Vacation
Morrowlife is on vacation until about the 15th of August. Have a great time without me! My Loyal Readers are invited to Keep the Blog Alive by posting comments to this post. Pictures taken by you are welcome (assuming you know enough HTML to make it work), tales of your lives (more interesting than mine, natch), or whatever. Just maintain my normal High Standards! If we find any free WiFi on the way, I'll drop a comment or two myself.
See you on the flip side.
See you on the flip side.
posted by Michael at 8:14 AM
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I can't wait! See you all in a while.
Greetings from the Manteca-to-Great-America train! Loyal Reader Number One and I have started the journey to Gardenville. We're riding the train I'll be taking to work. It's comfortable and nice. The Wifi works, but is very s..l..o..w. It's free, though, so I guess I can't complain. Oh wait - apparently I can.
Post, Loyal Readers.
Dad and I are riding on the ACE train in the free Wifi car, so I'll leave a comment here. So far our trip has been going fine, but we've only been out for about 30 minutes. Hopefully we won't have as much trouble at the airport as Mom and Mark did.
Wish us luck.
Nice to see you on the vacation.
Am I posting?
Hooray! I am!
Greetings to all readers, loyal and otherwise. I haven't posted in a long time, but here I am. Work has been ridiculously busy along with the standard poor environment and supervision. However, breakthroughs have been made which make the workplace much more bearable. While I am still looking and applying for new work, I can at least go to work without the dread that used to be associated with that activity.
All is well with us at home. We have a new pet! She is a 2 year old ball python named Eva. We (and by we I mean I) love having her around. Our other resident reader is a little afraid of poor Eva, but the fear is subsiding. Our friendly kitties are also doing well. We finally got a digital camera, so pictures will be arriving in everyone's email boxes soon.
I'm on my way to bed, so enjoy the trip back to Gardenville-Manteca Express!
I've been intending to post, but nothing interesting happened until yesterday. Mostly this summer I've been helping my mom paint some rooms in our house, which is pretty boring. Yesterday, though, we bought a viola and a violin for me. I've played violin for five years now, and recently my violin teacher started me on viola. For the summer, I was just borrowing a viola from the school, but since I have to give it back in just over a week, my parents decided we should buy one. It cost quite a bit, but it sounds amazing. Then while we were looking for violas, I started playing violins at the shops we were at, and I decided that I wanted a better violin for my 16th birthday (which really isn't until October). We found a really nice one for quite a bit more than the viola, but my parents decided it was time I upgraded from my $200 pawn shop violin anyways. While we were at it, I got a nice bow for both the viola and the violin, and I got some nice cases for both of them too, so the whole thing ended up costing a lot. The instruments sound really good though, and it makes me sound a lot better, even though I really don't play that well. Plus it was a lot of fun, because all last week we went from shop to shop, and I played over 60 violins and about 25 violas, which is always enjoyable. So pretty much, yesterday was one of the most exciting days I've had this summer, which will probably make two this week, because we're going white water rafting on Saturday. Anyways, I hope you guys have had a great trip.
Greetings from beautiful Wells, Nevada! The trip is going well - we've only had to take the trailer to the shop once so far, and it conveniently broke down only about a quarter mile from a decent repair facility! Somebody's definitely watching out for us.
How nice to hear from Loyal Readers Three and Seven. Thanks for checking in and watch for Official Morrowlife Posts to begin again next Tuesday.
Hello from Wells, Nevada. We're at the Mountain Shadows RV park, which is basically a parking lot with full hook-ups for RVs. It's pretty dismal. Oh well, there's nothing better for a long ways. They do, however, have electric, water, sewer, cable, telephone, and wireless internet at every site. So we're doing OK. Glad to hear that things are going well at your job, Paul. From what I gather, it's pretty miserable. Also glad to hear about your new instruments, Hannah. We bought a baby grand piano before we left Philadelphia that's being moved along with the rest of our stuff. It's not perfect (and it's pretty old - built in 1930s or so) but it's much better than the ugly studio upright we used to have. And it plays better and sounds better, too. So I'm glad about that. School starts for me the day after we get home from our trip. I'm sort of excited and sort of not, as usual. It will be nice to actually live in Manteca so that I'll be able to go to young men's and hang out with the people I've met there (it's been too far away to do either of those things up until now.) Anyway, we'll be back soon and Dad will be back to posting on his regular schedule (or at least, once we get his computer unpacked and the internet worked out.) I'm sure dad will have more to say about our home network once we get there.
By the way, how are you doing on piano, Andy? I was just wondering what pieces you're working on. I recently started tackling Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. It's going to take me another year or so to finish it, but I'm making progress.
Wer'e back and (most of our stuff is) in the house! Unfortunately, we don't quite have internet access yet, so Morrowlife updates will resume in a day or so. Lots of new info. See you then!
AHHHHH! THE BOXES! THEY'RE CLOSING IN! THEY HAVE KNIFES! OR MAYBE SNAKES ON A PLANE, DEPENDING ON WHICH HORRENDOUS "SCARY" MOVIE I WANT TO PARODY! OHHHH NOOOO! *squooosh*
Seriously, there are like half a trillion boxes in this house. Or there were. They're steadily dissapearing, although there are still boxes all over in our loft. It's not very nice. Unpacking isn't fun.
Not much else interesting going on. So... uhhh... bye.
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