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One Big Ball of Fuzzy Yarn

I do some crocheting now and then - although the only projects I've ever finished are my scarves. I still have a shawl I need to complete and I just started a hat for the upcoming winter.... If I'm lucky, I'll get to wear both before the winter months are over next March. One day I decided to experiment with knitting needles (the 2-needle thing), and I was having so much fun I decided to intertwine 3 different colors of yarn because the yarn was the thin kind. And of course it was pretty cool. But take note: this was an "experiment", which means I never had any intention of completing it into an actual item. So after my summer hiatus and fall adjustment from that hiatus, I recently took out all my knitting and decided to undo this multi-colored experiment because you can do that with knitting and crochet, provided the yarn isn't too fuzzy with extras so that it tangles real well. Well, these thin strands of yarn that looked pretty easy to unravel created such

U.S. Presidential Elections

I have to post something on the upcoming U.S. Presidential Elections as it has been most interesting, and perhaps one of the most urgently important elections that I have faced as a voter in my voting lifetime (which hasn't been too long). I've watched the debates and the last one I listened to was the VP debate between Senator Joe Biden and Governor Sarah Palin. But let me just venture to encourage you to think about some issues. I've outlined some of them here, and obviously they are not exhaustive, but they are what particularly come to my mind at this time: What are the candidates' stand on Darfur? What are their records for human rights related activities? Do their VP picks have the same stand on Darfur and human-rights issues? What do they consider the "middle class"? Are they really looking out for the interests of a majority of the American people or just the wealthy few? What about their stand on the Iraq war which is affecting too many people at this