Weirdness, results

So even though I missed a few days, my self-imposed challenge to blog every day for two weeks has been a success – between Sept. 16 and Sept. 30 I posted 14 times. Best day for traffic was Sept. 21, when I published The View From the Council Chamber. New readers, however, soon realized that [...]

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My Saturday

So on Friday night I had another gig at Alliance Francaise. Unlike the one before, where I only sang for about 10 minutes, this was really a chamber recital of 50 minutes of music for soprano, viola, cello, and accordion. Did I mention it was much more difficult? And we only had one rehearsal plus [...]

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Daily Basset, Oct 24, 2010: Welcome Home Party Edition

Madeline and Gus throw Ben a welcome home party. Or I wake Gus up at 10:30 to put a plastic lei on him and take his picture. I upload, you decide. In other news…the conference yesterday was great.  I saw some excellent talks and presentations and did some quality schmoozing.  People really liked our show.  [...]

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Daily Basset: Oct 17, 2010

Ohmigod I’m tired.  Last night was my Bearded Lady Pub Crawl…I will post pictures of it later…and today was a full day of teaching.  Also I decided to paint the studio this weekend.  I wanted to fix up the house a bit while Ben’s away, and it looks very nice (I have to do a [...]

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Home alone

Ben’s away for the weekend playing with Friendly Rich and the Lollipop People. Yes, I know, he’s out having fun with other bands and I’m stuck at home. In the 36 hours that I’ve been alone I’ve used two main strategies to console myself: Yesterday – Be a social butterfly. I had no less than [...]

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Things you learn

It’s about 3:30 in the morning as I write this, and I Puritani is over. I wish I had some audio or video to post, but as this was an actual For Real production with union rules etc., I don’t.  You will just have to take my word for it that I was fantastic.* As [...]

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Complaining with Kay, Ep. 44: How *can* a door be out of order?

In this episode: – There’s a weird kiosk that sells knock-off snuggies and blankets with Hannah Montana on them. No, really. – A door is a very simple object. It either opens – or it doesn’t. – There’s some mold growing on it, because IT’S A BATHROOM. – The part of me that wants to [...]

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Holy sh*t.

I just put a second coat of sealant (basically a dilute acrylic-based glue) on the exposed brick wall in the bathroom. Looking around, I thought, “Hmm, there’s still a lot to do to this room.” So I made a list on what needs to be done. And I kept going… …and holy mother of Christ, [...]

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Going Prorogue: Complaining with Kay Vodcast Special #3

My afternoon protesting with Canadians against Proroguing Parliament. Going Prorogue Featuring: – Baby-strike lady – The Raging Grannies – Steve Paiken looking kind of creeped-out – Democracy’s funeral – Me running out of batteries, then talking about what happened after I ran out of batteries.

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Bedblog 2.0

Having now been back at work for a week, even on a slightly reduced schedule, I have reached the weekend completely exhausted. It may be the biking, it may be the cold weather, it may be the fact that for a full week I’ve had to actually get off the couch and do stuff, but [...]

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