I got a bonus!

Okay, sometimes I'm a bit of a crazy accurate geek. It's mostly related to the "do I have enough left?" question. Do I have enough time left to stop by this drive through on the way to work? Do I have enough money left to buy this? This time it was; do I have enough yarn left to make another pair of fingerless mittens out of this ball? The ball band said it was a 100g ball of yarn. I weighed what I had left over (on my new and spiffy postal scale) and it was 64g. Woohoo! More than half left!

Just for gits and shiggles I decide to weigh the gloves too. They're 40g. Danger! Danger! Does not compute! I weigh them both again. Still the same. I go and grab the two other skeins (one's only a 50g skein) of the yarn I have, and weigh those too. The other ones also weigh 104g and 52g. It's off by 4% of what it should be.

I look for and don't find anything even vaguely resembling a control, and resort to measuring out 10ml of water and use that as a control. That comes out right. I may have to do more tests to confirm, but KnitPicks seems to include 4% extra yarn. At least on gloss sock yarn.

I wish I was commitment phobic

There are some days that I wish I had a commitment problem. I need to be able to figure out how to say no to new projects. I suck at saying no. Just for the sake of simplicity, I'm going to list my projects for between now and Christmas (well maybe Christmas, maybe whenever I get things done)

• French Sweater
  
• 3 pairs of fingerless gloves for my friends
• Design one pair of fingerless gloves for myself
• two-socks at the same time
• finish the damn hedgehog
• Start on the cardigan I want to wear to Munchkin's wedding in April
• Dye the gloves for my pharmacist for her wedding (need to finish tonight)
• Prepare for taking the PCAT
• Corkboard thing (Should be done by the 12th)
• Really investigate D&D 4e
• Do my training for my thing for work
• Put all my projects on Ravelry
• Apply to pharmacy schools
• Learn to spin? I've heard rumors of a make your own wheel class
• Re-cover my chair so that it matches the rest of my room
• Put up curtains
• Sew the silk skirt
• Make dice bags
• Build my own computer (as a challenge, and this is just whenever I get the money to do it)
  

And I think that's about it. Maybe. Maybe I'll learn to say no. Maybe I won't want to do everything all at once. That's it... Maybe.