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mdlbear0303 Th * up 6:05; W=195.6; drugs, nose, teeth, light; dishes, coffee @ {placekitten} via TechCrunch - placeholder images for mock-ups * 15min: sorted Hearts CDs into 3 piles. * 30min walk to Skyport and back; good pace bottom end of aerobic ! found hook for the evening's phone calls, so basically positive. @ Android Takes Lead in U.S. Smartphone Market Apple flat, M$ and RIM down @ The Age Of Relevance * 5:30pm pick up Colleen Kaiser Santa Clara Women's Clinic. Get balsalazide in pharmacy. -> 2 hours total, with humira and antibiotic @ Daily Kos: Can We Build a People's Internet? via filkertom * before 10pm - call Ash's mother, grandmother to verify numbers Got his grandmother; verified mother's # and our zipcode. She was very glad I'd called. @ esrblog: A natural contemplates game * printing for Consonance: * songbooks * insert cards * party fliers ~ Pay bills!! (an hour too late, and not enough free cash to pay the SW bill in full. Upsetting.) * very sleepy, but stayed up until shortly after midnight printing. 0304 Fr * up 6:40; W=196.2; drugs, nose, teeth, light; dishes, coffee * pick up binders/folders for Interfilk -on the way to work- _at lunchtime_ * finish packing * LOAD DRUGS * hotel reservations for Consonance 0304 Fr - 06 Su conf# 3404563902 & forgot Colleen's walker and charger. Missed the evening's concerts. * Sang Vampire Megabyte and Bigger on the Inside in circle 0304-06, 2011 Consonance 0305 Sa * up 8:30ish; drugs, nose; breakfast * package in Interfilk auction. Need to touch base with Kathleen * add xtras/ subdir to hearts before people start looking for it cobbled together, but working. * Hearts of Glass, Nerves of Steel (Valentine's Day CD): (Norwescon love song concert + missing tracks + QV because of the title) * 50 copies: Interfilk at UK and Consonance; 16 copies each to share. * should add copies for songwriters: Zander, Ben Newman, Gwen Knighton the non-filk ones are much more dubious, though arguably Tracy Grammer should get one too. Still leaves 14-15 each, so all good. * Interfilk print package; PDFs online to print (lyrics, "jacket" copy) I have plastic EZ Sleeves; they look better than paper, and there's a pocket in the back where I could slip a card with more info (e.g. a link) The Interfilk copies can be bound in with the songbook. * a little bit of the first workshop * Carla's editing workshop * verse: moves the story along chorus: how I feel about that; the emotional point,... bridge: on the other hand... start cho. on different chord (IV or V); bridge often minor cho. can be different rhythm (short vs long words, etc.) change a line, or change things completely in the last chorus @ rhymingdictionary.com * Rule of Three - two repeats and something different (AABA...) * put the strongest thing at the end @ Sheila Davis - The Songwriter's Idea Book * parodies: two-column layout (Chris Malm suggests the original in caps and replace lines in mixed case) * critique sessions. Play your song, then shut up and listen. criticizing: start and end with something positive * Harmony Heifers concert (most of it) $ HSX #28 to Rebecca; #4 to Andrew Ross * talk to Andrew Ross about Teh Drama @ peteralway: New toy paper-strip music box @ haikujaguar: Good Old Books: Summers at Castle Auburn * all but the first couple of songs in Denise Gendron's Interfilk concert " I used to be a perfectionist. I wasn't a very good one." * Auction; Colleen bought a golden walrus box for 75; paddles $30 our 2 bars of chocolate went for $40. $ HSX album donation value $15 went for $150 to Carole; It was a jump bid; the highest before that was 40. : dinner at the hotel; very slow, very bad service * evening concerts; Chris Malm; Joe and Carla * Evening filk: Get up + Go, Cicero. Left ~1am; Colleen sleepy; bath : 1:30am still very noisy in the hall; called hotel 0306 Su * up 9am; drugs, nose, light @ Irregular Webcomic! #2961 nuclear gastronomy, with recipes * Joe's alternate tunings workshop * 1:30ish checkout. Last bit of Admiral Naismith's concert. 2fers : praise from Andrew and Lemming for World Inside the Crystal @ NASA scientist finds evidence of alien life ~ not even a 2fer this weekend, but still didn't do too much talking. :( @ Armed and Dangerous ยป Rape statistics: a case study in public flim-flam * HSX: sent UK authors' copies of Hearts via Chris Zander #49 Gwen #50 chris #7 * Indian dinner with Victor, Lara, and Rob (?). $10each with tip. Veggie. * left 9:30ish; laundry, teeth; bed 11:15 0307 Mo * up 6:50; W=199; drugs, nose, light; laundry, dishes, coffee @ The Ferrett's Journal - What Goes Around, Comes Around * bring kleenex to work : windy and cool; very calming @ Journal of Folklore Research: JFR Review for Arts, Inc.: How Greed and Neglect Have Destroyed Our Cultural Rights via The Wordsmith's Forge % 9:15 fading in and out * 9:30ish: laundry, dishes, trash @ Big Rocks If you don't put the big rocks in first, you'll never get them in at all. 0308 Tu * up 6:40; W=198.2; drugs, nose, teeth, light; dishes, coffee @ cd3wd - High Quality Technical Development Info for the Third World via filkertom @ The Ferrett - And Gini Says That Our Poly Will Be Better Than Me @ But that's the way we've always done it - Computerworld Blogs via The Mad Filkentist - No! Not the red button! (Vampire Megabyte ref.) @ InMobi Adds More Evidence That Android Is #Winning (With 37% Mobile Ad Share) * 8:15 take kids to court -> Trial Apr 8 on misdemeanor charges x reschedule physical? Check on when the Semi meeting is -> 2pm. Easy x 6pm Avoid Avoiding -> working late x and no walk. I have no doubt Drs Awsare and Rogers will both tell me I need more exercise, when I see them tomorrow and Thursday respectively. * Colleen (mostly) and I talked to the kids. Looking like IBF will be moving back to SoCal; everyone but YD thinks she ought to stay up here to finish her education. She doesn't like the idea, but may be beginning to understand and accept. = note: resemblence between IBF and IBS is not entirely coincidental % 10:20 drifting 0309 We * up 7:45; W=197.8; drugs, nose, teeth, light; dishes, coffee @ Daily Kos: Can We Build a People's Internet? @ Paper Jamz guitar relies on AAA batteries, printed electrodes and connectors | Blog on EDN @ The Loog Guitar by Rafael Atijas Kickstarter via crunchgear & worked through lunch again :( : N. mentioned the UK gig to Colleen. She wants to go -- big motivator for PT, saving $$, and other efforts. Not going to Conflikt may just about cover her fare. : call from Ann @ Union Bank; applied for another flex equity loan. Hopefully won't need it, but good to have. * 3:45 physical - Awsare *- muscle relaxant -> methocarbamol *- eye infections; nose correlation *- prostate -> PSA ok; added to labs => labs in June; every 6 months * buy: pantsu. Found epsom salt for cheap; got 6lbs for $5 @ 15 Must-Have Linux Desktop Apps Datamation.com via LWN @ Linux Leaders: Debian and Ubuntu Derivative Distros Datamation.com @ freedesktop.org - Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken @ paying it forward via filkertom and others & N. called; wanted me to sing The Bears * laundry; bed ~11:30
Gleep. Somehow I seem to have let an entire week go by without posting -- Consonance, two doctor's visits, a huge pile of work, another huge pile of links, ... and only one walk.
Consonance was fun. I had no concerts, and sang less than half a dozen songs in circles. But I heard some good music, and had some good conversations. Not as many as I'd wanted to have. There's never enough time, in a weekend when everyone has concerts and workshops to go to. But... ok.
And the workshops, Carla's on editing songs, and Joe's on open tunings, were great. Some notes from Carla's workshop under the cut.
The Tempered Glass CD, Hearts of Glass, Nerves of Steel, went for $150 in the InterFilk auction.
Lots of work. Not so much fun -- there's way too much to do, in too little time. It's taken me most of the week simply to come up to speed. Not good. Damnit; the factory tests shouldn't have been an afterthought.
Did I mention that we're having our annual "It's Green!" party on Saturday? Yeah. That. Come on over, if you're in the area!
A big pile of links under the cut, which I'm too fuzzy-brained to sort through. So enjoy the chaos.
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