My first sock:

After Thanksgiving dinner, and after most of the guests had gone home, I sat talking with my mother and father, and finished knitting the sock! I grafted the toe when I came home. I can't try it on, because I just polished my toenails! Tomorrow I'll find out if it fits.

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Wednesday, November 27, 2002:

I'm still thinking about implementing a commenting system for this site, but I haven't seen one that I really like yet. The YACCS one seems so slow (probably because of high volume usage), and when the system is down or having problems, the sites that use it go down, too (not literally, of course, but sites that use it often can't be loaded if the commenting system doesn't respond).

And I don't know if it is difficult to set up or not, but just looking at the code, it looks like it.

I ran into a new one today: BlogOut - A Blog Commenting System, and I played around with it a little. It was easy to set up, and it seemed pretty cool, but as far as I can tell, there's no indication when someone leaves a comment, i.e., if you wanted to read the comments, you'd have to click on every comment link just to see if there were any there. So that makes it sort of useless as far as I'm concerned.

So I continue to look . . .

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Monday, November 25, 2002:

I keep noticing little things I should fix here and there, here being this weblog, and there being all the other sites I maintain. Here, I need to fix the archive index page, make it more attractive, and figure out a way to make the archive pages themselves not look quite so bare bones. But I've got so much other stuff going on, not the least of which is the book. I hit 40,0000 words this weekend; 10,000 more to go this week. And between that and freelance work and real work and Thanksgiving, I still haven't finished (didn't even touch!) the darn sock . . .

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Sunday, November 24, 2002:

I bought myself something very cool (and useful!) yesterday--a book chair. I bought it at Franklin Covey (because I had a $10 off coupon), where they call it a Planner Chair, but I had seen it this summer in the Bas Bleu catalog.

It's a little beach chair for a book, with movable tabs that keep the book in place. I tend to do more than one thing at a time, like eat and read, or knit and read. I have another book stand (a folding metal one) that I use all the time, but it doesn't do so well with big knitting books. This one is sturdier, so I think it will be great for holding a book open to a pattern page, for instance.

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