01/25/10
Friends
01/02/10
Effort
Effort (01/02/10): We spent New Year's Eve at the local Hindu ashram this year, celebrating with the Swamis chanting in Sanskrit, hours of music, and brownies from the bake sale upstairs. One thing everybody was invited to do was to "pick a card" from a bowl full of cardboard hearts, each of which had one word and an Indian symbol on it. I believe the idea was that the word is a message to set your intention for the New Year, or maybe a vision for it. My little girl found "Delight", and my wife's was "Forgiveness". As for me, I got "Effort". It might as well have said "Slack-Ass". The interesting thing about the card is that unlike most others, it was worn around the edges, as if several people had picked it before and thrown it back in. I was the one who kept it. As a reminder.
Friends (01/25/10): I have officially adopted TweetDeck as my communication platform tonight after noticing that several professional friends seem to be using it to save time in their lives, which I could definitely stand to do. If anybody out there hasn't already found me, here I am:
The old restoration project is still on hold but also still on the list, with plans to a) install the Vintage Vibe Miracle Mod and b) refinish the entire cabinet as the next 2 big steps. This of course means pulling it out of the closet again, but the convenient thing about the Miracle Mod is that I can remove all the keys from the piano without actually having to move the piano itself in order to do the work. I'll put this thing back together one small step at a time if I need to. At the moment I'm being paid to work on somebody else's piano, though, so you have to set your priorities. His definitely needs more help than mine....
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