Let me rephrase that

So, last week's post, written exactly one week ago today, said I'd be binding off the pi shawl for many, many days.  I lied.  I'll be binding it off for many, many weeks apparently.

OTN 08/11/15

First, you'll have to get past the bad, non-smart phone photo.  Not only am I in pi bind-off Hell, my computer is taking it's last breath and photo editing is just more than it can handle.

Anyway....  All that fabric over there on the right of the needles has been bound off.  All those squished up, tight against each other stitches, on a 24 inch needle I might add, are yet to be bound off.  Like I said, it will be weeks of binding off.  Many, many weeks.

So, why don't I just quit my life consuming "part time" 80+ hours a week, summer job & stay home and knit?  Because then I'd miss out on fun things like this:

I have an odd fascination with the things people write & draw on money.  One of these days, I'm going to photograph it all, create a coffee table book of defaced money & become gloriously rich.  But first, I have to go bind off a few gazillion more stitches on that damned pi shawl.

Show me the money

I haven't gotten much knitting done because I worked all weekend.  One of the things that makes work fun, besides the paycheck that is, is the interesting money we come across.  It never fails to amazes me the interesting & comical things that get drawn on Washington's & Lincoln's faces.  Every time I see a 'happy birthday' message written on a one dollar bill, I wonder if that's all the birthday child received.  Some of the messages we find scribbled across the money are disgusting and vile.  Sometimes we find a simple doodle drawn on a bill.  Last summer there was one particular drawing of a bright blue space alien that kept coming back to us over & over.  We'd send the bill out in the morning as part of a cash register's change fund.  A customer would receive it & spend it somewhere else in the park and then it would come back to us that night.  I must have encountered that one particular little blue alien at least 20 times.  And then there's the old money that we come across.  Old money such as this 1907 nickel.

1907 Nickel

Granted, it's a horrible picture taken in bad lighting with my not-so-great, non-smart phone.  The nickel is so old, at first glance, it didn't even look like American money.  Pretty cool, right?

Okay, so the Cash Control department is easily amused.  We take our thrills where we can get them.

As for the knitting,

#todayonmyneedles

Hawthorne is progressing.  Slowly, but progress is being made.

slouchy hat

And this slouchy hat is almost finished.  This hat is serving as my current 'knit while I read my email' project and for some unknown reason, I've been receiving an overabundance of email lately.  And that means, the hat has seen a lot of attention considering it's an 'only gets worked on while I'm reading' project.

Neither the hat nor the scarf will see much knitting action today though.  I'm off to visit my four legged furry friend, Lola and her human.