Happy Holidays

The holiday break has begun. I almost managed to avoid that desperate student. Until the very last day, when one of the Art faculty called to say that her student had lost her "blurb book" on one of our lab machines. Poor kid, she did everything right, had it backed up to a thumb drive, but the program crashed as she was backing up the finished project to take a copy home, and it corrupted both copies of the file. Sometimes computers stink. Luckily, the professor had already graded the project, she just wasn't able to take a copy home to show the folks. It was sad.

On Monday, our Christmas company arrived. Our goddaughter, Kathi, and her mom. They're staying until New Year's Eve. Next week, Kathi's brother is arriving, too. Since Kathi is in a wheelchair, she can't go up to our normal guest space in the attic, so we have converted half the family room to a bedroom. Thank goodness it's 15' x 22', so there's room. We put up a curtain, and it seems to be working just fine. I love having a home with lots of space! I have to work the rest of this week, then I have two weeks off. Peter will be off next week as well. I'm not sure what we'll all do for the week, but it'll be fun to have the free time with everyone.

So with house renovations and company, not much knitting has been happening. Probably won't until New Year's. But it's an exciting time at the Airplane House, and in case I don't get a chance to post again before then, Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!

Prayer in the Schools

Last day of classes here at the College. Everyone is too busy to call in with computer problems unless it's a total melt-down. So I'm sitting next to my very quiet phone, knowing that if it does ring, it will be someone in a total panic. I pray a lot at this point in the semester. Here in I.T., we're all just hoping we can get through finals next week without having to deal with that student who just lost their senior thesis, doesn't have backups, and it's due in 5 minutes, no extensions. That's the one I really dread. If I could just say two words to every computer user in the world, they would be: back up!

I'm rambling because I haven't gotten much knitting done this week, so nothing new to report. On Wednesday I went to the last meeting of the College knitting group for the semester. But the one December Bio graduate was doing her senior poster presentation in our knitting space. She's a groupie to the knitting group, she's fun and we're all going to miss her terribly. So I hung around and learned a lot about daddy longlegs spiders. Including that they don't have teeth, even though I clearly remember being bitten by one as a kid. Oh, well, it wasn't radioactive, so I'm okay.