And other ketchup
Dec. 12th, 2007 09:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunrabAll those concerts went off just fine. It was fun doing the show at CCBC Essex - and, at intermission Saturday night I bought a few raffle tickets before heading back to the stage; I wound up winning two wreaths! I picked them up from the box office today. Artificial wreaths, nicely decorated. Now all I have to do is find the wreath hanger I *know* I bought last week, so I can put one up at the front door. I will take pictures once I get it hung.
Sunday's concerts also went well. Cindy came with me to Montgomery Village;![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
squirrel_magnet went up to Bel Air. Both concerts had more people in the audience than in the band - always a good thing! S had a solo in one of the pieces in his concert. The MV concert collected over 7 large bins of toys for the Marines' "Toys for Tots" - good thing they sent three Marines to pick them up!
I got all my cards printed up for the PetBunny list rabbit-themed card exchange, and half of them actually mailed out. Possibly I'll get the rest mailed out before the end of this week!
Recent reading:
Faye Kellerman, Burnt House - latest in her Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus series. Starts off with a *very* scary plane crash.
G.J.Sawyer and Viktor Deak, et al., The Last Human: A Guide to Twenty-Two Species of Extinct Humans - well, it's stretching it a bit to call all of these human. It's the pictures of the reconstructions from skeletons that are the draw of this book. I'll admit, a whole bunch of the australopithecines look the same to me. The text has some flaws - a rather gory focus on prehumans being killed by animals and/or cannibalized by their own kind; the annoying use of the term "apemen," references in a couple of places to Oreopithecus as though that were one of the species in the book, when it isn't. Includes Homo floriensis even though as far as I know the jury is still out on whether that really is a separate species.
Stephen Nissenbaum, The Battle for Christmas. Nothing to do with the alleged "war on christmas," this is about the history of celebrating christmas and how it reflects economic class struggles. I think I'm going to do a detailed review over on Amazon - I'll post a link when I get that done.
Sunday's concerts also went well. Cindy came with me to Montgomery Village;
squirrel_magnet went up to Bel Air. Both concerts had more people in the audience than in the band - always a good thing! S had a solo in one of the pieces in his concert. The MV concert collected over 7 large bins of toys for the Marines' "Toys for Tots" - good thing they sent three Marines to pick them up!I got all my cards printed up for the PetBunny list rabbit-themed card exchange, and half of them actually mailed out. Possibly I'll get the rest mailed out before the end of this week!
Recent reading:
Faye Kellerman, Burnt House - latest in her Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus series. Starts off with a *very* scary plane crash.
G.J.Sawyer and Viktor Deak, et al., The Last Human: A Guide to Twenty-Two Species of Extinct Humans - well, it's stretching it a bit to call all of these human. It's the pictures of the reconstructions from skeletons that are the draw of this book. I'll admit, a whole bunch of the australopithecines look the same to me. The text has some flaws - a rather gory focus on prehumans being killed by animals and/or cannibalized by their own kind; the annoying use of the term "apemen," references in a couple of places to Oreopithecus as though that were one of the species in the book, when it isn't. Includes Homo floriensis even though as far as I know the jury is still out on whether that really is a separate species.
Stephen Nissenbaum, The Battle for Christmas. Nothing to do with the alleged "war on christmas," this is about the history of celebrating christmas and how it reflects economic class struggles. I think I'm going to do a detailed review over on Amazon - I'll post a link when I get that done.
