Febrero 15, 2005
snails, jargon, and the shot tower
The mnemonic that will enable me to recall which form of "it's" I want doesn't exist. I love snails, but I'd still get it wrong. My ability to think, concentrate, and remember is impaired due to: too many drugs, birthing 3 children, mothering 2 children, having thyroid disease, and living in 21st century America. Too bad for me!
I just squandered two perfectly good hours trying to figure out how to format this blog, because Mr Charmed, genius coder of B'more, never has time to help me. I want one of those "What I'm Reading" lists in the margin, so I can keep a list of the fiction, nonfiction, and zines I'm reading. I also want a "What I'm Knitting" margin list, with links to my wips, ufos, and fos. Knitterly Jargon! But not frightfully difficult for the bright and capable acronym decoder.
Now that I've set up my blog, I'm waiting patiently to produce scintillating prose about my adventures, with and without the tribe, here in mobtown.......well, perhaps tomorrow. I will just remark, before retiring to the basement for my nightly bottle of stout (could be Guinness, could be Youngs Double Chocolate, I never know until I get there) that I once, as a third grader, took a trip to the shot tower. This was back when you could climb up pretty far, perhaps to the top (although it might just have seemed that way to a 3rd grader) and look out. I still think it would be swell to actually drop molten lead (was it lead? but lead is soft) into a tub of cold water.
Posted by Tansy at 10:16 PM | Comments (0)
Febrero 11, 2005
It looks warm outside, but it's really very cold and my house is almost as cold as it is outside. I don't remember which "its" gets the apostrophe -- is it the contraction or the posessive? I have a Strunk and White nearby, but I'd have to come out from under the blankets to fetch it . I hate ending sentences with 'it'. Okay, I googled 'its or it's' and the consensus, judging from the links, is that it's the contraction that gets the apostrophe. I'm not entirely pleased. Anyway, this is just a sort of test entry so I can see how this works. I want Mr. Charm to help me figure out how to use movabletype to format my blog when we both get some time.
Posted by Tansy at 10:03 AM | Comments (1)