Today I spent the afternoon at Shepherd’s Harvest. mia_mcdavid was a vendor there She had a successful weekend. I minded the store (literally!) so she could take a couple breaks, and helped her with teardown and packing the car at the end of the day.
I spent the day with colgaffneyis at the Minnesota Scottish Fair and Highland Games. It was a good time, but exhausting. Continue reading
I made a platelet donation (apheresis) at the Red Cross this afternoon. BP 122/80. I walked there from work and back to the bus stop afterwards, so I got some exercise in the process.
I derusted another file tonight by electrolysis. The setup was topologically and electrically identical to Sunday’s, but the file was much bigger. So I put everything flat in a large, low tub. The current was a little lower (4 Amps), but it got the job done.
Sorry, no pics tonight:
At colgaffneyis dance group tonight there were seven women and only two men, me and vitamin_g_prime for most of the evening. We are the two oldest active male members of colgaffneyis — long since eligible for AARP membership, We danced every dance while the women took turns sitting out. Eventually another couple turned up, increasing the Y chromosome count by 50%, but the two of us kept on dancing to the end.
Irish Class, May 4, 2009
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There were four students present. All of us had been in the same section of
Saturday’s workshop. So the class was
devoted to a review of some of the topics presented there, linking them to what we had previously
discussed.
| Cloisim é | I hear it. | it/him |
| Chuala mé é | I heard it. | |
| Tá mé á chloisteáil. | I am hearing it. | |
| Tá sí cloiste agam. | I have heard it. | it/her |
| Tá sé le cloisteáil. | It is to be heard. |
See Basic
Irish, chapters 19 and 20, for more on the subject.
Tonight I noticed a pattern in my recent eating.
| Dinner Today (Monday): | Spaghetti again with the leftover sauce from Saturday |
| Snack Yesterday (Sunday): | A couple bites of spicy Italian salami |
| Dinner Saturday: | Spaghetti with a red sauce including pork sausage |
| Dinner Friday: | Pork and vegetable pot stickers. |
Let’s make this official: I am going to try to eat some pork product (pork, bacon, ham, sausage) every day until this media circus about swine H1N1 flu fades away.
I am making a woodcarving knife. I started with an old file. Continue reading
This is something I have been wanting to try for a couple years. I finally got around to it today. The general technique is well known. See, for example, the following:
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 