I’m very happy with the way my teal singles came out, and will start spinning the rest of the wool tonight. I detached the yarn from the towel bar at lunchtime and rolled it into a cute little ball. (However did I manage without my ballwinder and swift? Really, I have no idea.) I didn’t do any spinning last night–by the time 10:00 rolled around, I was too tired. I did a few rows on my sweater and on my lace stole, but it wasn’t exactly a booming night for knitting. It was just easier to curl up with my book.

A couple interesting things. First, I just saw some Adagio Teas offered on Amazon.com–like their IngenuiTea set. Nifty, huh? They’ve got such great tea–it’s nice to see it getting a broader audience. Check them out!

And–I don’t know if this really works, but–I got a forwarded e-mail yesterday that claims that, if you lock your keys in your car and have a spare at home with one of those automatic key fobs, you can call home on your cell phone (assuming someone’s there, of course) and then, holding your phone a foot away from the lock, have them hit the “Unlock” button into the phone. That the signal will work through the phone. There’s a note at the bottom of the e-mail saying they’d tested it and it worked, but I haven’t tried it, myself, so can’t actually vouch for it. Still–it seems simple enough and easy enough that–if it comes up, you might want to give it a try. At worst, it just means the person at home makes a phone call before climbing into the car to rescue you; at best, it saves them a trip and you get in the car to where your keys are with a minimum of fuss. Worth a shot, and by all means, if you try it and it works, let me know! Edited to Add: A friend of mine just tried this and says it works! Almost makes me want to run out into the driveway with my cellphone to try it out….

As to the camera. Am I crazy? Because now I’m looking at this:

The price is pretty amazing, since it’s also on sale for the next couple of weeks, though it’s still expensive. It’s really a matter, I think, of whether I want to be tempted to have something with lots of nifty buttons and settings to play and would take fantastic pictures of yarn and WIPs but which would be impractical for shots of Chappy playing . . . not to mention too large to easily carry around. A camera that size is a committment, not something you just toss in your purse “just in case.” But of course, if it DID take the fabulous yarn photos, I’d mostly just use it here at home, and for the point-and-shoot needs, I’d still have my quite-decent Nikon.

Temptation is a tricky thing! I mean, for heavens’ sake, this is more than my spinning wheel! Do you know how much wool, how many books I could buy for this?? Maybe tomorrow–since I’ll be on my own anyway–I’ll head over to Circuit City to take an in-person look at the cameras. I can’t imagine they’d beat the price from Amazon and I’ll feel guilty about just using them for a hands-on look without intention to buy, but . . .

Do you know what occurred to me today? What a happy coincidence–Rhinebeck is just a few weeks before my birthday. Think of all the shopping I could do for myself! Usually when I go to craft shows or whatever, they’re not anywhere near my birthday or Christmas and therefore completely unable to have purchases justified with those handy excuses. What luck! Maybe I’ll make myself a list . . . there’s that Golding spindle, and . . .

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