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Nov. 1st, 2008 07:33 pm
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Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me
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Pre- and Early Post-Weekend Updatia
Nov. 11th, 2007 06:58 pmPoetry was Friday night.
Keep forgetting to mention that.
Oy.
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nightwind292 - the evening of the 2nd Friday of December, care to join me for some fish & chips at Granny McCarthy's Tea Room prior to poetry at the Moravian Book Shop? Any one else who can get there and wants to come along, let me know - the meal will be about $15-20, depending on what you get to drink/extras; the poetry is free.
~ ~ ~
Yesterday we did Not Much.
Woke up at 5:30am to icy cold air and complete darkness. Don't know how long the power was already off - at least at a half-hour, as Justin had accidentally left his alarm clocks on, and only the battery powered one went off. I woke Justin for some back up as I verified we weren't on (lack of electrical) fire, or some other mischief. A quick look out the front windows revealed a distinct lack of the one inch of snow we were allegedly supposed to wake up to and a distinct lack of any light in the neighboring houses, another look out the back showed that the outage was Mighty Big, as the folks across the way were also in the dark, and their fortunes and ours usually differ as far as PP&L and uptime is concerned.
We went back to bed and did our best to stay warm as long as possible. Mr. B woke later on, wiggle-wormed too much on Deb, so she sent him in to me, where he did much of the same. Eventually Rachel came in, and we did our best to try to keep Mr. B from throwing the covers off or doing anything else chilly-like. We came up with a song, which we tried to get Justin & Deb to sing: "I want coffee, I want heat, I want running water, I want to eat! Give me 'lectricity, give me 'lectricity, P P and L, give me 'lectricity!" Eventually, after the 321st verse (same as the first), it worked and around 10am-ish we had lights, heat, flushable toilets, warm bread, and hot coffee.
Yeah, need that generator someday soon, and then we can look at some get-off-the-grid solutions.
Rachel had her last day of soccer. It's really a games day, Soccer Olympics, they called it last year. She took home the second place medal this year. Go Rachel! Deb headed down to watch the Flyers fight the Penguins, and the Birds That Can Not Fly lost. We watched LotR: TFotR; Rachel's first time to see it in its entirety.
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As I was typing earlier, I was listening to Justin playing some Bach as well as some Chopin, Debussy, and Satie stuff I've been throwing at him. I asked him to work on some bits from Mozart and Tchaikovsky piano concertos as well. He's certainly exploring some things on his own, but I want to get a wide variety of the standard piano repertoire into his brains and fingertips as well. His improv is showing improvement as well - as I was complimenting him on one thing he was doing to show me the Dm improv from his piano lesson DVD, he did something different. I noticed he had broken out of Dm a bit, and asked him about it - turns out that he had stopped improvising and started playing Satie and I hadn't really noticed. Kind of sounded like the same sort of thing - just a different key.
Guess that's working, and he's Learning Stuff.
Keep forgetting to mention that.
Oy.
nightwind292 - the evening of the 2nd Friday of December, care to join me for some fish & chips at Granny McCarthy's Tea Room prior to poetry at the Moravian Book Shop? Any one else who can get there and wants to come along, let me know - the meal will be about $15-20, depending on what you get to drink/extras; the poetry is free.~ ~ ~
Yesterday we did Not Much.
Woke up at 5:30am to icy cold air and complete darkness. Don't know how long the power was already off - at least at a half-hour, as Justin had accidentally left his alarm clocks on, and only the battery powered one went off. I woke Justin for some back up as I verified we weren't on (lack of electrical) fire, or some other mischief. A quick look out the front windows revealed a distinct lack of the one inch of snow we were allegedly supposed to wake up to and a distinct lack of any light in the neighboring houses, another look out the back showed that the outage was Mighty Big, as the folks across the way were also in the dark, and their fortunes and ours usually differ as far as PP&L and uptime is concerned.
We went back to bed and did our best to stay warm as long as possible. Mr. B woke later on, wiggle-wormed too much on Deb, so she sent him in to me, where he did much of the same. Eventually Rachel came in, and we did our best to try to keep Mr. B from throwing the covers off or doing anything else chilly-like. We came up with a song, which we tried to get Justin & Deb to sing: "I want coffee, I want heat, I want running water, I want to eat! Give me 'lectricity, give me 'lectricity, P P and L, give me 'lectricity!" Eventually, after the 321st verse (same as the first), it worked and around 10am-ish we had lights, heat, flushable toilets, warm bread, and hot coffee.
Yeah, need that generator someday soon, and then we can look at some get-off-the-grid solutions.
Rachel had her last day of soccer. It's really a games day, Soccer Olympics, they called it last year. She took home the second place medal this year. Go Rachel! Deb headed down to watch the Flyers fight the Penguins, and the Birds That Can Not Fly lost. We watched LotR: TFotR; Rachel's first time to see it in its entirety.
~ ~ ~
As I was typing earlier, I was listening to Justin playing some Bach as well as some Chopin, Debussy, and Satie stuff I've been throwing at him. I asked him to work on some bits from Mozart and Tchaikovsky piano concertos as well. He's certainly exploring some things on his own, but I want to get a wide variety of the standard piano repertoire into his brains and fingertips as well. His improv is showing improvement as well - as I was complimenting him on one thing he was doing to show me the Dm improv from his piano lesson DVD, he did something different. I noticed he had broken out of Dm a bit, and asked him about it - turns out that he had stopped improvising and started playing Satie and I hadn't really noticed. Kind of sounded like the same sort of thing - just a different key.
Guess that's working, and he's Learning Stuff.
Weekend Updatia
Sep. 24th, 2007 10:38 amThe sleep test on Thursday night into Friday morning left me more exhausted than I had thought - on initial reports before leaving the sleep lab I described my current state of being as "awake" and "alert" and "not tired" and "not sleepy".
I was only fooling myself though.
I forced myself to stay up a bit while the guys were working on the septic tank, and then I was out for a nap. Deb drove Justin down to his friend's house in Bethlehem and then went for a night out. Rachel, Mr. B. and I hung out and then went to sleep.
Saturday, Rachel performed at a kick-a-thon to raise money for a local kid and Dreams Come True. Forecasters called for a nice cool day, suitable for a couple hundred kicks, but the sun and clear skies had other ideas, so it was quite hot in the Wal*Mart parking lot where it was held. Rachel got in 200 kicks as well as worked the door to collect additional donations, and then she headed over to soccer for drills and a game against the high school kids that were teaching them. Deb had told her to focus on the kick-a-thon, and she could sit out the game, but she played through it all despite being quite exhausted.
I had some stuff planned for Saturday, but I just hung out with Mr. B - I couldn't get going in the AM, as I was still off-kilter from the sleep study.
Sunday, Rachel and I went to Bake Oven Knob, joined bynoone234, to watch hawks. We saw a few in the sky, and had an enjoyable time up on the ridge, but the highlight was seeing a few birds quite close - the Carbon County Environmental Education Center had brought birds that were unable to be released back to the wild - including Tecumsah and another that you can see if you click through that picture. The pictures of the kestrel didn't come out very clear, so they weren't posted.
I'm still a bit out of sorts, so I'm thinking not everything in this summary makes perfect sense, but I'm leaving it as is. =)
I was only fooling myself though.
I forced myself to stay up a bit while the guys were working on the septic tank, and then I was out for a nap. Deb drove Justin down to his friend's house in Bethlehem and then went for a night out. Rachel, Mr. B. and I hung out and then went to sleep.
Saturday, Rachel performed at a kick-a-thon to raise money for a local kid and Dreams Come True. Forecasters called for a nice cool day, suitable for a couple hundred kicks, but the sun and clear skies had other ideas, so it was quite hot in the Wal*Mart parking lot where it was held. Rachel got in 200 kicks as well as worked the door to collect additional donations, and then she headed over to soccer for drills and a game against the high school kids that were teaching them. Deb had told her to focus on the kick-a-thon, and she could sit out the game, but she played through it all despite being quite exhausted.
I had some stuff planned for Saturday, but I just hung out with Mr. B - I couldn't get going in the AM, as I was still off-kilter from the sleep study.
Sunday, Rachel and I went to Bake Oven Knob, joined by
noone234, to watch hawks. We saw a few in the sky, and had an enjoyable time up on the ridge, but the highlight was seeing a few birds quite close - the Carbon County Environmental Education Center had brought birds that were unable to be released back to the wild - including Tecumsah and another that you can see if you click through that picture. The pictures of the kestrel didn't come out very clear, so they weren't posted.I'm still a bit out of sorts, so I'm thinking not everything in this summary makes perfect sense, but I'm leaving it as is. =)
Weekend Updatia
Oct. 30th, 2006 11:13 amFriday night we went to a neighborhood halloween party, where Brandon-as-a-Pokemon ran around (mostly out in the cold rain) and visited with pumpkin friends in the yard. Deb wound up chasing him because my sword and Justin's dragon couldn't get wet - however, since Deb chose to go as a harried housewife, I thought this added an extra touch to her costume. =)
Rachel reprised her roll from last week's-having-absolutely-nothing-to-do-with-the-real-actual-Halloween-which-*still*-hasn't-happened trick-or-treat, and went as a karate student. From Mars, she decided, although I can't verify for the authenticity of that part. Justin went as a dragon mage, with his familiar sitting on his shoulder and looking around attentively, almost nearly poking a few eyes out with his long wings. I just carried a sword instead of a walking stick (I debated bringing both, and bringing my dragon along for the ride, but decided to keep it simple. Two hands were needed to prevent people from attempting to draw the katana, and to keep it from swinging around into people.
Later that same evening, Justin read of some of the maneuvers from The Book of Nine Swords so I reinvent Tungur Knivur as a crusader of Thor (which he always was anyway; the DM allowed the swap with the level of fighter because we didn't have the book to begin with.) The name of the class and of the three disciplines available underwent quasi-Norsification, so, in addition to being a Skald and a Stormsanger, he's also a (big nod to a certain Michael) Storm Bringer with studies in the Gathering Storm, Mountain Heart, and Frost Raven disciplines. He's also a couple sections into The Saga of Giant's Gate, but I'll hold off posting it for at least a week. I'd like to catch up so I'm not posting bits of the sagas so long after we play them out, but I don't know if that will happen. It is, after all, just a game, and not my highest priority.
Saturday, I broke my back into tiny little pieces fordragonflypug, who moved. Again. Much use of the heating pad over the rest of the weekend, and Deb even gave me a massage. Anyway, owie.
Sunday, Rachel had her trophy day and soccer olympics - her team came in second place, so in addition to the trophies for the season, they all received silver medals.
Rachel reprised her roll from last week's-having-absolutely-nothing-to-do-with-the-real-actual-Halloween-which-*still*-hasn't-happened trick-or-treat, and went as a karate student. From Mars, she decided, although I can't verify for the authenticity of that part. Justin went as a dragon mage, with his familiar sitting on his shoulder and looking around attentively, almost nearly poking a few eyes out with his long wings. I just carried a sword instead of a walking stick (I debated bringing both, and bringing my dragon along for the ride, but decided to keep it simple. Two hands were needed to prevent people from attempting to draw the katana, and to keep it from swinging around into people.
Later that same evening, Justin read of some of the maneuvers from The Book of Nine Swords so I reinvent Tungur Knivur as a crusader of Thor (which he always was anyway; the DM allowed the swap with the level of fighter because we didn't have the book to begin with.) The name of the class and of the three disciplines available underwent quasi-Norsification, so, in addition to being a Skald and a Stormsanger, he's also a (big nod to a certain Michael) Storm Bringer with studies in the Gathering Storm, Mountain Heart, and Frost Raven disciplines. He's also a couple sections into The Saga of Giant's Gate, but I'll hold off posting it for at least a week. I'd like to catch up so I'm not posting bits of the sagas so long after we play them out, but I don't know if that will happen. It is, after all, just a game, and not my highest priority.
Saturday, I broke my back into tiny little pieces for
dragonflypug, who moved. Again. Much use of the heating pad over the rest of the weekend, and Deb even gave me a massage. Anyway, owie.Sunday, Rachel had her trophy day and soccer olympics - her team came in second place, so in addition to the trophies for the season, they all received silver medals.
