1. I rode with the violin carpool instead of the brass carpool today, and it was a nice change of pace. We listened to pop music on the way out and talked about cooking and babysitting. Not a single fart joke was cracked. Also, having quizzed each other extensively on what appeared to the one side as catastrophic rehearsal breakdowns, we learned that whatever we think went cataclysmically bad in our section was pretty much unnoticed by the rest of the orchestra.
2. Walking in a little bit of rain is no big deal, especially if you've got decent cover from the wind. I got rained on all along Onondaga Creek this afternoon and I was so happy that I wasn't being snowed on that I hardly even noticed.
3. Owen is the first of our children to have a social media account. You can follow his Instagram at owensmithbaker. J tells me that he took the first pictures himself!
4. No one gives you prizes for playing the loudest during rehearsal. But you definitely get noticed if you play so loud during rehearsal that you don't have enough gas in the tank to make it through the concert.
5. This has been a particularly fruitful week of reading. Heart of Darkness, Peter and the Starcatchers (Dave Barry retelling the Peter Pan story), another brilliant Rowan Williams book (The Edge of Words), Bob Woodward's Trump book, a book that my church read on race in America, and I've just started a book that J recommended about the Theranos startup called Bad Blood. I was indisposed on Tuesday afternoon, and I'm inclined to "get sick" again this week to get more reading in.
6. I picked up chip brushes so that the boys can help me stain their shields. Given how the painting went I think I'm going to strip them naked and have them stain in the backyard under 3:1 adult supervision.
7. Adnan Syed is in the news again, and if you don't know who that is then you should download the Serial podcast and you can thank me (really J, who turned me onto it) when you're done listening to it in 24-36 hours. This will be especially important for those of you who have long commutes.
8. I can't wait for Abby's birthday party. It's been WAY too long since we've seen family, and I'm the only one of our unit who's been inside the new O/K residence. (And I haven't seen it since it was mostly just stacks of boxes.
9. I hate the thought that I might be living my life materialistically, marking time by scratching the itch of consumerism one purchase after another. (I say this sitting in a chair that I bought last month while sipping scotch from two weeks ago that's on an end table we bought last week.) That being said, I made a purchase today that I consider an investment in much more frequent blogging--a little Chromebook that can come along with me to rehearsals and teaching and long double days to help tell the stories of the three little Smith boys and their Very Tired Parents.
10. The fortune from my fortune cookie was "It could be better, but its (sic) good enough."
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