Well, at least it’s well on the run.  The time off achieved what I needed, control over something, anything, in this case the common areas of the house – kitchen, dining, family room and the “pool room” where we can now actually play pool!  There are still a few hotspots, and a few of Thing Tall’s things are still under the pool table, but all in all I’m quite pleased with myself.  My friend Karin was very surprised and proud of me when she came for Jam Night.  The bedrooms, computer room, office and fibre space are a bit scary, but those I think I can cope with a bit at a time.  The concentrated time spent on this first chunk has given me a sense of accomplishment that will hopefully keep me going in small bites of time that won’t show quite so much progress for a while.

Thing Tall played for the entire session (more than can be said for his mother, who gave up on her guitar halfway through the first piece…).  He does really look like a bass player – he stands dead still with a very intent look on his face:

That’s his new (to him, he got it used) Epiphone Violin Bass.  He’ll be paying that off by helping to renovate the shop.  There are now almost 2 guitars per person in the house.  Thing Tall has 3 Basses, I have an old classical acoustic, Himself has 2 electric guitars and there’s a steel string acoustic originally bought for Thing Tall but which no one claims at the moment.

In Olympic news, I think my Olympic knitting is cursed.  I finished the yarn I was intending to use late on Saturday night, but it wasn’t right at all and there wasn’t enough.  Another program change to some Fractal yarn I had.  The sock itself went fairly well this week and I like Cat Bordhi’s “sockitecture”.  Then, yesterday I sat down to knit for a few minutes and found that I had broken the Harmony Knitpicks needle I was knitting with.  I really like the feel of these needles, but they keep breaking at the metal sleeve which attaches the wood needle to the cable.  I couldn’t find my Addi in the same size so I’m stuck using an old Aero needle, the cable is stiff which makes magic looping a tad less magic.  Despite that, by 3:30 this afternoon:

It’s bedtime now, but I’m done except the toe grafting.  Which means I’m half done at the halfway point of the games.  Which means I might just finish in time.