So from Thursday to today (Saturday, i know it's past midnight) I adjudicated with the Worldstrides Heritage Festival in Nashville, and the following fortunate events happened ( Read more... )

concert weekends of my nienteForte series are always a whirlwind of activity, but this one has seemed crazier than most. Yesterday morning the TUMB drumline along with some other volunteers were a part of a film shoot for a promotional Yulman Stadium video which took about two hours. Then i had a little bit of time to relax and nap before running ( Read more... )

december was kind of a huge blur for me between all of the stuff leading into the New Orleans Bowl on the 21st and then flying home on the 22nd. I was home for a full two weeks (plus an unplanned extra day due to weather), and i thought that that extra time would make it so that i could see more people yet have a fairly relaxed pace.

While i ( Read more... )

i posted some pics on my g+ page, but i never really talked about the whole thanksgiving dinner deal.

basically, since none of my extended family was going to make it to PA for christmas this year, i decided if i could pull it off that i would come home for thanksgiving instead and cook for the family then. So, turkey instead of pot roast.

I ( Read more... )

So i got up at 04:00 to catch my 05:30 flight. Connecting flight was to houston. fifty-five minutes in the air, my connecting flight was supposed to leave at 07:07.

when we got on the plane, the crew announced that they were having some sort of mechanical issue that was going to take roughly 30-45 minutes to resolve. They wanted to get some ( Read more... )

• a mountain load of laundry
• do some final revisions to the first 2/3rds of Moon of Eris to hand to the PPG
• work out final logistics for DSR Cubed
• do final step chart revisions for DSR Cubed
• try to finish the FY13 Budget Report for work
• stop by office to grab my drill and the GLass USB/miniUSB cable i left there
• stop by Verizon store to get a ( Read more... )

I'm sitting in Kate's office right now waiting for her to get done teaching a seminar class, so i thought while i had the opportunity i'd try to do a quick recap of everything that happened during the Crazy April period that was the past couple of weeks.
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i'm in the latter leg of my guest lecture gig in hawaii. there's a lot to catch up on from the past few weeks, and i really do want to blog about all of it in manageable bite-sized pieces. i may try to take care of some of this on the plane trip home so that when i get home i can focus on the next round of deadlines i have to meet. until then, ( Read more... )

so most apartments in new orleans are set up in what's called a shotgun style. in essence it's one long rectangle with rooms stacked next to each other with no rooms off to the side. My apartment is set up where i have a front room, then my living room, then my bathroom, then my bedroom, then my kitchen. So you can't get to my kitchen without ( Read more... )

Portland: stayed at my brother's and geeked out with him on video games and other stuff in between a lot of food and socializing. saw a lot of random Eugene and Portland folks some of which i haven't seen since i moved to New Orleans and saw two people from my West Chester days, both of which i haven't seen since i moved away from PA back in ( Read more... )