Saturday From Hell
Dec. 18th, 2005 11:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bjarvisI don't particularly mind xmas, but I wish it was further away from the end of the calendar year. Xmas itself is far too busy/commercialized/etc., but parking it adjacent to new year's, the end of the fiscal year and the end of the calendar project management cycle is just too much. Any one of these would be sufficient but all together is all together too much.
When I become supreme dictator of the universe, xmas will be moved to August.
Among other holiday related tasks, I needed to get a haircut yesterday. The holiday season makes scheduling a quick outing for a haircut utterly impossible until January but my hair was becoming uncomfortably long already. My regular barber is still in Italy so his replacement did the required trimming. My regular barber is apparently much better at fractions: he understands there's a difference between "cutting to half the current length" and "cutting to 1/4 the current length." Ah, well... I won't need a trim again until the latter half of January.
As soon as I returned home, we had lunch, then stuffed the remaining equipment into the back of the minivan and headed out into the wilds of DC.
Our first stop was an annual solstice open-house event in Takoma Park chez Jim & Joseph. Lots of food, lots of drink, lots of really hot men... no wonder we keep coming back year after year.
After much general conversation, cruising and exchange of contact info, we headed to downtown DC at 5:30 PM. The annual holiday concert of DC's Different Drummers was at 8 PM at St. Margaret's Episcopal Church (like we didn't have enough to worry about) and somehow Kent got suckered into producing almost all of the props and sets for a performance of "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" in the latter half of the second act.
Directions for creating a "roast beast":
1. Purchase a Pikachu pinata.
2. Lob off the ears & tail, then spray-paint him brown.
3. Hot-glue him face down to a silver coloured plastic tray.
4. Ring the tray with appropriately festive plastic fruit & vegetables, fastened with hot glue.
In all, the set pieces & props represent about four weeks of fairly intensive work for a performance time of not more than 30 minutes.
The show was, overall, well done and we were able to shoo most of the audience & well-wishers out of the space by 10 PM. Dismantling the sets and stuffing the lot into the minivan took about a half-hour, thanks to the kind assistance of a number of minions we had corralled for the effort. Outside of dropping a fireplace on my foot, we mostly escaped uninjured.
From St. Maggie's, we headed directly to Manassas, VA, for Cal & Eric's annual xmas bash, arriving shortly after 11 PM and stayed until close to 2 AM. Kent was definitely dragging by this late hour but I was still perky so I drive us home to Maryland.
Needless to say, we slept in very late this morning. Ahhhhhh...
When I become supreme dictator of the universe, xmas will be moved to August.
Among other holiday related tasks, I needed to get a haircut yesterday. The holiday season makes scheduling a quick outing for a haircut utterly impossible until January but my hair was becoming uncomfortably long already. My regular barber is still in Italy so his replacement did the required trimming. My regular barber is apparently much better at fractions: he understands there's a difference between "cutting to half the current length" and "cutting to 1/4 the current length." Ah, well... I won't need a trim again until the latter half of January.
As soon as I returned home, we had lunch, then stuffed the remaining equipment into the back of the minivan and headed out into the wilds of DC.
Our first stop was an annual solstice open-house event in Takoma Park chez Jim & Joseph. Lots of food, lots of drink, lots of really hot men... no wonder we keep coming back year after year.
After much general conversation, cruising and exchange of contact info, we headed to downtown DC at 5:30 PM. The annual holiday concert of DC's Different Drummers was at 8 PM at St. Margaret's Episcopal Church (like we didn't have enough to worry about) and somehow Kent got suckered into producing almost all of the props and sets for a performance of "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" in the latter half of the second act.
Directions for creating a "roast beast":
1. Purchase a Pikachu pinata.
2. Lob off the ears & tail, then spray-paint him brown.
3. Hot-glue him face down to a silver coloured plastic tray.
4. Ring the tray with appropriately festive plastic fruit & vegetables, fastened with hot glue.
In all, the set pieces & props represent about four weeks of fairly intensive work for a performance time of not more than 30 minutes.
The show was, overall, well done and we were able to shoo most of the audience & well-wishers out of the space by 10 PM. Dismantling the sets and stuffing the lot into the minivan took about a half-hour, thanks to the kind assistance of a number of minions we had corralled for the effort. Outside of dropping a fireplace on my foot, we mostly escaped uninjured.
From St. Maggie's, we headed directly to Manassas, VA, for Cal & Eric's annual xmas bash, arriving shortly after 11 PM and stayed until close to 2 AM. Kent was definitely dragging by this late hour but I was still perky so I drive us home to Maryland.
Needless to say, we slept in very late this morning. Ahhhhhh...
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Date: 2005-12-18 05:24 pm (UTC)You can assume the position once I am voted out, of course.
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Date: 2005-12-18 06:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-18 05:31 pm (UTC)Not a chance, sucker. That's my birthday month and no silly insignificant celebration like xmas is gonna get in the way.
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Date: 2005-12-18 07:00 pm (UTC)Of course, the downside is that your funeral will be a bit of an ugly affair and we'll expect you to come back from the dead after three days.
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Date: 2005-12-18 10:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-18 10:29 pm (UTC)In my working calendar, I usually plan on nothing being accomplished during the week before & after July 4, Thanksgiving and the entire latter half of December (plus the first week of January). After subtracting a few other misc events here & there, we get a project year really only has about 45 real weeks in it.