Moving into the long backstretch of summer. The political conventions are over and the Olympics are on TV now. Believe it or not we\u2019ve had two low-key weekends at home in a row, but we\u2019ve been so busy it\u2019s been a nice break.<\/p>\n
The weather was really nice in late July into early August, but then it turned really hot. It\u2019s been 100 degrees here the last few days, and very humid. I had to get up and go out early to do the yardwork so I could be in before the full heat of midday. Even so by 11 it was well over 90. There\u2019ve been flash thunderstorms almost every day. There\u2019s violent lighting out right now. It\u2019ll probably pass in ten minutes.<\/p>\n
Last weekend I went rollerblading, which turned out not to be such a great idea cuz the streets around here are hilly and roads have grown bumpier, and I don\u2019t tolerate bad pavement as well as I used to. Still, good fun. This weekend it worked out that both the kids were out of the house Friday and Saturday nite, so Jeannie and I got to go out to dinner two nights in a row.<\/p>\n
Work has been fun and exciting and so has the Global Jukebox. I hope to devote a full post to each of those soon.<\/p>\n
Been working on music. People have been on vacation so we haven\u2019t been doing full rehearsals. Left Hook is on hiatus all of August so we\u2019ve been doing unplugged sessions and vocal sectional. I have a new jazz demo in the offing called King\u2019s Hex; hope to debut it soon.<\/p>\n
I had a random origami commission, a dude in Texas wanted one of turtles as a gift for his wife. He had in mind to put in some glass dome, so I had to make it a but smaller than usual, but it turned out very nice. I used at 10.5\u201d sheet of green Rhino Hide. The final model was a little over five inches long. Totally forgot to take pictures before I sent it out. As an experiment I also folded one out of an 8.5\u201d sheet of some kind of blue sparkly paper that\u2019s alot like Elephant Hide. That one came out pretty well too, but the detail on the toes was a bit sloppy. Really at the limit of foldability.<\/p>\n
Lizzy is going to take her road test for her driver\u2019s licensee this week Good luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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