I’m finally starting on the sleeves of the Aran sweater I’ve been working on, Inishmore by Alice Starmore. As you can see, I still have a long way to go.
20d
I had a bad day at work today. The reason is simple: people. People drive me crazy! Not all people, but maybe 30% of people. 15% of people I really like, and the rest are nice enough. It’s a real problem in terms of enjoying work.
The inside of my camera: (otherwise known as my first youtube video)
on marriage
From the Post, and article on marriage. The statistic of half of all marriages ending in divorce is often cited, but for first marriages, the percentage is less, though still high. However, I extracted from this article the following heart-warming stat: “Just 54 percent of women with only high school diplomas stayed married for 10 years, compared to 78 percent of women with college degrees, the survey found.” The important part of that sentence is that my own marriage and those of my friends are about 80% likely to last at least 10 years. That’s pretty good, though I can only imagine divorce is far more devastating after 10 years than after 1 or 2. Nevertheless, here’s to 2019.
absurd
My coworkers and I had a good chuckle at this.
It is difficult to ascertain the value of a private company such as Blue Origin, but if they execute on plan and take a 5-10% market share of NASA and other space business, the company will be worth on the order of $1-5 billion in 5 years. Bezos owns nearly the entire company.
It just goes to show you can’t believe what you read on the internet.
no TV
B and I are having a no-TV week. This was my idea, but it was in response to generous amounts of complaining from B about the amount of TV I watch the last couple of weeks. Basically, I love watching the Olympics. I love the figure skating, the skiing, the speed skating – basically everything except the hockey and the sliding sports. Anyway, this resulted in a lot of TV last week, and since good old NBC saves the best for last, a lot of late nights.
B and I had already implemented a no-TV night on Wednesdays. When he moved in, we found ourselves watching more TV, because he had watched different TV at different times than I, and when together, we ended up watching more. I like “The Good Wife” at 10 PM on CBS; he likes watching “The Office” while he makes dinner, and football games on the weekends. (Both of us have lost interest in basketball since the Sonics de-camped.)
Of course, without the TV, the computer beckons. Last night, I couldn’t resist stopping by deadwhale.com and playing Home Sheep Home. (Fun game. I dare you to click.) B asked what he would do this evening with me out at Irish dance and no TV to watch? I said that of course he would play on his computer. (That’s what he would have done anyway – play on his computer and sleep.) This begged the question of what we would do with no TV and no computer. I would pursue my hobbies, of which, of course, I have many. B’s hobbies, however, mostly involve computers or being outdoors, so he would have to take up a new hobby.
Anyway, the one thing I really need to use the time for is housework. It’s amazing how much housework you can get done in a short time. Too bad, I’m generally uninterested in devoting even a short time to housework.