Friday:
First stop was Blue Man Group, which I hadn't had a chance to see before. It's an odd combination of deep silly fun with serious statements about society -- comedy that makes you think a bit. Our seats were less than optimal (far right corner of the balcony), but once the show got going I largely forgot about that.
The show takes great joy in tweaking the audience, and starts out by embarassing randomly-chosen audience members. At least, I think it's random: the first two chosen turned out to be
Overall, it was well worth seeing, and a fine choice for a geek outing. I'll have to go again with
After that, we headed over to GameOn!, a LAN gaming center some blocks away.
Post-sushi, we started gaming, and I realized the danger of the LAN center with a geek crowd: it was way too easy for the guys to get wrapped up in solitary games and not interact. So I set up a server for Unreal Tournament 2004, and
I was the first one to leave. The party nominally ran until the next morning, wandering down to May Morning at the Charles, but my health made that an unwise idea. So I made a run for the train, catching the T shortly before 1am.
Saturday: Quiet day.
After the date, we wandered over to Wadsworth House for their Uno de Mayo party (Cinco de Mayo being Wednesday, not an ideal party night). We stayed for a couple of hours -- I wound up spending at least an hour tech-geeking with
Sunday: May Day. Characteristically,
The main activity of the afternoon was learning trichinopoly from Guindormr. He's been doing this for well over a year now, and it's been looking like great fun: weaving copper or silver wire to make reasonably authentic Norse jewelry. After promising for months that he'd teach a class, he finally sat several of us (me,
The high point of the day was taking
Following court was a better-than-average I Sebastiani performance (consistently funny, with everyone in character and no draggy bits, plus really excellent intermezzi by
Monday: Great Council. We practically set a speed record: turnout among the officers was fairly pathetic, and there wasn't much to discuss. It actually worries me just a smidgeon: while I can understand folks not bothering to show up for a Council meeting that has little agenda, I'm concerned that folks may get out of the habit, and Council *is* an important part of how the Barony communicates. I may start encouraging more people to show up. (At the least, I'm going to make more of an effort to be consistent than I've been doing myself in recent months.)
Tuesday: Accademia della Danza. In retrospect, this must have been the week that Phelan was planning to be out -- I recall that he had told me that that would be happening at some point, but didn't remember which week. (The reason I always ask people to remind me about such things closer in is that I'm *terrible* about remembering them.) Anyway, around 8pm we decided that he wasn't going to show, so I started things up.
We had a fun time finishing our reconstruction of Furioso (Phelan hadn't been intending to reconstruct it, but Guindormr specifically requested it). We compared an existing reconstruction of the hey figure with the text;
Wednesday: Dance practice. Small and kinda tired like Council. It's just something in the air this week: no one has any energy. OTOH, pretty much everyone actually dancing was fairly experienced, so Mara worked through Lo Spagnoletto, which we'd started a few weeks ago. Turns out to be preposterously easy, once you get the chorus into your feet. (And I find the chorus a lot of fun, now that I've got the hang of it.) Ciana and I came a little too close to debating the timing with Mara on the dance floor -- I'm going to have to watch that our Accademia habits don't start bleeding over into Dance Practice too much. Afterward, sat around schmoozing until a tad too late with
Coming Up
Thursday: Quiet evening at home. (Yay!) I'm blowing off a Masonic Officers dinner -- I desperately need the downtime. I've already told them to put me in whichever chair (except the East) that they need me in next year, as always.
Friday: Date with
Saturday:
Sunday: The Serving and Carving class, if we have the energy for it.
Monday: Hammatt Ocean Lodge. It's Member Appreciation Night, with 50-year medals and the like; I assume it's a visitation by the District Deputy. Which means lots of people there, but very little for me to do.