Niko and Disco Dino Dancing to V05

 

Today I worked from home, and I would have gotten a lot done if I didn't have two meetings. I'm really starting to get meeting fatigue. People keep putting meetings on my calendar, and some of them don't seem at all related to what I do, but the worst was when a person I'd never heard of tried to put two meetings on my calendar about hiring student hourlies. What?? One was right during another meeting already on my calendar, and the other was during the first half of next week's Ice Cream Social. "But Famous," you might say, "why not just go to the second half of the Ice Cream Social?" My sweet summer child, OF COURSE there was already a meeting on my calendar during the second half of the Ice Cream Social, and I refuse to miss it completely for something that seems to have nothing to do with my job.

In the evening Travalon and I went to see V05, a local disco band, play at the East Side Club. Was it ever packed there! We got some Mideastern food from Bunky's, who were catering the event, and we had a dancing party with Niko and Disco Dino.

There was a gorgeous sunset over Lake Monona.

I like how it looked reflecting off some nearby building windows.

This gives you an idea of how many people were there.

The show was three hours, and we missed the first hour, so maybe that's when they did "September" by Earth, Wind & Fire. (My favorite band, but I cringe at how they don't use the Oxford comma.) Usually they do it as their encore, but this time they did "Disco Inferno." They did do an EWF song earlier, maybe "Boogie Wonderland" or maybe "Getaway" - my memory is terrible these days. Anyway, it was a fantastic show.

Here are a couple more random DuoLingo sayings.

Speaking of DuoLingo, it's time for me to wrap this up and do a Spanish lesson. There is a DuoLingo shop, with things like a Duo Hawaiian shirt and a Duo bucket hat, and the randomest thing they have is an enamel pin of Duo with three eyes. A green owl is weird, but a three-eyed green owl? That's more bizarre than a Mideastern market! (Maybe that pun doesn't work, but it's one I thought of as a kid and always wanted to use. Do "bizarre" and "bazaar" even sound the same? And what better time to use this crazy attempt at a pun than when discussing a green owl with a Third Eye of Enlightenment that presumably allows him to speak every language - except Basque, where the word "bizarre" comes from - fluently?)

Famous Hat