Magenta Sketches

In the crafting world, we refer to current projects as a ‘wip’ that stands for work in progress. My oldest wip is three years old and it is a blanket. It’s for my niece who is now three years older and many inches taller so I need to add some rows so that is indeed still a legit blanket and not a throw blanket.

Larger projects like blankets always take me forever to finish as I prefer smaller projects that I can see progress on after a few hours or even better they are completed in that time. Blankets take many rows before they start to take shape.

This is a good reminder to finish that blanket before another year rolls around and it becomes that much harder to finish.

Back in the day when cell phones were not as popular, I never received any solicitation calls. Today, though, is another story. I get more sales calls than regular calls. I’ve gotten over the urge to be polite and listen nicely. That is when I even answer the phone. If I don’t have the number then chances are good I’m not answering it.

So that is the story behind today’s comic. I usually try to be nice but in certain situations it’s just impossible.

While mindlessly scrolling through Twitter, I ran across a video of a beekeeper removing a hive and relocating it. It was interesting and caught my attention. Anyway, she was able to get every single bee. Once she had moved the queen bee, the other bees followed. Oh the power you wield as Queen Bee! So was born today’s comic inspiration.

There’s no feeling in the world like casually restarting your computer because things are working perfectly only to have the computer refuse to load windows.

First and foremost, thank goodness I had a separate drive from Windows and had recently moved most of my files to it. Luckily I had a Linux boot drive so I was able to get to that drive as the Windows drive was corrupt.

I had to create a Windows recovery disk from my husband’s computer. If you only have one computer then I suggest creating that recovery disk and putting it safely away because when I was trying to recover Windows it did give me the option to download online but my computer wouldn’t connect. I had to do a full re-install which wiped out both drives.

It’s actually kind of a good thing because I had so many started projects that I either lost interest in or forgot about. Every time I would run across them I would feel disappointment in myself for not following through with it. Now that all that is gone, I no longer have the guilt about not finishing it. So a partial blessing in disguise.

I’m back going now but still do not trust my computer so trying to remember to back up everything.