Internetical Fritz

That is to say, the internet is going crazy here today. I had plans of ordering yarn, buying a pattern, doing some online banking, downloading an audio book, listening to a sermon, and all sorts of other wonderful things. But I can't do them. Because the internet will only load pages sponsored by google. What the heck!? Not to mention that I spent 2 hours of my day off trying to fix the state's internet and was entirely unsuccessful. I am not very pleased at the moment.

So I guess I have no choice but to make a blog post. I've been knitting up washcloths like a maniac in order to use up my scrap yarn from this tunic project (incidentally, I finally got the pattern written for that, and it will - hopefully soon - be up for sale on ravelry), as well as from my earlier tank top this summer. I decided that I ought not do the same design twice, so it's been a fun time.

As you can see, I've been hard at work. I finished another one yesterday, and I would have made another (hopefully my last) one today, but I wasn't ever able to get on and download another pattern. Poop.
Not sure if I ever posted pictures of my finished tunic - but here's a couple that I had my coworker take to be in the official pattern write-up.

That's her dog, Bella, in the photos with me. She's a Chesapeake Bay Retriever. It's supposed to be an Eastern Sierra-inspired design, so I figured that Lundy Canyon was a good, iconic, Eastern Sierra locale to take the photos. In retrospect, they'd probably look better if I a) was sitting up straighter in the first photo and b) didn't have stuff in my pockets in the second photo. But oh well, it's life, it's not like I'm a real model or anything.

But the core question I'm trying to get at is this: why, if I could upload all these pictures and write up this blog post, do I not have a good enough internet connection to go onto any of the sites I need to in order to get my work done?

It's just a week and three days 'til my vacation, and good riddance.