Sydney is apparently the 10th best “foodie” city in the world. Nice.

On top of everything else that’s frustrating and annoying me this morning – the Sydney Morning Herald site has been revamped. It’s ugly; I can’t see as many headlines without scrolling; and since it’s not stretchy, there’s way too much whitespace on my monitor. I hate it.

GVH
I’m finally getting to the end of these darn socks I’m knitting for the Snook – “Conwy” from Knitting on the Road, for those who care – and I hit a bit of a snag tonight. I’d been watching with some anxiety as the small ball of Jitterbug disappeared just a little too quickly through the foot. Tonight I had to face facts. I did not have enough yarn to finish the toes. So… to frog or not to frog? To be honest, this pattern really bored me. I didn’t think I can face doing the whole heel and foot again. So in desperation, I threw in some navy Town & Country I had in my stash. It looks rather bodgy, but I think I kinda like it. I told the Snook proudly tonight that I’ve decided to name the finished pattern “Graft Versus Host”. I’ll post pictures as soon as I weave the ends closed…

How to Share Your Obituary with your Online Friends. Worth bookmarking, folks! Although in my case, you’d probably figure it out pretty quickly, what with my butt not being planted on CouchCam all the time…

Damn. Fake Steve Jobs has been outed. Why do people have to ruin everything? (Although: Hee hee. The SMH used the word “mangina.” I bet they didn’t realize what it meant.)

*Le sigh…* I’ve just found my dream apartment in our neighborhood. It’s up for auction in two weeks. Too bad we’d never be able to get everything together in time.

Reading Material
The Snook and I ventured down to Gleebooks yesterday to cash in my gift certificate and take advantage of the secret “Harry Potter’s birthday” sale they have going on. (If you show your train ticket, you get 17% off.) I was armed with a long list of your book recommendations. We dove into the stacks and soon realized that they only had about a third of the titles I was looking for.* Here’s what I ended up getting: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon; The Accidental by Ali Smith; Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides; and The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson. The Snook also picked up two fantasy books. As we headed home, we noticed that St. Barney’s were having their annual fair day and book sale. I picked up secondhand copies of American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis; Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer; Around the World in 80 Days (illustrated!) by Jules Verne; and a couple others as well. Thanks to everyone who gave me recommendations; I’ll be on the lookout for the other books when I finish these!

* I like Gleebooks a lot, and I want to support local businesses, but man, their shop really isn’t designed for people who know what they want. It’s just such a jumble. If you’re a browser it’s brilliant, but when I have a shopping list I much prefer the Kinokuniya system of being able to look up exactly where a book is located. And Gleebooks doesn’t seem to keep much of a back catalog either… 🙁

R2D2 Beanie. THAT RULES. The Snook says he might even rescind his ban on wearing knitted hats! (Pattern found on Ravelry.)

The United Countries of Baseball is a map showing the geographical boundaries of regional baseball fandom in the US. I found their division of Indiana pretty surprising. I expected the northern part to fall under Cubs jurisdiction, but I didn’t realize that there were some many Cardinals fans in the south. And wow, according to the map there are a LOT more White Sox fans these days than I remember…

More pictures of the cutest baby ever. I can’t get over how big his eyes are! And the leopard print nappy cover made me laugh and laugh…