It’s been a long day—doc’s appt at 8 am, they sent my prescription to the old pharmacy, not the new one, and we are about to track that down—ear problems. Being dizzy for two months is a pita.
But the great news is, we have 6 koi. They’re about 3″ long in the body (finnage varies) and we were able to get both a shortfin gold ogon and a platinum butterfly fin, 2 kohaku (orange spots on white, an orange butterfly-fin with white edges, and a—I forget the name: black and white with a red spot on his head — far from show quality, but already with personality. The little gold ogon and one of the kohakus are escape artists supreme—which is good: self-protective.
They are in the pond. We probably won’t see them for weeks. The water is murky in that early spring mode where the algae is abundant but too small to get caught in the filters—the murky tea stage of ponding.
But it’s nice to know they’re out there.
Glad to know they have taken over the pond… Good luck finding your prescription and hope it doesn’t involve extra expense getting it out of durance vile.
No Ragi fishy?
Hooray for fish!
I await hearing what names the fishies acquire.
Nice to know you have fish in your outdoors again!
Yay for the fish!
Hope your ear problem gets solved soon. Unrelenting dizzy is the inutterable pits.
I’ve been up all night writing knitting patterns for two-color work (Fair Isle knitting) with colored diagrams of the motifs that I had to make myself using Paint because that’s the only graphics program I have. A real challenge to make a grid when you have to draw a box, then grid it by drawing lines, and eyeballing the distances between the lines and eyeballing whether the lines are straight. Didn’t do too bad a job, but it was time consuming. — and knitting the thing I’m writing the pattern for as I write the pattern. . .
@Wol, would it be easier to use a free spreadsheet program like Open Office, set the cells to squares (more or less) and the lines between them to solid single lines?
Then you can fill the cells with colours and/or put symbols in them as you work. They might not be the usual special knitting chart symbols, but as long as you provide an index (K=knit, P=purl, K2=knit 2 together, etc.) that should work.
Once you are done you can select the area of the finished pattern (+ the index) as the area to be printed and save it that way, so you don’t get a lot of unnecessary empty cells on your print.
That seems like less work to me than drawing the whole grid in Paint!
I use “Easy Cross” for charting both cross-stitch and knitting patterns. The basic version (works through Win8) is currently about $25; I have the “deluxe’ version which is $49. It’s quite easy to use, and at 255 colors max you shouldn’t need more.
http://www.easycross.co.uk/EasyCross/index.html
@WOL, another freeware charting program that many use is Chart Minder. http://www.chart-minder.com You can sign in via Ravelry, if you have an account. Think you can color code in it, too. Great for Fair Isle.
CJ, Huzzah for Fishies!!! Can’t wait to hear what their names are. Excuse the noob question, but will you be able to tell their sex as they get bigger? Is there a color difference, like in birds?
Well, isn’t that intelligent, charting and otherwise recording a pattern while you knit it! Much smarter than my, “surely I will remember how many rows, what stitch, what color used when” once I finish fudging a pattern. I ought to look into the ap/program recommendations here too.
I’m mulling over designing a knit, three-dimensional (stuffed) gargoyle and recording the rows (also erasing them when I “tink” back from an injudicious row or sortie) would be the only way to go.
I’m on (the encyclopedic, knitting pattern collection/yarn info + more) communal site Ravelry too, under Raesean but use it mostly for finding new patterns to do.
It’s nice to know the fish are back.
Yep, it’s a pita and they didn’t have one of the two meds I’m supposed to be on, so I started the one, and the other is due in this afternoon. Meanwhile, it’s liquid, so I have to wear earplugs for an hour or so until it works its way in, and I can’t hear a thing. But—at least it’s a visible external cause of the dizziness, which seems to mean they can fix it.
I hope the pharmacy in question gets its rear in gear and gets you the meds super quick. I sincerely hope you are not one of those people in whom vertigo provokes nausea — which would be like kicking you while you’re down.
Is it a wax problem or an infection or what? I was never clear on the cause.
For those on Ravelry, I’m on there too (TheWOL — oddly enough) and there are links to my knitting pattern blog. I’d love to get feedback from anybody who uses one of my patterns — particularly if there’s a goof in it!! I’m my own test knitter, unfortunately.
Doc isn’t sure between bacterial infection and fungal, so he’s treating both. The repeated courses of Clindomycin I had with the dental work are strongly suspect.