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Archive for October, 2006 - תשרי / חשון תשס"ז

one.. two..

By penny • October 31, 2006 - י' חשון תשס"ז • Category: create

one.. that noise? Those are my deadlines whipping by me. [if i owe you work or email or anything, please be patient.]
two.. the birthday surprise i’ve been knitting has two “parts”; the giftee and i are similar sizes– part a fit me perfectly, part b? it’s significantly smaller — I was stressed to finish so [...]



a perfect day

By penny • October 31, 2006 - י' חשון תשס"ז • Category: create, penguins

Warning: picture heavy post!!
Today was a most perfect day. I woke up semi-easily and the weather was beautiful. I dressed, packed my camera, took PG and we headed off to the city.
Where were we heading? Here is a clue:
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We went to the Central Park Zoo!!
And what did we see?
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I have tons [...]



three quick little things

By penny • October 30, 2006 - ט' חשון תשס"ז • Category: books, create, misc

1) on wednesday i can pick up mason dixon knitting from my library. i’ve only had this on hold since it was published. ;)
2) the local-to-campus stationary store sells yarn. as in wool from scotland yarn. as in nice yarn. and needles. for not really really bad prices. i fear terribly for my wallet.
3) [...]



cell woes

By penny • October 30, 2006 - ט' חשון תשס"ז • Category: misc

I switched my service from t-mobile to cingular. i ordered my new phone online and cingular said it would ship in 2-5 days. it shipped after a week (and with no updates in order status after the second day passed). it arrived last thursday. i plugged it in, followed all of the instructions and activated [...]



2 down .. many to go

By penny • October 30, 2006 - ט' חשון תשס"ז • Category: books

In that I finished 2 books this past week and have 18 still out and unread from various libraries [8 at NYPL, 6 at Columbia (+1 my MIL is borrowing), and 4 at BPL]. And that doesn’t count the books I own and haven’t read yet.. nor my reading list for this week. (groan)
Last night [...]



tools (a revisit)

By penny • October 27, 2006 - ו' חשון תשס"ז • Category: create, judaism, tools

I’ve been using google reader for the past bit. Today the reader team announced a bunch of bug fixes that definitely make me happy! I encourage you to check out this application if you haven’t. Also, I have been hearing lots of google (and firefox, open office, among other) bashing lately. No one has ever [...]