-John Mullen from the Fiddle-L listserv on a discussion on drone notes and intonation.
It was prefaced by the following: The drone does help with intonation, but the interaction between the melody and drone add a dimension to the music.I suspect the drone is there for the contribution it makes to the music, rather than as an aid to players.
hehe.
4 days until my first fiddle lesson!
i've been up since 6:30. still not really awake. it's too early!
i have had a drive lately to push to get these web projects done. i guess i want to clear my plate...make room for others. the good news is that the real estate module is being redone to incorporate css. makes it easier to customize it for people who want to use it. i really need to find a way to customize the field names without having to go in and change it. somehow, i think setting that up would be more trouble than just going in and doing it...
mood: sleepy
music: (work) all tracks, random - currently Leiahdorus
music: (car) Seltzer 1, 2, or 3 (Christian music anthologies), depending on mood.
i spent a bit of time this morning trying to figure out what was wrong with my css...when i fixed a left out " mark in the last entry...everything worked out.
proof that proofreading in code is important.
...at least it works now...
i spent this weekend hammering out details for my freelance web side/site - crimsonkite.com. seemed kind of silly that i was doing websites for everyone except for me. i also hammered out contracts and pricing and found a small business accounting software - simple accounting pro. it's so much easier than trying to keep track of time on scraps of paper...
looks like the design's finally trickled down off the front page. it's alright. it'll do for now. at least updating is now as simple as fixing the css page for the most part. whee!
guess that means that i'll have to start working on the next project - a site for a realtor.
css drives me nuts sometimes. i suppose i should only work on it on days where i'm not impatient. today is not one of those days. it bugs me to no end that on ie this box widens beyond the edge of the window by about 20 pixels or so. but hearing that microsoft is stopping development on ie for 3 years while they work on their new operating system doesn't make me inclined to work to try and fix it. if they're not going to fix their bugs and stuff, then i'm not going to worry about it.
makes me want to stop using ie all together. wish it didn't have such a huge market share. i'm tempted to send an email to all mailboxes here at work and suggest a better browser - mozilla. yeesh.
otherwise, it's been really slow today. i'm the only one of the communications staff in the office, so i feel like i've been twidling my thumbs, even though i've gotten some stuff done.
whee.
-from Dusty's AIM Buddy info. I don't know who said it - remind me to ask him. Probably from a song, knowing him.
-Chris Thile
(Nickel Creek Quotes)
Amen.
I obsess. People. Bettas. Music. Hammered Dulcimer. Fiddle. Now mind you, I don't stalk. Just obsess. :)
oops. here i am about to head to my meeting this morning and i get a call from the venue where we usually have the meeting. "don't you remember this month we were already booked?" (i set up the meeting places last summer.) "um, i'm not on the board anymore, but i'll let someone know." turns out, the present board members didn't check the calendar i put together. thankfully we had an open classroom in the center for executive development, so i think we're going to get a late start to the meeting while everyone trickles over from the original spot 10 minutes away.
the panic in his voice still makes me laugh...
every time i pick up "everything waits to be noticed" by art garfunkel it's like i'm coming home. i love this cd - every song. and, i never get sick of it, even if i put it on repeat and listen to it all day long.
today is a meeting day - communications advisory board and macromedia users group. :) hehe. the two sides of my job are covered there: the communications side and the technical side. i feel like the stepchild of both, though i think communications has adopted me. the it group gives me weird looks during their meetings.
i think i'm going to head to the music store at lunch and ask after a violin. gives me time to fool around with it and see what i can do on my own. probably nothing - i'm sure my neighbors will think i'm torturing a cat in my apartment or something. oh well. :) they have to put up with the dulcimer - at least those notes are set. you only make odd noises when you hit the wrong string or two at once.
believe it or not - the dulcimer is not enough. i've got my first fiddle lesson in two weeks. you don't know how much this excites me. i hope that i'm as good at string instruments as my dad is. maybe it'll have rubbed off on me or something. *bounce* fiddle lessons!
i finished my table this weekend too. you can find pictures under "photography" and "apartment" and "crafty things." it turned out pretty good, even if i do say so myself.
on to the next project!
it's so nice sometimes just to do what you want for an evening. not what you have to do, now what you should do, but just what you want to do. i finished in this mountain by jan karon tonight. i forgot how much i loved her mitford series. makes me wish i could write like that.
i'm so out of practive when it comes to writing, though. reading too. i've read three books just for fun since i've been out of school. sad. used to i'd read that much in three days.
i'm trying to be better about writing, though. at least to my relatives. i just sent off a chatty letter to my aunt and a birthday card to my grandfather. it'll get there late, but i sent it, which is an improvement over before. i could have sent an e-card, but really. what's the fun in that?
i found something cool though: Circle Journey. they're journals/scrapbooks that you send back and forth instead of letters. my sister and i have planned to round robin them between us and the grandparents, aunt/uncle, and my dad. we only see them once a year or so, so...what a great way to stay in touch! i guess the only thing will be fighting over who gets to keep it in the end when it's full. ;)
i love summer here in texas. i think i'll love it even more in my new office when i have a window to look out at the sun...or rain....or whatever God happens to send our way that day. i love the clouds here; they're so expressive and fluffy and varying in hue, even when it's overcast. very rarely will you find a completely flat sky here where it's just gray. normally you see huge thunderclouds rolling over the horizon in shades of gray. i like texas.
i like texas even though i nearly stepped on a snake on sunday when i was bringing in groceries. of course, i was completely laden down with bags because i'm too lazy to make two trips to the third floor...and it was laying alongside the sidewalk close to the building. i gave it a wide berth and walked in the dirt to make sure i wasn't within striking distance. at least i'm on the third floor. snakes can't climb steps, can they?
and i need to get working on my dulcimer lessons. i think my instructor's still out of town this week, so she won't notice if i don't have a tape waiting for her right away...and she knew my mom was in town. plus, it's my night to do what i want. and i feel like procrastinating that.
oops. i forgot i was supposed to scrapbook tonight, so i double-booked myself. i think i even wrote it down, too. aie. at least the movie can wait until tomorrow.
it's the allergies. that's it. has to be.
when mom was here, i didn't get a chance to go through all the pictures with her to figure out who is who. now i'm starting to think about using the '4images' program that i use to put my photos online. i can post them online and have my relatives to go the website and comment about who's who and put stories in and stuff. might be cool if i can get them to do that. :) more genealogy fodder...
Seems like projects at work and home are finally coming to an end. Thank goodness.
Last night I got together with one of my friends and ran through the stuff we hope to play this fall when we start the weekly jam sessions. It was cool - tin whistle and dulcimer. :)