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03:00pm 17/06/2008
  I know I haven't posted here for a while. Apparently I only have so much posting goodness inside of me, and when it is used up it is all gone. I have been posting on MySpace, and alas, not here. I think I will begin copying over the stuff from there so I can have witty and entertaining stuff over here too.

I have been pretty busy living life. I can't even begin to describe what it feels like to me. It's summer and for the first summer In three years, I am not sick with some mysterious debilitating virus that effectively turns me into an invalid. I can be out! I can mountain bike and learn to kayak and go on hikes! I can take extra projects and do things with Greg! It's warm and sunny and I feel light and free.

So. . . . .yeah. Just happy to have a good life.		  
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03:07pm 17/06/2008
  Update
Current mood: determined

Not much to say. June is going to be very busy. I'm designing a show and cramming it into a full schedule at the Folly. I don't expect to be hanging out or having much fun in the month of June.

July though, July is another matter.
July 1st through the 8th my nephew is coming to visit. I have such plans!! We are going to take a train to St. Louis to see the arch and City Museum. City Museum is just about the coolest place in the United States in my opinion. http://www.citymuseum.org/phototour.html. We will be going to Oceans of Fun, taking a tour through the Kansas City Star's printing presses, going to the College Basketball Experience, seeing the Bodies exhibit, mountain biking, and of course, blowing up fireworks on the 4th of July. I am really looking forward to it.

Then in late July Greg and I are taking off. We're driving to Oregon by way of the badlands, Mt. Rushmore, and Devils Tower. We are stopping in Montana to visit friends. We will paddle a few days in Oregon, visit more friends, then drive down the coast of Northern California. We will brave the backroads of Nevada, stop and visit my parents, then come up over the Rockies, through Kansas and back home again.

I'm very excited.

02 Jun 2008


Update to the Update
Current mood: blissful

City Museum is having sleepover night on July third!!!! We get to spend the whole night!! I am SO buying tickets for me, Greg, and Jake.




26 May 2008


The suspense is over
Current mood: accomplished

For those of you waiting in suspense to know what my Christmas tree design is this year, I finally have it

(trumpet flourish)

The Santa Tree.
Every ornament on this tree will be a Santa figurine.

That is all. But before I go, let me take a moment to fondly remember other Christmas tree triumphs of the past.

The edible tree
The origami tree
The ribbon tree
The chandelier tree
The dried flower tree
and, most famously,
The wedding tree.

Next year, I promise, the electronic components tree. I just need a coupla years to collect stuff.



19 May 2008
Sound effects

Went to a very big Civil War Reenactment yesterday with the 722. Impersonated a press person, got escorted off the battlefield---normal for one of my sound gathering expeditions.

(To get the sounds I want I use an off-the-cuff combination of really nice airhead, and better-to-beg-forgiveness. If I think asking someone will get me closer to the sounds I want, I ask. If not, I just go after the sounds and if I get caught I play dumb and really nice.)

Highlights include a really irritated horse from about two feet away. A brigade marching by, and some decent artillery.

One thing I don't understand. I did the medieval recreation thing for some years and the whole point was to sort of lose yourself in the time. I guess that must not be a priority for the Civil War guys. They ran bus service 10 past the battlefield all day long. Not to mention to water trucks, motorized golf carts. . . . it was incredibly noisy. OTOH I suppose they do more of the other stuff after hours.

In other SFX news. I recently got some good recordings of ballet classes and pointe shoes on marley.		  
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