Work In Progress

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Tonight (or should I say, this morning) the title of my post has nothing to do with knitting, an everything to do with the fact that I am carefully monitoring the behavior of one of our customer's server systems. You gotta love anything that impacts the usability of a server -- it happens at night. So while many people get to sleep, someone gets to watch and see that this computer is pushing its electrons around correctly.

So far, so good. In a half an hour or so, I will probably feel good enough about it following the instructions it was given to go to bed and check out the (hopefully) completed process in the morning.

It's funny to me, that after all the time I have been exposed to computers and the Internet, it still amazes me that I can sit in my desk chair in Chicago and have a special bonding moment with a server almost anywhere else in the world. It's the same kind of wonder I experience when I take a look at my blog stats every now and again and notice that there are hits to my blog from every continent on the planet (except from Antarctica). All I can say to that is "wow", and that I'm honored to have so many visitors from so many diverse places. Would that I had the chance to visit all the countries you all visit from!

With that in mind, if you're visiting today, and wouldn't mind commenting, let me know where you're from! If you're from the US, let me know your home state. You don't have to fill in a URL or your real email address if you don't want to. I'll put all the results together in one of those lovely maps and share it.

Thanks for dropping by today. There will be a little something to show tomorrow, since the one good thing about watch a computer go about it's business is that there's plenty of time to get in a few more rows on my pink spongy wonder.

423 Comments

Sarah W. said:

Morning! I hope your server has behaved itself and you got some sleep too. I drop by your site pretty much every day and am from London, England.

Nadia said:

I'm Nadia and I'm from Vancouver, BC, Canada.

jennifer said:

good morning! i hope you got some good sleep! i'm in richmond, ca (right by berkeley).

Lauren said:

Student in CT. Born and raised in Louisiana.

Beate said:

Hi, I'm from Germany (Karlsruhe - if anyone is interested).

Ninnu said:

Hi, I'm from Finland.

Anna said:

Hi! Another regular reader here, from Melbourne, Australia. Am an ex-molecular biologist as well as a slow knitter - love watching your projects turn into FOs!

Atropos said:

Good morning. I'm at work here in London, England.

Lizzie said:

Another regular reader from Gent, East Flanders, Belgium

Anna said:

Joining the European club, I'm in Liverpool England! You should get other continents when they start waking up, lol.

Anna

Eva Shiu said:

Hi ! I am from Hong Kong.

Tuija said:

I am a knitting geneticist from Finland - many thanks for your witty blog!

Regina said:

Morning! I am a big fan of yours -Wilmington Massachusetts, near Boston. I visit regularly :)
Take care!

Stéphanie said:

Hello, i am from Brussels, Belgium!

Peatbogfaery said:

Hi! Leicestershire, England

Bonny said:

Good Morning from a knitting librarian in Flemington, New Jersey.

Mrs. R. said:

Hi, I'm Mrs. R. from Canada's east coast, in Halifax Nova Scotia.

Marlena said:

Brunswick, Maine here! I have you on my bloglines list, and I love when I see you've updated.

wendy e said:

Rochester NY - I'm a former clinical chemist (I "do" computers now) and a daily reader. Hope your server behaved.

Maggie said:

Good Morning! Maggie from Plymouth, MA saying Hi!

Maud said:

One more from Finland!

cyndy said:

CT

vanessa said:

hi! checking in from lake placid, fl (central florida) :-)

Cathy said:

Good morning from the Hampton Roads area of VA--close to historic Jamestown and Williamsburg!

Dani said:

Daily reader from Toronto, Canada!

Jenny said:

Here's a visitor from Sweden!

jane said:

Hello from Richmond, Virginia. Jane

Alpaca Woman said:

Morning - Greetings in from Surrey, UK

Donna said:

Ohio wants to be in the count.

Meg said:

Hi there from a California, USA expat now knitting in Copenhagen, Denmark!

Karen said:

Good morning from New Hampshire!

Pubah said:

North Carolina here.

Sue said:

Good morning from Michigan.

Susanne said:

Greetings from Potsdam in Germany.

Jeni said:

Good Morning from Lee's Summit, MO (near Kansas City). I read your posts daily and am amazed at all the knitting you accomplish!

Sarah said:

Hi from Cologne, Germany!

Laurie GD said:

Manchester, United Kingdom.

lisa said:

hello from central illinois, practically a neighbor.

Rachael said:

Woot! Oakland, CA says hello.

Sarah said:

Richmond, Virginia.

CathyZ said:

Brooklyn, NYC says hi!

PumpkinMama said:

I love late night baby-sitting machines. Part of my job too. You can put my map point just a hair north of Boston, Mass. Hope you got some rest.

Mary said:

checking in from Cambridge, Mass.

kate said:

I am at work bright and early in Baltimore, Maryland!

Mandy said:

Don't forget to add Iowa...I live in Des Moines and check in with your blog every morning before work...

Shirley said:

Good morning - I'm Shirley from outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Janet said:

The Woodlands, Texas

Leanne said:

Server's...hmmm, they like to wake us poor humans up at 4 in the morning misbehaving. I am located in Potsdam, NY which is waaaaay north of NYC, Alabany, ect. I'm about 1/2 south of Canada and the closet city to me is Ottawa, ONT.

Wendy G said:

Good morning from Alabama.

Liz said:

Severn, MD USA and I too hope your server followed it's instructions completely and glitch free! :)

Ulla said:

Hi, Dane living on LI, NY

Alison said:

Hi!! I drop in every time there's an update on Bloglines, I'm in Australia!!

hope you are sleeping in! we're up and have been for our walk in Austin, TX.

eli said:

I'm originally from Washington State, but currently in Boston, working at the Bauer Center for Genomics Research. It's fun to the see the knitting of another keyboard biologist.

Lisa said:

Hi from California!

Laura said:

Good Morning! You may be one of the fastest knitters that I have seen, and with great technique. I live in Northwest Georgia.

Mary said:

Hi from Fredericksburg, Virginia.

Liz said:

I read your blog every day before starting work here in Cambridge, MA.

Anne said:

Greetings from Ann Arbor, MI.

Melanie said:

Hi! from a daily reader in Ontario, Canada.

Alice said:

Another daily reader coming out of the woodwork... I'm a knitting medical student from Arkansas.

Jayme said:

Good morning from Virginia. I hope you are sleeping in.

Jayme

Kerry said:

Minneapolis, MN. Sounds so boring compared to most of the entries!

Shelby said:

Morning from Houston, TX.

Fran said:

Upstate New York, USA - I've been a quiet reader for some time now. Thanks for sharing your knitting with us all!

Kim said:

Hi, from an endocrinology research associate in West Virginia. What wonderful fun to read the role call of locations!

Karin said:

Hello from London UK

Crystal said:

Ohio, p-vet and sociology student (you're syndicted on LJ, btw, and I come here from there)

Diana said:

Hi from NYC, USA

Ursula said:

... and another keyboard biologist, I'm in Penzberg, Germany !

Karen said:

Hi there - I'm Karen in Ottawa Canada. Looking forward to seeing your Phil Eponge sweater (have some in my stash to knit up soon too!).

jess said:

washington, dc :)

Alix said:

And another keyboard biologist (my B.S. is in Animal Science), I'm originally from Peoria, IL (hi!) but living in the San Francisco Bay Area (Mountain View), California.

Liz said:

Greetings from Golden West Suburbia (not as far west as BoogaJ, though). I enjoy reading about the area places that you mention.

Liz

ps. Former Bacteriologist/Food Scientist, turned librarian, mostly doing web design.

amy! said:

I check in regularly from whereever work travel takes me, but I call Cambridge, MA home.

karen w said:

Pinckney, MI (just nw of Ann Arbor)checking in. Love reading your progress daily! :D

Pat said:

Read you every morning!! - Hudson, MA

Durham, NC! Home of the Duke Blue Devils!

Anne said:

Morning! I, too, am always flummoxed by the fact that I can sit in Salt Lake City working through a server in Pittsburgh or Spokane that talks to servers in hospitals across the country. Mind-boggling.

Sydney said:

Chapel Hill, NC, home of the national champion Tar Heels. So there, you Dukie!

Karin said:

Hi from Stockholm, Sweden!

yoko said:

Longtime reader from Philadelphia, PA, reading via Bloglines. I enjoy your posts-- knitting and otherwise-- very much.

maggi said:

Hi, Theresa ~ I hope you know I'm a regular, checking in today from Richmond VA and looking forward to seeing you in MD!

Julie M. said:

Hi Theresa, When I started reading your blog, I was in San Mateo, CA, but I just moved to Seattle, WA, one of your favorite cities, and now one of mine!

Susanne said:

I read your blog every morning before work. Susanne checking in from north central Alberta, Canada. Edmonton precisely.

Melissa said:

Hi, I'm from College Station, Tx.

Alison said:

Daily reader from Eden Prairie, MN

Flan said:

I'm a student from Flagstaff, AZ

Judi said:

Good Morning from Canton, MI.

monica said:

Wow! You weren't kidding about all of your readers! It's so neat to read where everyone's commented from. I work in Chicago and live in the burbs.

Grace said:

Hi! Another Alabama blogger who loves to read/see what you're knitting!

Catherine said:

Howdy from a fellow Chicago knitter. (Although given today's weather, I'm thinking of relocating somewhere warmer...) Thanks for writing!

Julie said:

I read you from Boston, Mass. Very enjoyable!

jasmine said:

Alexandria, VA

AlisonG said:

I'm in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Karen said:

Hi Theresa! I'm in Minnesota, near St. Cloud.

Deb said:

New Jersey, here! Isn't the internet amazing? I saw the first glimmers of it (BITNET) when I was in college in the 1980s and it used to absolutely astound me that I could sit at my computer and chat with people in Germany or Toronto or wherever. Who knew how much better and how much easier it was going to get??

Donna said:

Good morning from St. Louis, MO. Love your blog!

Steph said:

Hey Theresa--great idea. Stephannie from Toronto Ontario, Canada.

Julie said:

Good morning! I'm working (but wishing I was knitting) in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Terby said:

Morning! Regular reader checking in from Madison, WI.

And yet another biologist. :)

Cheri said:

I'm from Del Rio,Texas. I'm a knitting archeologist/natural resource person with the local National Park Service. Love your blog. Read it all the time.

Knittykim said:

Coral Springs, Florida here(next door to sunny Fort Lauderdale!). Hope you got some sleep!!

Sarah said:

Hello from Indiana (where I am located, not my home state, which is Missouri. But when travelling abroad I tell people I'm from Chicago, since I went to NU).

Sarah said:

Waving across that great lake, from Haslett, Michigan.

nimrodel70 said:

Hi from a transplanted Iowan, now living outside of Houston, TX

Kirsten said:

Hey there! Scottsdale Arizona here! I am a daily reader/lurker. Have fun with all your comments and I hope that computer behaved. We are actually headed to the Chicago area in a couple of weeks to visit the in-laws!

Liz said:

Reading your blog in Chicago, IL

Lisa said:

Good Morning from Portland,Oregon

Ashley said:

Hi from an epidemiologist in Fort Collins, CO. I guess I'm more a keyboard veterinarian than a keyboard biologist :)

Diane said:

Hello from Diane in Glenelg, Maryland (located conveniently just 10 minutes from the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival!).

erika said:

Chicago!

debby said:

Good morning from Buffalo, NY!!

Sandy J said:

Reporting in from Rochester, MN.

Jane said:

Hi Theresa. I love your posts! I am from Eagle, Idaho (near Boise) and faithfully read your blog each day.

Melissa said:

I'm in California and from New York.

Aven said:

Faithful reader from Toronto, Canada.

amisha said:

Hi there! I'm from New Orleans, LA-- really enjoy your site, lovely work! :)

Sharon said:

good morning and good luck with the server watch. I'm checking in from southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia, where checking in with you is part of my morning routine.
cheers,
Sharon

Leigh said:

Good morning from Panama City, FL - home of the World's Most Beautiful Beaches.

Sockbug said:

Checking in from DFW, Texas, where it's 65°, sunny and windy!

claudia said:

I think you've got the keyboard biolgist market pretty well covered.

;-)

Massachusetts, baby.

Anne said:

Anne in Black Forest, Colorado checking in!

Cathy said:

Another daily reader, hailing from Charlottesville, Virginia.

Robbie said:

I'm in Austin Texas where it's 63 and sunny.

Kelly said:

Hello from Columbus, Ohio!

Mary said:

I am typing this from Rochester, NY. I like to think that it's the Seattle of the Northeast. It is proving so today.

Jessie said:

san francisco in the house!

chris said:

Not a keyboard biologist, but a molecular biologiest comin' atcha from Dallas, TX, USA!

Emma said:

Waving from North East England ! ;-]

Judy said:

Upstate SC (near Greenville) here!

Jennifer said:

Rocket Scientist, Fort Worth, Texas

Barbara said:

Carmel, California

Danielle said:

De-lurking to say I read your blog from Stoneham, MA...

Cindy said:

Hi from "The O.C." in southern California! But I'm in the process of moving to central Massachusetts soon. Map me at either one -- your choice!

christina b. said:

Hi! I'm a student in Blooooooomington, Indiana where it is gray and rainy today.

Laurie said:

Rock on women in science! I live in Washougal, WA.

caroline said:

Hellooooo from Miami, Florida!

Jessica said:

Hi from San Diego, CA

Carolyn said:

Hello from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada!

Laura A. said:

Bonding from a desk chair in Rochester, Minnesota.

Kristin said:

Greetings from Bend in beautiful Central Oregon!

Uli Ross said:

Good Morning from British Columbia, Canada. Right on the lovely west coast.

Camille said:

I'm here in the northwest 'burbs of Chicago.

Andrea said:

Utah, stuck in a training class, actually. :)

diana said:

another biologist (though not on the keyboard) from Boston, MA

Lindsey said:

Good morning from the mountains of Los Gatos, CA.

amy said:

Checking in here from San Francisco, CA.

Maus said:

Maus from sunny (and snowy) Blackforest in Colorado near Colorado Springs.

Karen said:

Read your blog every day! Love it! It's also been great help for some of my projects. I'm living and knitting in Norway.

kate said:

Melrose MA
A knitting biochemist. :)

Sara said:

Hello from the San Francisco Bay Area!

J Strizzy said:

A northern California babe here -- the Bay Area to be more precise.

Sarah Palmer said:

Chicago, IL!

Angela said:

Hi there, I love reading of your knitting adventures. I'm an Iowa girl now living in southern California.

Shannon said:

Rochester, NY - I thank god every day that I'm not a Computer Operator anymore... Many, Many nights without sleep thanks to my pager that went off every 3 minutes or so when the people getting paid 3x what I did forgot to load the right media in the appropriate drives before they went home at 5pm.

Laura said:

A daily reader from not too far away-Madison, Wisconsin

Sarah said:

Daily reader from Buffalo NY

Blythe said:

From Iowa City, Iowa

Jen said:

Hello! I'm a daily reader from Connecticut.

Sarah said:

I stop by every time you update. I'm from Long Island, New York.

Diann said:

Good morning (yawn) from Fremont, CA (Niles, actually - the first "Hollywood" - in the East Bay near Silicon Valley)

Hope the servers behaved!

Shannon said:

Hey there from Portland, OR!

Deb said:

Howdy from Concord, CA (near San Francisco)! My job involves watching servers work, too...

Kara said:

Fort Worth, Texas

Michelle said:

Good morning from Honolulu, HI...

Michelle

Karen said:

Hi from Seattle, WA.

india said:

Good morning from Kamloops, British Columbia

Laurie said:

Massachusetts!

sage said:

Hi, Regular reader from Connecticut

Tish said:

I live at West Point, NY home of the US Military Academy, and as an Army brat married to a soldier I enjoyed reading all of the other entries and seeing how many of the places I've visited or lived in (quite a few!)

Kristel said:

Another regular reader from Finland here. :)

Jenny said:

Dayton, OH.

Alyssa said:

Hi! I'm from Buffalo, New York

erika said:

Hello from Sonoma County, CA!

jillz said:

Hi from Pittsburgh, PA!

Leslie said:

Greetings from Santa Barbara, Ca. I thoroughly enjoy your blog. Very inspiring!

Another Leslie said:

A regular reader from Colorado.

Jeanette said:

New York City! Rah!

Purly Whites said:

Greetings from Seattle, WA.

Debbie said:

Hi, I'm Debbie from Upstate, New York. I'm a biologist & work in Infection Control.

Jen said:

checking in from Ypsilanti, MI!

Kathy said:

Regular reader from Colorado Springs, CO

Eva said:

A New Yorker living in the low desert (Tempe, AZ).

Anne said:

WNY, USA

Kris said:

Good evening from a somewhat-neighbor. I'm in Columbia, MO-- halfway between Kansas City and St. Louis.

Desha said:

Des Moines, Iowa - but soon to be in the Chicago. About a month and counting!

Chrissy said:

Hi I'm in Melbourne, Australia. Love catching up with your blog.

Kristen said:

biochem major turned med student from north north New England!

Elizabeth H. said:

Checking in from Culpeper, (Central) VA, USA!

Amy said:

Hi from Beijing, China! Where the sky is yellow from the Gobi desert blowing in.

Christina said:

Hi there -- I'm surfing in from San Diego, California. :o)

Lisa said:

Another one from Boston, MA

Janice said:

You're a regular weeknight check-in from St. Paul, MN.

Annemarie said:

Hi! I'm currently a student in Austin, Texas, but for half the year I live in Madrid, Spain.

Barbara said:

A regular reader from Abingdon, VA. Way down near the Tennessee line.

Sarah said:

A regular reader checking in from the Berkshire Mountains of Western Massachusetts!

Julia said:

Hi! I'm a student in NYC.

Tammy said:

I'm from Surrey, British Columbia, Canada. I enjoy your blog very much.

Susannah said:

Susannah from Madison, WI, who heard about you from St. Paul's Janice up there (ahoy!).

Good stuff :)

Karen said:

Hi! I'm out here in San Diego, California, but I'm from Chicago, not too far away from where you are, if my geography-- and memory-- serve me correctly. Reading your site makes me miss home.

Cynthia said:

I visit your site a couple of times a week, and I live in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Catherine said:

Hi, I'm in Nashville, TN

Rebecca said:

Hello! I'm from Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Ellen said:

The Incrementalist from KnitLit Too, checking in from Louisville, KY while trying to simultaneously listen to iTunes playlist, keep track of my sleeve increases, and keep one of my welsh corgis from barking at the neighbors....

Joan said:

Yet another daily reader from Cambridge, Mass. (Could the Hub of the Universe also be the Hub of the Knitting Universe?) I edit medical books and knit while I read. I'm enjoying watching Eponge grow.

Rebecca said:

Hi Theresa! Your blog is the first knitting blog (actually, the first blog at all!) I started to read regularly . . . and still do every week day! I am in Chapel Hill, NC.

Al said:

Another knitting scientist, another Mainer.

Sarah said:

Berkeley, CA!

Shannon said:

Hi-love your blog!
From rainy New Jersey

Tracey said:

Hi, I'm in Vancouver, B.C.

Shauna said:

Another from suburban Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN. I check in regularly and am absolutely astounded by your productivity!

Angela said:

Angela from Indiana. :)

Katie said:

Good evening from Vacaville, California

Linda said:

Daily reader checking in from Airdrie, Alberta, Canada. (North of Calgary 10 mins.)

Ellen said:

Hi from a former immunologist, (now knitting teacher and mom of 3)in Elkins Park, PA. I thought I knit alot!!

Nikki said:

I drop by just about every day - found you through Google when I was looking for some completed Audreys, in order to decide whether to make one myself. :)

I'm in Hamilton, ON -- not too far from Toronto.

Tegan said:

Greetings from a daily reader in Sydney, Australia.

Vicki said:

I'm sure I don't have visitors from every continent. But I don't have nearly 127 either. I'm from Lawrence, KS.

Penny said:

I drop by every morning from Tuesday - Saturday (that's what the time difference does for you)from Auckland, New Zealand. (Although today I'm later than usual!!)

Nathalie said:

South east Queensland - Australia

Cathy said:

Hi! I'm a daily reader from Grants Pass, Oregon.

Chris said:

Good evening from beautiful downtown Lake Oswego Oregon (suburban Portland)

Quirkybook said:

I'm a biomedical informatics PhD student who crochets (and pretends to knit). I'm in Palo Alto, CA now, but am recently from Cambridge, MA and before that, suburbs of New York.

Kyra said:

America's Heartland! Kansas City

Isabelle said:

Hi, Theresa ! I'm from France, more exactly from Paris. Good luck with those servers !

christine said:

hello from tokyo japan! hang in there! :D

laurie said:

wasn't sure you were still counting when i started reading, but apparently i'm not the only one just 'checking in'...still awake in michigan (about 20 mins from threadbear *grin*)...enjoy reading your blog :-)

Louise said:

A little late but hi from another knitting biologist in Hertfordshire, UK.

Clementine said:

From Melbourne, Australia.
Shikes you have a big readership!! Great blog too!

Bridget said:

I'm a regular reader from Yarmouth, Maine.