I shared this with the knitters at this week’s NeedleNerds meeting and promised to post a link where you can get the free pattern: Lion Brand knitted poncho pullover.
Asides
Great turnout at the new location
The Coffee Fever Roasters has great lighting, plenty of seating, easy parking, and a nice patio area that we’ll enjoy with the warmer temps and longer days.
It was fun to see everyone last night.
Shared: CubeYou, a Cambridge-like app, collected data on millions from Facebook
I think this sort of behavior has been commonplace with the entities that gained legitimate access to Facebook’s user data. I think we’re going to find out that this privacy violation is much larger and much deeper than we ever imagined it to be.
Data analytics firm CubeYou uses personality quizzes and apps clearly labeled for “non-profit academic research” to aid marketers in finding customers.
Anyone interested in a daytime NeedleNerds meeting?
Please post a comment to this blog post if you are interested in meeting sometime during the week day. I won’t be able to make a daytime meeting since I work fulltime, but I can get something coordinated.
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The Atlanta Knitting Guild weekend workshops
I received an email from the Atlanta Knitting Guild informing the NeedleNerds about their upcoming knitting workshop. This sounds like a lot of fun!
Learn more about the workshop on the Atlanta Knitting Guild’s website.
Shared: Many People Taking Antidepressants Discover They Cannot Quit
I’ve known a lot of people that have been taking some kind of anti-anxiety or depression drug for years. I’ve wondered what the plan was to get them off of the medication…this article seems to indicate there is no plan. . . their continued dependency is by design . . . JD
“Many People Taking Antidepressants Discover They Cannot Quit”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/07/health/antidepressants-withdrawal-prozac-cymbalta.html
This food is keeping Bert alive
Bert still struggles to eat canned & hard food on his own. I’ve had to syringe feed him for a month to keep him from literally starving to death. I fed him with this Hills Prescription diet A/D food. It is a high calorie pate type food that, when mixed with a little bit of liquid, works really well in a syringe.
He eventually figured out how to drink water on his own, but it’s taken him longer to start eating on his own. Some days, he’ll lick up really soft canned, pate textured cat food, but some days he struggles even doing that.
When I took Bert to the vet last Saturday to get his stitches removed, I bought a case of the Hills Prescription Diet food (it is not sold at the store without a prescription) just so I’d have some on hand just in case I have to resort to syringe feeding him again. Today was a syringe feeding kind of day. . . it’s been a discouraging day.
The hummingbirds were zooming each other at the feeder this morning.
For sure I saw 2 hummers, but there could have been more. One sat on the climbing hydrangea watching & waiting for the next zoom.
Started reading “The Underground RailRoad” by Colson Whitehead
Sighted the first hummingbird of the season at my feeder this morning!
Boiled up several batches of juice and hung out 3 more feeders. Spring has arrived!
If you want to prepare your feeder, all you need to do is boil up some sugar water….It’s 1 part sugar to 4 parts water. I use some old Classico tomato sauce quart jars, which have 5 evenly spaced lines on the glass, so I fill up to the first line with sugar and then pour a little boiling water over it to melt the sugar. Then I fill the remainder of the jar with tap water, stir it up and it’s ready for the feeder.