Knitting, Sci-fi and other stuff...

     That title doesn't just refer to Nerd Wars.  I'm between two jobs right now.  I've left Laboratory Alliance, after almost 10 years.  I'll be starting with Upstate Medical University this coming Thursday.  I have a total of five days off, so now I get to mull over all my decisions.  I was really excited for all this, now I'm a bit apprehensive.  I'm leaving behind some truly amazing friends and great colleagues.  I know I'll make new friends and find new mentors at Upstate and I really couldn't turn down the money, its just a really big change.  It feels strange not to be at work today.  My new job is salary and wont allow any overtime.  At this point I'm really, really looking forward to that.  With the recent staffing crisis, we've been scheduled to show up at nearly any time of the day.  They stopped asking a long time ago and I was getting fed up with the attitude of management that 1) our lives should revolve around that place and 2) we

     So I haven't blogged since October.. Tournament 9 is now over.  I completed a few projects for rounds two and three.  November was the month of hats.  I made another Jayne Hat for a friend of mine: This is the third Jayne Hat I've made.  I was hoping to use up the left over Vanna's Choice I had lying around from a previous Jayne Hat.  I severely under-estimated the amount I had left.  I decided to buy more, since the Vanna's Choice is cheap and fairly good quality as far as an acrylic goes. I was able to find the colors I needed and they matched perfectly.  The Vanna's Choice is actually softer now.   The other two hats were from this pattern:  Baby Bunny Newborn Hat .  I made the first hat straight from the pattern, since it was for a newborn.  I used Queensland Collection Super Aussie.  I got the yarn on a tremendously phenomenal sale, but it was cream colored.  The recipient wanted pink.  I've done enough dying at this point that I was confident I