birthday bash

Kaarel at his birthday bash last night. Photo by Sara.


I'm starting to use the keyboard to type a little bit more every day, but am still relying heavily on ViaVoice to help me with longer text passages. Being able to use the keyboard for mouse clicking and movement is a real time saver; having to say stuff like "Move down 2 lines; move right 3 words; move right 4 characters" was starting to drive me slowly mad.



Jonathan and Peter


I'm starting to accept new assignments, like a short piece for a spa company on the West Coast. They discovered and liked the photographs I took in my Nahanni trip report, and a subsequent e-mail discussion led to an article assignment. I love the Internet. :-)



Michelle and me.


Only a few days left until Concertino! I'm really looking forward to this convention. Allison, Jodi and I are hosting a Performers Circle whose participants include Martin and Andy Gordon-Kerr, Rand Bellavia, Daniel and Melissa Glasser, and Jeff and Maya Bohnoff. We are also performing a children's concert, which should be fun.



Reid and Luisa


To those of you attending the convention: please do drop by the Urban Tapestry 10th anniversary party in the con suite, where you will also be able to hear tracks from our new CD! Check the program book for scheduling information. Many thanks to the Concertino concom for helping to arrange this.



Andy and me.


Urban Tapestry will be donating a pre-release hand-copied/printed copy of our CD as well as a t-shirt to the Interfilk auction at of the convention. Allison and Jodi are coming over tonight for a music practice as well as a T-shirt-making session. Many thanks to Beckett for giving us permission to use her cover artwork on the T-shirt.



Kristen and Justin.


Jeff and I had a ton of fun last night celebrating Kaarel's 40th birthday at the Mandarin (Ruth and Kaarel treated everyone!). Wow, lots of digital cameras. Ah, how I yearn for the old days when I was usually the only one with a digital camera at gatherings and therefore never had to fear photo retaliation. :-)



I show my appreciation for all the photos John
took of me last night.

The Skimper Project was born last night, too, started by Sara, official status inspired by David Barker, technical realization aided by Reid. More details to follow.

Many thanks to Ruth and Kaarel for hosting the event!



For Christo...
Photo by Sara.


(This entry was written with ViaVoice, a voice recognition program, which sometimes has its own sense of humor. Please forgive any spelling or grammar quirks which Debbie has missed while editing. Thank you. )

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