Schrodinger's Kittie

But 100% pertinent:

Do you buy books online, use Google, or download to an Ipod? These activities will be hurt if Congress passes a radical law that gives giant corporations more control over the Internet.

Internet providers like AT&T and Verizon are lobbying Congress hard to gut Network Neutrality, the Internet’s First Amendment. Net Neutrality prevents AT&T from choosing which websites open most easily for you based on which site pays AT&T more. Amazon.com doesn’t have to outbid Barnes & Noble for the right to work more properly on your computer.

Politicians don’t think we are paying attention to this issue. Many of them take campaign checks from big telecom companies and are on the verge of selling out to people like AT&T’s CEO, who openly says, “The internet can’t be free.”

The free and open Internet is under seige — can you sign this petition letting your member of Congress know you support preserving Network Neutrality? Click here: http://www.civic.moveon.org/save_the_internet

A list of all the ways you might be affected by Net Neutrality is located on the bottom of this link: http://civic.moveon.org/alerts/savetheinternet.html

You can see it has been verified as valid here: http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/neutrality.asp

Realize, this is your ISPs controlling access – not the hosts. This means, Road Runner, Texas.net, AT&T, Verizon, whoever your ISP is will control how fast you access your websites. Whether they are blogs, small businesses, personal sites, whatever…if you don’t pay them a fee to provide you faster access – a fee most of us won’t be able to afford…well – you can just toss it right out the window. I know I will be taking down all my sites and not bothering to blog as soon as they do that, if they win this. Why? Because, the only reason I come to the web lately has been to either go to ebay.com, etsy.com or (the majority) to my friends’ blogs, knitty.com, magknits.com and other small, independent sites.

This isn’t gonna cut it. Not in the least. Who is this person who says the internet can’t be free? Since when has it been? Hello? I pay $60/mo for my internet access, and now I’m going to have to pay more just so that I can have people able to access my sites (not a small number) at the same speed as the big dogs like Verizon, AT&T, Amazon, etc? I so don’t think so.

I forgot I had this…How many of you subscribe to the “that space is big enough, let me shove this yarn in it” type of stash maintenance? I try really hard not to do that, but sometimes I succumb. Well, yesterday, Loki was looking out the window, which requires his perching on the back of the couch so he can see over the brick garden enclosure. He does this often, and it’s adorable to see. He just loves the upper back of the couch, period. Anyway, he was looking out the window when the mailman came and Loki knocked over my lamp in his hurry to go protect the door from that vicious man in blue. **shakes head** What a goob.

He broke the lamp and I had to move the side table to pick up the pieces. When I did, guess what fell from between the couch and the side table? Yarn! Lovely, gorgeous, amazing lace yarn I had purchased ages ago and stuffed there because I had nowhere else to put it. I had totally forgotten I had it. It had sat there so long there was a serious layer of dust on the bag it is in. I think, maybe kinda sorta, that I have found the yarn I will be doing the KAL in, or a Pi shawl. It’s multicoloured, so I’m not sure how it would work for the LSSK’s lace project. But, mmmm I love this colourway!! **laughs** I would show it to you, but it’s still sealed up and I want to keep it that way until I use it; and, I can’t find it listed at the store, right now. However, they have very lovely stuff if you want to check them out. Head on over to San Felipe Santiago and browse around. It’s worth the visit.

I just had to share…it’s almost as good as buying it all over again.

Kiri has been completed, my friends…Not without a little bit of a minor heart attack. As I was blocking it, the yarn on the castoff edge snapped. My heart stopped. I managed to patch it, but I just knew beyond a doubt that the shawl was ruined….I was wrong. The frustrating thing about mohair saved my heiny. Mohair doesn’t like coming undone. Once it’s been worked, it gets really happy with where it’s at. This means it wasn’t as catastrophic as it could have been.

If I were a type A knitter, well…the way it is now would not work. However, I’m not a type A knitter. I’m the type knitter that expects, anticpates and requires mistakes (at least one). If I want perfect, I’ll get machine knitted items, tyvm. Hanging on the back of the chair like it is, now, I can’t even see the patched area. If I looked at it to see what was done wrong, I’d find three glaring issues….a YO in the middle of SS that so totally should not be there, a missing YO in the spine causing the spine to take a jog, and the area that the cast off edge snapped and was patched.

I added the fringe to the shawl to help draw the eye away from the patched area – and wound up thinking that was a very, very good thing to do even if I hadn’t had the patch. Funny thing is that I had literally just enough yarn left on the ball to do the fringe.

		Karabella Lace Mohair Colour #: 201 Colour name: snow white Size: 50g/500m – 1.75 oz/540 yards
		Size 7 US. Rosewood Latern Moon straights.
		Kiri by Polly with fringe added. Finished size (sans fringe) is 61″x28″.