Friday, 21st of December, 2001
I went to Borders tonight for a HOP Nite, and they lined up a bunch of artists, poets, and musicians to present their stuff. Some of my friends played Music of the Night in quartet form. It seemed half the people I know were there, and a bunch of us regulars went to Il Vicino for dinner and then to the AMC-12 to view Ocean's Eleven. That movie was actually pretty cool and very entertaining. Afterwards, we all hung out at Beth's house.
Thursday, 20th of December, 2001
So I finally got this file over to my computer, scanned from an eBay ad... "Everybody needs something" I must have laughed for minutes at this.
Mom and I went to China Star buffet on Manchester today, and it was really nice. Their buffet had so many different dishes I totally overstuffed myself in food... as much as Thanksgiving dinner.
Wednesday, 19th of December, 2001
Tonight was the Ladue High School Orchestra's winter concert. It was aweosome! They played Mozart's Divertimento K. 138, and that brought back Chamber Music Camp memories. Then they played a contemporary piece by Ives, and a string arrangement of Borodin's Nocturne. That piece is really cool too! Overall, all night, I was really surprised at how well the balance was, the violas were nice and strong, and very pleasurable to listen to. It makes me wish some of the professional recordings I own had such strong viola sound! Then they played the best Corelli concerto ever! The Concerto Grosso in G Minor No. 8! I hadn't realized exactly which Corelli they've been talking about all this time, and wow! We played some arrangement of it in 7th grade I think, but the whole thing is just so cool! Parts of that and the Elgar Serenade almost made me melt in my chair, it sounded so nice and rich. Then they finished the concert off with Sleigh Ride! Good stuff, all night, from all time periods of music. It's impossible to have anything bad to say about the selection of music for this concert. I loved it so much, guys, it was great!
So I've given up trying to get my computer to work on my parents' LAN, there's really no explanation for why I can't get an IP from the DHCP server... all the other computers seem to be fine with it. Argh, why does nothing seem to work for me at this house. Owell, instead of sitting around fighting with it just to get a 21.6k connection that we get here, I'll just pull out the 14.4 and hook it up. Hey, it's not bad at all! I mean, AIM and email doesn't take up nearly that much bandwidth.
Tuesday, 18th of December, 2001
Monday, 17th of December, 2001
Sunday, 16th of December, 2001
I played a violin offertory duet with Hannah at her church, Memorial Presbyterian, this morning. In the afternoon, I went with a group of friends to see Ballet Midwest's last performance of the Nutcracker for this year. It was really cool, I hadn't actually seen Nutcracker before. Afterwards, Hannah and I started to figure out how to put together this foosball table. It's actually slightly annoying, as a lot of it uses wood screws to hold together particle board, but that's what makes it fun anyways. I finished it up later tonight, actually, and it's really pretty cool.