Quinn’s Blog

Today is the last day for internet service for us until next week. Why? Because we are moving. w00t! That’s right, the time is finally here. We are finally moving back to California.

The big day is actually this Sunday when we hit the road for the long drive home. At any rate we are hoping to be in are new place by Wednesday and they are coming to hook up our FIOS service on Thursday of next week. So it will only be a brief service interruption.

With that said, consider this the official last post from Lexington Kentucky. This hasn’t been all that bad of a place to live and we gave it our shot. But even if everything worked out the way we wanted we would still move back to “Cali”. Because it’s home to us. Yes, we know all the “cons” to living in California but it’s where our family and friends are and we miss them all terribly.

The plus side of things is that Sharon already has a killer job waiting for her at UCR and we already have a shiny new place to move into when we get there. I have a few good prospects on the job market so I’m sure it won’t take me long to find something. There is certainly far more opportunity out there for one in my field of work then there is here in Lexington.

Since we are talking about work and I’m feeling a bit sentimental, I’d like to say thanks and goodbye to all those at University of Kentucky’s CNS (communications) department. It’s been a good run and I’ve met, worked with, and gotten to know a lot really good people. I’ve learned quite a bit from this experience, not just about networking, phone systems, cabling, terminations, etc. etc. but really important stuff like the difference between a donkey and a mule, how to properly hard boil and egg, and a plethora of southern “country boy” slang. Thanks guys and good luck to you all.

Well, that’s it. See ya in the next post sometime next week.

Goodbye Lexington Kentucky! Hello California!

This is part of a new project, or an experiment really, of knitting cables on a round loom. Once I’ve got it down to a solid pattern I will follow up in another post with instructions.

This is a simple two stitch cable set on a background of purl stitches.

A closer look at the twist to make a braid.

A nice place to sit and relax a bit

How did I manage to miss this one for so long

This is freaking hilarious!

If you were to walk up to a woman and ask if she would like to play a game of “hide the salami?” and you are actually holding a real salami in your hand, would it still be considered sexual harassment?

I hear Butchers do it all the time.

Yesterday afternoon while at work I had to run over to another job site to borrow a set of keys from another technician. This particular job was in the birthing center of the hospital, you know were they have all the babies. The area that they are remodeling used to be the nursery where all the newborns would be on display for all to see. Now, of course it’s all taped up during construction with a small sign on the window that explains that the hospital will no longer show the newborns and they will be spending more time (note: more time not all their time) with their parents. Sure, this sounds like a pretty good idea, more time with their parents. Seems reasonable and a very progressive idea of nurturing right? Of course I don’t necessarily disagree with that.

What got me thinking though was why was there ever a need to display the newborns in the first place? Was it that at some point in our society the birth of a new child was a cause for celebration? A welcoming of a new life, a new and completely unique individual into the world, into the community? Was the idea to have the nursery on display publicly a chance for people in the community to come and share in that celebration? Could it be said that this was a part of the celebration of the value of life in general?

If this is the case our we loosing a little bit of the value of life in this simple and subtle change of policy? Or are we simply throwing away the overly optimistic ideas of our past and just being more realistic? Maybe it’s a little of both or maybe I’m just making to much of it. Either way I have to admit it does sadden me a little.

Interestingly enough I am reminded of a TV show they run on Discovery channel from time to time called “Living with Wolves“. The story is about the reintroduction of a wolf pack into the Sawtooth mountains of Idaho. The part of this story that I thought made an interesting juxtaposition to the thoughts from before was that in both instances were new wolf puppies were introduced into the pack, the pack itself was full of anticipation to meet the new pups. The increase in playfulness and excitement in the pack was obvious in observation and when the pups were finally let out to meet the rest of the pack it was like a big wolf celebration. It was something that was really exciting to see.

That’s my two cents, I guess