The Hat Is A Hit

I was on the phone with T when she delivered the hat. The recipient squealed and marveled and gave thanks over and over again. I am just as thrilled with her reaction as she is with the hat. :-)

Now I am crocheting knee socks. For my first-ever time, I am using worsted weight yarn, but I intend to use sock weight yarn for my next pair of socks. I also need to make the end stitches looser (or add a row or two), if I make another pair of knee socks. My calves are muscular, so this sock is a wee bit snug at the top.

Spring Came Too Late

Also, here is something I want to try, some day.

Did I Miss the Memo?!?

I thought today was Good Friday. Instead I seem to have awakened in Stuck on Stupid Day. It has been a long time since I have been aware of so much stupidity in one day.


I Know She Didn't Just Say What I Thought I Heard Her Say:
Part 1

T and I watched the news this morning as we prepared for our day. That was when we heard of Texas Rep. Betty Brown's suggestion that people of Asian descent adopt names that are easier for Americans to handle. She gave her suggestion when an associate member of the Organization of Chinese Americans testified how people of Asian descent sometimes have trouble voting because of differences between their legal names and the English name shown on their driver's licenses.

That is her solution as a white American? I contend she and her ilk would do better to stop being so lazy and learn how to wrap their tongues around people's given names, no matter their ethnicity, rather than using their tongues to make such asinine statements from their position of privilege.


I Know He Didn't Just Say What I Thought I Heard Him Say

A coworker, W, was asked by the manager to help T perform some heavy tasks she could not perform on her own. Said coworker bellyached, ignored T as much as possible, and only did half of what was asked. T brought it up to the manager later, who asked W what was going on. W said he was pissed off that when T came in this morning, he did not hear her say, "Good morning" to him.

He was not ashamed to admit to his boss that he had his tighty-whiteys in a bunch over not hearing T say, "Good morning"?!? He was not embarrassed at allowing his petty childishness keep him from doing his job?!? Back to grade school with him, pronto. That is a job site, not kindergarten.

This sort of behavior towards T is common in that department, where T is the only female. The next person to tell me women are more difficult to work with than men because they are bigger gossips, fiercer backstabbers, and over-emotional harpies will get a visit from my version of ptownnyc's Stabby.


I Know She Didn't Just Say What I Thought I Heard Her Say:
Part 2

T sat down on the train with her MP3 player and relaxed on the ride home. At one point an elderly white woman got on the train, looked at T and the two Asian men sitting next to T, and demanded, "Which one of you is going to get up?" One Asian man tore his earbuds out of his ears and looked at the woman in shock. The other jumped right out of his seat to let the woman sit down. T was sure she had not just hear that question and didn't react until a black man across the aisle angrily asked his partners, "Did you hear what she SAID?!?" When he repeated the woman's question T realized her ears had not been deceiving her, after all. This led to a long, loud discussion amongst T and the black men about racists and how shameful it is that they all have not died out. The white woman in question buried herself in her newspaper. When the train reached its destination, the other white passengers' body language suggested they were very embarrassed to have witnessed that woman's behavior.

Her wrinkled ass should have had to stand the entire ride. I believe in respecting my elders, but respect is a two-way street.

What year is it, again?!?