Secret Cool Points
Recently, Cass and I decided that certain things earn you cool points, and certain things earn you geek points or nerd points. But what a lot of people don’t know is that most geek points are actually secret cool points in disguise! (Unfortunately, some things are actually too nerdy to give you secret cool points, and you just get plain old nerd points for them.) Normally I wouldn’t be saying this, as you need a certain amount of geek points to give you clearance before you’re allowed to know this fact, but I figure that anybody who reads knitblogs has already accumulated the requisite number of geek points.
My point, and I do have one, is that I joined KnitWars, which I’m sure is good for many, many geek points (which are really secret cool points!). Lime and Violet of podcasting fame came across a site called ChoreWars, where people can earn experience points for doing household chores, turning real-life cleaning and suchlike into an RPG. (“In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun, and then — snap! — the job’s a game.”) Violet thought it would be fun to use the site to track knitting progress, and it totally is. I’m KnitTiger on there, because it sounds more fearsome than KnitKitten does. I’m currently a Level 2 Paladin, and I’ll be getting 5XP just for writing this post. Squee!
I eventually got to a green part of the SWS seed stitch scarf in Natural Green.
The bad thing about KnitWars is that keeping track of how much time I spend knitting is depressing when I consider how little progress I make in that time. I’m such a slow knitter. I’ve spent four hours on the second Road Potato Sock so far, and it still looks more like a bracelet than anything else. Admittedly, one of those four hours was simply spent casting on repeatedly, from a slightly different spot in the yarn each time, in order to get the stripes to match up with the first sock. Which they still don’t exactly, of course, but I honestly don’t think it looks too bad.