTV given our current mortgage and HELOC. In order to get below the acceptable percentages, we will have to buy down the mortgage by about $12,000, plus pay around $6,000 in closing costs. Sure. We have lots of extra money laying around. See item 1.
- My ear infection is apparently gone, but my hearing still hasn't returned. Ear doc says it could take as long as 3 or 4 weeks. Or longer.
- DH has part-time CIO gig (thank god) but we still need more income. There are 4 or 5 pending contracts, but none signed yet.
- I actually got bored today and decided to pull some weeds. I know. I tried to sit down until the feeling went away, but there were too many weeds that were higher than the bushes we like. Next place - condo.
Normally, these would send me over the edge. I hate the uncertainty of consultant life, hate that we pay DH's ex a stupid amount of money for her to sit on her fat ass, hate that this house has lost almost a third of its value, and really really hate gardening.
None of this matters a whit. I'm spending all my emotional energy on worrying about my aunt in Florida. She got diagnosed with multiple myeloma of the bone marrow last year, and during tests for that, they found spots on her lungs. She's having surgery tomorrow to remove them. One big one that's known to be malignant in one lobe and one small one that's still a mystery in the other lobe.
Nothing else matters. Heal well, Auntie I.
- We were going to try to refinance the house next month. Rates are great. A house 2 blocks over (same floorplan as ours) recently sold at the toilet-bottom price of $300,000 less than what we paid for our house (admittedly at the peak). Thanks to this sale, our house won't appraise high enough to get us an acceptable LTV given our current mortgage and HELOC. In order to get below the acceptable percentages, we will have to buy down the mortgage by about $12,000, plus pay around $6,000 in closing costs. Sure. We have lots of extra money laying around. See item 1.
- My ear infection is apparently gone, but my hearing still hasn't returned. Ear doc says it could take as long as 3 or 4 weeks. Or longer.
- DH has part-time CIO gig (thank god) but we still need more income. There are 4 or 5 pending contracts, but none signed yet.
- I actually got bored today and decided to pull some weeds. I know. I tried to sit down until the feeling went away, but there were too many weeds that were higher than the bushes we like. Next place - condo.
Normally, these would send me over the edge. I hate the uncertainty of consultant life, hate that we pay DH's ex a stupid amount of money for her to sit on her fat ass, hate that this house has lost almost a third of its value, and really really hate gardening.
None of this matters a whit. I'm spending all my emotional energy on worrying about my aunt in Florida. She got diagnosed with multiple myeloma of the bone marrow last year, and during tests for that, they found spots on her lungs. She's having surgery tomorrow to remove them. One big one that's known to be malignant in one lobe and one small one that's still a mystery in the other lobe.
Nothing else matters. Heal well, Auntie I.
Monday, May 18, 2009
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