Our nephew went home yesterday, and the house seems like it has a hole in it somehow. Having two 13 year old boys in the house was entertaining and actually less stressful than I thought it would be. (Except for the one evening of endless wrestling and threats of underwear wedgies.) I really enjoyed having my nephew here. The kid was moping around the house, sort of dejected today. He misses his cousin. Me, too.
On the knitting front, I finished up the elaborate Django socks, which are a Cookie A pattern. They're actually much more complicated looking than you would think. The pattern is really quite straightforward, especially if you're comfortable knitting from charts. I actually bought a magnetic strip board this week, which works out a lot better than the post-it note strategy I usually use for graphs. These socks are knit out of Sundara sock yarn, in a colorway called Aloe.
Finally, a weird, yet funny thing--my friend, Rachel, emailed me and told me that she tried to access my blog from her in-laws computer and her father-in-laws "porn blocking" computer program BLOCKED my web site! Seriously! I thought she was joking with me when she was asking me what I was posting these days. I was so shocked, I double checked my blog, you know, just to make sure that I hadn't done anything I couldn't recall, but all I saw were fairly non-titillating photos of knitting and the kid and my nephew eating hamburgers. Not especially hot stuff. She said that she thought it was probably my blog name, since porn-blocking programs don't have a sense of humor. My husband and mother think the whole thing is hysterical and ribbed me about it a lot this morning.
It's unlikely that the porn filter cares about YOUR blog in particular. It's much more likely that there are truly adult blogs on typepad and the filter is blocking all of typepad rather than trying to figure out which blogs are adult and which are tame.
Posted by: Gre7g | March 23, 2009 at 01:11 PM
Too funny! Good thing my work doesn't have a porn filter, or I'd never get to read the blogs I love (Yarn Harlot? hello?) :)
Posted by: Jocelyn | March 23, 2009 at 02:14 PM
Nope, it's just Jess, Gre7g - I could get on other typepad blogs. She's a dirty girl! But luckily I'm back home on my own porn-filled computer so I can access any blog I want.
Cute socks!!
Posted by: Rachel | March 24, 2009 at 12:14 AM
Then it's probably by IP address. Some blogs will be on one server and other blogs on other IP addresses. Sounds like Jess shares a server with adult blogs.
Posted by: Gre7g | March 24, 2009 at 09:48 AM
Ewwww....I don't want to share a server with adult blogs. (Although, I do think it's funny that my friends think I'm a dirty girl.)
Posted by: Jessica Eastin | March 24, 2009 at 11:11 AM