Archive for January, 2006

Four things (about me)

Sunday, January 29th, 2006

I’ve been tagged by Matt Thommes and Shawn Anthony (from Lo-Fi Tribe)! Matt tagged this blog, and Shawn tagged Perfect Fifths, so I’ll just post this in both places.

Four jobs I have had

Cashier at Wal-Mart
Office assistant for a hospital’s accounting department
Occasional musician for weddings, retirement parties, and conference dinners
Software engineer

Four movies I can watch […]

House concert

Saturday, January 21st, 2006

I think tonight may have been a first for me. I just got back from playing in a house concert featuring a couple of singer-songwriters. Both women had very nice voices (and guitar skills).

Some songs were voice and guitar only, some had bass and drums, and some had viola (me) and cello.

They kept […]

Violas coming out of my ears

Monday, January 16th, 2006

Right now I have four violas in my house: mine, a big 17-incher made by Michele Ashley and two made by Douglas Cox (one 16 5/8″, the other 16 7/8″).

This whole viola-buying business is so hard. I’ve tried many very nice instruments, but it’s hard to remember the sound of them all over the […]

Immortality

Wednesday, January 4th, 2006

It’s kind of too bad we don’t mummify people anymore. Part of me would like to be mummified when I die, with a nice sarcophagus carved in my likeness (a flattering, young likeness, of course). Then centuries later, archaeologists will dig me up, put me in a museum, and speculate as to who […]