Productive weekend
This was a rather productive weekend. It was a rather grumpy, albeit short, week at work, and I was cranky about it come Friday evening. I swear I am not going to be making any friends out of upper management these coming weeks. But enough of that for now.
Saturday we took down the remaining Xmas decorations and bid farewell to our tree. It became the perfect time to tear into the living room, shampoo the carpeting and do some much needed cleaning. It looks so much better now, and it's less of an embarrassment if company shows up.
Today was too good of a day to waste inside. After all, it's January, and what better to do than to wash cars and trucks wearing t-shirts and jeans. Since the weather has become much more of a rollercoaster than it has been in the past, it's best to take advantage of what Ma Nature's schizoid personality throws at us.
After a nice dinner, we cleaned up and relaxed a bit before heading out this evening. In what has apparently become tradition around here. we once again took in our nice, if somewhat belated holiday concert with the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. It was a crowded house at Baltimore's 1st Mariner Arena, and the crew did not disappoint. While not as spot-on as the last couple shows, they still rocked the house. It fascinates me that the demographics of these shows seems completely random. From goth kids to grandmas needing canes to get around and everything in between, everyone enjoyed the show. And this time, I remembered to smuggle in my camera.
I used my new Pentax W-30 for the first time in such a setting. It's okay I guess. The focusing takes forever, and, frankly, it kinda sucks. I took a couple movies with the thing which are not bad, considering. However, it takes them in that dreadful Quicktime format that wont let me do much with it except resort to that awful Quicktime software. Yes, I am editorializing here, I have always detested the format and it's attending software.
The light show/pyrotechnics evolves and expands each year. A good bit of the audience by their show of hands are newcomers to their live show. They were all blown away. As were we. It never gets old.
This week I gotta catch up on stuff. I am finally making some headway. I think.
Saturday we took down the remaining Xmas decorations and bid farewell to our tree. It became the perfect time to tear into the living room, shampoo the carpeting and do some much needed cleaning. It looks so much better now, and it's less of an embarrassment if company shows up.
Today was too good of a day to waste inside. After all, it's January, and what better to do than to wash cars and trucks wearing t-shirts and jeans. Since the weather has become much more of a rollercoaster than it has been in the past, it's best to take advantage of what Ma Nature's schizoid personality throws at us.
After a nice dinner, we cleaned up and relaxed a bit before heading out this evening. In what has apparently become tradition around here. we once again took in our nice, if somewhat belated holiday concert with the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. It was a crowded house at Baltimore's 1st Mariner Arena, and the crew did not disappoint. While not as spot-on as the last couple shows, they still rocked the house. It fascinates me that the demographics of these shows seems completely random. From goth kids to grandmas needing canes to get around and everything in between, everyone enjoyed the show. And this time, I remembered to smuggle in my camera.
I used my new Pentax W-30 for the first time in such a setting. It's okay I guess. The focusing takes forever, and, frankly, it kinda sucks. I took a couple movies with the thing which are not bad, considering. However, it takes them in that dreadful Quicktime format that wont let me do much with it except resort to that awful Quicktime software. Yes, I am editorializing here, I have always detested the format and it's attending software.
The light show/pyrotechnics evolves and expands each year. A good bit of the audience by their show of hands are newcomers to their live show. They were all blown away. As were we. It never gets old.
This week I gotta catch up on stuff. I am finally making some headway. I think.