One a day, plus iron

Today went better, though I was shocked to discover that my doctor office faxes lab orders to the hospital. When you go in, the outpatient lady walks over to THE FAX MACHINE and shuffles through a stack of paper to see if she can find your lab orders.

( It's 1996 calling; they want their fax machine back. )

Regarding the blood work mulligan, I got up today early and skipped breakfast and delayed coffee so that I could get that done on the way into work. I did metal detector readiness in my truck and went in. Lookit me getting shit done, just like a real person!

( You are so adult! Look at you go! )

My media-aware readers are, I'm sure, aware of Iran's AI Lego meme propaganda game. To be completely fair, I did not have this on my bingo card for 2026. Heck, I would not have considered Iran to have any AI Lego meme propaganda game.

( Read more? I have links to offer you... )

There's a patch of grape hyacinth growing in the yard of one of my apartment buildings. I've let it go for a few years and it's... increasing its territory without permission, a Putin move, a Bibi move.

This wouldn't be a problem except that it is pretty thick and pretty aggressive and it's slick as hell when you mow it. It also kills off the grass where it invades by choking it out. The section of grape hyacinth is on a hill, because of course it is. That's fun when operating a mower. *sigh* I can't just live with it.

( Just poison it? )

I've been busy. Got some yarn made up (because I needed more) and whipped out the last of the squares for halfghan.

( Come and see! )

I took the plow and chains off the plow truck, so definitely it is spring. Other things got done as well.

( Would you like to read about them? )

There are 18 completed squares, which puts me at more than 40% done with the knitting. I also gave up and bought the pastel foam puzzle-piece play mat for a less-fragile blocking situation. Once I get enough squares for a halfghan done, I will lay them all out and take a picture so that you can see how it's going.

The plan was to go to Mom's and do the met livestream for Tristan and Isolde (Wagner opera). The tickets were $24.00 each. We got there and sat down and waited for the opera to start.

( This was going to be a review of the Met's production of Tristan and Isolde )

There are 16 squares. 7 brown, 3 mostly-brown, 6 mostly-white. All of the completed squares except for one of the brown squares have been blocked and have ends woven in. I am 38% done with the knitting of squares. I have enough mostly-white yarn for one more square (probably). Y'know, I could use my scale to WEIGH THE YARN and see if there's probably enough. I could compare to an existing mostly-white square. Let me go do that.

There are 46 grams of yarn and 48 grams of square. So, maybe not enough yarn but it'll be close. To avoid rage-quitting due to being short of yarn, I'm going to have to make more mostly-white yarn before proceeding on that front. And that means it's time for some mostly-brown squares with the new, excitingly squishy yarn that has sufficient twist in the plying. Yay!

Wasn't there a scarf?

I do not want to talk about the scarf. It's not scarf season anyway and won't be for a while.

In the pothos project, where I discovered that the houseplant pothos can get a lot bigger than it normally is if you give it something to climb, I selected a (free) pothos a tenant had left behind, built it a moss pole, and pinned it to the moss pole to see if I could get it to climb that moss pole.

( And how is that going? )