so, i implemented a progress bar a short time ago using anna knits flash file, but today i replaced it with divs and css instead. so far it works om all the mac browsers i have tried, but i do not have a PC connected to the internet anymore, so i hacve not tested it in those browsers. i’d be interested in finding out how it works on PCs.

after an email 20-questions session, my sister figured out that i was giving her —- Canning Jars! I got these at my landlord’s garage sale and the glass ripples on the inside, they are so old and they have glass tops, too. i think they are gorgeous. any way, here’s a picture:

and here’s one of the top:

as i sat in my office yesterday literally shivering because it was so cold (and only 80 degrees outside), i wished i had the other one of these finished:

made of elsebeth lavold’s angora yarn in bronzed green (also known as #15) these this is one warm glove. i used the pattern in weekend knitting and made a couple of adjustments (of course) as well as a couple of mistakes. the garter cuff is supposed to be longer (at least it is in the picture in the book) so i must have read the pattern wrong. it probably said “repeat these two rows 16 times” and i edited it to be “16 rows”. i added a couple of rows on the palm of the hand after making the pinky finger because i hate how most gloves give me a web there and i am pretty happy with that. One more to go!

photo lab has been a bit un-relaxing lately. a lot of new people doing things like putting tongs from the developer in the stop and then back in the developer and not closing the filter tray on their enlargers and then flooding the darkroom with light or (and here i am being just really nit-picky) leaving their test strips in the developer (or fix, or stop) and going on to their next text strip - never taking their discarded bits out of the chemicals for the whole evening! sigh. well, last night, some chick (biased already, i know) asks if the lab has any canned air. i say “no, i don’t think so”. i do not work for the lab, she was just asking people in general. i’m at the chemicals, putting a contact sheet through and then she starts looking around all the enlargers. She sees a can of air in the enlarger space i am using and goes in and grabs it. As she is coming out i say, “you mighht want to go get your own.” She looks at me, “what?” “you need to get your own canned air rather than just using other people’s” “oh,” she says, and returns my canned air to my things. Listen chickiboom, i have not run in ages, you do not want to mess with me! i know, it is just canned air, but it really bothered me that she was just going through people’s things and using them. plus, i am not her supplier of photo equipment! i lend my things to people i know, but not someone i have never seen before.grr. it just bugged me. man, i really need a run! then maybe i can relax in the lab again. or, as discussed with SOP last night, i can buy some more equipment and set up a darkroom in his house. he has an enlarger, i have other miscellaneous equipment, a rack print-dryer would be easy to build, so i pretty well just need a print washer and i would be free of contaminated chemicals, fogged paper, and cheeky newbies.

so i drew you one instead…

however, i DID take many pictures this weekend. 2 rolls of slide film (color) which i will drop off after work today so i can scan them soon! lots of pictures of lily-pads, maybe one of them will turn out. spent sunday out on a lake in the uintas in SOP’s canoe (which he built himself, being the talented man that he is).

oh, and i have a gift for my sister! shh, don’t tell her! hee hee. i’ll post a picture of this cool item after i get it to her. ooh, i am so excited!

This just in! i finished 1 of my fingerless gloves this weekend and started on my poncho! i also broke multiple DPNs through transportation -grr- and ordered a variety of replacements to see which ones can handle my haphazard toting-around (i am also trying to tote around not-so-haphazardly). the fingerless glove is made of a woll/angora blend and is so warm it makes me ill! but while i was using it to hold my marshmallow shake purchased at Dick’s on the way home from the lake, my hand did not get cold at all (though my fingertips did).
REAL pictures coming later this week!