Kiss My Knits!

We are… the Knights who say KNIT!

Average evening for some, special night for me.

Knitting, TV mania, obese cats, and kidless holiday!

In which Tvini acts like a complete idiot but hopefully does a good turn.

So while we were gassing up the car, Emily decided we should get a car wash. She used to enjoy it, but has been nervous about going through the machine for about a year, so I decided to spring for it.

Unfortunately, the filling station apparently hadn’t recycled their water in quite a while, because now my car smells like a bowling alley shoe at the end of the night. Disgusting, with just a hint of lemon freshness. Worse, since my driver’s side window doesn’t seal all the way, the scumwater leaked onto my sleeve and pant leg. Now I smell like Swamp Thing.

Well, at least nobody’ll be invading my personal space for a while.

Two days ago, I taught Emily to play checkers. She was actually interested, which is good, since sometimes it’s tough to get her attention on these things. I think her familiarity with chess was helpful. Also, the Groovy Girls checkers set probably didn’t hurt.

Yesterday, she asked to play twice, and looked like she was thinking about her moves. Could have been coincidence.

Today, we played and I explained why I was taking some moves instead of others. Then she’d put the pieces back on and experiment with looking at how the different outcomes played out.

Tomorrow she’ll probably be beating the pants off of me. Smart kid!

Haven’t updated in a couple of days, so here we go!
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Had a gift certificate, so I got Newsradio Season 4 on DVD. It’s the last season with Phil Hartman, and includes some of my favorite bits, as when Mr. James’ flop of a business book (Jimmy James, Capitalist Lion Tamer) was translated into Japanese (Jimmy James, Macho Business Donkey Wrestler) and became a bestseller there. So he had it translated back into English and gave a reading.

Good times, good times.

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