A pox on badly wound skeins

So, no postings in a while, because I've been insanely busy with paid work. But now that it's warm enough to knit while waiting for the bus, I decided to wind off a skein of sock yarn for a commuting project. Unfortunately, it was a badly wound skein, so it took more than an hour to untangle four ounces of yarn. Sigh.

Fortunately, I let the left brain/right brain split take over: the left brain snarls and swears at the tangles while the right brain and hands placidly untangle the mess. Of course, once I'd finished, I decided that the stitch pattern I want to use needed a different colorway, but that skein was less trouble.