for giggles and grins.

I am the sonnet, never quickly thrilled;
Not prone to overstated gushing praise
Nor yet to seething rants and anger, filled
With overstretched opinions to rephrase;
But on the other hand, not fond of fools,
And thus, not fond of people, on the whole;
And holding to the sound and useful rules,
Not those that seek unjustified control.
I'm balanced, measured, sensible (at least,
I think I am, and usually I'm right);
And when more ostentatious types have ceased,
I'm still around, and doing, still, alright.
In short, I'm calm and rational and stable -
Or, well, I am, as much as I am able.

I stumbled across a personality quiz, and this is what came up.  I liked it, so I put it here to keep.  More of the Redshirt count is coming soon!  

The Great Redshirt count, Post 3

Almost done with the skein of yarn I've been spinning.  As soon as it's skeined up I'll take a picture and post it. Also, I've been working on some cheese making.  Later today I intend to make a cheesecake with homemade Mascarpone.  I'll let you know how it turns out.  And now.... on with the count.

The Enemy Within

Kirk gets split into two halves in this one, good and evil, dark and light, take your pick, and there are four men, including Sulu, freezing on the planet below.  Sulu is in gold, the other three are in blue jumpsuits.
Only the doggy dies, so no body count.

Mudd's Women
The Enterprise hurts itself trying to save a civilian ship from an asteroid belt.  The first encounter with Harcourt Fenton Mudd.
No one dies in this one either, so no body count.  Oddly,  Uhura was in a gold dress in this one.
So the Cumulative count remains...    Blueshirts ---  4
                                            Goldshirts --- 3
                                            Redshirts ----  0  
Tune in next time, we finally get our first Redshirt Death!


 

The Great Redshirt count Post 2

Where No One Has Gone Before     Sept 21 1966
Today we start with an easy one. This ep, if I remember correctly, was the second pilot Roddenberry produced, incorporating a lot of the changes the networks wanted before they would pick up the show.  There were no redshirts at all in this episode.  Kirk and Spock were in an olive green a few shades paler that Kirks "alternate" uniform shirt.  There was also Gold and Blue.  Scotty was in gold, and Sulu was in blue.  There were three deaths in this episode,
Gary Mitchell -----  Gold shirt
Elizabeth Dehner -----Blue shirt
Lee Kelso ----- Gold. 

Body count:  3
On Planet body count:  3
Redshirt Body count :  0
Redshirt survival count : 0

The Naked Time          Sept 28, 1966

The crew of the Enterprise is infected with something that removes inhibitions. 

No Enterprise crew die on the planet, though one of the landing party, Joe Tormolen, dies later on the Enterprise.  He was wearing a silver environment suit down on the planet, and Blue on board ship. 

Joe Tomorlen  ----- Blue

Body count -- 1 
On Planet Body count --- 0
Redshirt body count --- 0
Redshirt survival count ---- 0

Cumulative body Counts,   Blueshirts ---  4
                                            Goldshirts --- 3
                                            Redshirts ----  0   

Spinning and knitting are coming along nicely, picture taking not so much.  More later.   

Now For Something Tottally Different

I've been watching a lot of Mythbusters lately, while spinning more yarn, and at one point Grant says, more or less "on Star Trek if you beam down to a planet wearing a red shirt, you aren't coming back"  and I began to wonder if it was really  true.  So, since I have more yarn to spin, and then knit, I thought I would go through The Original Series and see.  I'll try to post three times a week, at least two episodes, and post a body count, and on planet body count, and a redshirt body count. I will also post whether any redshirts beam down and survive.  However, since women don't really die very much, I'm going too ignore red dresses.  I'm going to go off of Amazon's original air dates, and go in air order.  So now for the first two:

The Man Trap- Sept 8, 1966

The enterprise is sent to give a physicals to an archeologist, Robert Crater, and his wife, Nancy, who is an old girlfriend of McCoy's.  When they arrive people start dying, and Kirk must find out the cause.
Casualties On Planet      Darnell    ----     Blue shirt                                      
                                       Sturgeon  -----    Blue shirt
                                        Green      -----    Gold shirt
Casualties On Ship          Unnamed crewman  -----  Silver suit
                                        Robert Crater  -----   Civilian
Body count:  5
On Planet body count:  3
Redshirt Body count :  0
Redshirt survival count : 0
Charlie X     September 15, 1966
The Enterprise takes on a teenage boy who grew up all alone in an alien planet.

Since the Deus Ex Aliens at the end of the episode set everything back to how it was before Charlie arrived, nobody actually dies is this installment. Also, no one beams down to a planet.  All body counts are Zero.

Cumulative body Counts,   Blueshirts ---  2
                                            Goldshirts --- 1
                                            Redshirts ----  0

What I'm spinning and knitting is the roving from my last post. I'll post more pictures as soon as I get them.  

No wood work...

for a while at least, it's just too hot to work in the Garage, where my Lathe is.  I do have a cane to do for one of Kimber's friends, but until the weather gets cooler that will probably be about the only thing I do.  I do have some spinning going however.  I bought some beautiful roving at Faire a few weeks ago, all white and pale pink and blue, with some lavender and dark blue as well. 

I wanted to colors to be a little more pronounced in the final yarn, so I split each section length-wise as I spun, pulling out the dark blue, the white and pale pink , and the pale blue and lavender in different sections. Then I spun each section.












 So far the yarn on the bobbin looks like...

I think I'm going to Navajo ply this, and since it's spun very fine, I should end up with a lace weight 3 ply variegated yarn.  I'll post pics when I'm done. 

Back again.

Yup.  I'm going to try the blogging thing again, and I have changed the name of the blog.  Back in Dec. I bought a wood lathe, and got it set up in Feb, as the weather was nice enough to allow cleaning and rearranging the Garage to accommodate the new piece of equipment.  So, since the lathe spins things too, a new name.  Now I just need to start taking pictures of things I'm working on to post here.  My shiny new (well, as of a month ago) smart phone my come in handy for that.
In other (somewhat belated) news, Darling Daughter is dating. We ( and she) have known the young man for some time, but she finally figured out how she felt.  Yes, he will get drafted into Greenwood, he knows this already.  He went along with us to Walla Walla just before Faire to hang posters.  At some point in time this picture was taken. 

Aren't they cute?

Also still spinning yarn.  Have some Milk protein fiber being plied right now.  As soon as it comes off the bobbin I have 8 oz. of lovely roving I got from a vendor at Faire that I want to start spinning.  Some pictures of that will be posted too. 

TTFN.

The Results are back.

The Doctor's office just called.  The nodule on my thyroid is benign, and my thyroid function is good.  We now adopt a "keep an eye on it" strategy, wherein I go back in a year for another ultra-sound, and we just watch and wait to see if things change.  Which in some ways is good, no worries about cancer treatments or radiation therapy, no needing more meds.  But it also means that my weight is my own fault, and not a low functioning thyroid.  It would have been nice to have some way to shed the pounds I need to shed without having to work too hard at it, but oh well, such is life. 
I added another pic of Sethos because he was so cute when he slept, and I wanted to have it saved to Picassa.  Horus is still somewhat depressed that his best buddy is missing, but he seems to be getting better.