Current mood:	blah
Current music:	Van Der Graaf Generator - Refugees

Plus ca change
Tuesday

First day of Rosh Hashanah services.  Dropped N off at the temple daycare.  They normally only take 3-year-olds and up, but said they'd take him as long as we came by and checked on him periodcially.  We did and he was doing great each time. Got cranky right near the end, so they brought him up to us.   Nice to be here for the holiday again, as last year we went down to my Mom's.  Home for a little bit, then back to temple for the children's service followed by Tashlich.  N really enjoyed the children's service once we relocated to be right up front.  He kept saying afterwards "Shofar makes noise" and "Torah behind curtain".  In the evening, my Mom showed J the "right" way to make Kasha Varnishkas.  Yummy, but dinner was very late because of the long preparation time.

Wednesday

Second day of Rosh Hashanah services.  Yikes, no daycare at the temple today!  N is cranky so we take turns dealing with him.  He finally falls asleep on a walk with me. I bring him back in and he sleeps a really long time in the stroller next to us in services.  Nice for us, but he missed Avinu Malkeinu which he really likes (the Cantor and choir do the same version as on Barbara Streisand's  Higher Ground CD, which is amazing) and he even slept through the Shofar blowing, which he wanted to see again.  Back home, and eat lunch and relax a bit, before taking mom to the South Station bus terminal.  I take N with us to give J a break.  N falls asleep on the ride home, so I get some reading material and sit in the car with him.

Since my mom left early, I decide to go see Dead Can Dance in the evening.  J wants to come, so we luckily are able to find a babysitter.  Show was good, but the theater was brutually hot, so lessened the enjoyment a lot.  Sound was amazing, everything crystal-clear.

Thursday

Quick sitting and guitar in the morning, then back to work.  Some catchup on issues which arose while I was out, plus more work on last set of features beore code freeze.  At lunch stop by Newbury to see if they have the new Steve Hackett rematsers.  Nope, but they do have the first 2 Van Der Graaf Generator remasters for $10 a pop (plus Bud and Eno's The Pearl remaster for $10).  No sign of Pawn Hearts. but they say to check back tomorrow.

In the evening, I'm thinking of going to see Tortoise and Daniel Lanois (warning: flash music on homepage, grrrrr) with dougo, but decide given I was out last night, am still recovering from being sick and FARGO, plus mainly because I have a full weekend scheduled (cue ominous foreshadowing music), I decide to stay home.  As I'm chekcing my email I find out that Unity Games X has been cancelled Saturday!  ARRRGGGHHHH!  We had hired a babysitter for all day and evening just so J and I could do this together, plus this was one of the reasons I skipped the Tortoise show.  Oh well, I guess I can now participate in the Guitar Circle New England gig at Assembling Peace II that I had needed to miss.

Friday

Sitting and really good guitar practice.  At work have mild panic attack about one feature's (seemingly) forgotten dependence on another as yet unimplemented feature.  Then do seom research and find the original implementors had some infrastructure in place which should make things easier.  Sill no Pawn Hearts at Newbury

At home, J was contemplating going to her occasional "girl's" poker night (not just womaen any more), but decides not to.  We start watching Kagemusha which I had recorded last week on the DVR, but she decides her eyes hurt too much for subtitles, and she's kind of tired.  We settle for a couple of episodes of Dinner for Five.  First episdoe is hilarious, second one is not as good.

Saturday

Another good guitar practice in the morning.  Since we have the babysitting due to the cancelled Unity Games X, we decide to go see Serenity in Revere with dougo .  I really, really liked it, but it was VERY dark; much less light-hearted than the TV show.  I stop by the Newbury Comics in Fresh Pnd and they do have the Pwn Herats remaster for $10.  Ding!  A little downtime in the later, before I need to head out to Jamaica Plain for the gig.  J might go to our friends G & R's house for some poker.  Babysitter needs to leave early, so if I'm not going to be back by 8:30 or 9, need to call J from the gig so she won't go out.  Gig goes pretty well, though we had a tough time with the sound-system at sound-check.  Guitars all feeeding back, with almost no monitor and speakers in front of us.  WTF??!!  Room very boxy and live, and it seemed the D harmonic on our low G strings was being actovated by a standing wave up on stage.  Feedbackbusters helped a little; those without taped up their soundholes.  Still, odd sound.  Setlist was: Circulation, Eye of the Needle, Bicycling to Afghanistan (trio version), Bach 2-part Invention, Growing Circle, Moving Force and Third Relation.  Eye was pretty bad; we were not playing together and we played it badly during soundcheck.  Bach was better than I expected; still some clunkers but mostly ok.  Third Relation was much better than it has been; last wek in parctice it was awful; again still some clunkers, but much improvement over how we have been doing it lately.  Some guy (likley someone associated with the event) was snppling a bunch of flash pictures during Bicycling;  I could tell G was getting really annoyed by it.  I give J a quick call and she tells me babysitter had to leave even earlier then expected.  When I get home, J decides not to go out.  She plays a SitNGo and bubbles.  I sweat her then do some reading; the first two issues of the Kevin Smith run on Daredevil in the hardcover edition - this is really good.   I'm finding I like it much more then the "classic" Frank Miller run, which I think is overrated.  In context it was pretty revolutionary in many ways, but it still gets dragged down too often by typical 70's comic book slliness; I actually think Miller's post-Elektra run is better which he wrote but did not pencil.  I had gotten a really good deal on ebay a few weeks ago on the first 3 hardcovers (which contain the Kevin Smith and David Mack run in vol 1, and then begin (sort of; they skip the "Wake Up" arc for some unkown reason) Brian Michael Bendis run in vol's 2 and 3); brand new for $30 total plus shipping!  Not bad when they retail for $30 each, and still about half the price it would have been on Amazon.

Before going to bed I check Foxwoods website to double-check that the Act III I'm planing on playing in on Sunday (I won the Act II at FARGO last weekend, remember?) starts at 10am like I think.  D'oh!!!  No Act III at all Sunday!  Must be due to the holiday weekend.  So there's a nother plan for the weekend gone, which affected other plans.  Sigh... Oh well, I guess I'll be going next Sunday instead.