September 4, 2013  This may be a stretch  I just sat down to
write to you and suddenly realized the problem that we're going
to have together over the next few weeks.  I'm knitting a
blanket. Blanket knitting is not always super exciting. There's
progress here, but seriously, I could take a picture from
yesterday and whack it up here and you'd never know.  Not for a
minute.  (Actually, not true. There's totally one of you, maybe
four, who are absolutely the types to enlarge the picture, count
the rows and call me on it. You know who you are.)  (And that
actually is a picture from yesterday so don't bother. My camera
battery is dead and the spare isn't where I left it.)  Watching
me knit this blanket is going to be like they decided to have a
grass growing competition, and televise it. You'd keep tuning in
and all they would be showing is the grass, and there would be
this guy Rick, and periodically, Rick would lean over, measure
the grass carefully and then say "no change yet folks, but we'll
keep watching." 