Ok.. I know it's every one's favorite way to knit socks. Well or it certainly seems that way when you look at the net. And yep, it would prevent mismatched socks, and unfinished second socks. But I'm coming out here as a hater. I HATE two socks on two circs. I've tried it. Well I tried it tonight and as far as I can tell what it does is destroy the beauty that is knitting socks. Socks are perfect because they're small, you can stuff them in your coat pocket. They're mindless. You just keep going round and round. Sure you finish one and have to start another. That's not bad. It's just the way things are.

So for those who love two socks on two circs, more power to you. For myself.. I'm going back to double pointers. Maybe I'll try again. Maybe I'll have somebody who loves it show me. Mechanically I've got it figured out. It works. It makes two tubes, but all the flopping and tangling and twisting.. it's just so totally unappealing to me as to have ruined sock knitting as a pastime. Meh.

Well today after work Chilly and I headed up to Metro, but we weren't shooting shotguns for a change. We've decided to sign up for the winter pistol league instead and stay inside. It starts next week. Thinking gee it's been like 18 months since my pistol last got out of the safe we went for some practice. I've got a new standard for myself. I want all my shots on the paper. I'm currently managing about 80% on the paper, but all of them are below the center of the target. So I'm thinking adjust my sights up and I can get them all on the paper and more of them in the black.

In a 10 shot string I've got two or three little groups of 2-3 shots and a couple missing. If I move my sights so my POI is 2 inches higher than it is now (at 50') I should have them all in the target at least. Well I'm assuming my missing two shots are off the botttom of the paper. This however seems to make sense with what I'm seeing. Now to figure out how many clicks/inch on my sights.

So it's mid afternoon, and I was hungry, not surprising considering I didn't eat much of my lunch. So I go down to the vending machine to fetch a candy bar. After all this is the United States of America and what do people eat at 3pm on their afternoon breaks? (well not that it's really a break but you know cause I'm salaried and we don't get breaks---there's got to be a blog entry in that somewhere) We eat candy bars, or chips. So I went down to take my chances at the machine. I swipe my card and start perusing the machine. Candy is on the bottom, searching, searching..... Nope all too sweet, I dismiss the bottom three rows. Maybe chips. I start at the top eew; guac chips, Doritos, Frito's, Cheeto's (maybe), not sweet enough.. I scan the forlorn row in the middle row. Row C home of weird beef and cheese stick things, and Animal Crackers. YAY! Animal crackers those have real possibility, crunchy not too sweet. But what's that next to them? It's not the usual crappy nut and fruit mix, it's brightly colored. It has banana chips! I love banana chips, yes I know they're all processed and I may as well have eaten the candy bar. And Dried Cherries. It's like somebody read my snacking mind. I push the button C5. Then I notice. Organic. Hmm... This seems like a plot.

Scanning the bag on the way back to my desk...I've been tricked, the shiny packaging the bright colors, it's all a plot! There's nothing bad for me in this bag; nothing, well some tiny amount of organic coconut oil, 3 calories worth. I practically burned that off on my way to the vending machine. Who are these people sneaking fruit into my day! I'm offended. They tricked me into buying a healthy afternoon snack. It's positively Un-American!

So I try them. They're good. I'll buy them again. DARN THEM!

Also the machine has the mango pineapple variety too. I don't like mango though.

As I sit here in the middle of the night watching TV I realize that I am still fascinated by blacksmithing. When I was a kid I couldn't get enough of blacksmithing demos at places like Silver Dollar City, or Colonial Williamsburg, or anywhere else we were on vacation that had one. It's not as entrancing on TV as it is when you can feel the heat and smell the fire, but still entrancing.

Movie Madness

Someone just pointed out it had been over a month since I last posted to my blog. Apparently when I'm not shooting or not knitting I'm not posting.

On the knitting front I'm trying to write a pattern for bomber style earflap hat.

I went shooting on New Years Day and it wasn't great but not bad.

Of late I have seen several good movies though. D.E.B.S and Reboot v4.0. My brother got me Reboot for Christmas. I sat down and watched all of season 3 and then season 4. It was a perfect series of evenings.