a Taiko show you might want to see, even though I'm not in it.

This saturday at Springstep, there is a taiko show you might want to see. I'm not performing, but I'm really excited to see it. It's Mark's first show as the artistic director where he's really stretched his concept for the concert. He's taken old peices and made them different, both visually and conceptionally. There are new pieces, including a steel drum peice, that I got to hear just a little of and loved. They have a violinist, a floutist and a dancer as guest artists. I'm completely jealous of the floutist being miles better than me. It's actually been a long time sine I've been excited to see a ONE show, since I know the songs so well, but I think Mark and the ensemble members have put a lot of work and orginality into this, right down to the chair arrangement and the atmosphere of people entering the building.

Here are the details if you're interested.

World... really world of warcraft

I'm not WoW filtering this, because it's kind of a meta post.

Wrath (the lastest World of Warcraft expansion) comes out tonight at midnight. I can't believe it's been almost two years since Burning Crusade (the last expansion) came out. 2 years... I guess even scarier is that I've been playing WoW since it's release. November 23, 2004. That's almost 4 years. That's longer than I've ever held a job. That's half the time I've been married. While I don't really feel like I'm addicted to the game, it's been part of my life for so long that it's hard to imagine what it will be like when it's gone from me life (and that day will come.)

It's interesting. People can easily see how MMOs make the game more social, but I never thought about the longevity it gives the game. How many other games have that kind of life (that aren't mmos.) I played DDR for three years, so clearly it counts (and I wish I were still playing it.) But even my other video game addictions were months, not years.

I don't actually regret my time playing WoW (total played time is about 200 24-hour days total.) It's come at a time in my life when I desperately needed escapism and distraction. I seem to be able to ignore it when I need to be doing something else and it's stopped me from becoming a complete WoW widow. (While I couldn't play on the same scheduel G plays, I do have enough of an understanding that it can be a shared topic between us.

a cool item for camera users

My mommy bought me this. I tried it out and it works great. I think my two favorite things is the form factor, for easy storage, and the two tools (the brush and the cleaning pad) being right there. I also really love the cap to keep the cleaning pad all nice and clean and to refresh the cleaning solution.

Anyway, it did such a nice, quick job on my dusty, smudgey lens, I thought I'd let other people know about it.

nice vet-man

One of kaylee's sutures didn't disolve, so I took her to the vet to get it trimmed. We phoned, they gave us an technition appointment for 10 minutes from the returned phone call. Despite it supposed to be a tech appointment, her primary vet did it and then didn't charge.