Feeling a bit proud

Last night I spent a manly hour drinking beer, listening to rock music, and sewing. That's right, sewing. A couple of months ago I returned home to realize that my jeans felt a bit draftier than before. Upon further inspection I noticed they had a 6" rip from the waist and down the right rear pocket. While classy, this is not the fashion statement I wanted to start. For the past two months these jeans (only a couple of weeks old at the time) have been draped across my office chair begging for attention which they finally received last night.

Now, you must keep in mind that I haven't stitched anything since, well, ever. Both my mother and my sister are excellent with needles of all sorts, but my throbbing thumb and index finger from countless stabbings tell me I am not.

The first several minutes proved to be quite unproductive, but after some practice (and more beer) I started to get the hang of it. I'm not sure what sort of stitch I used (wikipedia's articles on the matter don't show pictures, so it was difficult to identify), but it seemed to do the job well. Observe!

Tagged by my family

Both my sister and cousin tagged me for this weird task:

1. Find the nearest book


2. Name the book & the author


3. Turn to page 123


4. Go to the fifth full sentence on the page. Copy out the next three sentences and post to your blog


5. Tag three more folks

Don't think of me as a nerd, but...

Book: Python in a nutshell: a desktop quick reference by Alex Martelli.

The sentences: "However, removing circular dependencies is almost always easier than ensuring bomb-proof ordering while keeping such circular dependencies. sys.modules Entries The build-in __import__ finds an entry that is already in the sys.modules, it will try to use that value, whatever type of object it may be. The import and from statements rely on the __import__ function, so therefore they too can end up using objects that are not modules."

I tag Nick!, Jacob and Heather.