Well, with a little hardware switch-over, our second server is back in operation (the fan on the North Bridge failed....). And the long-overdue move from the first server to the second server is now in progress. Perhaps obvious (since I'm posting a blog entry): we are connected to teh internets again. ::wink::

And thanks to my uber-cool husband who knew what I needed, he gave me the command that I'd need to read up and configure to get my email to start coming down to my home computer again. Woot! And it's coming every five minutes now! That's awesome! I no longer have to go to the server to shutdown mail downloads if my computer is down---my computer is the one that does the downloading for me! That's one less thing to worry about.

Very soon, Randy will have the monstrosity that is the first server (it's almost the size of an end-table!) out from under his desk. When we turned it off last night, we couldn't believe the difference in the noise level in the room. Wow, that thing was noisy!

In the meantime, I finished the second sock to Randy's Midnight Rainbow pair. I was a bit slower finishing these socks 'cause my time was divided between two other socks I've got on needles. Plus, there was a week or two where I actually didn't do any knitting. *gasp* I'll post pictures as soon as he gets home....I finished them at 2:30am and he was wearing them when he left the house. He's already said that when he gets home, he wash them and hang them so they'll be dry for tomorrow. *grin* I think he likes them! ETA: He just called me from work to tell me how springy and comfy they are. Every step is comfortably cushioned. I may have to cast on another pair of socks! *grin*

But, I promised myself that once I finished a pair that was already cast on, I could start the Diamond Sock pattern I created from an image in the Gelderland catalog Claudia pointed out. As soon as I get that one finished, I'm hoping to put the pattern together in a nice PDF format with a photo and perhaps offer it in my Etsy shop. Or here. We'll see.

No pictures of this yet, but the ferrets have the cutest pile of Randy's white tube socks and their toys piled up in the corner by my bed. If I try to toss things back into the room, Sebastian comes along and brings them right back into that corner! And don't even get Octavia started on moving her ball around. Darn it! That goes in that cabinet, Mom! And she has a whole method for getting it in there too.

Poor girl. Wait until the new cabinet latches for upstairs get installed....that's going to suck.

For her.

There's a bowl of Texas-style chili calling my name---and with all the ferrets finally tuckered out from their AM romp, I might have a little bit of peace to eat it in!