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Thursday, November 19th, 2009
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2:21 pm - Look out, world!
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Guess who learned to drive last night?
And she didn't hit anything! Or crush any lamps into the truss!
Good job, kid. I'm very proud of you.
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| Saturday, October 31st, 2009
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9:17 pm - Halloween 2009
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1:29 pm - Ballet in a minor key...
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So for Saturday's ballet class, Lois waited 'til we were all stretched at the barre and warmed up a bit, then we all turned to the right and went to second position, waiting for Lois' musical choice of the day for the barre position warm-ups...
In honor of Halloween, what came blaring for the speakers was Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor.
Several of us couldn't stop laughing throughout the entire barre sequence, as Lois exhorted us on the big bass organ notes "Bigger! SWELL with the MUSIC!"
You probably had to have been there, but it really was pretty funny.
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| Friday, September 25th, 2009
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10:25 am - Puppy rescue!
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Yay!
They ran in front of my truck out into the middle of an intersection! I DIDN'T run them down, AND I rescued them! WIN!
Both pups had collars and County tags, as well as RFID chips!
( More photos! )
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| Sunday, September 20th, 2009
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7:17 pm - "Are you Duncan, King of Scots?"
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"I am."
"Get him!!"
*urk!*
That's how the ballet went for me, but when you're portraying King Duncan based on Macbeth, you pretty much know how it's going to end...
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| Wednesday, September 16th, 2009
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10:13 pm - Mary Travers...
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Oh, I thought she’d outlast all of us.
copyright by T. Dwayne Riddel, 1967
Damn. There’s part of my childhood gone forever.
I told my two bandmates that we ought to light a candle for Mary at our next show, but I’m thinking I just might light a candle for her at all of our shows. I do her parts in the Peter, Paul and Mary songs.
Group hug, people. There’s another good one gone from the world. Now we’ll all have to try harder, and bring up the little ones to try harder still…
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| Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
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4:15 pm - Just another (Labor) day...
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| Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
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8:42 am - It's my ballet birthday!
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I've been taking ballet class now, on average, three times a week, for one year!
It's good to learn new things!
My ballet mistress, Lois Ellyn, deserves my thanks for her patience and perserverance. I am not a natural dancer, but I attack the work with gusto. I have become visibly better at moving on a dance floor. I often shamelessly take advantage of the fact that Lois likes me and often seems to put up with things from me that she might not take from other students.
My fellow students are invariably good-natured and willing to help me when I can't figure something out, which is very, very often. I have so many truly stand-out friends in that room that can all be absolutely relied upon for support and encouragement that it just warms my heart!
Class is fun, and so often very hard. The combinations Lois puts together are challenging, and sometimes fiendishly difficult. Sometimes it all just sounds like strings of nonsense French phrases strung together! Only time will cure that, I guess.
I am very, very lucky to have a wife who supports me in my new addiction. I am a very lucky man.
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| Friday, July 17th, 2009
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1:04 pm - My old ballet buddy wrote a song!
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Hey, friends, do me a favor and listen to Sara Rose's song on YouTube! She doesn't dance for my company any longer, but she's developing her songwriting skills, and I just wanted to point a few people her way, because, well, I know her, and she's pretty cool!
Cast between-shows dinner at Rutabegorz' - 2006
(She also gave me one of the best ballet-related quotes of all time after someone complimented her on her skill at avoiding a dropped hairclip during The Nutcracker...
"I've danced near live camels onstage, and if you can dance around camel poop, you can dance around anything!"
At any rate, here's a shout out for Sara Rose!
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| Saturday, July 11th, 2009
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9:36 pm - I've got a new part in a ballet!
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It's Joseph Guttierez's new piece, Macbeth, and I get to be King Duncan and DIE! DIE! DIE!
Yay for me! My friend Christine is my queen, (she gets to die, too!) and for the first time, I get to do some honest-to-god partnering! Almost a little mini-pas-de-deux! Christine is SO BRAVE! And very patient. She has to have strong ribs for the fish catch, because I don't always hit the right spot on the catch, poor girl... I can't wait for the next rehearsal, next Saturday!
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| Monday, July 6th, 2009
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8:52 am - Hey, baby, it's the Fourth of July...
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It's our usual Fourth of July vacation at mom's, and the Bridgeport, California parade was a as fantastic a piece of Americana as you could hope for, including people dressed up in trout costumes walking in the parade (photos later, I'm on dial-up... Which is why I can't look at your music links, ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) co_cutthroat! Later this week though, I promise!)
The only photo I've taken the phone-time to upload so far is from our usual post-parade Bridgeporter Inn people-watching spot, perched above the sidewalk on US Highway 395...
See you all soon, once we're back in the world! I think today we're going to drive in to Reno to find a specialty yarn store for the knitter in the family.
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| Monday, June 22nd, 2009
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3:27 pm - Two Hundred and Forty Years...
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That's roughly how many years of friendship these eight guys share...
We average thirty years apeice between each of us. That's pretty cool. These are some really great people. It was a fine thing to have everyone in one room again!
Mark, Glenn, Kell, Bob, Jeff, Patrick, Joe and Sterling
I love my friends!
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| Thursday, June 4th, 2009
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5:13 pm - It was an unexpected gift...
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| Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
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8:33 am - Half a century gone! On to Round Two!
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I stopped at my usual coffee place on the way to work, and the morning team had made me a decorated cupcake and platter (“Happy Birthday” spelled out around the cupcake in chocolate syrup), and Lovely Linda, the girl on the left, had even dashed in from home on her day off to help present it to me!
Linda, Margie and Matt ROCK!
There's going to be a work celebration later today over at City Hall, but I'm really looking forward to sushi with friends tonight, and Open Mike Night shenanigans after that! The closer I get to quittin' time today, the better the day is gonna get!
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| Sunday, May 24th, 2009
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8:32 pm - San Francisco...
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After visiting a pretentious little bookstore (City Lights, they're FAMOUSER than YOU!) we stepped down the street for a pint of Russian Imperial Stout at the San francisco Brewery. This is the view from in front of the donut shop next door...
I love the verdegris...
San Francisco is very overcast and windy and chilly this weekend...
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| Monday, May 18th, 2009
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11:49 pm - My day at the ballet, in portraits...
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| Thursday, May 14th, 2009
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11:48 pm - Saturday night at Table Ten...
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It's Where's Mary at Table Ten in Fullerton, California!
6 to 9 p.m. in the bar! Come on down!
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| Saturday, May 9th, 2009
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10:41 pm - I follow this truck south on Harbor some mornings...
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| Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
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3:58 pm
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| Sunday, April 26th, 2009
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10:52 pm - Southern California Ren Faire...
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