WNBP: The Apple Of My Eye

Greetings and a happy Wednesday to all.  I say that with an inordinate amount of optimism given that my internet connection is a bit dicey at the moment.  In all likelihood, I will not be able to even publish this due to my having heaved a router out the window.  That will probably be followed by a keyboard and a monitor if it gets to that point.

It is a shame, really.  I have lots of good things to report this week and it surely would be nice to share.  I suppose I should take a nice deep breath, channel my inner patient person and just give it a go.  Perhaps the internet will allow me a Wednesday Night Bullet Post given the circumstances.

If not, then you can read all about me on the news.  If nothing else, you will have received an update of sorts...

*Niece Sheep had me a bit nervous with her premature labor, but things settled down in time for us to pull off her baby shower last Saturday.


*No.  I did not finish the baby blanket.


*For those of you who spend your sleepless nights wondering if Sheepie still knits, rest assured.


*I do.


*I even finished a couple of things in time to gift my soon-to-be-great-niece.


*I am not really a Baby Person.


*I find babies perplexing and lacking in conversational skills.


*That said, I almost came undone when I finished these:

Wee, darling little baby hats!

*I had a brief moment of complete cute overload and only came to myself after having Googled "fertility treatments for the very old and desperate."


*Thankfully, common sense returned before I did anything crazy.


*Sadly the skull buttons I planned for the baby sweater were too small and I had to go with the butterflies instead.

I guess it was for the best...

*Having not really done much in the way of needlework lately, I went with a the simplest of patterns.


*The shower guests were all non-knitters so I looked pretty brilliant in spite of it all.


*My niece asked me if, after knitting for two boys, I was glad for a change in color schemes.


*I hate to admit it, not being much of a pink type, but I really did enjoy this!


*Sweaters and hats...probably not going to be the most useful of things now.


*Baby is coming early.  There is no doubt about it.


*I am thinking good thoughts for an early and frigid autumn.


*Or the rampant use of air conditioning.


*I had to be quick at the Farmers Market this morning.


*I was expecting a package and didn't want to miss the truck.


*I meant to get some fruit, but I forgot what with all the excitement.


*I just got the tomatoes and green beans.


*Then I sat at home staring at the driveway.


*Looking for trucks.


*And wishing I had some fruit...


*My life is kind of powered by the good people at Apple.


*Computer?  Mac.


*Tablet?  iPad.


*Mp3 player?  iPod.


*But my cell phone?  Blackberry.


*Wrong fruit.


*I've been wanting to get an iPhone for a long time.  It really made sense considering the overall operating systems here.


*But they are spendy and sometimes a girl has to be practical.


*Even my wireless carrier was concerned about my old, clunky 2G phone.


*At least one would assume that considering the amount of email and snail mail I was getting from them urging an upgrade before I became utterly obsolete.


*I don't spend a lot of money on cell phones.  And I tend to get a little clingy with them.


*I also forget to charge them so it is really kind of a useless thing upon which to spend my hard earned cash.


*I always charge my iPod because it has my sounds of relaxation app on it and I can't sleep without that.


*A charged iPod does little good when a person is stranded on the highway and the zombie apocalypse has begun.


*That, in and of itself, was reason to by an iPhone.


*Which I did, but don't be too impressed.  I stuck to my miserly ways.


*It is the old 3G model that you can get for pretty much nothing.


*I think you can even find them in cereal boxes now...


*Still better than my old phone and I'm pretty sure I will charge it more regularly.


*Now I can sleep to the sounds of nature while the phone charges and be fully prepared for the undead hordes come morning.


*I really enjoyed reading Blood and Bullets (Deacon Chalk: Occult Bounty Hunter).


*It is rough and I can see where some people found it to be a bit unpolished, but I felt that added to the charm.


*There is a great line in the second chapter about how stakeouts are really boring because you can't knit or anything.


*Deacon Chalk doesn't knit.  I'm certain of that.  He was probably being ironic or something.


*But still a great line...


*I love urban fantasy and, oddly enough, prefer the stories with a male protagonist.


*Hard to find nowadays, what with the genre being more focused on the female fighters for good these days.


*I've been meaning to read Chimera for a while now.  I like Rob Thurman's other novels.


*I just never got to it.


*Until I ran out of other options.  Then I did.


*Really good stuff.  The writing is much more crisp than in the Cal Leandros series given that the narrator is a bit older, I think.


*I liked it so much that I read it in a day and picked up the next one immediately.


*I'd link to that title if the internet was cooperating at the moment, but it is not.


*The internet apparently prefers us to be illiterate and capable only of texting.


*Actually, I don't think the internet really feels that way but I was starting to get that pesky urge to fling routers and needed to vent a bit lest disaster strike.


*This may be a good time to wrap it up, now that I think of it.


*Perhaps the whole slow connection deal is a sign that things could always get worse.



So, on that note, I shall spell check this sucker and see about saving it in forty seven different places lest I lose it.  I'm certain that the internet will eventually sort itself out.  It should.  It is the least it can do for me.

I did, after all, feed it several Apples today...

SA