Snagged from another blog

Seen on Zen Knit (specific entry located here):

1) Being gay is not natural. Real Americans always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, liposuction and air conditioning.

2) Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall.

3) Legalizing gay marriage will open the door to all kinds of crazy behavior. People may even wish to marry their pets because a dog has legal standing and can sign a marriage contract.

4) Straight marriage has been around a long time and hasn’t changed at all; women are still property, blacks still can’t marry whites, and divorce is still illegal.

5) Straight marriage will be less meaningful if gay marriage were allowed; the sanctity of Brittany Spears’ 55-hour just-for-fun marriage would be destroyed.

6) Straight marriages are valid because they produce children. Gay couples, infertile couples, and old people shouldn’t be allowed to marry because our orphanages aren’t full yet, and the world needs more children.

7) Obviously gay parents will raise gay children, since straight parents only raise straight children.

8) Gay marriage is not supported by religion. In a theocracy like ours, the values of one religion are imposed on the entire country. That’s why we have only one religion in America.

9) Children can never succeed without a male and a female role model at home. That’s why we as a society expressly forbid single parents to raise children.

10) Gay marriage will change the foundation of society; we could never adapt to new social norms. Just like we haven’t adapted to cars, the service-sector economy, or longer life spans…

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SUV Sales Plummeting

First read the story on Newsday.

Then listen to me as I loudly holler, "DUH!"

I've always said that I really don't have a problem with SUV owners/drivers as such. It's the people who own/drive them but seriously don't need them that bothers me in a big way. This new trend towards smaller, more efficient vehicles tells me that most of these people never ACTUALLY needed SUVs in the first place. >_<

Grumble end.

Sockies

I went to the first of a 2-session sock (knitting) class last night. It was very nice, fun, and relaxing! The class consisted of just 3 people - myself, onewomanshow, and another gal who was in the mittens class that I missed. And Trish, the instructor, of course.

I finally learned how to do a figure-8 cast on, which is GREAT, because I had seen instructions for it online but never really "got it" until Trish showed us how. It took a couple tries to get it right, and then I decided to start over when I accidentally twisted some weird stitch beyond where I wanted to try to salvage it, and I kind of cast on "backwards" - kind of. It's hard to explain. Basically I did it so that instead of knitting into the back of the stitches on the TOP needle, I did those regular and knit into the backs of the BOTTOM stitches. It went all fine and dandy, but then when I had gotten some length worked up, I went back to tighten up all the initial toe stitches and there was a goofy little hole at the end of the cast-on row! I can only assume it's because I did that backwards cast-on. I was just going to patch it when I wove in the yarn end, but then later I realized that I had been doing several increases on the wrong end of one of my non-heel needles and half the top side of the toe was funny-looking. Oh it was functional and ok, but I didn't like the way the rows were not lined up symmetrically, so I decided to frog it again and start all over.

Then I dreamed all night about figure-8 casting on. LOL

I will begin again tonight, and should do fine now that I got the hard parts figured out. Lucky I didn't get too far in the first place, because I hate getting really far only to find that I have no choice but to destroy all the hard work I did becuase I did something ridiculously wrong. This was short and easy though, and the new things I've learned are definitely worth the little bit of extra time.

Hooray for socks! I will post pictures once I get started again. (Probably just starting with pics of a few inches of toe, and then more as I get further along.)

After I successfully finish my first pair of socks, I will do mittens. Actually, I've already just started the "training mitt" from Knitty (Mittens 101 found here), so we'll see how that goes. If it's not too hard, I'll dive right into full-size ones even if the socks are NOT done. Also, Tia gave me the pattern they used in her mittens class (it's different than the Knitty one) and I want to see if that one really is easier than Knitty's. She says it was super easy, and Knitty makes it look more complicated than it has to be.