Done yesterday (20100613 Su)

[mdlbear]

0613 Su
  * up 8:45; W=196.2; drugs, nose, teeth; coffee, dishes
  @ rb | Exercise And Emotions
    Numbers, Exercise, and Levelling Up
  * split/post Norwescon concert
    * split  * make Rips  * write index.html  * push
    * artist incorrectly given as Steve Savitzky.
      -> set PERFORMER in make.config
  @ NoDaddy.Com - Exposing the Many Reasons Not to Trust GoDaddy...
  * Kaiser: buy Colleen's humira, lomotil, cyclobenzaprine, potassium
  * buy YD's grad present (Gateway laptop) at Best Buy
    Went to Fry's first; turns out she'd done her research well.
  * 500GB SATA laptop drive at Fry's.
  * -get- _ask for_ text of N's narration for the Norwescon concert
  * dinner: tacos and broccoli
  @ Dell™ Inspiron™ 1010 Service Manual
  = YD's new laptop's name is ame -- made DNS entries
    ! touched
  * Norwescon recording - riverheart-intro
  @ "The most beautiful thing I've ever seen" - Roger Ebert's Journal
    @saffronroses
    Girl tells of WWII in sand.  Breathtaking.
    ! very happy.  Moved.
  " He remembered the names of the strings because he liked the mnemonic:
    "Every Adult Dragon Grows Big Ears." - judifilksign
  " (N thinks I should write a song about learning guitar)
  & sang for Colleen:  Lily, eyes, riverheart
  " (09:24:56 PM) me: I think what's really rare is my _noticing_ that it's a
    nice day while it's happening.  I'm getting better at it, though. 
  "
  * bed ~11pm

Quote of the day, which makes a good summary, came from an IM conversation: "I think what's really rare is my _noticing_ that it's a nice day while it's happening. I'm getting better at it, though."

It was a good day -- I split up and posted the Tempered Glass concert from Norwescon (and fixed a long-standing bug in the process), went out with the YD to buy her graduation present (a laptop, of course), made dinner, sang for Colleen, ...

The evening was marked by many good things: a breathtakingly beautiful video of sand animation, a wonderful mnemonic for the strings on a guitar: "Every Adult Dragon Grows Big Ears" (from judifilksign -- N thinks I should write a song about learning guitar) conversation and song... and learning that the YD has named her new laptop Ame.

A couple more good links under the cut.

Comments

[solarbird]

I split up and posted the Tempered Glass concert from Norwescon
Where?

[mdlbear]

http://tempered-glass.info/Concerts/2010/04/02-NorWesCon/

[solarbird]

...I'd'a sworn I looked there. Thanks!

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

Do a YouTube search for more of that sand art... it's utterly breathtaking, isn't it?

(And I think you already know that the Dreamwidth user known as rb is Ricky Buchanan, one of my two favorite Australians, and the person to whom I sent the words and mp3 of "Wheelin'".)

[mdlbear]

Yes. She's on my reading list there. (I'm mdlbear there, too.)

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

You and I are on each other's lists too ;-)

[judifilksign.livejournal.com]

That's validating. The fellow mundane teachers in my teacher training class today were less supportive. Our task was to give examples of ways for students to remember information, and they just thought that mnemonic was weird, and persisted in telling me that the staff was "Every Good Boy Does Fine," which totally ignored it being about the strings on a fretboard.

I totally think a song about learning guitar would be kewl.

[mdlbear]

I usually find it easier to remember the spaces of the staff, which spell FACE.

I think that makes three pending song ideas, now...