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So I've been remiss in blog posting. Alas, I have nothing interesting and public to say right now.

It's been in the mid 70s to high 80s in Boston for the past week - gloriously sunny. Unfortunately, this means that it is officially way too hot to work on sweaters. The Irish Moss needs 2 more repeats of the central motif on each shoulder saddle - that's 32 rows of approximately 17 stitches, if memory serves, and so it's really less than an evening's work. Then it needs to be pieced together, and the collar knit - maybe two evenings' work, though mattress stitch always goes faster than I expect. But when it's 80 degrees out when I get home from work, picking up a sweater is the last thing I want to do when I get home.

On the other hand, the second blue sock is about 20 rounds away from being done. I've been knitting on the T. If you see a male sock knitter with a shaved head on the Red Line or on a bus near Davis Square, say hi.

There was a thread on Socknitters this week about the tiresome parts of knitting socks. Some people hate toes, others hate heels, others hate ribbing. I've determined that what I hate is change -- I never mind the toe when I'm a bit into it, I never mind the heel once it's started, and I never mind ribbing after the first row. But I've had socks sit for weeks before because I got to the point where I needed to start the heel, or start the ribbing, or start the toe, and I just didn't feel like doing it.

Go figure.

In other news, one of the goals for the weekend is to get my current projects photographed and on Ravelry. I meant to make it to a knitting circle this week, but I went to a board game night instead. I'm also trying to find a knitting shop in Boston that sells metal glove needles in sizes 00 and 000. More news as it happens.

So I'm almost two weeks into the new job. Not much knitting news; I joined the Boston SnB Yahoo group, and I'm going to try to make it to at least one knitting circle next week, but if it goes anything like this week I won't have the energy. The job is working out well so far, though there's a BIG deadline at the end of next week and so everyone is a bit fraught; I'm the new guy (or, at least, one of the new guys), and I've been concentrating on trying to be useful and not increasing other people's workload. So far I seem to be succeeding.

I've knit in public a lot, too. My commute means I take the 88 bus along Highland Avenue to Davis Square, then the Red Line to Alewife (the opposite direction from most commuters!), then a 50-yard walk to the office. On a good day, that's 12 minutes of butt-in-seat time; on a bad day, that's also 15-20 minutes of waiting time. Which isn't so bad, if it means another 2-3 rounds on a sock. Nobody has seemed to notice ro care, except for a bus driver earlier this week who peered at what I had in my hands, then grinned at me and gave me a thumbs-up.

Oh, and I guess I lied about the knitting news. I made it onto Ravelry! I'm cwilbur there, go figure. Feel free to say hello there, if you want.

And the Elsinore sock pattern is currently a casualty of the work stress; I hoped to get it done last weekend, but I spent the time sleeping instead. Maybe this weekend.