Tephie's Personal Bombshelter MarkII

Any of my journaling friends over there? I joined mostly to try to get around the lameness of the library section of Ravelry (no go, it won't add books that aren't already in the Ravelry database) and now I'm stuck with a lonely account.

I'm going to limit myself to adding books I can physically put my hands on (as opposed to ebooks and things that are currently one thousand miles away) so my inventory there will be skewed away from fiction but maybe it won't be too boring for other people to browse.

Too much to do and it's taking far too much effort to get moving on any of it. :P

I need to get that hat pattern written up and the rest of the photos taken. And I had a *d'oh* moment when I realized that I had knit a solid color hat specifically to take a photo of the top detail and then forgotten to take that photo. The hat is with Mom and thus nearly 1000 miles away. There is no digital camera over there for them to take a photo and have my brother (the one with the PC) try to email it to me. *head!desk* I guess I'll knit the top of a hat again in a solid just for a photo. :P I have reached the point where I am utterly SICK of knitting the pattern. And I still need someone with a 20" head to test the small size on. I need to know if there is enough depth in the small, there wasn't in the medium when I first knit it and I had to revise the pattern.

Actually, I need to call Mom. I might have someone I can knit a hat for over there if their head is the right size, and I suspect it is. If I make it pink she'll wear it at least long enough to see if it fits.

That aside, I've been looking at Ravelry's pattern sales system and setting myself up as a designer to use it. I'll have to get my business PayPal account into shape first, then go through the Ravelry system. Hopefully the feature to offer sales outside of Ravelry with Ravelry handling the delivery of the PDF is up and running, or will be when I need it, so I don't have to futz around setting up a delivery system of my own for people that aren't part of Ravelry.

Anyway, I had started this post just to post one link. I want this book. This is the book that has the superimposed knitting charts in it. I have an idea for another pattern using superimposed knitting just because the technique is delightfully geeky fun but first I need to get the hat, and possibly the sock, pattern(s) done. And probably the sweater and the shawl. And maybe that shrug pattern that I was thinking of and actually have the yarn for already. And all that non-knitting stuff I need to do.

I got tired of dealing with web interfaces for posting to my other journals so I finally got around to setting up Semagic to post to them as well as here. This post is mostly to see if it works.

As for the free ebooks, take a look at Wowio. It's restricted to US residents (probably some odd legal issue) and registration is free but you do have to verify you are a US citizen. Since I'm not about to give them my SSN (who would?!) or a creditcard number for that I used the "ISP email address" method. It took them about eight hours to verify my address (possibly because I applied in the wee hours of the morning) but it was painless. You can download up to five books a day so I blew my quota today on the first five chapters of Inverloch. :)