A good friend of mine had a bouncing baby boy just before Christmas and another friend had a boy in March. I made them both Amy Butler’s Birdie Sling and they loved them! It’s a great shower gift and will make them again for any number of occasions. First I have to finish some other knitting projects…
Also, if you’re short on time there’s still hope, plenty of sellers have similar bags on Etsy for affordable prices.
I’m addicted. To yarn, to needles, to coffee shops and yarn stores, to women of all ages gathering, to comradery, to knitting, to crocheting, to creating and conversing. I’m addicted to “Sit n’ Stitch”
Looking forward to World Wide Knit in Public week! See you June 12th!
Typical Tuesday teaching adapted Math 7;
Text book reads;
“The tallest building in the world is the Taipei 101 in Taiwan measuring 0.509km. The tallest building in North America is the Sears Tower in Chicago with a height of 0.442 km. What is the difference in height between these two buildings?”
** For the record, I have a problem with this because the CN tower is 0.553 km or 1815 ft tall, built in 1976**
Student;
“Ms.LLLLlllllll, I thought the tallest building in the world was the empire state building?!’
Me;
“Let’s find out…” classroom projector on, google ‘tallest building in the world’, result
‘So guys, this says the tallest building in the world is in Dubai, when was the book published? 2006? ok, so this text was written before this building was built”
Student;
“Where is Dub-ae?”
Me; queue google earth
Student;
“alright but 2000 ft isn’t that tall…”
Me;
“Oh, it’s tall”
Student
“Well, how tall?”
Me;
“Well, how tall is a T-Rex?”
Student;
“I dunno”
Me;
“5 meters”
Student then runs to the whiteboard and grabs the meter stick off the ledge, other students see this and get up to lend a hand…
Student;
“Ok. One meter, hold your finger there, two meters, and there, three meters… whoa, a T-Rex goes like through the roof!”
Me;
“Tall right?”
*nods*
“So now, how many feet are in 5 meters?”
Google unit conversion, 5 meters = 16 ft
“So how many times does 16 go into 2000? You can use your calculator…”
Student;
“125!!!”
Me
“Alright, we’d need to stack 125 T-Rex’s, head to toe, on top of each other to get to the very top of the tallest building in the world…”
A brief moment of reflective silence by the students….
Student;
“Ok Ms. L, that building is tall.”
Moral:
Kids love dinosaurs, adults love dinosaurs, use dinosaurs as often as possible.
I love my job.
So my ever so handsome caped crusader came home today to discover that the FedEx man had delivered him a package. When I saw the boxed I asked what was in it and he said “A keyboard”. Unknowingly, and much to my surprise and chagrin, this is what he pulled out of the box…
An IBM model M Keyboard manufactured by UNICORP. Now, I know this monster looks vintage but it’s not, it was built January 27th 2010, special ordered by batman himself. Apparently UNICORP bought the patent from IBM and all the equipment to make these beasts and will sell you one if you desire spring loaded key technology. Now, I hope my blogging is conveying the sarcasm that I feel in my heart because this. is. ridiculous. There’s a reason big companies stop making certain products…
Anyways, he wanted me to test it out and see if my key stroke efficiency increased, how comfortable the thing was to use and how I liked it because apparently I’m a better typist than him and therefore am a better judge of key keyboard qualities.
The following is the letter I wrote to my fiance on the subject and as test run of the mammoth keyboard:
Dear Clark,
I don’t really understand your logic when it comes to buying ridiculously large, archaically loud keyboards that are the colour of malnourished baby poo, a kind of pale greeny beige. I think it’s a silly waste of money but I’m sure you would say the same for some of my silly projects around the house. So I’m going to support you on this one, not only because it makes you smile your ear to ear grin that I love so much but also because you’re in the kitchen cooking my a steak while I write this note to test your silly keyboard.
I hope it brings you endless joy and, yes, it is very comfortable and accurate to type on and, despite it’s appearance, I’m sure in your eyes it’s a worthwhile purchase.
Love always,
K
Let’s just say he’s lucky to have me. By the way, I wrote this whole thing on the clicky-keyboard-in-question.
