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Dec. 31st, 2021 08:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darchildreThings:
- This whole week, I've been putting off finishing my current book because if I finished it, I would have to start a new book, and that would make my reading tracker spreadsheet messy. (This is ridiculous.) But now I absolutely have to finish the current book today.
- I finished knitting a pair of socks yesterday, which is good, because many of older socks are on the point of wearing out. (I mend my socks, but there comes a point when it's not worth it anymore.) I am vaguely planning to try to knit a bunch of socks in 2022, along with all the Christmas knitting. I am also planning to not buy any more sock yarn, as I have an absurd amount waiting to become socks.
- Because of that, I also cast on a new pair yesterday. I say "pair" because I am experimenting with two-at-a-time socks. I'm doing the "two socks on a single very long circular needle" method - it's fiddly, but I think it's going well. It's a little slower, in that I did only just finish the toes yesterday, but simultaneously quicker, because there are two toes. It's probably not going to become my default way of doing socks, but it's an interesting change.
- While knitting recently, I have once again picked up the Great Gundam Project - it's a good knitting podcast, because it's interesting but if I stop paying attention because I dropped a stitch, it fundamentally doesn't matter. I have listened to over a hundred episodes of this show and have yet to watch more than the first episode of 0079 in terms of Gundam but, on the hosts' recommendation, I did watch the first three episodes of Armor Trooper Votoms last night. I'm enjoying it so far. For no reason I can really put my finger on - the tone? the aesthetics? the fact that it's scifi made in the early 80's before cyberpunk became a thing? - it reminds me a lot of Blakes 7. But, so far, with a lot more motorcycle chases and mechs fighting corrupt cops.
- This whole week, I've been putting off finishing my current book because if I finished it, I would have to start a new book, and that would make my reading tracker spreadsheet messy. (This is ridiculous.) But now I absolutely have to finish the current book today.
- I finished knitting a pair of socks yesterday, which is good, because many of older socks are on the point of wearing out. (I mend my socks, but there comes a point when it's not worth it anymore.) I am vaguely planning to try to knit a bunch of socks in 2022, along with all the Christmas knitting. I am also planning to not buy any more sock yarn, as I have an absurd amount waiting to become socks.
- Because of that, I also cast on a new pair yesterday. I say "pair" because I am experimenting with two-at-a-time socks. I'm doing the "two socks on a single very long circular needle" method - it's fiddly, but I think it's going well. It's a little slower, in that I did only just finish the toes yesterday, but simultaneously quicker, because there are two toes. It's probably not going to become my default way of doing socks, but it's an interesting change.
- While knitting recently, I have once again picked up the Great Gundam Project - it's a good knitting podcast, because it's interesting but if I stop paying attention because I dropped a stitch, it fundamentally doesn't matter. I have listened to over a hundred episodes of this show and have yet to watch more than the first episode of 0079 in terms of Gundam but, on the hosts' recommendation, I did watch the first three episodes of Armor Trooper Votoms last night. I'm enjoying it so far. For no reason I can really put my finger on - the tone? the aesthetics? the fact that it's scifi made in the early 80's before cyberpunk became a thing? - it reminds me a lot of Blakes 7. But, so far, with a lot more motorcycle chases and mechs fighting corrupt cops.
