So how’s the bike commuting going you ask? Super! I really love it, and think I finally might have found a form of exercise that I can really enjoy. Plus the fact that I’ve gone 3 days over my normal gas tank fill up day makes it even better. In fact, I’m finding that riding my bike can be super relaxing, so much so that after getting home from work the other night, I rode another 5.5 miles over to my brother’s house for dinner. (My brother was kind enough to give me a ride back home, since going east is considerably harder than going west in ABQ because of all the hills!) I’m also feeling a lot more confident on my bike than I did before, and am getting comfortable riding with the traffic on the smaller streets. So all things considered, I love bike commuting and am so happy I gave it a try.
The only thing I need for my bike now is a catchy name, and this is where you can help me out. She’s (yes, I’ve given it a gender.) an older gal, but she is still full of energy and loves to go out on rides. Not one for being flashy, my bike is a workhorse, and she has a few scars to prove it. But that doesn’t mean she doesn’t want to be treated kindly and get a cleaning every now and then. Oh, and as you can see in the picture, she’s quite a nerd, and prefers to be parked where she can brush up on her Electricity & Magnetism Theory.
So do you have any ideas for a name I could use? If left to my own devices, I might just name her COBOL or some other programming language (yeah, I had a car that I named FORTRAN once…), so I figure that maybe I should give the non-nerdy people a shot.
In knitting news, I finished my first Gentleman’s Lozenge Sock with Anne’s beautiful hand-spun tree scum yarn, and the sock is looking fine. I was a bit worried about the fit, but it turns out that my fears were unfounded (I swatched, how could I be wrong?), and the sock fits wonderfully. I love the pattern, it makes such an elegant looking sock, especially with such nice yarn. I’m planning to cast on the 2nd one today, which should give me enough time to finish the pair and make them my June socks.
In Yarn Nerd news, I dyed up a custom order of 9 skeins this weekend, and tossed a few other skeins into the dye pot as well. I have plans for a few of them, but there’s at least 2 that are available, so I’ll probably just put them up on the blog sometime this week. I also have one other skein that was a botched custom order, which I’ll be offering at a discount, so keep an eye out for those.
In preparation for my big summer dyeing plans, I’m taking a simple survey that will help me decide what things are most important to my wonderful customers in terms of yarn. I have a good response so far, but any more volunteers who would like to help me make my observations more statistically sound are more than welcome. You can take the survey here. Also, if you put in your name/e-mail address, you’ll be entered into a raffle for some Yarn Nerd coupons and great Yarn Nerd yarns.
That’s it for me, I hope everyone has a nice Father’s Day, and be sure to tell your Dad how great he is! I know I’m thankful for my Dad, he’s pretty much the best ever. So thanks Dad, I love you!
