Jofrog is Knitfrog!
April 29 2005
You can take the biochemist out of the lab, but you can't take the lab out of the biochemist! The last few months I was working in the lab I did no lab work. Nothing productive at all. I read blogs, wrote a paper, and wallowed in the fact that I was misserable and why couldn't it all just end already. Despite that, I used the analytical balance quite a bit... for yarn! When a pattern says you need Xoz of yarn, we all know that means nothing these days. On the other hand, if you had a 100g skein of sock yarn, made two ankle socks and were wondering if there was enough left for another pair or possibly a child's pair of socks, knowing that there is 50+ grams left means everything. I used that scale a lot. I'd calculate exact yardage left on skeins and know just what I could do with it. That's what I miss most about the lab, that and my friends. Mike got me a food scale for Christmas, I was so excited about it, weighed my first skein to be sure it was calibrated, it weight 48g... it was a new 50g scale. Hmmm, bad skein of yarn, a bit short, maybe... ooh wait, now it's saying 50, oh nope it's saying 48 again... it went in 2g increments! Crazy. I've been spoiled by such high quality equiptment that I couldn't settle. I looked on Ebay for balances like the ones I'd used in the lab, $1300 a bit out of my price range. Then I was introduced to a little company in a town bordering Cambridge, MA that sold equiptment like what I was looking for. I called them, and ended up with a 200g capacity scale with 0.1g sensitivity for less money than the high end food scales, that only have 1g sensitivity! Score! Now I'll be able to tell you exactly how grosely huge of an amount of yarn is going into my clown socks, that I spent almost two hours binding off the first ruffle of last night, and I'm still not done and I ran out of yarn, AGAIN! Dana... I might need a little more help, horrible leech that I am! I'm about one color section away from finishing binding off. If I'm lucky sock #2 will have a bit extra, but that's a good 8 hours of knitting time away... what am I doing blogging, I should be knitting, (and showering, and walking Naomi, and eating breakfast). Ooh, before I go, no one will believe this without proof. I went to the DMV yesterday and check out my wait time. And the best part, I didn't even have to wait that long! Wow, sometimes you just hit them right! I Have A New Toy!
