Use what comes to hand!
Here is my man's beanie blocking away happily.

What on?
Here is the peek under the covers - a large Chinese bowl on a tower of duplo. Nice, solid, and adjustable!

And to show you that, 'yes Virginia, blocking does make a difference', here's a pre-blocking, 'lumpy' photo.

Okay, clearly this post should have been subtitled 'where I make use of inappropriate numbers of exclamation marks' ..
So, tomorrow night I do believe I shall geek out, watch episodes of Heroes and knit away happily.
(And, very quietly on the uber geek front... I dinged 70! Yay me! All the knitters, just nod knowingly and look at me like the people on the bus look at you. You know the one. :)
Yep. That's the look.