Mmmm, vegetables. Made a thai vegie stir fry with all kinds
of good
stuff in it. I can feel my arteries unclogging.
Spring is in the air. It rained today, and it wasn't the
freezing kind.
And nature is blooming in glorious shades of... well, brown,
actually.
Apparently the green starts happening in about a month.
Work today was mostly meetings. Did some docco in the
morning, then
into the office, and had a loooooong meeting about the
status of the
next version. It was pretty good actually. One of my
assigned tasks
was essentially "ponder and brainstorm" and I had some
useful
suggestions to make, so that was good. Some of the docco
I'm doing is
stalled waiting for the developers to actually write the
stuff, so in my
stalled periods I'm working on a bunch of HOWTO documents
and also some
more theoretical/descriptive papers for the .org site. I
drew a little
map of what docco relies on what other docco being updated,
and it turns
out that I have to update just about *everything*.
I also had to figure out how to work my health insurance. I
need to
visit a doc for my shoulder. Since I'm on an interim
insurance plan
until I qualify for OHIP (that takes 3 months) it seems that
all I do is
go to the doctor, keep the receipts, and claim it
afterwards. Easy.
I'll go see the doc tomorrow. Any money s/he tells me to
stop typing
:-/
After the round of meetings there was a
happy-maternity-leave thingy for
one of the finance people who's going to have twins. I
grabbed a slice
of chocolate cake then dashed off, because I had an Irish
dancing class
to attend.
I've done some Irish set dancing before, but it's been run
by people
from a folk dance background, not from a competitive Irish
dance
background. This class is run by the latter type, so we
spent most of
the session learning how to do certain footwork, then just
15 minutes at
the end putting it together into (part of) a dance. Coming
from an SCA
dance background, with a bit of random folk dancing thrown
in, I'm used
to dances being described like this:
Double up and back, set and turn left, repeat with S&T left,
mirror hey,
sidings etc in the same format as the doubles, hey holding
hands, armings
etc, crossover hey.
(that's an entire dance -- Grimstock, from Playford, which
we used to
dance lots in Stormhold). Everyone groks it, and you can
dance it
pretty much in its entirety with maybe 3 minutes preparation
explaining
the heys to those who haven't done that dance before.
On the contrary, this Irish dance class took FIFTEEN MINUTES
to get
everyone understanding the following:
Advance and retire, sevens and threes right, advance and
retire, sevens
and threes left.
And that's gotta be just the first figure of a dance that
should be *at
least* three times that length. *sigh*. I'm used to doing
up to six
full dances an hour, or maybe only two or three if there are
newbies,
so this was INCREDIBLY SLOW. On the other hand, I got
plenty of
opportunity to improve my footwork.
And in tonight's review of strange Canadian television:
"Yvon of the
Yukon". It's a half hour cartoon, ostensibly about a French
explorer in
the 17th century who discovers the north-west passage then
accidentally
gets frozen. Sometime later (like, now-ish), he's defrosted
when a
huskie pisses on him. And that's all explained in the
opening credits.
Then it gets *really* strange. It's kind of like Northern
Exposure
meets Les Visiteurs meets The Simpsons.
Coming up next: Are You Being Served. Wow, I haven't seen
this since
before I was old enough to understand most of the jokes. I
saw that To
The Manor Born was going to be on earlier tonight, so I
watched it, and
found that it was the first ep. I saw that just recently in
.au when it
was on the ABC, but I didn't see more than a couple of eps
beyond that.
I thought I was going to see something new, but oh well.
Haven't seen
TTMB since I was a kid, really. It's quite good. Unlike
AYBS (she says
as she watches the opening scenes) which, to be honest, is
BLOODY AWFUL.