Another Try

Well, I wrote a long entry yesterday and when I hit publish, the post was lost. I was feeling discouraged about the state of the new computers that I purchased for the library; they would not print to the LAN printers. Not print. . .they couldn't even see them. But after much thought and trial and error, I have the first one printing. Now I need to install 4 more and I'm not sure how I got the first one to print. So it's g0ing to continue to be a long week.

On another front, I'm not sure I'm going to continue knitting the tank I had started for myself. I'm using a sport weight yarn instead of worsted. Because of this, I made a larger size. I'm thinking it's going to be too thin and too big. I'm going to continue on the back and then try to get an idea of if I like it or not. For some reason, I must have a totally distorted body image. Everything I've ever made comes out way too big. That's one of the reasons I've been sticking with shawls and afghans recently. If they're too big, who cares?

Went to my younger daughter's soccer game today. She played really well, but I know so far her senior year has been really difficult and frustrating. She's been feeling overwhelmed with school work, college applications, soccer (she's captain again this year so feels she must be a positive influence, even when she's not feeling it), boyfriend, thinking about getting a job, etc. It sucks that so much pressure's put on a 17 year old. I fear what she'll be like next year, especially if she goes into engineering, like she plans. I don't remember ever having this much on my plate in high school. But then again, I didn't play a sport (I wasn't allowed to, even if I hadn't been a total klutz; I was a girl) and didn't really care all that much about school. But I did start to care at the end of college!

Ok, off to work again.

ps: just found the post I wrote the other day. It was in drafts so I've let it go.
pps: Happy happy birthday to my beautiful sister. I miss you and wish you were closer.