....to do something frivolous with her Christmas gift. I'd mentioned that the Pittsburgh Ballet Theater was putting on a production of Prokofiev's Cinderella, and she made me promise to go. (Yes, she can do that ( Read more... )

I kind of wish I didn't have to work tonight, or for the next few days, while we deal with this storm that's supposed to get so bad. Oh well. At least the snow is supposed to be elsewhere, likewise the worst of everything else ( Read more... )

In to work tonight, straight out to Pittsburgh tomorrow for my first live Nutcracker. It's supposed to be sunny and well above freezing. I hope so; I'll need to find a place to catnap in the car, and for that I need to be a bit warmer than I am now. Sunshine will keep a heated- up car warm enough, with an army ground- cloth blanket ( Read more... )

I have seen the Great Bear looking into a window, we have debated running down an indifferent mulie (red meat for... a year or so?), AND seen Harry Potter in IMAX....

In other words, greetings from the shadow of Pikes Peak. I'm out visiting the family. We're watching the San Francisco Nutcracker from last year.

Swan Lake ( Read more... )