Monster mugs

Mea culpa -
I realized some of my measurement math was off, so I corrected it, and then tweaked a few other things here... and there... so, um, there have been some edits below, after the original posting. Oops.

Remember the gigantic mug I made a while ago? (My hand is there for scale, not presentation, a la voila!)

Well, I discovered that the reason it's so capacious (besides my being thirsty like a camel) is that it holds over 3-1/2 cups of liquid, a/k/a 28 oz.! (Here, the pen is for scale, without any foreshortening.) The only drawback is that the damn thing is HEAVY when it's full (a/k/a 1lb.+12 oz.+mug= probably over 2 lbs.).

My engineer liked my gigantic mug enough to request a monster mug of his very own. I wound up making 2 mondo mugs, both of which are a nice deep blue color, which you can't see very well in the photo. (The teeny 1/2-cup size Tupperware container is there for scale in this shot. Heh.) These are the same mugs I mentioned earlier where I re-did the handle after painstakingly attaching it in the first place.

Being an engineer, he measured out precisely the capacity of each much, which was 2 cups apiece (i.e., 16 oz. ea.) which is where I got the idea for measuring out how much "Monster Mug - The Original could hold."

And remember the baby sweater sweater I knit this spring for my (alas) now former co-worker's son in Hong Kong? She sent me a photo before she left.

Okay, lunchtime is almost over. Time to go back and be depressed watching my coworker Dennis pack up his stuff. Since he is on vacation the first week of January, he's boxing up all of his stuff in case we get laid off while he's on vacation.

Which reminds me: we all went out for drinks last Friday (oddly enough, no one is in the mood for a holiday party -- funny, that) and are all going out for booze again this Friday. As The New York Times recently pointed out, when the economy crashes, bar tabs rise.

Oh, and the apricot oat muffins were pretty tasty, even according to my co-worker Mike who is a total Guy (in a nice way) and avoids all things diet or WW.