Post-Bash Ennui
So Kathy & Dean's Summer Bash was this last weekend, and it was great. Aside from the Hollands' kid having to go to the ER for a possible appendepectomy (false alarm, everything appears to be fine), I think that everyone had a good time. Filking was fairly non-existant except for Sunday night, when Steve Savitsky, I and a couple of others tried to get something going. We had a few good songs, but it didn't last nearly long enough for my tastes. Of course, I was left wanting more, so I guess that's OK. I finally got to sing "The Complete Ring of the Nieblelung (Abridged)," and got a pretty good reception. I think its too long, though; I may have to work on trimming it for future filksings.
Jack was there, which was great. I haven't seen him in a long time, and we played a fun game of Settlers with Shannon, Brittany and Michelle from Salt Lake. I also met Dominic, an old friend of Kathy and Dean's, who was a very fun guy. Sunday night, several of us stayed up until about 4:30 or 5:00 a.m. talking, trading songs, watching Coupling, and generally wishing that things could go on for another couple of days. I speak for myself, of course. I imagine that Kathy and Dean are pretty happy to get their house back.
One thing that is worrying, though, is that the 'tweens' were drinking fairly heavily, and Rob got himself plastered. He's of age now, so there's not much I can do about that, but I'm pretty disappointed in him. Jake was also sneaking drinks; how much he actually drank varies depending on who you talk to; his friend Oz apparently got himself pretty drunk. Hopefully, this will be a one-time occurrance; if not, I don't think I'll be able to bring the kids to the Bash, and that would be too bad. They really enjoy it there.
Right now, I'm back at my long-term project of getting my cassettes and LPs into mp3 format. I've got Four Shilling Short's NOW on the tape deck being converted into e-form. This is the "extended" version of the band, with Christoph, Margaret, Heather and several others along with Aog & Christy(?). As JohnO once said, there's really only one Celtic band in the Bay Area, and they just have different mixes of the same people. Anyway, this tape has one of my very favorite songs on it: "You're Not Irish." Its the only version I have in any form, so it'll be nice to be able to have it on my iPod.
Well, enough verbosity. I'll post this and see if I can figure out how to "friend" people.
'ta.
Jack was there, which was great. I haven't seen him in a long time, and we played a fun game of Settlers with Shannon, Brittany and Michelle from Salt Lake. I also met Dominic, an old friend of Kathy and Dean's, who was a very fun guy. Sunday night, several of us stayed up until about 4:30 or 5:00 a.m. talking, trading songs, watching Coupling, and generally wishing that things could go on for another couple of days. I speak for myself, of course. I imagine that Kathy and Dean are pretty happy to get their house back.
One thing that is worrying, though, is that the 'tweens' were drinking fairly heavily, and Rob got himself plastered. He's of age now, so there's not much I can do about that, but I'm pretty disappointed in him. Jake was also sneaking drinks; how much he actually drank varies depending on who you talk to; his friend Oz apparently got himself pretty drunk. Hopefully, this will be a one-time occurrance; if not, I don't think I'll be able to bring the kids to the Bash, and that would be too bad. They really enjoy it there.
Right now, I'm back at my long-term project of getting my cassettes and LPs into mp3 format. I've got Four Shilling Short's NOW on the tape deck being converted into e-form. This is the "extended" version of the band, with Christoph, Margaret, Heather and several others along with Aog & Christy(?). As JohnO once said, there's really only one Celtic band in the Bay Area, and they just have different mixes of the same people. Anyway, this tape has one of my very favorite songs on it: "You're Not Irish." Its the only version I have in any form, so it'll be nice to be able to have it on my iPod.
Well, enough verbosity. I'll post this and see if I can figure out how to "friend" people.
'ta.