Man, it's amazing the kind of stuff you can get done when you wake up at 9am.

So far, today I have rearranged furniture (my desk is no longer taking up all the useful space in the living room!), made biscuits for breakfast, tidied up the kitchen, and gone to the Norway Festival out at the Marina with my friend Josh and his wife Chris. I thought the Belgians made some seriously rich food, but the Norwegians have them licked -- I just missed a cooking demo for a dish which basically consists of baked sour cream topped with a butter sauce. Josh and Chris got the recipe, though, so I will loose it on enochsmiles at the soonest possible opportunity.

I also watched a yarn-spinning demo and got to try it out. I don't have anything resembling the room to house a full-blown spinning wheel, though some of the ones they had there were surprisingly compact. My spinning-fu is definitely weak, but I was surprised at how easy it was to pick up, and I now have some lumpy yarn that I made all by my little self. I also picked up two hanks of lace-weight silk/merino blend (50 grams == 630 meters, yowza), one in claret and one in a rich sapphire blue, which I aim to use for matching fingerless gloves for enochsmiles and myself. He's taken some gorgeous photos when we've been out walking around in the mornings, but my hands get awfully cold, and fingerless gloves would help a lot without getting in the way of camera operation too badly, I figure. I found several dozen glove patterns here, and now must figure out how to convert a sport-weight pattern into something that will work with lace-weight yarn. (Knitting buffs: can I get away with just working double-stranded?) I will also probably just use cassandrasimplx's ultra-clever trick of working on paired circular needles rather than double-pointed needles, as I can think of little more frustrating than uber-skinny needles, uber-skinny yarn and my uber-skinny fingers becoming a horrible tangled mess.

So, in a little bit here I'm going to pick miss_education up at BART, boogie on down to SuperHappyDevHouse with her and foxgrrl, and get my libdejector hack on. (palecur, you down? We'll be blowing through your neck of the woods on the way there if you want a ride.) After that, the forecast calls for setting up the projector and watching goofy movies with Chris++. I have to say, it's a damn nice life.