And now, she is even new and improved. The motherboard was wiped (luckily, I had backed everything up at the first sign of trouble so nothing was lost but a bit of music), so I took the opportunity to upgrade to Linux. My amazing techie friend and knitting protege Nik installed Ubuntu for me and wrestled with the wireless card. Le voila:
It isn't perfect yet, I still need a few drivers and my camera is refusing to upload pictures to it, but so far things are shiny. Working on getting everything back the way I want it. LJlogin is also being pissy. Or rather, Firefox is being pissy about LJlogin. Either way, I need it.
So, until the camera connection works, no knitting-pictures. I have a couple of Mom with her SuperGrover. She loves the little guy, it was great. The waitresses at the pub were all totally in love with him, too. Basically, I'm awesome.
Haven't gotten much else done; not much time to just sit and knit now that I'm working. Still pluggin' away on the Adamas shawl. I'm on the tenth repeat of the pattern, which calls for fourteen but Linda suggested eleven for the baby blanket. I think I'm going to run out of yarn before I finish off even if I just do eleven, so I might go ahead and do fourteen, as it doesn't look all that big at the moment. Still has to be blocked, though, which will be an adventure as I haven't actually blocked anything before.
Speaking of adventures, tonight's was in winding yarn. My very first hank (my gorgeous red Anne) I think I missed some important ties, because now it's just a tangled mess with random loops sticking out at odd angles that I gave up on until I had better lighting. My Zephyr worked out much, much better. I was surprised at how thin it was. I don't exactly what I was expecting from lace yarn . . . oh well. I'm using one of those pillows with the arms for a swift at the moment. Not done yet, but looks like it should be a breeze - no pun intended.
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