Oh, hello, Friday. Where did you come from?

The problem with have "flexible work hours" is that instead of thinking in terms of Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday, I tend to boil it down to "work days" and "not-work days."

This tends to cause problems when it comes to planning.

So here is a funny story that I shared on Tumblr, because I'm not just a dork, I'm dork who's slightly brain fried at the moment:

So today at work, I discovered that when the alarms on our front doors are in maintenance mode, they don’t make the usual beep-beep-beep noise, but rather they sound like the alarms from the Enterprise. And they were going off a lot:

1st time it happened: “Did we just go to Red Alert?”

2nd: “Is it the Klingons or the Romulans this time?”

3rd: “I’m really glad I didn’t wear the red shirt today.” (Yes, I was planning on wearing red this morning, but changed my mind to blue.)

10th: “Where the hell is Lt. LaForge? That sound is really annoying.” Also, our A/C wasn’t really working and it was really hot. Between the malfunctioning alarms and the environmental controls, a full ship’s diagnostic was needed.

As he was packing up, I walked by the technician. He was wearing a blue shirt.

"Isn’t Engineering supposed to be doing that?"

He just gave me a blank look.

No one appreciates my sense of humor.

Now You See It, Now You Don't.

Chameleon Circuit.

Well, here it is. Actually, I lied--the pattern became available yesterday.

One of the most frustrating things about working with illusion patterns is that they can be really hard to photograph.

I whipped up this TARDIS chart over the weekend, and made it available through Ravelry (you can also download it here and read all of the pattern details). It's free, and is intended to be worked into existing patterns as an embellishment of sorts--hats, socks, scarves, etc, rather than as a stand alone. I want to work on a larger, more detailed version, but that will have to wait a little. Too many projects to get off of the needles before work on the book begins in earnest!