This is us

This is me!  Ali called from work on Saturday morning to ask if she could take my car to Milwaukee -- hers had a thing.

I said, "Sure!  Whatcha goin' to Milwaukee for?"

"To see Mark Knopfler."

"I WANT TO SEE MARK KNOPFLER!"  I involuntarily moaned into the phone.  It was so pitiful that she offered to buy me a trinket at the concert, which, of course, I declined.

It's been almost all Mark Knopfler almost all the time ever since, though -- a little Emmylou Harris, J.J. Cale, Van Morrison, and Dire Straits, of course, mixed in.  Have I mentioned how much I love Pandora?  I wrote a very nice post on Saturday about guitars that included lots of videos, but you can't actually see the embedded videos when composing a post and I started rearranging things and it got all messed up.  So.  One video today.

I did a little neatening up 'round the homestead on Saturday in preparation for the group birthday celebration on Sunday.  I finally tired of seeing (moving around) certain of my unfinished knitting projects and began to rip.  Notably, an unfinished Bayerische sock, and a more mindless sock that I started when Michael was in the hospital -- I know, that was AGES ago!!  I always hated that sock, never mind all the worry and not-good-stuff knit into it, so it was really great to see it go.  Next on the blog is a third completed Jaywalker -- I have two others exactly the same and I will never, ever knit the fourth.  What was I thinking?  Moving on.

Instead of seeing Mark Knopfler in concert on Saturday night, I continued the party, finally tearing apart and completely frogging my Coup d'Etat cardigan.  There now remain only two Olympic projects -- and I want to take one of them with me to Vegas.  Getting there!

Comments

[margene]

I listen to the Emmylou Harris Mark Knopfler CD often.
Your frogging party was a great idea. Way to go!

[Kym]

OMG! Mark Knopfler. Love him! And Emmylou, too. Thanks for the great video clip. (And. About the frogging. It's more fun than you expect, isn't it? Kind of cathartic!)

[Jane]

I've been meaning to download more Mark Knopfler for ages! I'm doing it today. One of my old faves is the soundtrack for Local Hero. Loved that movie.