false economy

I'm working on the wool sock. I have begun the heel. Heels are causing all too much dithering and dallying.

I really must figure out a way to do a toe-up heel that I like that does not involve going back and putting the heel in later. I like the afterthought heel just fine, once it's done (so far, and remember I've not worn any hand-knit socks enough to have an opinion about them in use!). But I do NOT like to stop and put in the heel in the middle of the sock.

What I should do, of course, is *really* stop, and practice some heels. Short rows, maybe. Near the end of my afterthought heels I am decreasing every row -- not sure how to get that effect with short rows.......... Hmmmm.

It's something of a rain+hole-in-the-roof problem. If I'm knitting a sock, I just want to get on with it, because "it would take too much time" to stop and practice heels right then. If I'm not knitting a sock, I don't think about practicing heels.

I'm sure that one reason I like the toe-up plan is that the toe has been dealt with, right up front. I would be a happier sock knitter if I would figure out how to do a heel as I go up, rather than having to stop later and install the heel.


And now for an entirely different sort of falsity about economy......

My credit union allowed an employee to steal personal information from a number of customers. I am *probably* not in that group, but some of my info was in a box in a room to which the thief had access. The credit union bought some 4000 of us access to our credit reports and ratings and so on for a year (in addition to a year's worth of anti-theft insurance), mostly (knock-on-wood) just in case......

I've never seen my credit rating before. In addition to the rating, and some info about what they know about you (they know every address I've had for the last 26 years!), they offer hints about how to increase your credit rating.

My rating would go up if I had more debt, and more access to yet more debt.

Having only one credit card in regular use, failing to max it out, and paying it all off on time every month, make me a worse credit risk. So they say.

Go figure.