Very bad start to the day...within 10 minutes of attempting to log into my workstation, I had crashed the X server, mozilla had freaked out and sucked up all my CPU cycles, and I had rebooted. Nice way to start the day. I'm not sure what sin I committed against my workstation, but I have been suitably punished. I hope.
As if freakish technical problems aren't enough, I have a whole army of people coming after me personally for application support questions. We have a support email address these questions are supposed to be routed to. I freely admit that 90% of the time, I answer these mails, but also filter my mail so that I find these support questions. If people don't send the question to the address, it gets lost in between rrandom bug reports, Venezuelan spam, and strange messages from my mother. How friggin' hard is it to follow a simple instruction? Really? You people are in testing, how can you be that illiterate?
Anyway...I have fiber news! Wonderful, beautiful, fiber news! All I lack are pictures and sewn on buttons, but the Lacy alpaca cardigan is done, assembled and blocked. And it is lovely. Really really lovely. I love this sweater, it's soft and light and luminous and fits beautifully, and did I mention how lovely it is? Tonight I will sew on the buttons and take some pictures.
And it gets better! What can be better than a truly triumphant FO? How about enough yarn left over for a second truly triumphant FO? I have enough to do another sweater or even a shawl, which I think is what will becomes of the rest of the yarn. I'm planning out a modified Shetland shawl and should get started on that as soon as I'm done with the pink cotton sweater I'm working on. To add to all this fiber related joy, I got a message from my mom last night telling me that a friend of hers just sheered her 2 alpacas (or maybe llamas) and wants to give me the fleeces. Two whole fleeces! All for me! Hurray! One is white and one is some sort of tan color. Cleaning and carding 2 whole llama (or maybe alpaca) fleeces should be an interesting task, but I think it should be ok. I have a drum carder, and this might be a good excuse to get some good combs.
Now if I can just get though this week...the latest news is that the hiring gods are waiting on feedback from some recalcitrant person who remains unknown to me, but this person is being pestered, and if the universe is kind I *might* have some kind of news tomorrow or Friday. Hurray! My new boss is amazing, she's taking the whole leaving for school problem very seriously, and seems to have convinced other people that this is a problem as well. So I'm keeping all the fingers and toes crossed and trying not to panic while I plow through this week.
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