Ulmus - Almost!

The main reason that no one's heard from me lately is that about a week ago, I got myself a Palm Pre. I was excited beyond belief to get it and learn it. The night before I got the Pre, I waterboarded my laptop keyboard- clumsy me, a large glass of ice water to my right, I reached up with my right hand, it tumped over into the keyboard - horrors!

Many attemped drying techniques ensued -- even broke out my shamwow (yes, I own a pack of 'em - actually they're quite useful...) - after a couple of days, I seem to have permanently lost the use of the following keys (all on the poor right side):

period

forward slash

left arrow

delete

and the bluetooth mouse connection seems to have shorted out.

Luckily, Windows Vista has something called an on-screen keyboard , which certainly provides a convenient workaround until Froggy and I decide on what to replace my beloved red Inspiron with - no, I can't get a Mac (I could spill water on that as well) for work reasons -

But my poor pointer finger is killing me because I have to use the touchpad as opposed to a mouse.

All during this technomisery, I knit like crazy on my first Ulmus shawl - if you will notice, there's no picture there - so I'll put one here on the blog - the problem with that one was not the yarn at all - the Malabrigo sock yarn

is beyond soft and smooth, the colors are enticingly exceptional, but my gauge was WAAAAAYYYYY OFF -

coulda been a sweater, instead of a "lacy" shawl...

so, I think this one will be totally ripped out - it was good mindless knitting for most of the time.

So I started on my second Ulmus, this one using Starry by Dream in Color, which is technically Smooshy with a bit-o-glitter. The two colors I'm using for this one are Gothic Rose and Cloud Jungle, and the needle size I'm using is 10.5mm - just to get the gauge.

Life is really tough sometimes!