Buffalo Gals

Underhill, the World, Sheep, & Goats

As part of occasional tidying and cataloguing that I do – moreso as summer becomes a distant memory – I cleaned up and reorganized my bulletin board last month. I can better enjoy my colorful collection of sheep & goat cards.

Winter Project Progress

Don’t think I spun all this; only the rightmost is handspun, but it’s all hand-dyed.

Book Corner 2023.54

(Yes, so it’s come to this – I picked up a book on menopause.)

This was a disappointment. I thought that “Mayo Clinic” would indicate something of more heft. I want to know why I am getting headaches. I want to know how estrogen affects the vascular system. What about the effects of long-term oral contraceptive use on menopause?

Instead, it’s mostly a 3000-foot view of things that might be happening to you, but little “why” or “how.” Lots of stuff about aging in general that you might find in a throwaway newspaper advice column. An entire weight loss chapter with things I’m sure you NEVER thought of, like eating more fiber and avoiding sugary drinks. For this I bought a book by the Mayo Clinic.

Neil Young

Hate was just a legend

War was never known

The people worked together

And they lifted many stones

And they carried them to the flatlands

And they died along the way

And they built up with their bare hands

What we still can’t do today

And I know she’s living there

And she loves me to this day

I still can’t remember when

Or how I lost my way

Dyedabit

I usually dye locks, not yarn, which are more forgiving of splotchiness. I have some really pale spots here particularly in the blue.

If Sara is watching she might recognize a rug.

Book Corner 2023.53

by Zeke Faux

I enjoyed it. It was a nice counterpoint to Michael Lewis’ Going Infinite – some of the details are identical, right down to the chickpea korma SBF apparently liked for lunch. But SBF wasn’t truly the focus. The focus was Tether. He kept waiting for Tether to self-destruct, and it never really did. Except, of course, that everything kinda did.

Epilogue: “The technology was as old as WhatsApp or Uber, which had long since wormed their way into our everyday lives so thoroughly their nanmes had become verbs. But no one had invented a mainstream use for cryptocurrency. So many smart people had spent so many thousands of hours working on crypto – and yet shockingly little use had come of it.” Count me among them, I guess, for those dreamlike 10 months I spent at TechLab.