One day in a major corporation, an IT manager noticed that his main computer programmer (who was an expert on batch file) had not shown up to work for almost a week.
Worried, the IT manager called 911 and the police ended up going to the programmer’s house and they searched for him.
They found him in the shower washing his hair with the water running and his body was wrinkled as a prune.
The police said “Do you know that you haven’t been to work for almost a week”.
The programmer replied “I know, but I bought this new bottle of shampoo and the directions tell me to rinse and repeat!”
Firstly may I start by wishing you all a Happy Easter....I realise it is a little later than is traditional, but technology, too much chocolate and two very active little girls have conspired against me this weekend.
Now I realise that what happens back of office has a certain enigmatic quality which in some respects should remain a mystery, but some things are worth shouting about. Not to dispell too many myths, the Get Knitted Team do not sit around knitting all day. Admittedly small parts of the day have us standing around a freshly delivered parcel saying 'Ooooooh' and sometimes 'Aaaaah' and this happened only last week when we were treated to new colours from Koigu and a new shipment of Lorna's Laces with new shades and their 'Little Cans of Paint'. Please remember we suffer...so you don't have to !!!! Keep checking out the website for these super new shades.
Most of the time we spend working our little hand knitted socks off dealing with orders, and we only recently recorded in one day, processing and packing 164 parcels to be delivered around the world, answering 221 emails, manning the shop which had customers in it the entire day, collating a further 72 orders for the next days posting and answering 47 phone calls !!! No mean feat for a team of 9
I have to tell you about the latest hair brained plan.....not strictly knitting related but marvellous all the same. Sue, Hannah, Jalea and myself from Get Knitted are in training. We form part of a team that will be running the Bristol Half Marathon in September this year. We will be running for a very worthy cause and something very dear to my heart...The Meningitis Research Foundation. Our team is of mixed abilities, is the kindest way of putting it ! But I cannot tell you all how proud I am of them. Alongside our normal blog we will keep you updated with our progress...the highs and the lows.
Anyway, more to follow in the next few days.....
One of our regulars, Teresa, would like you all to know about Gridiron 2008.
Because I know you all love to get out and support the arts and knit at the same time, I want to tell you about Gridiron on April 25, 26, and 27th of this month at the Orpheum. Gridiron has been going on for 40 years and it raises money for college kids who are in journalism to become journalists (like myself).
I will be performing, along with some writers and photographers from the Wichita Eagle, KNSS, The Old Town Gazette, PBS, and other television stations around the area. It’s highly comical, wonderfully current stuff that every Kansan should see at least once!!! I’m asking all my fellow knitters to come out, knit during the show, and support the arts, local journalists, and one of your fellow Stitch and Bitchers. :)
Hope to see you there!
