The Mandelbear's Musings

Got up 8ish, thankful for the time change. There was enough time to grab some coffee and leftovers for breakfast and start a load of dishes before heading off to the wilds of Benicia for semy_of_pearls and shadowwalkyr's wedding. Lots of old SCA and old fandom at the wedding; when you've been around the Bay Area as long as we have, ...

It was a nice Pagan ceremony, short and sweet. What people were wearing ran the gamut from punk teens in T-shirts and jeans, to formal garb of all centuries from the 12th to the 21st. The buffet lunch was superb; I went very easy on the desert and ended up nicely filled but not overstuffed. We left earlyish, after the toasts (which were fun), but before the cake and the dancing. Colleen doesn't do too well in folding chairs, and we needed to get home to feed the monsters kids.

The flower_cat had originally planned to make scalloped potatoes (to use up some leftover cheese sauce), but neither of us were hungry so in the end she just went out and got Burger Thing for the kids.

Worked a little on tracks; got "Cicero" put away, but decided that "Mushrooms" needs to be redone -- there was an unfixable editing glitch. It was done before I learned to make a clean copy before doing anything irreversible. It would help a lot if Audacity had multi-level undo, but it doesn't.

Managed to get the dishes put away and the roasting pan (from last night's ham) emptied of ham fat and put in the sink to soak. I don't think I'll be able to stay up much past 10pm, even though I know I'll pay for it by waking up at four. The flower_cat's already asleep. I'd take a bath, but the front tub's still full of cans and bottles.

All-in-all, a very pleasant but very tiring weekend.