For Old Friends Who Just Met

No game tonight. Rob and I are swamped with work I am afraid.

 Next Wed?

Sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry....

The list of events is up!! Event sign up starts noon Thursday!!

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Post by happyfunpaul

Inspired by tisonlyhersef who asked “What songs do you consider essential for someone to have at least knowledge of in a filk circle?”

Below are the 259 songs which have been nominated for a ( Pegasus Award )

Can you give me a personal example of what the best of humanity is?

  

I guess not, since it appears to be canceled (technically, we don't know for sure yet, but all signs are pointing that way).

Anyway, I just wanted to say

( Beauty_and_the_Geek_spoilers )

No, I don't mean glands and their attendants. Perhaps "crates" would be less likely to be confused?

There are many, many variations on what is a wooden box. Most fall into a predictable pattern. Squares or rectangles are relatively easy, right? Cutting into tiny, thin pieces of wood from a craft shop is...harder. Gluing the sides together? Wicked hard. Fortunately, I'm a) patient and b) eventually clever.

After my last attempt a few years ago, I figured out that putting a gusset (essentially a matchstick) as a brace between walls lets me glue stuff together. Go me! Now to figure out how to cut the "boards" and ink them so they look right. That's the next challenge.

Since my Mother's Day dinner consisted of Wendy's takeout, I've decided to treat myself to something yummy tonight.

Scallops sent home from Dad's place on the Gulf (these would be scallops he went out and caught with his own hands) sauteed in butter (not margarine) and garlic, with a dash of salt.

Delicious.

Went for a long weekend in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida with chaoticgoodchic We arrived Thursday night and came home Monday
We stayed at the Wyndham Sea Gardens Beach and Tennis Club which was a bit expensive, but the suite was very nice.

( Some of the memorable moments )

1. That's right. I am melancholy.

2. I feel a little guilty, because life has been so busy and I have not been very good at staying in touch with people. If you need me, holler.

It's not so much the reign. That's fairly well under control right now. It's work, life, etc. I did get two bylines in two days at the local paper, and I led the sports section this morning.

Baseball and rowing stories from the Glens Falls Post-Star.

3. So my sister managed to get a quick game of "Guess who's dead?" in when I called her to get my mother for the annual Mother's Day call.

Wilbur L. Doctor, who had a profound influence on my life and on hundreds of journalists in Connecticut and Rhode Island, died back in March, on his 91st birthday. I will always regret that I never tracked him down to thank him, but then I don't call my mother enough, either.

I will probably post more about Wilbur later, but what digs at me a little is that I am no longer in touch with anyone who knew him, other than artisticphoenix who pretty much knew of him though my moaning about him. "Eh, Toscano. Is English your first language."

4. I just won at the Intertubes. Alethea wanted to find out the hours of the Smith College library during the summer. Then I asked about the book, which was "some book on costuming in Italian with the word d'oro in it."

I found it!

5. I have been so busy lately, I have lost track of the Red Sox. Horrors.

6. I love Triple A. I went to their website, and we know how maps that cover the entire kingdom, plus parts of Ealdormere and Aethelmearc.

I found chocolate (and a cute card) in my mailbox when I got home today, sent all the way from Germany by kinder1of5, Michael, and Brita. That will brighten the day :)

Danke sehr!

( photo )

Discovered in Yoga today that maybe I did use some muscles when helping sar move furniture around our room last night...

I've been reading her book Whipping Girl recently, and it's one of the most accessible, sensible, and thoughtful works of feminist thought I've run across in a long time.

Seriously. If you can go hear her speak, I highly recommend it. Unfortunately, all my Thursday nights are spoken for for nearly a month yet, but MAN I want to go ...

So, what needs to go on my To Do list this week?

Ideas?

Over the last week or so, I have had a musical flood — I've written a number of new songs, extensively revised a few old songs, and recorded yet more songs to which I posted lyrics long ago. I've also posted a number of songs that aren't new-to-me, but which hadn't been posted previously.

The complete list of updates is on my songs page, without commentary. Note that this will probably be the last major update to that page, and also the last batch of songs to be announced on this journal, because this summer I will be moving my web presence to a new site and a new format, about which I will post at length after it happens. I will continue to use this LJ account for the purposes of reading and commenting on other people's journals.

[η: links fixed]

"Love Letter" (mp3) has gotten a major revision, with the third verse and its chorus ripped out and replaced with two new verses and choruses. This song was always intended, not just as one of those quirky songs in which Ben explains his world-view, but as a love song to the Holy One, as something you could earnestly pray. The original version started in a devotional mood, but then made a very abrupt transition to critical-thinking-land. This revision makes the transition much smoother, and the point-of-view character less canny, which helps to carry that devotional energy into the second half of the song. Of all the changes, the key may be "Please don't say you expect me to take this or leave it / 'cause I love you too much to say no." I don't think it's a coincidence that "Love Letter" didn't get properly finished until between Pesach and Shavuot.

( click for even more songs )

Long weekend.

I'm still not 100% recovered, physically. Between chaffed thighs, sore feet, sunburn, and bruised boobs, the odds are if you saw me anytime after 1:00 pm on Friday, I was in pain. If you couldn't tell, I was doing my job right. I did add insoles, but I'm going to have to add a second pair, I think. The ghilles just don't offer the arch support my stupid Barbie feet need. Every single step this weekend hurt.

Blarg. Enough bitching.

On to the wrap-up.

( Friday - Student Day )

( Saturday...long, long day. )

( Sunday...pickle day! )


I'm eager to see the survey results for this weekend...*crossing my fingers that our numbers have gone up*

Halfway through the run...here's hoping for less pain next weekend.