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Baby girl Zoe was delivered by C-section just after 10 this morning. Mom and daughter are doing well, currently resting. Bandcamp and hangovers can wait.

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Went to an award ceremony honoring all the students in our school district who scored distinguished on state testing in @ least one of three subjects Math, Reading & Science. My son James, he's

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I was hoping to hear that you woke today now owning a banjo :P
So did I, so did I... My synthesizer might have arrived though. It was ordered from my father's computer, so I can't verify whether it has arrived yet, I'll know in a few hours. It's possible I'll have to wait one more day.
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If I get drunk and pass out do you suppose that I will find a nifty new instrument? In my case it might be Japanese which would be cool. I'm drinking shochu which is a lightly distilled rice whiskey, it is basically extra strong sake. I always loved slam dancing, but I was courteous about it. There was a point when I noticed that a bunch of frat boy types, football players no doubt, who thought they had found a way to hurt people for fun. Slam dancing used to be a beautiful thing, a way of making physical contact with a room full of strangers. I found it to be cathartic and like being embraced in... well what can I say, it used to be ecstatic dancing. You kids nowadays ought to restore the mosh pit to the safe and communal venue of expression it once was. (if that seems a little poetic, blame it on the Sho-chu). The last time I was in Kyoto was in '06, and I have to say that fashion has toned down quit a lot since them. People are mostly dressed fairly conservatively these days. They Japanese are wicked stylish though. Another big change I noticed today is sort of sad in a few ways. When I was here before there were many old women here, very old women, who had severe osteoporosis. They had been little girls sometime well before WWII, and were not getting fed well enough as little children for whatever reason. Now they are basically gone, almost ten years later. I don't know what to think about that really. It is sad and strange. What else is on my mind... well... I've got a bad cold, and that sucks, I got in from my daughter just as we were coming over. Super snotty and can't breath all that well, but I'll be fine, so you need not worry about me.
Hope you feel better Gorbo. Maybe you'll wake with an abacus hahaha :P
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Gorbo, feel better! I still get in the pit, rarely, and it's often a pretty cooperative endeavor. Most shows aren't like this. There were two groups of people that were simultaneously showing off and trying to hurt the people in the crowd who were standing back. It turned into fistfights. I haven't seen anything like that in years. Really disappointing to me, and I missed the second band I went to see. I'm not even sure they got to play.

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Hey Midi' date=' I've probably got a banjo laying around here somewhere, my Dad used to be obsessed with them.[/quote'] All this talk about banjos makes me feel as if my old would-I-buy-a-banjo-or-mandolin-phase will come up again. I plan on not buying too many instruments in the near future anyway. I've got quite a few of them lying around. But that's for the Your Gear thread when my cello arrives.
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Spring break with nothin to do whatsoever and everyone from uni went home yipeeee
Same here...I've done very little over the past two or three days, but at least I've got a first draft of an op-ed for one class and finished a quiz for another. I should be finishing up some job applications and a paper before the week is out.
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