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February 11, 2009 on 5:15 pm | In Computers and Web Stuff, Craftiness, Guinea Pigs and Hamster, Life In General | No Comments

I haven’t been posting here nearly as much as I should because I’ve been busy/distracted/slightly grumpy. So here’s an update about stuff and things.

I got my new spinning wheel, and got it all put together and I picked up some bobbins from a nice little local online shop (since it only came with one bobbin). I got a couple bobbins full of singles spun, and then started plying them together. It was all going well until it started making a “chunk chunk chunk” noise, and I noticed that the nut holding the wheel on fell off. It seems to only have a problem when I’m plying (spinning counter-clockwise), but it is fine when spinning (clockwise). Weird. So I guess I’ll just have to keep an eye on that.

There’s nothing for me to do at work lately, because that’s just the way the workload has fallen at the moment. It’s very frustrating because I’ve also been sick again. So I have to show up for work, with my head pounding and nose dripping, because I’ve already been told off for taking too much
sick leave, and when I get there, there is nothing for me to do and no real reason for me to be there.

In guinea pig news, everything is good. Since Homer died, Spike has been a little bit off. He’s been kind of touchy and not as affectionate as he used to be. But for the first time since last summer, this week Spike has seemed more like his old self. He’s been pretty much the old happy snuggly Spike. And he and Elvis are still fighting, but not any more than any pair of guinea pigs stuck in a cage together. But Fudge is the really amusing one at the moment. We gave him a little wire ball that hangs from the ceiling and holds hay. He’s nuts about that thing. He won’t touch the hay in his hay rack, but he’ll clear that thing out in an hour, and then hop around like it’s his birthday when we refill it. Last week he was trying to yank the sheet off the bottom of his cage because he likes to crawl
under it, making a mess in his cage and making him stinky and gross. So just to distract him, I threw a small towel in his cage. Now the towel is his new best friend. He snuggles with it and burrows under it and drags it around the cage. It’s very cute.

Outside of work, crafting and rodent wrangling, I’ve also been working on the beginnings of a few more projects. They are not ready for the public yet, but I dream that someday they’ll be successful enough that I can quit my job and spend my days at home doing stuff instead of in a cubicle, doing
nothing.