I have been busily working (Self-generating SQL code! Use 7 lines of code to write 1200 all by itself, and let it run for an hour or so. Oh the excitement! See why I don’t talk about work much here???), and also doing things with string.

Things like coloring it

silk bobbins

and winding from big cones into little balls (only 9 more pounds to go).

cotton balls

Also not very thrilling. So instead of boring you further with programming and winding, I will bore you with cat stories.

My shower has a glass door. This morning, as soon as I turned off the water, Morgan pulled the door open so he could enter the wet and dripping stall and twine around my wet and dripping ankles. Ew. I spent the next few minutes trying to remove long black fluff from my shins, while Morgan sat in the shower, tail draped in a puddle of water, with that self-satisfied expression that only a contented cat can manage. Almost made me wish I had a showercam. Almost.

One response to “String and random filler”

  1. Laura Avatar

    hee hee, silly Morgan!

    Nine pounds? Whoah. That’s a lot of string! Which, of course, is an inherently good thing.

    I may play with string again this evening. I realized on Sunday that I had messed up once again with my epi–“It’s doubleweave. That’s 20 epi PER LAYER, Laura. Start over.”

Welcome!

I’ve been doing stuff with string for quite some time, and describing it to others online since 1996 or so at Phiala’s String Page.

I also do some science and write some fiction.

I’m Phiala most places on the internet.