My brother Michael is on a terrorist watch list, according to his bank. Figures.
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Saturday, August 1, 2009
More Music....
My project lately has been to convert the old corroding tape cassettes of Dad's singing to electronic mp3 files....I added two more songs (actually, the last two that I have) yesterday.
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Friday, July 31, 2009
It was a hottie outside....
This morning when I took the dog out the chill hit me square in the face: only 60 degrees?
The soaring temperatures this week have been hard on our lawn, the park across the street, the hanging baskets and the wildlife outside.
But I have nothing to complain about because I live in air conditioning and have a swimming pool in my backyard. But I had to share the pool with the wildlife as even insects swarmed because they needed cooling off as well.
At OHSU the threat was to campus-wide systems that are responsible for keeping the special research freezers going (many hundreds below zero) and enough power and backup power to keep the hospital beds cool. There were problems yesterday, but they seem to have mostly resolved today.
I would rather have this than snow any day.
The soaring temperatures this week have been hard on our lawn, the park across the street, the hanging baskets and the wildlife outside.
But I have nothing to complain about because I live in air conditioning and have a swimming pool in my backyard. But I had to share the pool with the wildlife as even insects swarmed because they needed cooling off as well.
At OHSU the threat was to campus-wide systems that are responsible for keeping the special research freezers going (many hundreds below zero) and enough power and backup power to keep the hospital beds cool. There were problems yesterday, but they seem to have mostly resolved today.
I would rather have this than snow any day.
Friday, July 24, 2009
Summer evening skies full of surprises...
Have you seen the International Space Station (ISS) pass by overhead yet? David and I wandered out to the backyard last evening around 9:40 pm to see it go....it's traveling very quickly but you see this bright star moving through the sky. You have to know when to look because it moves so quickly, so catch the next dates here.
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Friday, July 10, 2009
Dance Like You Mean It!
I spent part of my Thursday afternoon at the Chiles Center at the Thunderbird Dance Camp watching the final recital of all of Oregon's dancers under the age of 25! Why? Trisha was there, that's why! She started texting me on Monday to come watch her dance, so I had x'd out one hour of my afternoon from work to be there.
I should have x'd out the entire afternoon because it was mayhem and an extravaganza of sweating dancing girls! I got there and found a seat up high in the nosebleed section. The parents were pretty competitive about the seats - groups from different places were holding seats and I was clearly an outsider, somebody who hadn't been ensconced in these seats all week, and the stares were fierce. "These seats are saved," they hissed at me until I finally reached some top section where one lone small broken seat remained for me.
The back biting and competitive nature of these parents was awesome to witness. It was worse than Little League dads - these dance mothers are fierce! I kept wondering, why don't they have jobs like everybody else? Evidently there exists moms who have nothing better to do than follow their kids around and bad-mouth the competition while munching on barbecue-flavored pringles. One nasty dancing daughter came up to her mealy-mouthed mom to exclaim: "Watch the girl next to me...she's awful! And she has spent the week trying to talk to me! Ick!" The mother replied, "just dance and forget her, don't talk to her, you don't want the judges to think you have anything to do with her!"
So, with baited breath, I waited for Trisha to dance. I could barely see her down below. But when her group of dancers emerged, I recognized her immediately. She was in the front row and she was smiling! She knew her stuff and she danced really well. She twirled and tumbled and kicked and gyrated her arms like she knew what she was doing! It was AWESOME!
My pictures (taken with my iphone because I have no other recording device currently) are pathetic and don't show much except attest to the fact that I, and I alone, watched Trisha in her finest moment shining at the Thunderbird Camp. I also noticed that she had lots of friends around her that she was enjoying. I hope that she had a great camp experience, that she always dances with girls who aren't very good, and that she just had fun.
Thursday, July 9, 2009
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