Monthly Archives: August 2007

Socks

By Tien Chiu | Published: August 31, 2007
So, I spent three hours yesterday looking through the free sock patterns on knittingpatterncentral.com. And printing out bunches of them.  (I am not distractable, no indeedy.)  Then I spent an hour or so going through my “orphan” balls of yarn.  I finally settled on four different sock patterns and four kinds of yarn, which I [...]
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Travel panic

By Tien Chiu | Published: August 30, 2007
So, it’s T minus 5 days to the China trip, and travel panic is starting to set in. Me being me, I am blithely unconcerned about plane tickets, money, passports, whether I’ll have the right clothing, whether I’ll get lost in a foreign city and be totally unable to communicate with local passersby, and [...]
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The Onion takes on the Tour de France

By Tien Chiu | Published: August 30, 2007
Deliciously funny: http://www.theonion.com/content/news/non_doping_cyclists_finish_tour_de I was watching the Tour de France with a certain amount of cynicism this year: it’s pretty obvious that, at that level, everyone is doping to stay ahead. It’s just that some of them are smart enough to avoid getting caught, that’s all. I applaud their efforts to clean up the sport. I [...]
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A good day / Too much stuff?

By Tien Chiu | Published: August 29, 2007
Today was a good day, defined as “a day in which I have time to pursue two hobbies and still get to bed on time”.  I wound off some of my dye samples, and got about 1/3 done threading my loom.  Over the weekend I plan to finish threading the loom and finish my half-finished [...]
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Woo hoo hoo!!

By Tien Chiu | Published: August 28, 2007
To celebrate a successful demo at the board meeting, they’re shutting down the company on Tuesday!  So, not only do I NOT have to work this weekend (which I was more or less expecting), I get a FOUR DAY weeekend!  Which means…Friday is my last day of work until I get back from China on [...]
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