Knitting Knuts of CO

Hey people!

Hey Group! It's Sunday! Guess what that means! Yeah, Strange is blogging. For the first time in freakin' forever! This will not be a lengthy post by any means, but just a random piece of candy for you children. Wait... your taking candy from a... Strange...er.... Hmmm. Your momma taught you better, but I guess I'm also force feeding it too you in a visual assault on your senses. Ha! Take that all you mommas!

Enough of me being bad, here is a slideshow of some recent stuff I've taken at the group. I know a lot of you (this is my big obvious "you" to the Preggies/Ex-Preggies) wanted these pictures, expecially the ones of the Flying NunBoy. I apologize for the blur on some of these. I just refuse to use a flash. Damn bulb things.

Now I'm pretty much done. We had much funnage with Maggie Wednesday night. You all missed some fun times. We need to start discussing when we want to head up to Lambspun in Ft. Collins for an evening with Maggie. It'll have to be sometime in July since her schedule is busy busy busy. We'll see what we can arrage and hopefully everyone can make it all together. If not, we'll try again.

I'm out for now.

Shawn

Hey everybody,

Quick post to give out the details to those of you who are real troopers and check the blog even though I never update it.

Maggie's here on Wednesday June 4th, and we are having dinner with her at the Macaroni Grill right next to Barnes and Noble on Bowles and Wads around 5pm. Then at 7 she is heading over to Barnes to do her book signing and we are going to knit.

Toodles!
Shawn

Hey all, big news. Due to the size of our group we have been forced to move out of our regular haunt at Barnes and Noble on Bowles. All of this happened last Monday and during our group meeting we discussed some options we have and some places we might go. Among some of the ideas were rec centers, the library, other coffee shops, another bookstore, or even a restaurant. Some of the places we mentioned were The Tattered Cover Bookstore in Highland's Ranch, the Belmar library, Kate's husband Mark's restaurant, Starbucks, the Buck Rec Center in downtown Littleton, the Barnes and Noble/Starbucks cafe in Denver West, and a couple others I can't remember because my brain cells aren't working.

We are still running by a few places that seem promising and I'm still up for any ideas and suggestions any of you might have, but we have settled on a place for next week since it seems to work out best as far as location, environment, and time. Jan aka Knall of Yarn stopped by the IHOP on Bowles and Wadsworth to talk to the Monday night manager about us coming in and staying late. They were more than happy to have us and have a room they can set aside for us that will be partitioned off from the rest of the restaurant.

Now this is a temporary place for us and we most likely will be jumping around for a bit. I know this sucks in general and I'm sorry we couldn't hold it off a while longer, but in order to avoid a big catastrophe and hurt feelings all around, it is best if we work with the district manager at Barnes and just find somewhere else to hang out. The meeting that Jan and I had with Diane Seaburry and the manager at Barnes was a bit tense but ended very well, so we are in no bad position as far as they are concerned.

If you guys have any questions for me, leave me a comment, call my cell (720-468-7004), or send me an email. I'll get most of it on my cell phone so I should respond back fairly quickly. Again, we are meeting at IHOP on Bowles and Wadsworth across from Columbine Library at 7pm next Monday. So that's gonna be May 12th.

Thanks for hanging in there girls!


Strange aka Shawn

For all the last minute blog-checkers, we are meeting at Sweet Tomatoes (or wahtever it's called) for dinner at 5:30. Bernadette finished her paper and Kim has tonight off. So we've got ample excuses to get together and talk and eat... and eat. I know I'll be doin' that. I've got today off and I'm a little bored with no subject matter so I'll be at Banres most of the afternoon. Stop by and say hi. Later peeps!

Shawn aka Strange

This was sent to muah earlier yesterday. Kim would like it passed on.

Shawn, I don't know how to send this to everyone so I sent it to you. The Yarn Harlot will be signing her new book Friday, April 4, at 7:30 at the Tattered Cover in Highlands Ranch. If anyone is interested. Talk to you later, kim

Anyone wanting to go should either email around on the Yahoo! groups msg board, or just congregate at the Tattered C at said time. Hope everybody has a great time. I will be working. Grrr.

Strange aka Shawn

I got on here to post something that was imperative for tomorrow and now can't remember anything. Why does this happen to me?! I was going to have everyone bring something, or tell a joke, or do something fun and now I just can't get it. I keep hoping that as I keep typing something will pop up here...

I'm gonna be a bit of a pill and say...

Hey crazies,

Just a quick drop in to tell you all that the new email list invites have been sent out. I know Jan was looking to send out some emails to people and I have done the necessary adjustments, so all's lookin' good.

Now for you people who have been putting up with no emails from the group, there may be a very simple solution for you. I checked Jan and Kim's accounts and they are both still using their yahoo! email addresses. So if they aren't checking those mail boxes then they won't see any group communication. Problem fixed. Just go into your yahoo! acounts and change your email preferences. You'll need to set up the email you get from us to go to your primary, or the one you check all the time, account. If you can't figure this out, it's okay. It's complicated stuff. Give me a call on my phone and I'll give you a crash course. If you don't have my phone, look in the previous posts. It's there. I just don't want to post it everywhere for everybody and their mother to see. 'Cus mom's are curious cats. They'll call just for the hell of it.

And that wraps up my quickie post. You should all be getting emails soon, so enjoy and if you want to see any of the content posted on the blog, let myself, Jan or Sharon know.

Hey gang, we've had some major changes as of Monday night. The relationship between our group and the store manager at Barnes and Noble on Bowles has been tense for a while and because of bad communication on the part of the store manager, antagonistic action was taken against us which resulted in a very unwanted standoff. In a nutshell, we as customers were treated poorly despite the fact that we are paying customers who consistently bring business into that location. The inconsiderate way that the store manager treated us and our business has led us to move to another location for the time being.

Now what I've gotten from a few people is that despite how poorly we have been treated, there is still a desire to try to work with the district manager and the store itself to come to a resolution where we feel that we as a group is welcomed and respected at that location. The store is situated very nicely for the majority of us and the staff of B&N (minus the store manager) all enjoy us and love when we come in. It makes for a wonderful atmosphere and we've enjoyed it for a long time now. I was called by the district manager today and I'll be calling her back tomorrow to discuss what will happen from here.

I know a lot of you may be wondering what the heck is going on and what action we are taking on this so far. Please feel free to talk to me. My phone and email address are going to be below despite my better judgement. Lol

Shawn's (Strange) Contact Info-

(720) 468-7004
mousebrat2SPAM006@gmail.com


*Please make sure that if you do send me an email that you take the capitalized "SPAM" out of the address so that it doesn't get caught by my filters. For those of you savvy with the Yahoo! Group email base, you can just send me a message there, my email is listed.

Also, for those of you interested in contacting Barnes and Noble Corporate there is a link on http://www.bn.com/ for community relations. I can't promise you'll get much from it as the return call you may get won't be somebody sympathetic to our issue. They are basically a customer service rep who just wants to get their job done and go home. Yeah. Also, I would recommend that anyone wanting to send a letter to the District Manager Diane Seaburry (?) should contact Barnes and Noble on Wadsworth and Bowles at (303) 948-9565 and ask for the address for her office. I apologize for not having it on hand, but I just haven't had the time as of yet.

Most importantly, I would ask that if you do contact any part of Barnes and Noble with your complaints that you express to them that they are your feelings and not the group's. It's very important that our individual issues not complicate things for those not wishing to be involved with any negativity surrounding the situation. This group is about fun and relaxation and I am doing my best to keep it that way for all of us. Ultimately you all will handle it how you see fit and this is all I can really ask.

Now for location. This transition is not easy for us and I understand that everybody is still trying to figure out what the heck has happened. For this first week we will be in the Starbucks on Bowles and Wadsworth in the same block as the Barnes and Noble we've been meeting at. This should make it an easy shift at least for this week. They have been contacted and have expressed that they are more than happy to have us.

Again, I'm so sorry to everybody this has affected negatively. I wish that there could have been something I could have done to keep this from happening, but sometimes life is so not playing by your rules. Again, please contact me if you have any questions or concerns. I wanted to make sure this got out there since the snow kept everyone home this week. Good luck to the Preggies who all have little ones on the way. Hopefully we get to see you soon with the new kids in tow. Pamella and Marti, you guys were missed. Joy, we look forward to seeing you again.


'Til next entry guys!

Strange

You all compla... eh hem... spoke out about the previous orange look of the blog and so I have unveiled your new blog look.

The few comments I got said "pink" and "pink" with a random "pink and orange" thrown in. So I went.... green. Sorry, there were just no good orange and pink or even really good, mature looking pink layouts. This seemed neutral enough and while there is a huge lack of knitting layouts, I will have one out as soon as I'm back in digital business.

Enjoy the look for now!

Strange

Check out the new post on Strange iSpace featuring The Nobodies!

Dun duhn duhhhhh!

Click here to see it.

Strange

As I sit here blogging this, Val is trying to kill me.

Hey all, quick note about next week. We will not have the group since it will be the 24th and I'm assuming that you all will be doing something besides sitting in your local B&N knitting. If you are, well...kudos to you in your crazy life. It just seems pointless to have a knitting knite with one or two people. So, "officially" we will not be meeting. And, in advance, a very Happy Christmas and Yule to all of you. You have made the end of this year a fun one! And while I'm at it, Happy New Year as well.

We will plan to meet up again on the 7th of January. It will be the first Monday of that month.

Stange

Hey knitters,

I sent out invites to those of you who were at last night's thing.

Kim darling, your email came back as wrong. I don't know what is up. Check to see if your account is active. That's the only problem I can see if I got the address spelled right.

Bernadette, your email also didn't work, and I had the same trouble last time with it.

I guess just use the link from yesterday's post and join the group. I'll approve it all when I get the notifications.

I also sent out new author invites to those of you I got the thumbs up from or decided you had just better do my bidding 'cus I said so. Oooo. I'm scaring even myself right now! Test out your authorship and let me know how it goes.

Hey, this is Strange saying that I set up the email group on Yahoo! tonight. I will be getting emails from those of you who want an invite. Otherwise, you can go check it out at the group page. I'll update it more, later, and hopefully have some more polls to get the group opinion on developing the blog and group page. See you all in cyberspace.

Strange

You have found the official blog of the Knitting Knuts of Colorado (working title). All posts to this blog will be contributed by various authors. Check back soon to see the first in a long line of crazy, humorous, sad, dramatic, odd, and beautiful additions.

Strange