Arlene and I went to Somerville to take Charley and his girl friend Patsy out to supper. We went to a Mexican restaurant, Tu Y Yo, in Powderhouse Square. We’ve been hearing about Patsy and seeing pictures on Charley’s blog for several weeks, if not a couple of months, by now. This, for the record, …
Author Archives: deanb
Fire in firepit
We built a fire in our firepit last Saturday night. It took several sheets of newspaper, lots of twigs, and several small branches to get it going. It was a good chilly late November evening. You could get good and cold between the fire and the back door, but the fire was plenty warm once …
stashbusting
I’ve got rid of a little stash yarn in the last couple of weeks — This cap was the Queensland Collection Kathmandu merino-silk-cashmere DK yarn I got at Fabric Place the first time we stopped there after they announced that they were going out of business. It was 132 sts on size 7 circs, all …
Crafts show announcement
We’re going to be at the Celebrate Newton crafts show this weekend, with rubber stamps and monotypes. We were sort of mentioned in the Boston Globe just before Thanksgiving; at least, they had a paragraph about Celebrate Newton in an article about holiday shopping on a budget and said that one of the things you …
Swimming
First time in the pool this year — did 16 lengths, felt good. I walked around the pond (third time this work week, that means every day so far this week) and saw a golden-crowned kinglet and a great blue heron, as well as the four swans that have been there all three times.
Klez note
Well, a tune we’re playing in klezmer band, but it’s an Israeli dance tune, not a klezmer tune, Od Lo Ahavti Dai, music and lyrics by Naomi Shemer. I was working on it in Finale this evening and looked it up on google. I found several stanzas that aren’t on the music I was working …
Governor visit
The governor of Massachusetts, Deval Patrick, visited the company I work for yesterday. An email went out to everyone a few days ago (I’m not sure when, because I was on vacation last week) and a reminder went out Monday. He got a tour of the company early and then spoke to everyone (or everyone …
Clarinet 2
Remember the clarinet I bought a couple of weeks ago? I got it out this evening and practiced for a while. It sure sounded like someone just starting to learn an instrument — all those tunes you can play with the first four notes you learned: “Go tell Aunt Rhody”, “Mary had a Little Lamb”, …
Government wish list – 2
I don’t know how I forgot in the first list Return the US to the group of nations which support human rights Close the prison at Guantanamo Quit torturing, that goes for intelligence agencies as well as military Geneva Convention, hello? Everyone in Guantanamo to be either arraigned, if there are legitimate charges, or freed …
Government wish list – 1
More serious items – End war in Iraq Serious regulation of financial markets Graduated income tax on corporations, enough to make it unprofitable to be “too big to be allowed to fail” Much more steeply graduated income tax on individuals, more like it was before the Reagan era Normalization of relations with Cuba, allow free …