post facto: christmas present of the week

made on the way to Asheville.  and on the way back.

For Charlotte.

especially good-looking with her Red Christmas Coat.

Pattern: Potpourri Mittens, from Vogue Knitting Fall 2008.

Yarn: Knit Picks Palette in Cream and Light Blue; Lang Jawoll in Navy

Source: The Internet and Berlin, respectively

Needles: Takumi sz. 1 DPNs.

I am a little bit proud of these.

I don’t think there’s much of a difference.

Cosconi, qui longa putas epigrammata nostra,
utilis unguendis axibus esse potes….
non sunt longa quibus nihil est quod demere possis,
sed tu, Consoni, disticha longa facis.

Cosconianus, who thinks my rhymes are too long,
you’re worthless…
if you can’t take anything away from it, it’s not too long –
but you, Cosconianus, make couplets too long.
- Kanye West.

does he write his own rhymes?
well sort of, I think ‘em,
that mean I forgot better shit than you ever thought of.
- Marcus Valerius Martialis

saint augustine, you’re breaking my heart

“Is not the unfeigned confidence and mutual love of true and good friends our one solace in human society, filled as it is with misunderstandings and calamities?”

6 am alarm clock

are my only options at this point

to “Snooze” or “Dismiss” ?