I love Space X. I got on the computer and this morning to see this wonderful article about the Falcon 5 rocket and Dragon capsule. The rocket's second stage is carrying ashes from 308 people, including James Doohan, "Scotty," and Gordon Cooper, the Mercury program astronaut. Wow! Go Team Space Flight!

When I see progress like this being made I get all tearie-eyed. Partly, I think, because Fire in the Sky by Kristoph Klover is so ingrained in my heart - I get chills every time I hear it and I remember all that has gone before, including the dreamers. None of this could have happened without someone dreaming about it first.

Take me out to the black
Tell them I ain't comin' back
Burn the land and boil the sea
You can't take the sky from me

What a great morning!

Greetings All!

I have not forgotten you!  WORK and life have kept me supper busy.

Off to a St. Patrick's Day parade and chocolate Guinness pudding...mmmmmmm

My life is so busy I don't know if I've found a rope or lost my horse.

Yay!  My Christmas prezzie to myself just arrived.

http://www.amazon.com/Serpentine-Bellydance-Technique-Relaxed-Movement/dp/B00095NX9G/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1325288869&sr=8-1

You might be a coonass if you use 50 pound test to sew bells on your pants.

Happy Day of Giving Thanks, Everyone.

In the world of hi-tech gadgetry, I've noticed that more and more people who send text messages and emails have long forgotten the art of capitalization.
 
For those of you who fall into this category, please take note of the following statement...

"Capitalization is the difference between helping your Uncle Jack off a horse and helping your uncle jack off a horse."

Is everybody clear on that?

The more I work on Red Moon, the more I'm really getting into my bounty hunter, Noe. The album Avalon by Sully Erna is just so him, especially Sinner's Prayer and Hallow's Eve by Lisa Theriot.

I've created a Sully Erna channel on Pandora to write to when I need to think about Noe.

This is very interesting. Definitely gives you something to think about.

The video seems to be having trouble loading so I am including the link as well.


http://youtu.be/0tghUh4ubbg

Saturday was fun. Me and a bunch of friends when to the Ren Faire. It was Pirate Weekend.

Then, I spent Sunday being "sick as a dog on crack," as a friend from work says. My roomie had a bad stomach virus. The good news is it passed in about 24 hours.

Here are some pictures from the Ren Faire.

My student worker Nelida came. She is from Venezuela. This was all very new to her.


Looking around - what do we want to attack first?                                         Bad belly dancers
  

Reports came back to Baton Rouge of these gals being drunk in public. While we were there, they were drinking in their tent between shows and doing shots during the show. We are certainly not the belly dance police, but don't put yourself out there as a paid performer and give us all a bad name.

They weren't great dancers (I don't think I'm a great dancer), but we were supportive: we clapped and gave a zaghareet at all the right points (It takes guts to get up and dance). I don't fault them that. I fault them for doing it while drinking. There are enough misconceptions of belly dancers out there already. The audience might never see another one and they got to see these.

So, when at the end, they invited the audience to get up and dance with them to their drummer, we did. That's the one thing about being an improve group, all we need is a beat and a leader and we can dance to anything anywhere. We weren't rude. We stayed on the side of the benches where we had been. But, I think the audience noticed the difference.

 

 

This is Nelida, my student worker. She had a great time.   These two ladies were great. It was their first Ren Faire.
 

Nelida and Matthew both really liked this goat.                 Matthew shooting enemy ships with a catapult
 

There were hulla hoops
 

Pirate Headquarters - the sign said so.


A tent full of strippy socks. Bambi was very happy.           At the end of the Faire, they dance. I guess they are glad
                                                                                          everyone is leaving.