Since I will take the train to Bavaria  really early tomorrow I will use this post both to show you a few picture what was on my needles in the last week and say bye for the next week. Hopefully I will be back on Friday having had a nice week with good results in the tests I have to do there.

But now it’s time for a small advent calendar update. All the socks are done and now it’s time to thing of the little presents I will put in each of them and how to arrange them on 2 branches. And also sewing on the little hangers onto each stocking is still on the to do list. Hmmm… maybe it will look nice to felt a few green leaves or christmasy flowers to decorate the branches?

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Besides the calendar I went on testknitting the Zur Lederhos’n done by Yarnissima up to the point where I need to wait until I get the “new clue”. I’m up to the heel turn on one and I’m thinking of knitting the second sock up to this point while I’m in Bavaria. Due to all the cables in the design I think I will leave it as a project for the more or less lonely evenings in the hotel room because I strongly suspect that I would totally mess it up trying to work on it being on the train.

What else? The socks I made using a Cat Bordhi master pattern have grown quite a bit yesterday and what is left is the cuff and the ribbing (which I chose as the ideal on-the-train-project).

One thing I really dislike about being for a week I Bavaria is that I can’t keep track on the work my father does on the wheel. My father is aiming at having it in a state where I can try spinning on it when I will be around again on next Sunday and so I fear that I miss much of the process which was so interesting to observe. So I’m just a little sad.

What else? My IPod really gets on my nerves. I bought a IPod Shuffle a few weeks ago to keep me in a good mood while traveling for a long time. When I went to Benediktbeuern everything was fine but then I put it in the docking station at my PC and miss taking it out of the station when I shut the PC down. When I tried to start the PC the next morning it froze while booting. I restarted it for a couple of times and slowly got really mad. I remembered that my pc-savvy friend told me that the computer problems I had could have come from my motherboard being broken (the company I bought the PC changed the Hard-drive and the RAM, not the Motherboard). So I mentally prepared to once again take my PC and wait in a long line to get it fixed at that store….. when I saw that the shuffle was in his docking station and a little white light on it’s side was blinking. I unplugged it and with restarting the pc again everything was okay. This kind of shocked me. I often forget to unplug my Handy, USB Sticks or my navigation system and this never caused any problem. And on next time I plugged the Shuffle onto my pc it froze and after a short time I got a blue screen saying that I should call for a technician. Isn’t this wonderful? I begin hating this sweet little Ipod thing. I just don’t want to have any more PC issues in the next years! No more reinstalling Windows and all the other programs and endless searches for drivers and all this. PLEASE. Sorry for rambling about this but I just felt like it.