1. I finally got out of the house and went to th SnB at Culver City on Monday. I fully intended to cast on for Spider Queen. I took everything with me… almost. Pattern, yarn, waste yarn, needles, etc. But I forgot an important piece of information I needed. Instructions on Provisional Cast-on! Grrrr… What’s even worse. Lightening condition was not optimal and I was having a tough time looking at my knitting, even with a yarn like Manos del Uruguay. Yikes! I need reading glasses.
2. On Tuesday I went to the doctor’s office to get my blood pressure reading. He wanted to keep an eye on me because my BP was almost the level of Hypertension, and there’s family history. It was better on Tuesday, but still in the borderline range. I ordered a home monitor on Amazon.
3. I got sick. Probably caught something at the SnB, or at the hospital. Funny how you go to the hospital to stay or get healthy, but sometimes you end up taking something home with you.
Better news… I got on Ravelry. I didn’t think I’d want another account on another social networking site. But I got in line for a beta account just in case. Got it last week, and guess what… it is quite good. It’s not another blog or photo management thing. It’s more like a big digital project management for fiber lovers. It links to blogs and Flickr account, making it easy to keeping project notes super easy. You can browse projects and patterns, and with one click adding it to future project queue. I am really loving these features. And of course, there are features that let you easily connect to like-minded individuals. By the way, my ID is midpath on Ravelry. 
More good news. I casted on for Spider Queen last night! hehehe I was going to do the usual Provisional Cast-on by wrapping the cast-on stitches around a piece of waste yarn. (Maybe it was a good thing that I didn’t have the instructions on Monday.) But those twisted stitches could easily get out of place if one’s not careful. So I went with the Crocheted Chain method, picking up stitches through the bumps on the back of the chain. I found clear instructions here.
