DINOSAURS! RAWR RAWR RAWR! Sorry, I get enthused about DINOSAURS! RAWR RAWR RAWR! Ahem. That is adorable!

Thank you! The color changes of the yarn really do most of the work. I love using long-spectrum yarn for triangular shawls.

Thank you! It turned out to be way easier than it looks if you can do chains and double crochets. The whole pattern is built around those stitches.

Whoa, those colors are *stunning*! The orange building against the dark sky really gives me a sense of Not Right, but in the best way. And the orange ground next to the green shrubbery makes it seem very otherworldly. I’m a sucker for an interesting color story, and this photo is super inspiring!

The thing with my job is that back in January, we were told that our jobs would be moving a thousand miles away, and our department here would be closed as of July 15th. Period. Because we were given this carved-in-stone date, everyone here is making plans for being unemployed as of July 16th. Some people already…

Craft thread, anyone? I don’t see one yet, so here we go! I’m almost done with my St. Patrick’s Day shawl. It’s the Secret Paths pattern on Ravelry, but I stopped before a popcorn row, and I’m doing a shell border instead of whatever the pattern one is because I’m not sure I have enough yarn left for that (the yarn is…

A clusterfuck of a “transition” at work. I use quotation marks because it doesn’t sound like they’ve so much as posted my job yet, so they are super behind on hiring. Which means they’re super behind on training. Which means that they may be realizing very, very soon that their end date in July is *waaaaaaay* too…

Did you read the entire article? Dirt Bag is a roundup post category consisting of short bits of news/gossip about multiple things. The second bit of news in this post is about the rehire.

I still don’t understand how it came as a shock that the guy who wrote Tromeo and Juliet has some sketchy tweets in his past. Disney had to have known. There is no way they didn’t. They also had to have been quietly negotiating his return this whole time. The fact that his schedule for Suicide Squad 2 so easily…

Facebook and Instagram are experiencing outages, so he has to find *something* to occupy his stubby fingers.

Last time we left off, I had decided that I would absolutely not be relocating to Tempe for work. I have not changed my mind as far as that goes, but I have changed my mind about waiting until July to start looking for a new job. I’m starting that now. I turned in my non-relocation decision yesterday, and, man, it is…

If I recall correctly, “across state lines” laws happened because it is possible that the age of consent in Home State is (for example) 18, and it’s 15 in Destination State, and the laws specifically target situations when someone is taken from Home where it’s illegal to Destination where it’s legal specifically to be…

Podcast plug for those of us who listen to them all fucking day to keep our sanity at work: The Dropout. It’s about Holmes and Theranos. It uses Bad Blood as the basis of its reporting, but since I haven’t read the book, it’s all new to me. 

YES. MURRAY. That is probably the best old man puppy name *ever*, and now I’m mad at myself for not thinking of it. Especially since it could be spun as inspired by Edward R. Murrow at a time we need to be reminded of the power of journalism on keeping political witch hunts in check. His smackdown of McCarthy just…

Thank you! Although I can’t wait to get home (flying back tonight! Yay!), I’m super glad I came down to check everything out. I would have forever second-guessed myself and wondered if I missed out on an area with tons of cool weird stuff, but all of the beige as far as the eye can see is telling me no. It all felt…

It is so monochromatic I can’t believe it isn’t a movie/tv set for a satirical show about people who have fled from a land where everything is unique and weird to one of conformity. 

Not my channel, but I have to mention Bins Worthy. The Unipiper (aka that dude who rides a unicycle while playing bagpipes, frequently if not usually while wearing a Darth Vader mask, although he’s not in costume for this) and a couple of his buddies go through the bins and discuss their finds.

PUPPY! DOLPHIN NOISES! That little guy clearly needs something old man, like Alfred or Clarence. 

Thank you! We’re supposed to turn in our decisions by Friday, so I’m expecting the true shitstorm to begin next Monday once people start looking for jobs or moving (almost all of us are leaving the company, so SUCH FUN). Thankfully, I have a skill set that is super adaptable to literally any industry. Fingers crossed…

I would be leaving Portland. Portlandia Portland. I’m also a Portland native. People move to where I already live to find the kind of lifestyle that is right for me. I’m not sure I would make it here a month. I can barely make it through five days. As soon as I get back, I’m going to start reaching out to former…