It's Official: I've Jacobellis'd

No gold for me. Just couldn't do it. Well, I could have, but I didn't. For some reason, about Thursday or so I just stopped knitting, and didn't pick it back up. In fact, I got involved in several other new projects instead, and that's what I spent my weekend doing.

Oh well. Wasn't meant to be.

As for the new projects ... I'm excited. I've started sewing again. Many years ago I attempted to make clothes, and wasn't entirely successful, mostly because I was using store-bought patterns (which rarely fit anyone without some adjustment), but didn't have the expertise to fit them properly.

Then not too many years ago I discovered a book about how to make your own patterns, custom fit to your body. I was experimenting with this, with promising results, when life started sliding seriously downhill, and continued on that course until, well, maybe last year some time.

I am just now starting to get back to some type of normal life and mental state, and with that has come a renewed interest in many former hobbies. I have the time, I have the space, I have the creativity flowing again. I'm psyched!

In other news, I managed to spill an entire, tall glass of rum and ginger ale all over Spike (the netbook) the other night. Oh, not a dribble - the entire glass, dumped right into the keyboard and splashed all over the screen.

"Panic" is the understatement of the year. I grabbed Spike and flipped him upside down immediately, letting things 'drain.' I powered it off, and pulled the battery, and set it upside down for awhile. Then I cleaned it up and put the battery back and tried it out.

Amazingly, and against all odds, everything works fine. The touchpad was a little wonky for about 12 hours, then straightened out. The keys are decidedly sticky now, but not too bad - not unuseable, just a tad annoying. I guess I can take them off and clean underneath, but that's a project for a weekend. I'll see if I have the nerve to do that, or if I can learn to live with it.

I just hope that's the worst of it, and that it doesn't slowly over time develop more problems. Because I know how big a bullet I dodged there. There's no way this thing should even be working, and I'm totally amazed.