Stereo Update with photos and socks

Here's the photos I took last night. The blue things now have wires running through them. I know they go to the speakers...but I'm not sure what all the connections are for yet.


Here's the hole in the wall in the kitchen. The orange box will have a power/volume control. There's one of these in each room.


Here's my knitting chair, covered in an old sheet, dripping with insulation. My floors look like this. Or at least they did when I went to bed. By the time I woke up this morning, M had vacuumed.


There's holes in the ceiling like this. So far, M's only cut the holes in the living room. I'm trying to keep this one room at a time since the heat from the attic comes through if we don't get the speaker up right away.



Here's the box from the speaker. We actually connected 4 speakers this morning...but I'd already started this post. I'll take photos of those later.



And my Sanity Sock (rav link). The knitting that keeps me sane when my TV is in the kitchen and unplugged. When the living room lamp is on the kitchen table. My sock is too big. You can see a little gap here. I don't think it should be that loose.


If you have a Holiday IK 2007 and can comment on the pattern, it's Socks for Veronik. This is Collinette Jitterbug in Summer Berries. I'm using Addi DPN's in 0. I love the pattern. I even like the way the dark berry color is spiraling around my leg. I'm not sure if this...


...will block into this...


Those are the from the same shot, but one is stretched up. Will a sock block that much. I know I can get the vertical stretch in the length of the foot, but I'm not sure about the cuff. And where the sock is loose (see above photo), should I take out one of the purl stitches on the chart? Then the gutter between repeats would only be 1 purl stitch. I would CO 60 instead of 66. I think these socks need more width when they pull up higher on the calf. I wasn't going to do the 10 pattern repeats. I like a shorter sock.

And yesterday, I made a note on this sock on Ravelry. It's Rosa's Socks (rav link) by Grumperina in Austermann Step. I think I like this yarn better on the sole of the foot where it's plain stockinette. But, I'm not sure what my plain sock recipe is for my foot. I thought this pattern would be a easy one because it's just a little more thought than a 3x3 rib. It does stretch well to fit. But, is it so ugly that I would never wear it? Or, are these good plain socks that will hide well under jeans? I'm at the toe decreases of sock #1. These socks have been sitting like this since mid-May. It's a shame I haven't photographed them at all. Is that a sign that I don't like them?