Last night's paracord lanyard attempts...

I tried tying a few different lanyard knots last night, up in my room during a passing thunderstorm.  The ceiling light isn't bright enough for me with my vision problems, so I had a small flashlight, held in my mouth, pointed at the paracord as I worked.

It took me way longer than it should have, but I kept at it until I was tired and needed to lie down.

The knots were just two strand variations, and I believe they're shown in 'The Ashley Book of Knots', but I can't recall if any of these are the ones that are 'wrong' in the book.  There are a number of different howto videos on YouTube showing how to tie them.

The knife shown in the edc pocket dump photo is just a sailor's type that I bought years ago to practice some filework on the blade spine, the light is a JetBeam, and the pen is a stainless steel Sharpie marker.

EDC pocket dumps...

I untied a mustard yellow paracord lanyard, from the gadget drawer, to reuse with a pocket knife, adding one of my gaucho interweave knot beads, and re-tying with a Matthew Walker knot.

Tying the knot wasn't too difficult, but took longer than it used to for me, since one eye is useless with trying to see any detail and both are blurry with my worsening proliferative diabetic retinopathy with macular edema.

Also in the photo are my Citizen Promaster watch, pocket square/handkerchief, Acebeam L10 LED flashlight, and an ebay find CRKT Pryma EDC multitool, for the keychain, that arrived in today's mail.

I'm hoping the photo came out alright, as I took several pics with my camera and just chose the one that looked the least blurry to me, lol...

Ans a few more pics of recent pocket dumps.

With proliferative diabetic retinopathy and macular edema in both eyes, I have to lean in close to read the enlarged text on the screen, and it's still blurry...