Ubuntu 7.10 does do WPA!

I don't know how I did it, but I just spent the morning getting my Dell Latitude laptop to connect to our wireless router! Over joyed! I guess that I just needed to be more patient?

Golden Compass is coming out 7 dec 2007

Eating and drinking in the library

There is a coffee shop in the basement of Walter Library. When it first opened, I was really concerned about books and coffee mingling in the same area. I was fully indoctrinated into the idea that these two things should not mix by my elementary school librarian. I went to visit it when it first opened and was relieved to see that the space between coffee shop and books was respected.

Now they have a small circulating fiction/nonfiction library in the coffee shop! I love the idea, but there is a confused 7-year-old inside that is wondering if it is some kind trap set by librarians.
You can go and see which titles are available online

where are you, upholsterer's cooperative?

I'm really getting into upholstery. I'm redoing my little club chair that has been my constant companion since 1997. It is really a nice little chair whose cover is very threadbare.

I found out about a group of women who started the Upholsterers' Cooperative in a NE warehouse. This morning on my run I decided to run there and back (address is 1740 Madison).

It was much windier than I expected and I still have my rag-tag running clothes that I always assumed that I would shrink out of. I was fine until I got to 1740 and it didn't exist.

I lopped home a bit down-hearted and into the wind.

Next run is scheduled for Friday.

sweater for my sister

I knitting Belle Epoque presented in the Winter 04 issue of knitty.com. My friend (who introduced me to Knitty so long ago) and I are finding these last few issues exposing us to really grotty designs so I'm sifting through the archives to expand my knitting repertoire. This is how it looks on the designer.
I've been researching her other designs and found that she is relatively flat chested. As my people are quite curvy, I'm hoping this will work out. I'm using Cleakheaton Studio Mohair in a dark rose shade (# 19). Once I started knitting with it, I realized that was just a tish more rosy than her tea cozy. But I also noticed that she was wearing a scarf with a similar color so I'm a little less worried that it won't suit her.
I was misunderstanding the lace pattern instructions to the point where I thought that I was going insane. Somehow I figured it out at last yesterday afternoon, much to the relief of the boyfriend who no longer needed to suffer from expletive outburts every few minutes.

Silly blog things

my sister was posting these things on her myspace thing so I thought that I would have a go. They seem really reasonably me.

You Are Beer!

You don't need to get totally wasted when you hit the bars. More of a social drinker, you just like to have fun with your friends. And as long as the beer keeps flowing, you're a happy camper. But don't mix things up: "Beer Before Liquor, Never Been Sicker!"

What Alcoholic Drink Are You?

What European City Do I Belong In?

You Belong in Dublin

Friendly and down to earth, you want to enjoy Europe without snobbery or pretensions. You're the perfect person to go wild on a pub crawl... or enjoy a quiet bike ride through the old part of town.

What European City Do You Belong In?

Don't panic, the painters returned

Every thing is painted and up on the wall.

I'm starting a bee hive in New Brighton next month. I still have to get the equipment! But the bees are ordered. I thought that I wouldn't have to worry about hive collapse disorder because I'm only going to be moving the bees from Stillwater to NB and then they are on their own, getting where they want to go.

I think people should starting using the word "tuckpoint" in meetings and such, like people use dovetail and piggy-back (my sister, who thanks her lucky stars that she isn't in meetings all the time, doesn't believe me that adults in a professional setting would ever use the phrase piggy-back).

I'm walking the 2 miles to the University now. It is really pleasant. I go down Fillmore to Summer Street, cross the freeway and then through Marcy Holmes, over the railroad bridge and roll into Dinkytown about 55 minutes after leaving home.