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We had a pleasant evening power outage last night, but it seemed pretty frightening on the roads with no stop lights. The power went out just before sunset after a fairly warm day (86 degrees high at Moffett Field). We shut off and unplugged a few things as a precaution for the surge and noted that it was cooler outside. Christine went to take care of a chore, and i got a few candles and matches in easy reach. We'd spent a good while on the deck earlier in the day and it seemed we'd just move out there, but there was the matter of dinner.
Driving to get a burrito we saw evidence of the extent of the outage: a mile from our complex down a main thoroughfare was dark, including traffic lights. I saw more than one car fly through an intersection. The police were pulling folks over: why weren't they out directing traffic?
I'm also rather curious: why was such a large swathe of town out of power?
Oh well.
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I frogged a great deal of the sweater i'm making with LaughingRat's mineral alpaca on Friday. I had dropped a cluster in a shoulder, which i didn't think would matter that much, and so i had plowed on ahead. When i was getting to the end of the yolk -- the part that wraps around the top of chest and back, over the shoulders and top of the arms -- i realized that i would need some more room in the front of the sweater, and that the increases were needed in rows much earlier on. So i frogged while listening to the team describe the work they'd done this iteration, frogged while listening to some presentation, and frogged while watching The Third Man, and i was finally able to begin crocheting again yesterday. I think the increases will look OK.
I think back to the first sweater i tried, and i suspect i could speed through it now. Then i struggled and struggled with the collar. I think i see the stitches so much better now. I'll pull the yarn out later this year.
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I splurged on a genetic genealogy upgrade (during a very short DNA day sale) for both my father and my mother's father, adding the first round of mitochondrial DNA testing to both samples. The Y-DNA tests have been less than enthralling, but this investment is for the long run. I ponder having my sister's son tested. He shares the maternal mitochondrial DNA of my mother's line. We have my mother's father's line, and we have both lines from my father. My nephew would also introduce his father's line, which may be of some interest in the distant future.
The calculations here are that XY chromosome folks can trace both their direct paternal and their direct maternal lineage, but XX chromosome folks only trace maternal lineage through mitochondria. Thus, someone with XY can have more tests done.
I could get all steeped in genealogy research, but i really want to finish my notes on last Saturday's walk and post the photos. I feel so proud of myself that i've culled the photos down to just less than 60. There may be a few rather good ones of bees in lupine: i need to be more careful about grasses and sticks interrupting the sight lines.
Driving to get a burrito we saw evidence of the extent of the outage: a mile from our complex down a main thoroughfare was dark, including traffic lights. I saw more than one car fly through an intersection. The police were pulling folks over: why weren't they out directing traffic?
I'm also rather curious: why was such a large swathe of town out of power?
Oh well.
--==∞==--
I frogged a great deal of the sweater i'm making with LaughingRat's mineral alpaca on Friday. I had dropped a cluster in a shoulder, which i didn't think would matter that much, and so i had plowed on ahead. When i was getting to the end of the yolk -- the part that wraps around the top of chest and back, over the shoulders and top of the arms -- i realized that i would need some more room in the front of the sweater, and that the increases were needed in rows much earlier on. So i frogged while listening to the team describe the work they'd done this iteration, frogged while listening to some presentation, and frogged while watching The Third Man, and i was finally able to begin crocheting again yesterday. I think the increases will look OK.
I think back to the first sweater i tried, and i suspect i could speed through it now. Then i struggled and struggled with the collar. I think i see the stitches so much better now. I'll pull the yarn out later this year.
--==∞==--
I splurged on a genetic genealogy upgrade (during a very short DNA day sale) for both my father and my mother's father, adding the first round of mitochondrial DNA testing to both samples. The Y-DNA tests have been less than enthralling, but this investment is for the long run. I ponder having my sister's son tested. He shares the maternal mitochondrial DNA of my mother's line. We have my mother's father's line, and we have both lines from my father. My nephew would also introduce his father's line, which may be of some interest in the distant future.
The calculations here are that XY chromosome folks can trace both their direct paternal and their direct maternal lineage, but XX chromosome folks only trace maternal lineage through mitochondria. Thus, someone with XY can have more tests done.
I could get all steeped in genealogy research, but i really want to finish my notes on last Saturday's walk and post the photos. I feel so proud of myself that i've culled the photos down to just less than 60. There may be a few rather good ones of bees in lupine: i need to be more careful about grasses and sticks interrupting the sight lines.
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