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Both kids were in concert tonight at the high school. Peter's 9th Grade Band was up first and did well. The choir was next and while the choir mistress is wonderfully enthusastic about what she's doing, I never really like her selections. It always sounds like warm up exercises rather than songs. Guess I just don't understand vocal choirs.

Allison's Symphonic Orchestra came on last and was very good. Although they only played three selections, there were multiple movements in two of the pieces which was interesting. Can't believe this is Allison's final high school concert -- hopefully she'll get a chance to play at Geneseo next year because I believe she really enjoys it.

Nothing much else happening. It's my sister's birthday as well as my niece. Tried getting the neice, Erica, on the phone this afternoon but she was out running around. It was too late to start calling people by the time we got back from the concerts, so I guess I'll call Sally and Erica tomorrow.

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It's been a few days since the last post but that's because my laptop blew up and it's taken a while to rebuild it. Apple's new MacBooks got released this week. They look pretty sweet, although I'd really like a smaller machine -- I love the size of my 12" Powerbook, just would like it a little thinner and lighter. Instead, Apple is pushing the bigger screens -- 13" for the MacBooks and 15" & 17" for the MacBook Pros. We'll probably pick up a MacBook for my daughter (she needs one for college in the Fall). Just waiting for SUNY Geneseo to post it on its site to see what educational discount Apple is offering. If I like it maybe I'll see if work will swing for one of them for me this fall so I can start playing with the Intel chip machines.

Not much going on at the moment. Work is crazy -- just finished two weeks of non-stop meetings giving a three-man team from North Plains their marching orders to build our ad agency's new digital asset management system (they market a product called Telescope which is far more robust that the print studio's Xinet system). I get stressed just thinking about this summer; the studio is upgrading its Xinet system (SGI to Sun), switching to a new workorder system, upgrading its software from InDesign CS to CS2, throwing out my homegrown Applescripts and using Triple Triangle's Mechanical Cubed software, and putting in a pilot Telescope setup by August. I don't think I'm going to be spending a lot of time lying around the beach this summer.

Got to go -- I only mowed the front lawn yesterday 'cause I really needed to do some trim work in the front (the neighbors on both sides of us use a lawn service so we were looking a little ragged compared to them). It's suppose to rain today and I need to at least hack the lawn down a bit before the sky opens up.

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Yeah, it's been almost a month since my last post. Just can't get the hang of this daily blog thing yet.

My wife Sheila just got back from a long weekend in Ohio where she hooked up with some family and friends and toured the Lady Di exhibit in Dayton. Apparently if you're a Lady Di fan it was wonderful (the wedding gown, some of the Spencer family jewelry, many of Diana's dresses). Our daughter, Allison, was up in Toronto at the same time attending a competition for her chamber orchestra (they won!). My son, Peter, and I enjoyed a bachelor weekend which was fun.

Another distant cousin, Michael Geldard, sent me an email expressing interest in the genealogy site. We're both descendents of the Poetess of the Forest of Dean, Catherine Drew. Big news on that front -- I want to reset her book of poetry as a keepsake and Marie Sims was nice enough to send me a Xerox of her copy of the book which, unfortunately, was missing two pages. Thanks to the Glouchestershire Library, I just received a copy of the missing two pages in the mail today so I can go ahead with my project (just need some time to set the type). Still deciding how to approach this -- half the book is a list of names of the sponsors who paid for the publication. Do I reset all that or just the poetry section? I suppose for historical purposes I should do the subscription section as well.

That's it for one night. Hopefully it won't be as long between posts.

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