Well, 'tis a sad, sad day, but after years of ominous mutterings, P-and-S Yarns is finally closing. Their building has been sold, and their mailing was a bit ambiguous in terms of possible relocation, but considering the price of Manhattan real estate, I'm dubious.
My co-worker went Thursday night, the first night of the customer liquidation "pre-sale" and reported that it was INSANELY crowded. You would have thought it was a free toilet paper giveaway in the Soviet Union. All that craziness for (drumroll, please) 10% off. Sheesh. Glad I missed it.
Considering today's yucky weather and the lame discount, my mom and I decided to skip it. I am tempted, however, (assuming my neck isn't doing a pretzel imitation) to lure my mom to the last day of Smiley's Yarn Riot on Saturday. Even SHE admitted 10 balls of superwash for $10 was a deal.
In the meantime, I am severely peeved at Blogger Beta, since they seem to have killed off the option to FORMAT my postings in IE and Firefox still gives a 502 error (which they acknowledge on their homepage -- yes, the problem is THAT bad). In addition, now I cannot use ampersands (WTF?!) in my posts. There's supposed to be a scheduled outage Saturday which will theoretically fix the 502 error. We'll see.
And now, to soothe myself, I think I will go start on my niece's Xmas present (the now sadly discontinued Rowan Polar in 646:Silver Lining, knitted up in Berroco's Caribbean Scarf pattern). I'd started it last night at my mom's but ripped it all out as we decided that I needed to use 15s (!) instead of 13s. Their pattern calls for using 2 contrasting colors, but I don't see why I can't use a single color instead. (Oooooh...I used a double negative, a grammatical no-no I still remember being scolded for in the third grade. Oh well.)
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