Different Sorts of Recipes
Oct 28th, 2007 by Alex
Went down to a beach on the Magothy River to do some slacklining on Saturday afternoon. I setup a 30 foot line between two trees with a blanket below the center point but lacked the coordination to stay up for any period of time. I set up another line between two trees about 15 feet apart. I had much more success there, both stepping up easily and planting after a running start and jump onto the line. Walking is coming much easier now too, for me and my friends. Reverted back to the 30 foot line a bit later; it was easier after regaining balance on the shorter line, but it wobbles a lot more and differently. The falls can hurt too, stretching your body in ways that it isn’t supposed to stretch. Its still addicting though; we got another young woman hooked on the idea. Downright viral, it is.
Saturday evening we watched a movie outside from the comfort of the hot tub. A projector was rigged to shine onto the upright half-wide cover of the hot tub, yielding a nice 50″ widescreen picture. A pair of EON monitors on stands and a Mackie 1402 provided a very nice stereo spread. Good reviews all around, even if we exceeded the recommended time spent in the hot tub. Doesn’t everybody?
Tonight I had the opportunity to hang out with the production crew of an SEE event at UMCP. I took it. The opener was College Park Projects (link?). For an amateur college band, they were good. So good that I’m going to insist upon a recording of the show. That’s rare. Pete Francis (formerly of jam band Dispatch) was the main act. Accompanied by another guitarist (who’s name was “Boo” I think), he played a solid hour-long acoustic set. The gig was in the Stamp Union’s Grand Ballroom; Francis mentioned that the room looked stately, as if we were about to re-write the Declaration of Independence. That or in a library, minus the librarians telling them to be quiet. The next song was dedicated to the librarians, overdue periodicals, and the card catalog. The music was tight. The artists were cordial and professional on- and off-stage. Always a pleasant thing.
Good weekend.
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