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Ruminations on The Philip and Elizabeth game.
The Game has moved along in the last few days and we have been enjoying ourselves building our alter egos' personalities. Elizabeth walks to work, keeps shoes at the office which she rotates every week. She sees no reason to carry them because all of her work clothes go with all of her work shoes. Philip bikes to work and ruthlessly maintains his ( Read more... ) -
A Roleplay for Dealing with Household Crap.
Read a kind of ghoulish article on how to clear out your elderly realtive's homes. And on that note, we have come up with a roleplay for getting rid of all the same crap that is slowly accumulating in our own home. It's called ( Read more... ) -
A Momentus Day
Today, St Patrick's Day, 2013. the day I first played the bagpipes. Sort of ( Read more... ) -
Ad Astra Schedual
Just got my Ad Astra schedual. There were so many cool panels to choose from and I pleased to see that I got a bunch of fun ones. So ( Read more... ) -
Birthday
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Bagpipe Progress
So I'm coming on to three months of sitting on the back porch playing scales and scales and scales and scales and SCALES and mangling Amazing Grace, Scotland the Brave and the The Green Hills of Tyrol and I'm pretty pleased with myself, I gotta say. That low G has finally worked itself out and I get it most of the time. Grace notes are, quite ( Read more... ) -
Bagpipe Progress
So far I have had two official "Sitting on the back porch playing the chanter with dogs." I managed half a scale yesterday and a full scale up and down today--just as I was getting discouraged that I couldn't even manage the first note. The problem seems to be one of fingering. The flat finger thingy is hard to sort out and get eveything covered ( Read more... ) -
Decades
I've always felt that the naughts were important to recognize somehow, not always with great fanfare, (let's face it I celebrate every birthday with great fanfare anyway) but with something. When I turned twenty I had a "kids" party with cake, ice cream, hot dogs, balloons, pin the tail on the donkey, that sort of thing. My parents hosted it and ( Read more... ) -
My Day
It's here, It's here, that bestest time of year, the time when singing songs to me magicaly appear ( Read more... ) -
And speaking of children...
It occurs to me that 2012 is a mometous year as the last of the 20th century babies celebrate their 13th birthdays and are children no more. The Pied Piper of Time will be very busy this year.