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Conflict

There seems to be a conflict between my schedules. What schedules? Fiber Activitities and Work. They can’t seem to work around each other at this point. :-( This blog should be called “Jason Knits… No So Much”. SIGH I have to work some fiber activity in the schedule, for relaxation.

Posted 11 September 2008 † Jason § Life ‡ Comments (8) ° Tagged:

Fruit & Hair Update

OK, you may think that both ‘fruit’ and ‘hair’ are about me. You are WRONG!

Saturday Farmer's Market

First, about the fruits. No, NOT me! We went to the new Saturday Century City Farmer’s Market situated at the Twin Towers. Location is hard to find. Bad signage. Parking is under the Twin Towers which usually have heavy security check. I wonder if that would seem less attractive to shoppers. But they let us by with just a quick look around. And parking was free with validation.

We got there just after they opened at 10am. Only 6 or 7 vendors. Very small. And most of them weren’t quite ready, yet. Very little shoppers, too. But we did find very good fruits and vegetables. Especially some Japanese Kyoho grapes and some melon that I don’t know the name of.

Japanese Melon & Kyoho Grapes

I especially loved the flavor of the Kyoho grapes. I even went online in search of the live vines so that I can have a chance to grow my own in the future. If I ever get a yard, that is. But I’ve always wanted grow a beautiful grape vine. This would definitely be my first choice.

Now onto the hair. Yes, THAT’S about me. It’s getting pretty long, but not quite long enough yet. Here’s a quick look:

Second shot taken just out of the shower. No product in the hair yet. Not that any product can help my hair look better, of course. :lol:

Posted 08 September 2008 † Jason § Life ‡ Comments (15) ° Tagged: , ,

Found This Just In Time

This is just what I need to continue my coin spindling:

Storing Takli-Spun Singles For Plying

Posted 05 September 2008 † Jason § Spinning ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: ,

Micro-Blogging

Oops! I have not thought about this blog much lately. With 2 to 3 client projects running at any given time, all I’ve been doing is micro-blogging. You know, like twitter, Plurk, etc. It’s just so very easy to update with a quick sentence or two. I don’t even need to open a browser to do that. Just use AIM or text from my mobile phone.

I am getting the rhythm of my new BUSIER schedule. Not easy for an introvert to be switching hats frequently. But I am getting it. I must also apologize for forgetting to reply to emails. I am slowly learning to multi-task a little instead of diving into one thing and not wanting to get out until it’s done. You know, a Virgo thing maybe?

Anyway, I am still here. And here’s a little coin spindling with cotton to show you that I am still thinking about fiber, too! :-)

Posted 05 September 2008 † Jason § Life § Spinning ‡ Comments (3) ° Tagged: , , ,

I Am So In Love…

…with these spindles that I received in the mail today!

These are Coin Spindles from Dragonfly Farm (think Alden Amos, author of the “Big Book of Handspinning“, and Stephenie Gaustad). It’s really hard to describe the feeling I got when test-spinning each one of these. So well-balanced, so smooth, felt so right. I am so happy that I decided to get these instead of the other, more ordinary, takli spindles. And look, they are made of old, retired coins! LOVE, LOVE, LOVE! Thank you Stephenie and Alden. And thank you Sylvia for giving me that inspiration to contact Stephenie. :-)

Now I can get my cotton spinning going. Next thing to figure out is a system to ply from these spindles.

Posted 28 August 2008 † Jason § Spinning ‡ Comments (8) ° Tagged: , , ,

Equality

letcaliforniaring.org ran a TV commercial in California during the Olympics, supporting “No on Prop. 8“. What if you couldn’t marry the person you love?

Posted 26 August 2008 † Jason § Life ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged:

Gravatar

Thought I quickly mention this. You might have noticed that every comment on this blog is associated with an avatar. Mine has a picture of me. Most others are now associated with auto-generated avatars. (Don’t blame me if you get a bad one. It’s AUTO-GENERATED! hehehe)

WordPress uses the Gravatar system. Other places also use Gravatar for showing users’ faces (or whatever they want to show.) I think it’s pretty neat. You sign up for an account. Upload a picture or two. Add email addresses that you use for leaving comments on blogs or forums. Associate each email address with a picture you uploaded. Done. After that your chosen avatar will show up anywhere that uses Gravatar as long as you use an email address that has a Gravatar setup.

Don’t you want to set one up? :-)

Posted 17 August 2008 † Jason § Misc. ‡ Comments (14) ° Tagged: , ,