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...it occurs to me this headache has been present for at least ten hours, and has steadily been getting worse. Caffeine (the absence of which is the usual cause of my headaches) didn't dent it. Water didn't dent it. Tylenol didn't dent it. ARGH. I'm going to bed.

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For reasons I am attempting to cast on to knit a small purse. The pattern is the Envelope Bag from The Chicks With Sticks Guide to Knitting, and the materials list includes novelty yarn as well as worsted-weight wool, held together to knit the bulk of the purse. The novelty yarn I picked out to go with my nice navy worsted wool is Premier Yarns' Spangle (Silver Celebration colorway, which is silver and black sparkle), which is 75% nylon 25% metallic.

I cannot for the life of me figure out how to keep the wool and the Spangle at the same tension such that I can actually do a long-tail cast-on (the only kind I know) with the tails the same length. I tried tying the very ends together, but no dice; that just means the Spangle ends up straight and the wool curving.

Short of going back to the yarn store and picking up a different novelty yarn, what do I need to do here?

ETA: Turns out the answer is "cut off the unraveled end of the yarn". Oy.

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Garage sale update!

THIS IS THE LAST UPDATE. Anything that remains unsold after SAT NOV 7 is going to take a little road trip down to the local library for donation to their book sale.

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So I looked up a thing in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, for reasons, and here is a nearby thing, section 2121:

Simony is defined as the buying or selling of spiritual things. To Simon the magician, who wanted to buy the spiritual power he saw at work in the apostles, St. Peter responded: “Your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain God’s gift with money!” Peter thus held to the words of Jesus: “You received without pay, give without pay.” It is impossible to appropriate to oneself spiritual goods and behave toward them as their owner or master, for they have their source in God. One can receive them only from him, without payment.

Think that might explain why so many people, in particular those who came to Paganism from Catholicism, are squeamish at the thought of payment for providing spiritual services?

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It occurs to me it's been quite a while since a day's happened when I thought of myself as actually female, rather than assigned female. I wonder if that's just that the genderfluidity pendulum got hung up on the agender side and it'll swing back female eventually (though poor metaphor is poor, because I've always been agender more often than female), or if I'm simply agender and have been for a while without noticing.

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Why did I think this paper was only going to take a few hours? I've been at it seven!

Well. Six, maybe five-and-change. There was an interlude I don't care to discuss. In any event, that's out of range of 'few' and into 'several'!