Weekend Project

It was like eating potato chips. I couldn't get involved in anything else until this bag was finished. Luckily a series of events made this an entirely enjoyable experience::

Recently our dvd player went kaput. We waited a few days but with four Netflix dvds sitting around it was inevitable that we had to replace the old player. Off to our local Wal-mart and home we came with a new blue-ray super-duper dvd player that had internet tv capabilities.
Usually I am the house geekette and can do the installation of stuff like this. But looking at the directions in the owner's manual, I felt inadequate. Dave got the dvd player hooked up, and we watched a movie easily enough but I wanted to have that new fangled internet-tv thing.
Enter my sister's husband Terry. We call him the Geekolator, which the OED says is a real word. It means One who can talk to tech support.

So Terry came over and asked for a cable that he then plugged into the router and the dvd player and in minutes we were looking at all the internet capabilities now at my fingertips. What this means in its final distillation is that I can save instant viewing films in a queue on Netflix and when I turn on the tv they are all there ready for my viewing pleasure. All the other stuff it provides is really unimportant.

 Now I have 16 films in my instant viewing queue and chose the PBS series on Thomas Jefferson and then watched the Woody Allen movie "Whatever Works' which has a character named Melody St. Ann Celestine and that was enough to keep my interest. NOT Melanie, she insisted, Melody.

These are both films that Dave wouldn't be able to stay awake through, but he plays baseball on Sunday, and therefore I was in my element, knitting and watching my kind of movies.

Needles flying, the bag is finished and lined using the leftover pink Kona cotton, and the Innerfuse stiffener, and is ready to use as a sample for my August knitting guild program.
 Ta-Da!