Last night (while doing some work for home that mostly involves monitoring one of our servers that happens to be in a remote location) I finished the front of the boatneck Tai top. No pictures, it looks the same as the back piece. For some reason, the knitting seemed to take longer, although I suspect it probably didn't, I just had the weekend to work on the back. Tonight I'll cast on the first of the sleeves, and see how good my rectangular knitting is.
Right now my house is very quiet. John is away on business and his mother has moved back to her own house. On one hand, I am happy that John and I are the only inhabitants of our abode. On the other hand, she came to stay with us because of concerns we had about her living in her own space. So we're still concerned about her, but are hopeful that things will work out okay.
I'm also balancing out my knitting with a bit of reading. So far I've got three books on my nightstand...
The Life of Pi, by Yann Martel (I'm reading it for the Knitting Bloggers Reading Group).
The Bug: A Novel, by Ellen Ullman (loaned to me by a friend at work).
In the Beginning Was the Command Line, by Neal Stephenson (loaned to me by a friend at work).
So far I am finding Life of Pi interesting, but I am not sure I am enjoying the book yet. I guess because I didn't pick the book out myself, I am reading it with a much more clinical eye than I would be otherwise. The other two fall squarely into the genre of "geek lit". I am not sure quite what to make of The Bug at the moment. Some of it rings true, some of it rings over the top, and some of it comes too close to home for comfort. I just started Command Line which is more an essay on OS and user environments on computers by the guy that wrote Cryptonomicon (which, if you haven't read, is fabulous).
i LOVED cryptonomicon too!!! thought it was totally enthralling, could barely put it down! i think he's working on some new books w/ ancestors of those characters.