A broken leg will do that for you. Gave me a vacation from housework and cooking and also took away my ability to get things for myself. This has frustrated me endlessly over the last few weeks, since I tend to be a “do it for myself” person.

I thought about calling this post “forget the mug, save the leg”, since that’s how I ended up in this predicament that has turned out to be a stay-cation of the weirdest kind, with me spending most of my time leg up, trolling the internet on my daughter Kaiti’s laptop, and beginning an endless assortment of new knitting projects. Seems that laying on your back for hours on end affects the brain, since I suddenly have the attention span of a gnat.

I’ve started a pair of new socks, despite having several socks crying out for mates. I justified this by saying to myself, “it’s not like you need two socks at the moment...”

The sock pattern I fixated on is the Fishnet Anklets, from Whit’s Knits over at the purl bee. I’m knitting this trial sock (notice I didn’t say pair) from some old stash - elann’s Peruvian Baby Silk in a lovely shade of cornflower blue. It’s a fast and easy pattern, once I see how it fits I anticipate making more of them, since it’s such a cute pattern!

Also on the go are a couple of lacey things - Calais, a lovely little shawlette pattern from Judy, knitter extraordinaire (her blog:purl bumps). First started in some stashed Handmaiden mini maiden in a lovely purple, then switched to some Sweet Georgia Sock yarn I picked up at Fibres West. But then I went back to my original mini maiden. The purple just was the right way to go after all, or so it seems.

Started Kieran Foley’s amazing Sound of Waves in some delicious yarn from Sweet Georgia called silk lamb lace. Wasn’t working with the needles I had on hand, so I ordered more Addi Lace and they should be on my doorstep Monday! So look for more on this one later next week.

Lastly, because I can be such a Lemming at times - I cast on a Citron shawlette in some Mal Lace that has sat in my stash,was almost traded and then ended up back in the stash to simmer a little more. I love the pattern.

I promise photos, maybe tomorrow. I need to rest my leg at the moment - it took me more than two hours to shower and wash/dry/style my hair. Broken legs, how they slow you down!

Oh, and if you are on Ravelry, feel free to look up my projects there!

SO… long time without saying much. If I can fix my broken installation of Expression Engine I’ll be back, if not I will probably just say adios to blogging.

I need to get that /?/ part out of the urls so that search, etc will work. I found a hack in the wiki that might work. The fix I’ve been using in the htaccess doesn’t seem to work anymore and I don’t have access to the php.ini to fix the path info there.

Any EE geeks reading? I’d love a little push in the right direction!

It’s a new record for staying away from blogging I think. Last post was really July 8th?

Guess I had a busy summer!

Actually, the thing of it is that I had planned to get back to posting here except that while I was away on vacation my web host upgraded a few things, including mySQL. Of course I knew this was coming but neglected to pay much attention since we were in the midst of a heat wave and the last thing I wanted to do was be online.

In fact I was so sure things there would be no problems that I didn’t even check when vacation time was over. It wasn’t until about 10 days ago that I actually took a look after seeing the screen shot of my site on Ravelry, and saw the lovely error message. My host said it was probably a script or plugin that needed updating (um, can we say OBVIOUSLY here?) so I just left it until I was in a mood to do a little bit of googling, and pray for an easy fix.

Long story short (for anyone who cares or might have the same issue) is that the new version of mySQL running this site parses JOIN statements a bit differently from the previous version. Just took finding a couple of places to insert some brackets and we’re back in business!

Now if I just had something interesting to say…