(the system... is down) x ?

1. Third day home. Grandpa, as you can see on my mother's blog, is doing much better; my other grandfather, in Ottawa, has been having a lot of really less than fun adventures in the hospital, but is doing well.

2. It's been really quiet, basically. I'm halfway up the leg of my sock, and will knit until I run out of yarn. I've been building some shoes on Second Life:
but the grid was down for sudden repairs, and now I'm waiting for everyone to log back in before I go (the lag for logins is incredible when this sort of thing happens). The panic when the grid goes down is way more than entertaining enough to compensate for not getting to play with shoes.