Wow, WoW.

So I finally caved in. No, I have not seen Titanic (NEVAR!). I started playing World of Warcraft.
I know, I know. Mock me all you want. I was sucked in by my friends Julia and Stacey, who were sucked in by their friend Claire (she's a knitter so it's cool.) I didn't want to do it but I got this new computer and all, so I needed to test it's capabilities. Haha.

Anyway, for any geeks that play reading this:

Stomperbears
Draenor
Night Elf Hunter lvl 85
Guild: Dropped Stitches

So I have hinted at it a few places....

but you should know that our oldest kid is having a baby.

His girlfriend is actually HAVING the baby. He is 19, she is 20. Baby due September 30, yes we found out about 1 month ago.

Touched by a strangelet.

I was just informed that they are starting the Large Hadron Collider at midnight. This is like the "dry run" of this thing which as you know is a particle accelerator designed to make atoms go smashy-smashy. Well, I am not a physicist but you get the idea. You may have heard of it in the "Da Vinci Code" predecessor book "Angels and Demons" (Dan Brown was not in line to be assassinated by the pope for that book so it was not popular), but you probably just saw the movie like an idiot and never even read, because if you did you would have known that this freaking collider thing was happening and warned me already!!!!! But don't worry, the Angels and Demons movie will be out next year and then everyone will be like "oh yeah, the LHC, totally" UNLESS WE ARE ALL SUCKED INTO A MICRO BLACK HOLE. Or touched inappropriately by a strangelet.

"Concerns have been raised regarding the safety of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) on the grounds that high-energy particle collisions performed in the LHC might produce dangerous phenomena, including micro black holes, strangelets, vacuum bubbles and magnetic monopoles."

Anyway, have fun. OH -- forgot to mention it is mainly contained within France. Which means midnight is in 26 minutes. Enjoy.

http://lhc.web.cern.ch/lhc/News.htm

If you had a mini black hole, would the singularity be a few inches away from the opening? So you could mess with the cat by throwing her into it and she would appear like a foot away?

Concert Nostalgia

So I was reading a forum on Ravelry -- All About the 80's group. They were talking about their first concert and it ranged from Amy Grant to Bon Jovi , with all the usual other U2 and crap thrown in.

I don't really know what my FIRST concert was but I am certain it was some weird hippie thing my parents took me to.

My first concert I actually remember was Crosby, Stills, & Nash. I saw them at Park West when I was like 11 -- so 1987? I also saw another concert that summer which I think was REO Speedwagon? Anyway, that was a little bizarre -- at CSN this drunk lady told me she wanted to take me home and I could be her daughter. Yeeeeahhh....no.

My first concert that I really was excited to see, that I chose to go to was R.E.M. on the Green tour. That must have been '89. I was with my dad and step-mom, and the show was in Salt Lake City -- at the Salt Palace maybe. I was in the 8th grade, and all my friends listened to crap like Vanilla Ice or Metallica. I wore that freaking tshirt for nine years straight.

I haven't been to as many concerts as some, because I am a big wuss when it comes to loud noise. But I did make it to a very memorable Nine Inch Nails concert with the Jim Rose Circus and Marilyn Manson opening. The spewing liquid from a three foot fake dick was certainly MM's high point. Plus, I totally blame Jim Rose for pushing my circus fetish up into my forebrain.

I took my Mom to the unforgettable Bob Dylan/Paul Simon concert where they sang "I Walk the Line" together. Some people actually after Bob Dylan was done playing, which I found odd, I mean the tickets were like 75$ and that was back in the day....

I saw the Rolling Stones at Mile High. I sat behind a pole. I was with my mother-in-law, my brother-in-law, and the father of my child. Ugh. I finally moved waaay down at the side of the stage and got within like 100 yards of Skeletor -- I mean Mick Jagger.

Of course there was the crappy Sheryl Crow show, featuring insulting the patrons in Billings, MT. She was so drunk she couldn't even remember the words to that song with the car wash in it. Look Sheryl, don't play a county fair and fuck it up. These people will not be satisfied with just getting their money back. Watch yourself.

Most of my best shows were at Red Rocks of course. Chieftans like five times with a variety of guests like Michelle Shocked, some Scottish punk band (Oi Polloi?), Sinead O'Connor...
Indigo Girls with Spearhead was awesome, singing "Midnight Train to Georgia."
k.d. lang was great as well. The venue really pumps up the show a LOT. And it is outdoors so a lot less noisy. And way more rain soaked. And the beer is still a million dollars.

My gayness is showing so I may as well bring it all the way home:

I have seen the Pet Shop Boys twice. Both times I was woefully the fat lesbian/fag hag in the crowd of twinks, but hey, I was like 10 years older than ANY of them so it was good. I could drink in the intermission. Eat it, you snarky little twats.

I saw Elton John in Laramie, Wyoming for a Matthew Sheppard benefit, which was the most surreal thing that had happened to me in a long time. Aside from the anti-gay epithets from drunk guys in the parking lot who were on their way INTO the show, it seemed a success.

I saw Tribe 8 at Michigan Women's Music Festival, and Jill Sobule, and Jane LeCroy. All fun and crazy shows. Jill Sobule was poorly attended because she played too early in the day. All the cranky old dykes in the "scent free zone" were awake all night chaperoning the men who run the sewage truck and all the young cranky dykes snuck off the land at 5:30 AM to go to the Village Inn in Ludington for some meat and coffee.

As much as I don't like indoor concerts, the Spearhead concert at Starlight was the best ever --- because my hot wife totally came on to me at that concert! I am a lucky bastard. Thanks Michael Franti! On second thought I could have just been really fucked up from the contact high and she wasn't coming on to me, but she accepted my crude advances anyway.

Panties!

So I started the knit panties from the Mon Petit Chou patten off knitty. These are knit with a cotton/elastic yarn -- either Cascade Fixation or elann.com Esprit, not sure what others exist.

So far so good -- the elastic yarn is hard to knit with because I am constantly concerned about the tension. I am sure I have it too tight all the time, so of course by the end of it I will have blue whale size panties because I kept my gauge too loose.

I am using the Esprit in Wine colorway. These are for the upcoming "paddlecon" as Ed calls it. Not for me to wear -- for Kel.

Other things I want to make are these fishnets also from the knitty site and some "opera gloves" which have lacing up the back. I doubt I will finish before Thunder since I have been a lame non-finisher of things lately.

I have a dishcloth, two scarves, a amigurumi monkey, an amigurumi turtle, an amigurumi ninja, and a pair of socks to finish. In addition to these new panties.