The Swine-ish Flu Chronicles

OK. I don't know for sure that I had swine flu. I wasn't tested. But my doc said my symptoms were consistent with novel H1N1.

That was nearly a week ago.

I'm still tired, sluggish, somewhat nauseated, and completely unmotivated to do anything.

So here's the symptoms, as I experienced them: really really tired (do I have to open my eyes? That takes so much energy), achiness (someone get the number of the freight train that hit me), nausea and loss of appetite, headache, and a lovely dry hacking cough. Apparently the nausea and the dry hacking cough were what made the doc decide it was most likely novel H1N1 and not seasonal flu.

I was too tired to knit, much less spin.

I fell asleep watching Sprint Cup practice on Friday. And again during qualifying.

I think I fell asleep sometime during the UW-New Mexico game.

It's been a week, and I still have the cough. Sounds like I may have the cough for awhile yet.

Disaster Porn!

OK, so after a Ravelry thread about Conservapedia's misbegotten plot to rewrite the Bible to make it, um, not liberal (huh?) which got threadjacked into a sort of discussion of Roland Emmerich's latest disaster porn 2012, I went searching for 2012 trailers for fun watching.

This parody is made of win...



I ganked that video from this automotive blog post that advises that, when California falls into the sea, you'll be wanting a Lincoln Town Car. I dunno. Seeing some of the actual CGI-enhanced footage from 2012, I'm thinking you don't want a real long vehicle that could potentially slide into a huge crevasse. You want something small and mean and bad fast. Or at least you want a Sprint Cup driver behind the wheel. Or the best of both worlds, a small, mean, bad fast car with a Cup driver behind the wheel. Oh Tony...

BTW the music from that parody is "Okey Dokey" and "Bongolia" by Michael Viner's Incredible Bongo Band.

You're welcome.

A Choppy, Yet Insincere, Apology

So I've had the Riverboat Gamblers stuck in my head lately.



Which gets me thinking.

What's up with all the rudeness lately? Yanno, Addison Graves "Joe" "How Many Diseases Can I Be Named After" Wilson, Kanye West, Serena Williams.

Granted, I'm hardly the first to address the Trifecta of Rudeness. The Chicago Tribune, Crain's New York Business, Andy Borowitz, and the Seattle Times, among bazillions of others, clearly beat me to the punch. But still, here I am...

One would think Joe Wilson's behavior would have won him no fans. Especially since he refuses to apologize on the Congressional floor. But a simple search of Facebook groups shows no dearth of pro-Joe Wilson groups, lauding him for Standing Up to Da Man, Speaking Truth to Power, blah blah blah. And he's apparently received over $2 million in campaign contributions since exposing himself as a total asshat. TWO. FREAKIN'. MILLION. WTF? Explain?

Kanye West got promptly turned into an internet meme. Regardless whether he continues to get laughed at or not, his next album will doubtless go multi-platinum.

And Serena will continue to grace the tennis courts and draw crowds, no doubt.

Hm. A trend here?

Maybe the problem here is - NO FREAKIN' CONSEQUENCES FOR ACTING LIKE SPOILED BRATS???!?!?!??!?!?!

(P.S. The actual title of the Riverboat Gamblers' song is "A Choppy, Yet Sincere, Apology." Just in case you were wondering.)

Oh and I know I still need to post pics of my qiviut smoke ring. I took pics, I'm just too lazy to download them to The Beast. It will happen. At some point. I promise.

Someone please tell me...

...how a lavender fluid can somehow turn my hair auburn?

I'm touching up (OK, completely redoing) my hair color. I'm about 3 weeks overdue, so I decided fine, just redo the whole thing. L'Oreal Excellence, color 5RB. So you all know my secret. Not that I've ever kept it a secret, mind you...

What I can't figure out is this.

You mix the color with the base. It looks lavender right after you mix it. Just exactly how does that become reddish-brown? WTFOMGBBQ? Let's just say chemistry wasn't my favorite subject in school...

So anyhoo.

I missed the Sprint Cup race last night because of coming back from Laramie (the Texas game). I forgot to set the DVR, plus I kind of figured that by the time I got home I was going to be too tired to watch anyway, what with having to get up for soccer today. As for soccer, Will's team finished second in their division at this weekend's tournament. I don't have pictures unfortunately. Next weekend I need to take pictures.

I finally blocked the smoke ring I made with the qiviut/wool blend I bought in Alberta. Pictures will go up next time. Pattern here.

Thinking about getting this book: Respect The Spindle: Spin Infinite Yarns With One Amazing Tool by Abby Franquemont. Signed copies (once the book is released) are available on Abby's site...

RESPECT THE SPINDLE! RESPECT IT!!!

Which reminds me... I think I have a prospective victim or two to asspinerate... hehehe...

Back to School Left-Wing Indoctrination from NASCAR

So. The nattering nabobs of negativity on the right are screaming bloody murder about the President's webcast to schoolkids scheduled for tomorrow morning. Clutching their pearls, they wail that the President is threatening to report them to "some enemies' list" and that he's somehow some sort of unspecified "threat to our inalienable rights" or that he'll somehow come across looking like Big Brother. (I just got a mental image of Max Headroom...)



Mhm. Yep. Telling kids to stay in school and work hard is a left-wing threat.

So, therefore, you should be shocked to learn who else is helping indoctrinate your precious kids so that they will be softened up and ready for the AmeriCorps re-education camps:



Yep. Dale Jr., Carl, Jeff, Smoke and Juan Pablo... NASCAR, sport of rednecks, is helping de-redneckize your kiddos...

Oh noes!!!!!11!!!eleventy!!! Pretty soon, our kiddos will be going to Purdue and getting engineering degrees like Ryan Newman...

The only thing that would have been better would have been if that video had been on during last night's race. I didn't see it during the race, sadly...

Baptism

Well. Once again I haven't been here in awhile. I need to post more often...

Will got baptized today. In the river. Pics:

Where have I been????

Holy hand grenades Batman, it's been nearly 3 months since I last posted!

I don't have much fiber related stuff to share. The socks from 3 months ago are pretty much my last FO's. I got sidetracked last week and bought some Noro Silk Garden and a Noro pattern book and started in on a cardigan. I have so many UF socks it's not even funny. I think I'm a little socked out for the time being.

I wish the weather would warm up. It's been chilly, cloudy and rainy the past week. The sun is finally trying to come out today. I have been so tired and sluggish from the yucky weather.

Oh well, summer will be here soon... In a few days, I'm off to Colorado Springs and Denver for 4 days or so. It's time to get out of town and do something fun.