There are lots of bands who can make it work in the studio but can't hack it on stage. Death Cab for Cutie is not one of them!

Went to a fantastic show at the Norva with anann73 and editgrrl (admiralb was supposed to be there, too, but ended up having to work in NoVA). I am just impressed with DCFC to no end. The sound was mixed so it was loud enough without ( Read more... )

Productive day so far. Cut the back yard, vacuumed the bedroom and changed my bedclothes; did dishes and laundry and even got some all the way to the coathangers. Watered the plants. Cooked lunch. Boxed a box of books. Came to work and got printing working in my Unix classroom from the student server. Now I'm going to get caught up on class ( Read more... )

I love my new Unix class. It is remarkably easy to stand up there and talk about Unix for 3.5 hours--scarily so. I hope I'm not driving my students crazy ( Read more... )

( Sometimes I can feel my career path tottering beneath me. )

I had SUCH fun at the party on Saturday, thanks to everyone who came. It's always a delight to gather family and friends together & I hope we can do it again. The party atmosphere carried on through the whole weekend, with nancy73, admiralb, and jtothecapitalc & painkillerjane spending the night. We had band practice Sunday evening. Monday was my first class & it went well. I have 18 ( Read more... )