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So I got back from Toronto on Sunday, kept thinking about making a post, and then didn't.

I'm here now though!

I bought a loom (the 10' SampleIt rigid heddle loom form Ashford)! I haven't set it up yet though. Maybe tomorrow?

I also started a new knitting project while I was away - the sockhead hat on Ravelry. And then I decided that I like plain ribbing and stockinette so much I'd make ones for the kids for Christmas! What is wrong with me? I'm not really sure... Maybe I just don't want to read the novel I started.... but if that's the case I can take it out of my bag. And just not read it. Like, it's okay, but I don't think I want to commit to a series, and I don't know if the first book stands alone, so I'm ambivalent about continuing.

Last night was Fucksquad, and it was, as usual, super fun!

Sunday we did not have Thirteen, which has maybe one session left (sadness), but we talked about the game we are going to play next. I want to play a hobgoblin shaman type who is into skull worship and ritual cannibalism. I'm super excited! This character will fall into my 'tough/rough guy with night-fanatical obsession with duty and loyalty' type. Previous version: see Stjephan. I'm sure there is another prototype I'm forgetting as well. I know myself so well :p

what else, what else....

I was thinking about 'home' as a culturally constructed concept. Like not just what 'home' is, but the notion of a single place having that particular association of stability, permanence, rootedness, history, etc. We have this notion that everyone does or should have a 'home', and that groundedness concept slips in to so many other things (I mean... a home page on a browser, even. A 'home' button on a mobile phone that is literally shaped like a house). But it's not really a universal. I was thinking about it because of work, wondering if people who live part of the year in one structure but spend the rest of the year travelling around would consider that place to be 'home' or think of it in some completely other way... and then of course you have even more mobile cultures. Is 'home' rooted in the structure then rather than the place? Or is there some other concept that doesn't quite align? Random thoughts I guess.

Some guy has been knitting at me on the bus and I'm not sure how to take it. Like, I knit on the bus. And so does he! But he'll come over and sit near me and knit if I'm knitting? I am pretty sure he would like to talk to me but usually I'm just listening to music or whatever....and knitting. I've got hats to make, dude! It's cool that we share a hobby and a bus route, but I don't actually know you.

My neighbors are having Dramas. There was a sudden death in the (very large) family, and I think as a result of so many of them getting together and also the generally emotional time, there have been Tensions. So there's been some random yelling and stuff. And also swarms of children around, sometimes over at our house, as they were tonight, playing video games very loudly with the regular suspects.

Tomorrow could wind up being quite a long day, and I'm tired, so I think it is bedtime.