I like pie!
Jun. 2nd, 2007 05:45 pmI have done something annoying to my knee. I don't know exactly what; my best guess is that I twisted it up somehow. It's started to hurt when I walk. So I wound up having my chiropractor x-ray it on Tuesday, working from home on Wednesday (and getting a brace for the knee when I went down to the shops for lunch), and walking very carefully ever since. The brace is helping. And the x-ray said nothing bone-related was screwed up, which seems to support the idea that I just twisted it up. Chiropractor sez to use the brace for about a week and keep icing it off and on, so hopefully that will make things better.
I didn't get around to posting that this past Monday wound up being Folklife Day for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
solarbird and me, the only day we wound up getting to go. But the day was full of sun and music and was in general highly enjoyable. We saw Seattle Kokon Taiko, always a pleasure, and a group of Irish pipers that did a bunch of jigs and reels and such. The pipers were pleasant, though I noted that I am clearly spoiled by Great Big Sea; I told Dara on our way out that I kept wanting them to gun up the tempo some more. Hee. Also notably, we saw a duo with bagpipes and a drumkit and DANCING ROBOTS which were very, very cute.
But the biggest giggle was when the steel drum band next to those guys started playing "Take On Me". Yes, the song by a-ha. I literally about spit out the shishkaberry I was eating, much to Dara's amusement, and then we bounced around and giggled and sang parts of the lyrics along with the performance.
We also wound up spending the obligatory dawdle by the fountain, watching all the children run in and out of the spray and try to get to the center part so they could touch it and run back. As soon as I was done with my food and we were walking away, I announced "RIGHT THEN" and took off my hat and jacket and backpack, set them all down, and dove into the spray myself. It seemed like the right thing to do. Dara approved. ^_^
Work has been blessedly quiet, a relief after getting the latest Project From Hell finally done and dealt with (with the exception of the post-project cleanup). The weather's been a little warmer than I like, but I certainly can't complain about the sunshine; I went out today for the sake of getting some of that sunshine and fresh air, and it was pleasant indeed to walk the Burke-Gilman trail past the lake.
Well, okay, I also went out for the sake of taking some of my books down to Third Place too. I'm running out of shelf space, so I conducted a sweep through the shelves with the question at hand being "Okay, am I ever honestly going to read this again?" Any book that failed that test went into the bag. And I wound up getting eighteen dollars in store credit, which I then promptly turned around and spent on Hal Duncan's Vellum (highly recommended a while back byalg), Tanya Huff's Smoke and Shadows (the first of her trilogy about Tony, the gay side character from the Vicki Nelson books, which I kept meaning to get), and an impulse buy that sounded interesting, involving supernatural detective-type fantasy stuff. More on these as it happens!
I have nothing particularly clever to say about the Great Strikethrough 2007 Brouhaha that's been going on this past week on LJ, aside from expressing my sympathies to those of you on my Friends list who were affected, or connected with those who were. I have no plans to leave LJ any time soon, but I will certainly understand if any of you folks choose to do so.
Snugs to all. And pie. I think pie would do much to improve this past week, eh?
Miles since the 27th: 22.3
Miles out of Hobbiton: 2043.3
Miles out of Isengard: 250.3
Miles to Minas Tirith: 535.7
I didn't get around to posting that this past Monday wound up being Folklife Day for
solarbird and me, the only day we wound up getting to go. But the day was full of sun and music and was in general highly enjoyable. We saw Seattle Kokon Taiko, always a pleasure, and a group of Irish pipers that did a bunch of jigs and reels and such. The pipers were pleasant, though I noted that I am clearly spoiled by Great Big Sea; I told Dara on our way out that I kept wanting them to gun up the tempo some more. Hee. Also notably, we saw a duo with bagpipes and a drumkit and DANCING ROBOTS which were very, very cute.But the biggest giggle was when the steel drum band next to those guys started playing "Take On Me". Yes, the song by a-ha. I literally about spit out the shishkaberry I was eating, much to Dara's amusement, and then we bounced around and giggled and sang parts of the lyrics along with the performance.
We also wound up spending the obligatory dawdle by the fountain, watching all the children run in and out of the spray and try to get to the center part so they could touch it and run back. As soon as I was done with my food and we were walking away, I announced "RIGHT THEN" and took off my hat and jacket and backpack, set them all down, and dove into the spray myself. It seemed like the right thing to do. Dara approved. ^_^
Work has been blessedly quiet, a relief after getting the latest Project From Hell finally done and dealt with (with the exception of the post-project cleanup). The weather's been a little warmer than I like, but I certainly can't complain about the sunshine; I went out today for the sake of getting some of that sunshine and fresh air, and it was pleasant indeed to walk the Burke-Gilman trail past the lake.
Well, okay, I also went out for the sake of taking some of my books down to Third Place too. I'm running out of shelf space, so I conducted a sweep through the shelves with the question at hand being "Okay, am I ever honestly going to read this again?" Any book that failed that test went into the bag. And I wound up getting eighteen dollars in store credit, which I then promptly turned around and spent on Hal Duncan's Vellum (highly recommended a while back by
alg), Tanya Huff's Smoke and Shadows (the first of her trilogy about Tony, the gay side character from the Vicki Nelson books, which I kept meaning to get), and an impulse buy that sounded interesting, involving supernatural detective-type fantasy stuff. More on these as it happens!I have nothing particularly clever to say about the Great Strikethrough 2007 Brouhaha that's been going on this past week on LJ, aside from expressing my sympathies to those of you on my Friends list who were affected, or connected with those who were. I have no plans to leave LJ any time soon, but I will certainly understand if any of you folks choose to do so.
Snugs to all. And pie. I think pie would do much to improve this past week, eh?
Miles since the 27th: 22.3
Miles out of Hobbiton: 2043.3
Miles out of Isengard: 250.3
Miles to Minas Tirith: 535.7
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