More on centerpull balls

AMEN! Yes! Right on!

I hate digging through the center of the balls trying to find the yarn pull. Come to think of it, that's how I end up wiht all those tightly wound balls of wool. (sigh)

I'm so glad I re-subbed this ng!

Murielle

As are we, Murielle!

higs, Katherine

Thank you!

Hugs you right back! Murielle

If you don't mind my asking Donna, what part of S. Indiana? I'm from the little town of Elizabeth originally. That's about 9 miles from Corydon, and about 20 or so from New Albany.

Bob

Seconded! Hear hear! :-)

Bernadette

Thank you, too! :-)

Murielle

Ah, the famous "strategic incompetence"! ;)

I've only just seen this. We didn't have to ask why, we were told that they must not be wound tight or it would stretch and affect the natural elasticity of the wool.

To achieve a loose wind we held the ball and wound the wool round it and two or three of the fingers which were holding it.

Mary

I've been AFK for ages and am trying to catch up on any threads I was in before my computer made me crazy ... er.

No one told me. That's one thing I love about this group, I learn. I learn every time I drop by and read a few posts.

Murielle

I don't know what AFK means but I'm sorry you're crazy :-)

Mind you, I sometimes think most of us here must be ...

Me too.

Mary

AFK = Away from Keyboard. I had to ask a friend about that one too...

sue

Mary

LOL!

AFK means away from keyboard. It's a very old computer expression. Really dates me.

Murielle

Ah, thanks! I'll try to remember - but probably shan't :-)

Well I've been using a computer at home since 1989, perhaps it's more of a cultural difference than an age one. Although I AM old :-)

Mary

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Mary

Could it be that you didn't/don't play games online? We play games online, and when you meet other people at random in a game like Diablo/Diablo II, you let each other know what's going on as fast as possible since the games are very fast paced. We run into a lot of AFK BRB (away from keyboard be right back) abbreviations that way.

Leah

I don't :-)

Ah, I've learned about BRB from a 10yo granddaughter who says it on MSN. Even use it myself occasionally - but just to impress her. That's not hard really, she still can't believe that anyone over thirteen even knows what a keyboard is for :-)

Games aren't a problem for me but when I found myself playing patience at all times of day and night (even getting up in the night to do it!) I removed all games from my computer and have no urge for playing with others. I'd rather be knitting!

Mary

I've been using computers since long before they even had keyboards. Remember punched cards? Remember FORTRAN?

*wistful sigh of happy memories* I remember taking Cobol in the 70s and having students ask if they had pre-punched cards that they could buy and then just create the Hollerith code manually instead of having to stay on campus (at a commuter college) and use keypunch machines.

I also remember encountering my first desktop computer, an Apple, maybe even a Mac, and wondering what you do with a computer that doesn't have a screen for you to type on.

I also remember arguing with a software company that they were ridiculous for not having the source code available so that if you wanted something different, you could just change the source code. After I learned better, I used to think it was pretty funny that I did that, but now I think I was ahead of my time. LOL

Oh yes Barbara, I remember FORTRAN which was the first programming language I learned; I believe it was in 1965. That was later followed by COBOL, RPG, PL1, BAL, etc. A programmer's life was filled with acronyms but none of this AFK and BRB stuff which weren't coined until much later.