By this time tomorrow I will be basking in Florida. I’m going for a week with my parents, my brother and his girlfriend, and asdr83. It ought to be good. Anyone want something from Disney? Let me know. *grin*
This does, of course, mean that contacting me will be spotty over the next week, due mostly to lack of decent internet connection at our lodgings. I might have intermittent e-mail access, and I will definitely have my cell phone if it’s important.
So, what else has been going on with Laurion recently? Well, we’re rolling into project mode here at work. Contrary to popular opinion, summer is not the slow season here for me, and is often the busiest season, excepting a week or two at the beginning of each semester. Me? I’m rolling with it, doing a pretty good job of taking care of things, given that my mind is already sunbathing.
Went to asdr83’s graduation and party. It was good; the speakers (for the most part) proved at least tolerable, and none was too long-winded. The next day I ran the concom meeting, and that went pretty well, although I’ve been a little neglectful of the things I said I would do because I’ve been packing. I’ll get to it when I come back. If anyone reading this would like to volounteer or would like to stop by and see how these things happen, our next meeting will be June 26th.
***This is a reminder that all of you should come to the None of the Above Spring Fevah concert on June 4th, right here in Waltham. Go to noneabove.org… for details.**** We’ve got a lot of cool music lined up, and it would mean a lot to see familiar faces in the crowd. It’s cheaper than the movies, and a portion goes to charity. The rest goes to covering the costs of microphones and other equipment so we can start recording a demo cd.
Until next time, be merry!
Anyone who plays games, especially bocce, should read this.
Wow. Take a look at this and then go dig out those old fourtunes lying around…. (thanks kyrelle for the link)
This past weekend I went down to CT. It was a good trip. Taught my family to play Diamant on Saturday before getting together with a couple of friends from high school that I haven’t seen in years (seven to ten), and to hang out with friends of theirs as well. Had a good time with zombie movies and general chatting and catching up. I realized that it’s been a long time since I’ve made time just to hang out with people, and I should look at changing that. It’s going to have to wait until after the Florida trip though. Sunday I helped my dad load up a pile of lumber to build a deck with and haul it out to the campsite. Spent almost an hour there trying to get the waste line hooked up to the camper they have, because the hookup at the site was poorly laid out (at the front of the site, instead of the back, where all campers have their drain). Once we managed to stretch the hose the 20+ feet required we quickly unloaded the lumber and headed back. I then replaced the missing side view mirror on my car that has been gone for a little over a year, and put on 4 new hubcaps because one went missing and the others were pretty beat up. Unlike typical hubcaps, these are just clip in covers, so I’m not surprised one got lost; I probably hit a pothole too fast. I also took the opportunity of being home to pull out my parents entertainment center and rewire everything so that it all goes through the amp properly, and they can use the Tivo effectively. Previously they would have to change the television to two or three different channels depending on what they were trying to watch. And then we played a little pinochle.
In the days since, I’ve been trying to get some of the mundane things done around my place, and have started putting together items for the Florida trip - 9 days and counting.
Tonight is NotA rehearsal. Remember, concert on the 4th of June! E-mail me or comment here for more information or to reserve tickets!
Woohoo!
Thank goodness we still have one branch of the government that still thinks it should be working for the people.
Ok, ok. I was taken to task recently for not updating, and I don’t really have time to update now, but I’m going to anyway - and I’m looking at making a hole in my schedule for 1/2 hour each week just to update.
So what do people want to see in these updates? I’ve already got one request just to keep people a little more updated on what I’ve been up to, so I’ll try some of that. I’ve also been asked for a little more insight, so I’ll try to post a few items about the week that I’ve found interesting, useful, amusing, etc. Let’s go.
What I’ve been up to since mid-April, when I nominally last updated (although not with anything useful):
- Greenwood Isle Picnic
- Bit of asdr83’s bio conference
- natb’sBirthday BBQ
- Low Company meeting
- gaming at Danger Planet
- saw HHGTTG
- graduation party
- Cinco de Mayo party (early)
- May Day event
- Taellose and A’s wedding (fantastic!)
That’s most of the major things. There was the regular stuff in there too. If anyone wants a bigger report on any of those, leave a comment, and I’ll go out of my way to make a whole post about it. Importantly, here’s what is coming up in the next few weeks, so you can all be aware:
- This coming weekend I’ll be down in CT visiting my folks, and hopefully a few friends from High School. And Mother’s Day.
- Did I mention these weren’t necessarily in order? Tomorrow is International No Pants Day! See www.nopantsday.com… for more details.
- Birthday Party on the 13th
- Graduation of asdr83 (go congratulate her!) and celebration thereof next Saturday
- Concom meeting for Intercon F on Sunday. (Ah! Need to prepare)
- May 20-30; Florida vacation (Ah! Need to pack)
- Jun 4th; NotA’s big Spring Fever concert! (Ah! Need to practice) You should all go to this. The concert is at 7pm, costs $8 (about a third of which goes to charity), will be a kickass concert, and I really want you there. Yes, that means you too. Please? Thanks.
- Jun 10-12 - Reunion weekend at ‘deis. Have to see how much of that I actually go to.
That’s about it on the schedule front. Again, if you want more details on something, just ask. Now for the neato thing of the week; I’ve been listening to a variety of podcasts recently, and hqave gotten a little juiced about the ease of making one these days (especially with Audio Hjack Pro) and have recently discovered that Wordpress (see the link on the side) as of the recent version, will automagically read any links to audio files in a post, and make enclosure tags out of them for the xml feed. In simple terms, this means it can be used to make podcasts right out of the box, so to speak. So in the future I might play around with doing some sort of weekly podcast thing to see if that gives me a little more posting regularity. I’ll keep you up to date on that.
