and other eldritch tales from beyond the grave!!!!
Published on January 8, 2007 By Spc Nobody Special In Humor
Heh heh heh.......I taught Joy how to knit yesterday.

Do you see what you've gone and done, Dharma? Huh? Huh? I hope you bought stock at Michael's and MJDs before you started blogging about this stuff.

Joy wasn't overwhelmed with desire at first, but I nagged her a little.........and voila. Give an obsessive-compulsive woman a hobby involving soothing, repetitive hand motion.........and you end up with three feet of chenille scarf in one day. Good grief!!! She's already got down casting on, knitting, purling, and binding off; in other words, all the basics.

So that's me, Mason, Ladycleve, and who else now? Who will be the next victim to fall to the heinous lure of the Yarn Barn??? Find out on tommorow's show. Film at eleven.

Oh yeah, and on the accountability thing, down to a whopping 189.5, and I did 15 miles this week. Not great, but just starting up again.

To do a 10k on Ft. Lewis, try this route. Start by the main gate and turn left at the gas station. Turn left again on Garcia Blvd, and then right onto Hillside Ave about 300 yards down. Follow Hillside until you get down to Ligget or Pendleton or whatever that frickin' road is that runs in front of the hospital and turn right. Take a left on 3rd Division, then cut right between the buildings when you reach the brick building past the second steam plant. Take a right on 2nd Div, and then left again, following the border of the airfield. Take a right at the PX, then turn right at the road past the gas station, left on Garcia again, and stop when you get to Hillside again.

Be sure to dress warm, watch out for drivers on their cell phones, and be prepared to explain to paranoid officers/ncos why you would run on your own time in nothing but shorts and a short sleeved technical shirt, instead of the usual full APFTs, road guard belt, road guard vest, hat, gloves, poncho, kevlar, flack vest, eight battle buddies, land warrior system, M-16, Pro-mask, MOPP 4, ninja suit, (admittedly, the new ninja suits are pretty cool), man-pack Panic Room, ground guides, cell phone (set on vibrate), road guards, and a conical flashlight, which if you are lacking any of, an Oldsmobile will fall from the sky, killing you instantly. And if the Oldsmobile doesn't, the hemmoraghing from the ass-reaming you get will. Lord only knows what'll happen if you run barefoot............

It will be cold, wet, raining, windy, muddy and dark. It also completely rocks.

This is NBS,
Woot.

Comments
on Jan 08, 2007

Ft. Lewis? You're stationed in Washington State? Or is there another Ft. Lewis?

If it IS Washington state, I suggest you make a run up at Point Defiance sometime. It's a BEAUTIFUL route.

on Jan 08, 2007
I'm calling my broker and having them buy stock in all the yarn companies!
on Jan 08, 2007
Yarn... the first stitch is free...
on Jan 08, 2007
I love the song to your title! An oldie but a goody!

I'm so gung ho about your workout. I think that's just great and gives me inspiration to continue with my own. Good luck and continued movation to do it!

Knitting seems to be catching on for sure!
on Jan 08, 2007
You're stationed in Washington State?


Yep. For about 5 more minutes. (okay, a couple of months.....sort of. Unless this whole surge thing speeds everything up.) Then off to Iraq!

Yarn... the first stitch is free...


Take a hit, it's 100 percent wool, uncut......well, almost uncut.......

I think that's just great and gives me inspiration to continue with my own.


Rock on. Keep it up!
on Jan 09, 2007
3 feet in one day???? Geez, I feel so inadequate now.

It's great that she has taken to it.
on Jan 09, 2007
It will be cold, wet, raining, windy, muddy and dark.


Sounds like a typical day at cheery Ft. Lewis, WA. Wave at all the guys at the Stryker Brigades when you run past them. I spent waaaay too much time up there training those guys.

Sounds like y'all are having fun. Enjoy!
on Jan 09, 2007
Damn, I thought this was gonna be about Lucas or jennifer
Not every post is a community issue post:)
on Jan 10, 2007
Geez, I feel so inadequate now.


Tell my about it. Did I mention the slight obsessive-compulsive thing? If it helps, she's only gone a foot since then.

Wave at all the guys at the Stryker Brigades when you run past them.


{waves at self}