Work In Progress
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.
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.
I'm Nadia and I'm from Vancouver, BC, Canada.
good morning! i hope you got some good sleep! i'm in richmond, ca (right by berkeley).
Student in CT. Born and raised in Louisiana.
Hi, I'm from Germany (Karlsruhe - if anyone is interested).
Hi, I'm from Finland.
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!
Good morning. I'm at work here in London, England.
Another regular reader from Gent, East Flanders, Belgium
Joining the European club, I'm in Liverpool England! You should get other continents when they start waking up, lol.
Anna
Hi ! I am from Hong Kong.
I am a knitting geneticist from Finland - many thanks for your witty blog!
Morning! I am a big fan of yours -Wilmington Massachusetts, near Boston. I visit regularly :)
Take care!
Hello, i am from Brussels, Belgium!
Hi! Leicestershire, England
Good Morning from a knitting librarian in Flemington, New Jersey.
Hi, I'm Mrs. R. from Canada's east coast, in Halifax Nova Scotia.
Brunswick, Maine here! I have you on my bloglines list, and I love when I see you've updated.
Rochester NY - I'm a former clinical chemist (I "do" computers now) and a daily reader. Hope your server behaved.
Good Morning! Maggie from Plymouth, MA saying Hi!
One more from Finland!
CT
hi! checking in from lake placid, fl (central florida) :-)
Good morning from the Hampton Roads area of VA--close to historic Jamestown and Williamsburg!
Daily reader from Toronto, Canada!
Here's a visitor from Sweden!
Hello from Richmond, Virginia. Jane
Morning - Greetings in from Surrey, UK
Ohio wants to be in the count.
Hi there from a California, USA expat now knitting in Copenhagen, Denmark!
Good morning from New Hampshire!
North Carolina here.
Boston!
Good morning from Michigan.
Greetings from Potsdam in Germany.
Good Morning from Lee's Summit, MO (near Kansas City). I read your posts daily and am amazed at all the knitting you accomplish!
Hi from Cologne, Germany!
Manchester, United Kingdom.
hello from central illinois, practically a neighbor.
Woot! Oakland, CA says hello.
Richmond, Virginia.
Brooklyn, NYC says hi!
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.
checking in from Cambridge, Mass.
I am at work bright and early in Baltimore, Maryland!
Don't forget to add Iowa...I live in Des Moines and check in with your blog every morning before work...
Good morning - I'm Shirley from outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The Woodlands, Texas
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.
Good morning from Alabama.
Severn, MD USA and I too hope your server followed it's instructions completely and glitch free! :)
Hi, Dane living on LI, NY
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.
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.
Hi from California!
Good Morning! You may be one of the fastest knitters that I have seen, and with great technique. I live in Northwest Georgia.
Hi from Fredericksburg, Virginia.
I read your blog every day before starting work here in Cambridge, MA.
Greetings from Ann Arbor, MI.
Hi! from a daily reader in Ontario, Canada.
Another daily reader coming out of the woodwork... I'm a knitting medical student from Arkansas.
Good morning from Virginia. I hope you are sleeping in.
Jayme
Minneapolis, MN. Sounds so boring compared to most of the entries!
Morning from Houston, TX.
Upstate New York, USA - I've been a quiet reader for some time now. Thanks for sharing your knitting with us all!
Hi, from an endocrinology research associate in West Virginia. What wonderful fun to read the role call of locations!
Hello from London UK
Ohio, p-vet and sociology student (you're syndicted on LJ, btw, and I come here from there)
Hi from NYC, USA
... and another keyboard biologist, I'm in Penzberg, Germany !
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!).
washington, dc :)
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.
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.
I check in regularly from whereever work travel takes me, but I call Cambridge, MA home.
Pinckney, MI (just nw of Ann Arbor)checking in. Love reading your progress daily! :D
Read you every morning!! - Hudson, MA
Durham, NC! Home of the Duke Blue Devils!
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.
Chapel Hill, NC, home of the national champion Tar Heels. So there, you Dukie!
Hi from Stockholm, Sweden!
Longtime reader from Philadelphia, PA, reading via Bloglines. I enjoy your posts-- knitting and otherwise-- very much.
Hi, Theresa ~ I hope you know I'm a regular, checking in today from Richmond VA and looking forward to seeing you in MD!
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!
I read your blog every morning before work. Susanne checking in from north central Alberta, Canada. Edmonton precisely.
Hi, I'm from College Station, Tx.
Daily reader from Eden Prairie, MN
I'm a student from Flagstaff, AZ
Good Morning from Canton, MI.
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.
Hi! Another Alabama blogger who loves to read/see what you're knitting!
Howdy from a fellow Chicago knitter. (Although given today's weather, I'm thinking of relocating somewhere warmer...) Thanks for writing!
I read you from Boston, Mass. Very enjoyable!
Alexandria, VA
I'm in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Hi Theresa! I'm in Minnesota, near St. Cloud.
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??
Good morning from St. Louis, MO. Love your blog!
Hey Theresa--great idea. Stephannie from Toronto Ontario, Canada.
Good morning! I'm working (but wishing I was knitting) in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Morning! Regular reader checking in from Madison, WI.
And yet another biologist. :)
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.
Coral Springs, Florida here(next door to sunny Fort Lauderdale!). Hope you got some sleep!!
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).
Waving across that great lake, from Haslett, Michigan.
Hi from a transplanted Iowan, now living outside of Houston, TX
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!
Reading your blog in Chicago, IL
Good Morning from Portland,Oregon
Hi from an epidemiologist in Fort Collins, CO. I guess I'm more a keyboard veterinarian than a keyboard biologist :)
Hello from Diane in Glenelg, Maryland (located conveniently just 10 minutes from the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival!).
Chicago!
Good morning from Buffalo, NY!!
Reporting in from Rochester, MN.
Hi Theresa. I love your posts! I am from Eagle, Idaho (near Boise) and faithfully read your blog each day.
I'm in California and from New York.
Faithful reader from Toronto, Canada.
Hi there! I'm from New Orleans, LA-- really enjoy your site, lovely work! :)
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
Good morning from Panama City, FL - home of the World's Most Beautiful Beaches.
Checking in from DFW, Texas, where it's 65°, sunny and windy!
I think you've got the keyboard biolgist market pretty well covered.
;-)
Massachusetts, baby.
Anne in Black Forest, Colorado checking in!
Another daily reader, hailing from Charlottesville, Virginia.
I'm in Austin Texas where it's 63 and sunny.
Hello from Columbus, Ohio!
I am typing this from Rochester, NY. I like to think that it's the Seattle of the Northeast. It is proving so today.
san francisco in the house!
Not a keyboard biologist, but a molecular biologiest comin' atcha from Dallas, TX, USA!
Waving from North East England ! ;-]
Upstate SC (near Greenville) here!
Rocket Scientist, Fort Worth, Texas
Carmel, California
De-lurking to say I read your blog from Stoneham, MA...
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!
Hi! I'm a student in Blooooooomington, Indiana where it is gray and rainy today.
Rock on women in science! I live in Washougal, WA.
Hellooooo from Miami, Florida!
Hi from San Diego, CA
Hello from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada!
Bonding from a desk chair in Rochester, Minnesota.
Greetings from Bend in beautiful Central Oregon!
Good Morning from British Columbia, Canada. Right on the lovely west coast.
I'm here in the northwest 'burbs of Chicago.
Utah, stuck in a training class, actually. :)
another biologist (though not on the keyboard) from Boston, MA
Good morning from the mountains of Los Gatos, CA.
Checking in here from San Francisco, CA.
Maus from sunny (and snowy) Blackforest in Colorado near Colorado Springs.
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.
Melrose MA
A knitting biochemist. :)
Hello from the San Francisco Bay Area!
A northern California babe here -- the Bay Area to be more precise.
Chicago, IL!
Hi there, I love reading of your knitting adventures. I'm an Iowa girl now living in southern California.
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.
A daily reader from not too far away-Madison, Wisconsin
Daily reader from Buffalo NY
From Iowa City, Iowa
Hello! I'm a daily reader from Connecticut.
I stop by every time you update. I'm from Long Island, New York.
Good morning (yawn) from Fremont, CA (Niles, actually - the first "Hollywood" - in the East Bay near Silicon Valley)
Hope the servers behaved!
Hey there from Portland, OR!
Howdy from Concord, CA (near San Francisco)! My job involves watching servers work, too...
Fort Worth, Texas
Good morning from Honolulu, HI...
Michelle
Hi from Seattle, WA.
Good morning from Kamloops, British Columbia
Massachusetts!
Hi, Regular reader from Connecticut
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!)
Another regular reader from Finland here. :)
Dayton, OH.
Hi! I'm from Buffalo, New York
Hello from Sonoma County, CA!
Hi from Pittsburgh, PA!
Greetings from Santa Barbara, Ca. I thoroughly enjoy your blog. Very inspiring!
A regular reader from Colorado.
New York City! Rah!
Greetings from Seattle, WA.
Hi, I'm Debbie from Upstate, New York. I'm a biologist & work in Infection Control.
checking in from Ypsilanti, MI!
Regular reader from Colorado Springs, CO
A New Yorker living in the low desert (Tempe, AZ).
WNY, USA
Good evening from a somewhat-neighbor. I'm in Columbia, MO-- halfway between Kansas City and St. Louis.
Des Moines, Iowa - but soon to be in the Chicago. About a month and counting!
Hi I'm in Melbourne, Australia. Love catching up with your blog.
biochem major turned med student from north north New England!
Checking in from Culpeper, (Central) VA, USA!
Hi from Beijing, China! Where the sky is yellow from the Gobi desert blowing in.
Hi there -- I'm surfing in from San Diego, California. :o)
Another one from Boston, MA
You're a regular weeknight check-in from St. Paul, MN.
Hi! I'm currently a student in Austin, Texas, but for half the year I live in Madrid, Spain.
A regular reader from Abingdon, VA. Way down near the Tennessee line.
A regular reader checking in from the Berkshire Mountains of Western Massachusetts!
Hi! I'm a student in NYC.
I'm from Surrey, British Columbia, Canada. I enjoy your blog very much.
Susannah from Madison, WI, who heard about you from St. Paul's Janice up there (ahoy!).
Good stuff :)
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.
I visit your site a couple of times a week, and I live in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Hi, I'm in Nashville, TN
Hello! I'm from Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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....
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.
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.
Another knitting scientist, another Mainer.
Berkeley, CA!
Hi-love your blog!
From rainy New Jersey
Hi, I'm in Vancouver, B.C.
Another from suburban Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN. I check in regularly and am absolutely astounded by your productivity!
Angela from Indiana. :)
Good evening from Vacaville, California
Daily reader checking in from Airdrie, Alberta, Canada. (North of Calgary 10 mins.)
Hi from a former immunologist, (now knitting teacher and mom of 3)in Elkins Park, PA. I thought I knit alot!!
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.
Greetings from a daily reader in Sydney, Australia.
I'm sure I don't have visitors from every continent. But I don't have nearly 127 either. I'm from Lawrence, KS.
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!!)
South east Queensland - Australia
Hi! I'm a daily reader from Grants Pass, Oregon.
Good evening from beautiful downtown Lake Oswego Oregon (suburban Portland)
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.
America's Heartland! Kansas City
Hi, Theresa ! I'm from France, more exactly from Paris. Good luck with those servers !
hello from tokyo japan! hang in there! :D
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 :-)
A little late but hi from another knitting biologist in Hertfordshire, UK.
From Melbourne, Australia.
Shikes you have a big readership!! Great blog too!
I'm a regular reader from Yarmouth, Maine.