Random Walk

Here is the pattern for the "popple" string bag:

http://ursula1972.livejournal.com/570.html

There are more comments in later posts on that livejournal.

I use a Number 3 crochet cotton with a 2.5 mm hook, which gives a bag the size of my fist balled up, and about the size of a standard plastic bag when used. I need about 1.5 balls of #3 cotton for one bag.

With the 8 hour train trip, and the code not working on the machine I had with me, I read quite a bit:

Little Brother - Cory Doctorow - (ebook) very, very good.

Mad Dog and Annie - Virginia Kantra - romance novel with an abused woman who leaves husband.

An Unladylike Offer - Christine Merrill - romance novel with an abused woman who escapes from her father's house. Regency.

The Hollow (Murder After Hours) - Agatha Christie - one of her better books.

A Criminal Comedy - Julian Symons - it passed the time.

Left last Thursday for a family funeral. Just got home. So if you haven't seen me, that's why.

Dancing on the Air - Nora Roberts - not bad.

So, I'm reading out the romance books that have collected in my house...

Wed Under Western Skies - anthology - I skipped the first of the 3 stories. Yeah. Romance genre. I don't know what else to say about it.

Jared's Runaway Woman - Judith Stacy - Not too bad. Better than the title sounds.

Some suggstions at making light, and in the comments, and THANK YOU everyone who had suggestions. I've emailed Smart Bitches, Trashy Books, and we'll see if something comes up there.

Also posted on Making Light:

I am looking for a book which may not exist.
I have a friend whose mother is a battered wife. She reads romance novels. I am looking for a romance novel which I can lend her which has the following themes/ideas/plotpoints/whatever-you-want-to-call-them:
-woman leaves abusive spouse
-woman is okay on her own
-woman finds true love with non-abusive man

Does anyone have any suggestions?

So, Saracat just wandered into the living room, and peed on the floor. Right in front of me. She got baptized with tea.

And Ledapuss just made another attempt at the mantel (yummy catnip is there!) and did not make it. This is the second time I have seen her fall trying to jump to the mantel.

Cats.

Video Games I Loved When I Was a Kid:

-Chuck E. Eggs (Chuckie Eggs)
-Montezuma's Revenge
-Lode Runner
-Duke Nukem (NOT 3D)

There's a Montezuma sequel, and a Duke Nukem available for the Game Boy Color. I have a GBC. [[steeples hands]] Exxxx-celllent.

Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen - Better on rereading than I had thought; I enjoyed it very much. I've read a bunch of "Regency Romances" lately (Georgette Heyer, and that Loretta Chase), and I find that I want to go to the real Regency author. Austen has a biting wit, which I find lacking in the others.

Fortune's Fool - Mercedes Lackey - 100 Kingdoms series; fun, light, pleasant.

Not Quite a Lady - Loretta Chase - a romance novel, fun and light. I lifted the author recommendation from one of oyceter's threads. I will keep this one.

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The Christening Quest - Elizabeth Ann Scarborough - a nice, light fantasy. Very fun.

I changed the journal's title, because I am really not so much geeking about the fiber anymore, at least here.

Edited to 'splain: I'm in statistical thermo, and working with Monte Carlo methods, so random walks are important to me. In addition, my childhood friend would look at me and say, "Nancy, you are so random!"

Old Man's War - John Scalzi - very good. Tor has this free ebook program, and boy is it fun!

The Forever War - Joe Haldeman - sort of ok. It was written in 1974, and I'm sort of weirded out by the whole switching sexual orientation throughout history thing. Also, no one seems to be homosexual in the early world, and that just bothers me.

If given the choice of these two, pick the Scalzi.

I'm
a Ravenclaw!

Star-Anchored, Star-Angered - Suzette Haden Elgin - Yes, I am on a run of her books; they are good, and thought provoking.

Farthing - OMG I could not put it down. Seriously. Ask hun and U. if I could put it down. Since it was a free pdf version, this was pretty amazing. I just bought the paperback tonight.

My current fountain pen is a Waterman Phileas, medium point. I also use a Pilot Dr. Grip gel pen, and a Tombow rollerball.

My Parker Vector will be arriving in the mail soon.

I want to try:
-a Rotring Core (rubidium)
-a Lamy Safari
-maybe something by Sheaffer or Pilot?

My star earring finally came unscrewed, so I could change it.

I have been listening to old radio shows on my iPod - "The man with the action packed expense account!"