First - congrats to the Brews Brothers who kicked a$$ on Thursday taking all 7 points (out of 7) from the villains. We might be on a Detroit Piston's type streak here just in time for a run for the 2nd half title run!!!
Friday's Children's Concerts went rather well. I just thought it was unusual to be performing on the big 250th anniversary of Mozart's birthday and not play a single piece by Wolfgang...... but that's another complaint for another day! Ronald McDonald was again the MC for our Children's Concerts and he does so well with the kids. My only complaint is he began each of the 3 concerts with a "singalong" and said to the kids "I'm going to sing a line and then I need you to finish it...... Buh Duh Bup Buh Buuuuuuuh...." and then 5000 kids yell "I'M LOVIN' IT". That was pretty pathetic that our kids watch that much advertising to know what he's getting at. Scary. Remember, I'm anti-advertising (except for Sunday's Superbowl.... that's half the reason to watch!)
We still have concerts this weekend for our normal January Concert. We have a guest conductor from Brazil which will make it more interesting and give us a glimpse of what we hope is a different style of rehearsal and conducting. Tschaik 5 is the main piece on the program (A wonderful piece that I'd love to pass on to anyone that's interested in hearing it). In the first half we're also playing a Finale from Aida (by Verdi), and Fantasia for Soprano Saxophone by Villa-Lobos. I know, you're thinking "Isn't Soprano Saxophone what Kenny G plays"? And if you're thinking that.... you should be shot.
I finished the entire Chronic (WHAT?) les of Narnia book this weekend (DOUBLE TRUE!!). All 765 pages of the thing! The order that was suggested by Lewis to read them is:
- Magician's Nephew
- The Lion, The Witch, The Wardrobe (what the movie is about)
- The Horse and His Boy
- Prince Caspian
- The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
- The Silver Chair
- The Last Battle
Read them in that order is my thoughts... but don't get discouraged by the early on books because I think the ones I liked best are after the first three. In order, my favorites are: Prince, Voyage, Lion/Witch, Magician, Last Battle, Silver, Horse..... you lost yet? Yesterday, I quickly started The Five People You Meet In Heaven and it's another one you'll have to read. More on that one when I finish it (maybe tomorrow).
One quick complaint to start out Mondays..... I checked my IBM email yesterday to catch up from Friday's activities here at work. So there were ZERO unread messages in my inbox. When I logged in this morning, there were 13 new messages.... and ALL of them were spam. I went to the spam section where there was only 1 message. Isn't IBM the largest computer company in the world? And yet we have the worst spam filter I've ever seen? Need to see about getting Yahoo! to sponsor our spam filter in the future! Just a thought.
Song of the Day - I need to go find the Spam Song. I'm also interested in hitting the Spam Museum the next time Hazel takes me to Austin. We should make a road trip out of it if anyone else is interested... Spam and then a "quick" drive to Chippewa Falls.
Video of the Day - Wheeler and I watched Transporter 2 this weekend which was a huge disappoinment. I had rewatched the first Transporter about 2 months ago and enjoyed it a lot. But this new one was way too fake and cheezy. All the "just barely missed" scenarios that I wasn't in the mood for.
Webpage of the Day - Drew has today's suggestion - it's from a past episode of the MTV Movie Awards. If you haven't seen any of the Lord of the Rings movies, then don't bother watching this. Another trilogy that would be fun to reread but a lot more difficult due to the unusual names. Chronic (WHAT?) les of Narnia had easy names like Peter, Edmund, Lucy, Susan, Jill, and Eustace. I guess the English names aren't as cool though as Aragorn, Arwen, and Gandalf. This is still quite enjoyable - Thanks Drew!
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