(Was going to call the entry purge but that reminded me of something disgusting.)

Yesterday, I highly considered deleting my Facebook account. I spend so much time there, hiding peoples’ updates about quizes and fish and Mafias and farms and little time actually finding out what my friends and family are up to. Plus there’s all those privacy concerns making me think that maybe I want to control what gets shown and what doesn’t (at least a little more, I’m naive enough to think everyone else online isn’t sharing whatever I post/write/type). But, well, my friends pointed something out: it’s one of th few places I have to find out what’s going on with people. Sure, there’s Twitter or email but that whole require my friends to change their habits just to keep me informed. I can write all the tweets and blog posts I want, but unless my friends leave the Facebook bubble, they’re never see them. Plus, when something is new with them, why should I require them to venture “outside” to tell me what’s up. FB is the means but which people now share news – I was actually surprised when a family member (who’s not even 25) sent an actual email saying he’s moving. An email! No one emails anymore except to communicate (versus broadcast).

So, yes, I am still on Facebook, but I took an hour or so last night to do a big purge of all my social media contact lists. Trying to sell me something via your Fanpage, bye-bye! Friend of a friend or someone I have little change of ever seeing again – see ya! Google contact who I only ever sent one email to in 2007 – why are you taking up space in my contact list?

I feel like things are right again in the world. I have ways of connecting with those I want to connect with and not all this extra people hanging out on the fringes. (Oh, and I’m angelanoel pretty much everywhere, if you want to find me.)

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Oh, look, a photo of knitting. Imagine that. I just finished the heel-turn on Veronica’s first Nanner sock (only took me 10 days to get this far). Hoping to finish it today and immediately start on the second. Crochet has been a total distraction lately but I really need to finish these and get them to her soon. Not that she needs them right away but I don’t want it to suddenly be August and I still have this project half complete. Plus, the yarn is an amazing cashmere/merino blend that is wonderful to work with.

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I’ve now completed the third round on the first set of 24 hexagons and got three of them put together. The joins are bit wonky and I’m not super confident that they’ll hold but, for now it works. I can always go back and single crochet them together in more places.

(Random fact: The wine in this photo is from a winery owned by Dave Matthews. Only once during our 30 or so minute wine tasting was his name mentioned while his winemaker’s name was mentioned multiple times. Thank you, Blenheim, for not going by just his name but by the name of the one who makes your excellent wines, instead.)

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Today’s plan is easy: farmer’s market, yarn store, Baltimore for party.