Sorry that I didn’t blog yesterday. I was planning to put
some pictures on the blog, but Travalon and I got sucked into a surreal kids’
show called Peppa Pig that had us
laughing helplessly, so we weren’t able to do anything else. Each episode is
like five minutes long, but they just kept showing them, and it seemed like
each one ended with a statement about how everyone loves X (e.g., “Everyone
loves being broken out of concrete!”) and all the animals flat on their backs,
convulsing with laughter. Fair enough, that’s about how Travalon and I
were too at the end of each episode. Just to add to the delight factor, all the
little creatures also have British accents to add to the nuttiness of what they
say.
I did forget to mention that the Just Bach concert last
Wednesday was technically Bach, but it was not JS. Instead, all the music was
by his son Carl Philip Emmanuel. I wasn’t too excited about that prospect, but
I did go, and it was actually pretty good. Not as good as old Johann Sebastian,
but what really is?
Today I dragged my ukulele to work (not as bad as dragging
the mandolin, but still) because there was supposed to be a ukulele jam in the
evening. The organizer had sent out a Doodle poll to find out what the best
time would be, but I never heard what time was chosen, although it was very
clear which time people liked best. I emailed the organizer, and he was all
like, what? There’s no jam tonight! There’s one next month. Oops! I had failed to
notice that little detail, so I brought my ukulele to work for nothing. And who
knows how much I will need to bring the mandolin to work in the future? My band
hasn’t been getting many gigs lately, and to our shock the maple syrup festival
we always play at doesn’t want us this year. I have been in this band nineteen
years, and we have always played at that festival! Was it something one of us
said? Our leader doesn’t seem super eager to have practices if we don’t have an
upcoming gig, so maybe my days as a semi-professional musician are over. Hey,
that leaves me more time to try to learn how to play the sitar.
Famous Hat
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