Perspectives of a Canadian in the Old/Deep/New/Geographic South: This is where I ramble on about nothing in particular and post a few nice pictures.
Vacationing in Maui. BBS.
While running errands over the weekend I stopped at a nearby music shop to see what they had for string instruments. Picked up a set of strings and a pitch pipe to help me get things into tune, but they didn’t have any viola bows in my price range. The ones they did have were very nice, but a little more than I needed at this time. Thanks to the pitch pipe and a few MIDI files I found online, the viola is now newly strung and sounds decently in tune, although the A sounds kind of odd to me. Maybe when I hear it with the bow it’ll sound better. Plucking the strings does make some very satisfyingly familiar sounds though.
Now I just need to find a bow and some beginner’s books.
Turn it into yarn. The hair has got to be at least 2″ long, so unfortunately it rules out all the hair my labs leave on the carpet for me. Darn.
Found at DoggieNews.com.
There’s a lunar eclipse going on tonight. This time, the moon will be in mid-eclipse by the time it rises on the east coast of the US, but people will still get to see it in full eclipse for a an hour or so and then get to see it brighten back up again over the next couple of hours.
I’ve always liked lunar eclipses. They’re easier to watch, go on for a lot longer and I like the colour the moon changes to. Incidentally, today’s APOD is a cool movie of the moon transiting the Sun as seen by the STEREO B craft in UV. Neato.
According to the vet, Simba did very well with his neutering today. He’s never very happy to go to the vet anyway, and I’m sure after today he really won’t want to go again. But everything went well and he’s back home recovering. We’ve got some anti-inflammatories to give him to help keep the pain down, some mild sedatives to keep him calm and mellow while he recovers, and an e-collar on him so he doesn’t try to lick his surgery site.
He should be back to normal in about a week or so. In the meantime you can bet he’ll get spoiled even more than he usually does.
