The audition, it is over. Fifteen minutes of me mostly playing well, with a couple of episodes of being flubbidyflubbidy, especially in the first cadenza of the Nielsen Concerto. But I had a really good first impression of the clarinet teachers, especially the main one ( Read more... )

....I haven't been good about posting. So, here are some things:

--I'm displeased about our lack of winter.

--Staying around home for the holidays was nice. Had a museum day on Xmas eve with caviecub, and then another on New Year's eve with my brother Tad and his daughter Kate. The Ai Weiwei exhibit at the Hirshhorn is fantastic. I need to go again ( Read more... )

So, day one of Painting in Pomeroy was a success. I did all of the roller painting in all three bedrooms, the living room, and the hallway. Tomorrow will be spent prepping the kitchen and I'm going to decide when I'm done with that whether I want to start doing the edging, or if I want to paint the kitchen and laundry room before I do the edging ( Read more... )

I'm not sure what's going on with that. I rarely remember my dreams, so last night's dream is a bit of a jumble ( Read more... )

So, one of our neighbors is a Secret Service agent at the White House--I keep telling her that it's not much of a secret if she keeps talking about it. This past weekend was the Kennedy Center Honors thing, and she ended up taking some overtime to work at it.

Her impression? "I swear, every single musician there was surrounded by this crowd of ( Read more... )

So, I'm trying to make an effort to post more on here.

My most recent news is that we finally moved into our new office space at work, just a few blocks north of where the office had been (in what I called The Ugliest Building in Bethesda), a block and a half south of what used to be the Bethesda Naval Hospital, but has now been taken over by ( Read more... )

*sigh* So, let's see ( Read more... )

So, recently I've been making different kinds of stock, mostly turkey and beef. The process of making stock--boiling bones and joints to extract the gelatin--strikes me as rather barbaric. Whenever I do it, I'm reminded of the Hirogen on Star Trek:Voyager. In the first episode where they appeared, the crew were wandering through one of the ( Read more... )

So, this past Wednesday, I was coming home from work, and I couldn't open the front door because Claude had wedged one of his toys under it. I could only open it enough for him to snuffle me. Fortunately (I thought), I had left the gate open the previous night when I took the garbage out, so I walked around to the back door to get in that way. ( Read more... )

I voted. Mark got up early and got down there to be in line when the poll opened. I decided to wait a bit and go down after I took The Claude for a walk and had a little brefkist. It was fine--the polling place is two blocks away, so I wandered down there, taking streets I don't usually walk on just to see them. On the way, I contemplated the ( Read more... )