
A Very Merry Xmas!
Hoping that your holidays are joyous and wonderful or at least that your 2017 year-end is better than usual.
Pissing Off The Right
Lately, it seems that the conservative-right has made an art out of posting things on social media for the sole purpose of annoying/angering the progressive-left.
I believe they often don’t even really believe what they write…they just know posting it will piss off people with whom they disagree.
I can’t say I haven’t done similar things in my past social media postings (except I purposefully tried to piss of the conservative-right…obviously).
For instance, refusing to keep the “Christ in Christmas” and using “holidays” or “Xmas” or Yule-Tide will often get a charge out of the rigid right. Whenever I see religious comments that demand that we keep the Christ in Christmas, I always respond that I’d prefer they start with keeping the Christ in Christian…because so many of the issues supported by alleged Christians are anything but Christ-like.
All that being said, I really do love the Christmas season. I still love driving by houses festooned with colored lights, I love the smell of cookies baking and I even love the busy-ness of the local shopping areas. Hell, I even like Christmas carols. I’m still NOT a fan of the cold and ice and snow…but with climate change, it seems my Winters have been a lot less frigid than in the past.
Current Knitting
I finished the Interlocking Crochet Scarf and the result it very nice.
You’ll note that I still have a few ends to weave in, but I did keep up on it while I crocheted to make sure I didn’t end up with a ton of ends. The scarf ended up being a little shorter than 5′, but the light, drapiness of the superwash merino/nylon blend is almost silk-like…both in terms of the hand of the fabric and the color saturation. I’m quite pleased with this.