This story really impresed me. It's so rare these days that you see something nice in the news, and even though the article is about something that happened in the aftermath of a homicide, I'm so impressed that Steve Jobs (CEO of Apple) took the time to call the father of a young man who was recently murdered by thieves who wanted his iPod. Wow. I mean, of course, it's awful that the guy was murdered, but what Jobs did is not something I normally associate with "regular" CEO behavior.
Anyhow, knitting content. Very little. I knit a bit on the Koigu scarf today in my mom's hotel room but now I have a headache and I'm going to just go to bed rather than try and knit any of Rosetta.
Eldronius commented that he can't imagine weaving in all those ends. Neither can I, which is why I figured out a way to knit the intarsia and work the ends in as I go along. I'm pretty sure you'd have to be insane to want to actually spend the hours and hours it would take to do that weaving. I actually thought the weaving would be OK when I started the blankie - and I did the first five or seven rows of blocks, then sat at a table in Knit NY to weave them in. It took three solid days of weaving, and I had to get reading glasses to be able to see what I was doing. It was NOT pleasant. So the current system is much better. It takes a bit longer to do the color change rows, as I've mentioned, but I can't fathom the alternative.
Today, I bought a couple "store-bought" presents for the soon-to-be-born babe. One of the last times her mom and I were together, we were at a toy shop which had these really cute letters, and we bought them to spell out the brother's name. So when I was in FAO today and saw the same letters, you can bet that I bought the new name! (Hooray for advance naming! Now, they just better not change it...) I also bought her a Steiff Peter Rabbit mobile - it's so cute - with a rabbit and three carrots dangling down. Just the sweetest.
Anyhow, Mom's in town, so lots of running around appears to be de rigeur. Tonight I saw "Jewtopia" which is pretty damn funny, with one of mom's friends. Mom (and friend's wife) saw "Spamalot" from the 9th row center orchestra!
Tomorrow, we're seeing the matinee of "Sweet Charity" (although I can't fathom why I have to see this show a second time), and "Swan Lake" at ABT in the evening. Thursday evening will be spent in Anatevka with Harvey Fierstein, so that ought to be fun. I'm looking foward to seeing a gay Jew in the role, as opposed to the Castro-ish Tevye that was Alfred Molina.
Though if I had my druthers, I'd be seeing "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" again...
(Sorry for all the ellipses (...) in this entry. Have you not yet figured out that the ellipsis is my favorite form of punctuation?
Posted by Jon at July 6, 2005 12:30 AMOk, maybe I'm just cranky-tired, but I read that Jobs story and thought, "Ah, the Times is at it again!"
Well, I'm definitely cranky-tired, but I am still suspicious of the story's, how you say, veritas.
Harvey never disappoints. Have fun!
Posted by: Em at July 6, 2005 09:44 AM