Dreamt of Latvian Christmas carols?

Yesterday was better but I’m still recovering. CN:weight.

Got a bunch of work done in the morning, enough to suggest that the sketch
idea probably isn’t going to work. Still have a few more possibilities to
rule out before putting it to bed, but the complexity analysis outlook W
and I estimated in the afternoon is not great. Got a side project started
on AWS with credits imported and student researcher accounts in reasonably
record time.

Two meetings and a haircut were already pushing it, so I had to bail on
walking May Market with P and C. Might do that today, but P (kindly; I was
dreading doing it) cleared out the spice rack and be-moused shelving unit,
and I want to mop before everything goes back. It’s going to rain today,
and tomorrow, which means if I want to hang laundry it has to be this
morning. Dunno if I can handle mopping and laundry and Market when spoons
are still scarce; something may get booted.

It takes me a week to gain a pound, and a day to lose one. Thursday to
Friday lost me one. Friday to Saturday should be a little better, but I was
still riding the hungry-nausea train all day so who knows.

My WEBS package arrived, and I tried out the carbon fiber needles first and
love them so far. Speed-reading Sock Architectures to pick out a
satisfactory toe and heel, then casting on self-striping socks for P. One
of the books I got is on all the little second-order tricks for knitting
really high-quality garments; I’ve flipped through a third of it so far and
it’s exactly kinds of advice I’ve been trying to find through forum
searches on Ravelry, all in one place, beautifully written, photographed,
and diagrammed. It’s called “The Knowledgeable Knitter” by Margaret
Radcliffe.