NaBloPoMo!

I just found out about NaBloPoMo from JelliDonut. It’s just what you think it is, and I’ve decided making a commitment to blog daily for a month will be a good way to light a fire under my ass. I’m going to post here AND at The Harveyville Project’s site (where I almost never post, much to my own disappointment) every day this month, and hopefully that will get me in the habit going forward. This month’s theme is “green,” and I’m going to take that literally today, though I suspect it will be figurative more often that not.

My knitty deep fall submission has been accepted, though I’ll be reknitting it, so this won’t be the one they actually use.

I also just turned in a new sewing tutorial. It’s my new, improved patternless sundress and I’m pretty in love with it. I can tell because I’m wearing it the second day running. You can whip it up in just a couple hours and it’s perfect for the dog days. It will go live on the craftzine blog next Monday (8/9).

We’re heading into the hottest days so far this summer, so I’m going to have to get up at dawn tomorrow so the critters can get plenty of food in their bellies before the hottest part of the day. Poor things. They’ve got lots of water, a modest amount of shade that expands fairly well as the day progresses, and a great big commercial fan to help keep them cool, but I do not envy them those fleeces. For the record, the jackets apparently don’t make them hotter. They breath well, and apparently the temperature at the skin is the same with or without a coat. I suspect the actually keep the black animals cooler in the sun (the serape effect).

In other news, by freshly-installed hard drive is already in the crapper. It’s still well under warranty, but replacing a hard drive on an iMac is something no sane person wants to do twice in one month. I guess I just got a lemon. Luckily (?) I still have the OS installed on an external from the original crash, so I just switched my boot drive over and didn’t lose too much time. I should have realized the new drive was a dud when I didn’t get any gain in speed over the USB connection. Next time, I’m running Disk Utility and Disk Warrior on that puppy first thing, before transferring any files or installing a byte of software.

My birthday’s coming up and my dad’s been making noise about getting me a new computer (I got him hooked on Macs this year and he’s all high on Apple love now–well, except for his iPhone, with which he has a sad, co-dependent loveless marriage), so there may be a new computer in my future. Then I could replace the internal hard drive at my leisure, and we’d have a nice desktop for slide shows and for visitors to check email, print boarding passes, etc.

Don’t forget to give me your two cents on my sleeve choice for the That Girl! KAL. The flutters are in the lead, but it could still go either way.