The benefits to being on-call

So, it has been a lovely Memorial Day weekend here. The weather has been absolutely gorgeous and yet I have not been able to really enjoy the weekend. I am on-call for work for the week. Just my luck of the draw to be in the rotation and have my week fall on this holiday. So as of Friday morning until next Friday morning I have the pleasure of carrying the pager.

It seems silly to all my friends that I have to be "at the ready" to diagnose computer issues but carrying the pager is pretty serious and it goes off all the time. Random things can cause the pager to go off, disk space, high load, unreachable hosts and I have to be able to dial in or drive to the office/data center as needed. The silver lining is that I get to catch up on all my DVR shows and knit!

I have made quite the progress on the Tank's raglan as you can see here. I was able to get around four and a half inches done last night. Please excuse the horrid picture quality of these pics. I had left my battery charger for my digital camera in Greece this summer so I took these with my cell phone. Knitting in the round is pretty monotonous and I can knit and watch tv. So last night was Juno and the raglan.

I also ripped up the bootees that I created. I tried to undo the seaming as you can see here, its hard to see since my comforter and the yarn are almost the same color!! So as I am undoing the seaming the triangle piece came off without a hitch, but I ended up undoing the case of edge of the other piece that sort of looks like an envelope. It was a double knitted piece and was just a mess after I was done. I had two choices ahead of me : start over or just scrap the whole thing! I chose to scrap it. I wasn't in love with the bootees in the end. I think it was the bland color which wasn't my first choice but was some stash I was trying to get rid of. I started looking online because I had seen some really cute bootees online the other day. Now that was the fun part, trying to remember where I had seen them!!! Surprisingly, I found them after only a few minutes!!

http://www.saartjeknits.nl/ has a free link for the pattern and it was so easy to make. So far we have one bootee done and it only took me a few hours from start to finish with seaming and weaving in ends. One bootee is done! Yaay! I had this beautiful 100% silk hand painted yarn that I had used to knit a baby poncho. I weaved in the ends for the baby poncho too so the gift is almost ready to go. The benefits of being on-call is all the knitting I can get done!!