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By: Matt Mon, Mar 20th, 2006
Quick update
A Shogun Farewell?

Melancholic mood tonight. Worked until 9:30 or so. I'm taking Thursday and Friday off of work, so I have to cram 5 days of work into 3 days. Tried watching a little Angel, but my heart's not in it. Went to the kitchen to make food, but nothing is good. I keep mentally going through all the food options available to me, but none of them sound good at all. This doesn't stop me from going through my shelf 3 times before I concede that I'm unlikely to find something new the third look through the shelf, let alone something that sounds remotely good.

Irish festival with this past weekend. I went, sang, saw my folks, set their computer up, yadda yadda yadda. Ashley was out of town, as she's on break. She's been missed.

My friend Curt is a violinist and one of the songs he played was Ashokan Farewell, and since hearing him play it, I've been searching for a copy that sounds like his rendition, but they're all too straightforward. His was twinged with palpable sadness and longing.

It's 10:30 and I'm heading to sleep so I have energy in the morning to do dishes and take out the trash.

I realize in rereading this that I sound like some sort of whiney goth kid or something. I'm not being melodramatic so I have something to ponder as I sit in a dark room and listen to The Cure, I was just up too late last night playing with SketchUp. I'd be happy to write a nice little review if the fine folks at Sketchup felt like extending my 8-hour trial to something way longer. Until then, all I can say is this: avoid it, it's like software heroin. The program's amazing, addictive, and will function perfectly well for 8 hours, at which point it makes you stop and pony up $500 for a copy. Bollocks to that. I don't have that kind of money, and if I did it'd go towards a new camera. That said, it's a mighty fine piece of software.





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 Missing and wishing I was kissing...Ashley - Mar 20th, 2006 
I'll make a great amazing dinner for you when I get back! I'll see you Wednesday! Hang in there my love!

 Ashokan FarewellMary - Mar 21st, 2006 
There is a great rendition of that song on the civil war sound track. It was a PBS documentary series in the mid 90's that has an amazing sound track; they played it on the show every time they read a tragic letter home from one of the soldiers. Not sure where you can find it as my copy was borrowed and not returned.

The funniest rendition was when my dad made my sister played it on her violin as he threw out our family's 30-year-old television set. My dad was very attached to that set and felt he needed some closure (The rest of us were glad to see it go as the knob had fallen off and it only received channels 7 and 5.)

 diane - Mar 21st, 2006 
I could understand a small case of the blahs. Each day that it drops below 40 I have no desire to leave my house anymore! We all need a jolt of spring right quick.

 Matt - Mar 21st, 2006 
I recall the TV; I watched part of Pirates of Penzance on it the Thanksgiving I stayed with you and your folks. I tracked down the version that was used on Ken Burns' documentary, but it was similar to the others I've heard; very straightforward. The way Curt plays it, he sometimes bows 2 or 3 strings at once, creating these beautiful chords, whereas most of the ones I've tracked down are very cleanly played; only one string is ever hit at any given time, so you get nothing but melody from the violin. That's not to say he's imprecise in his playing; he can play very cleanly; it's just that he has enough control that he can make the both strings sound exactly how he wants.

 Cheers!heidi - Mar 23rd, 2006 
OMG. Updates. I was cleaning out my favorites list, getting rid of old links, but lo and behold, this is not an old link. And I too want to express my objection to changing the mascot. After all, she is my sister, and I witnessed the eating of the paint.

 Brian - Mar 27th, 2006 
You sound more Emo then Goth.

 Mascot ChangeAshley - Mar 28th, 2006 
Changing the mascot was mostly my idea, but Matt agreed to it without any reservations.
I don't know Katie - so it's nothing personal.

So if y'all have major problems with changing the mascot, blame me I guess. It's not unusual to overhaul sites in a variety of ways so a small picture change is nothing in the grand scheme of the layout.

 Yeah that!!!Mrs Fatty - Mar 28th, 2006 
Ashley said:

 IT ATE MY COMMENT WHEN I USED e DOUBLE QUOTES!!! I should havread the warning!Mrs. Fatty - Mar 28th, 2006 
Ashley said: It's not unusual to overhaul sites in a variety of ways so a small picture change is nothing in the grand scheme of the layout.

I agree :)

 Random Hajile - Mar 30th, 2006 
I don't think this statement is entirely true...


Changing the mascot was mostly my idea, but Matt agreed to it without any reservations.


 Mascot ClarificationMatt - Apr 12th, 2006 
I stand behind Ashley's statement; I agree without reservations that I should change the mascot, as my life and relationships have changed greatly since I started this site. My hands are tied at the moment, but once I get home, I'll render the site temporarily mascot-less until the site's ready to go again.



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