Well it was sort of a quiet weekend in Duluth….

Yeah, I stole that from A Prairie Home Companion.  I couldn’t think of another way to start this entry.

I’m currently at my office and doing my best to drown out the sound of a jackhammer by listening to “The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace” over and over and over and over.  It’s doing very little against the jackhammer, but it is keeping me relatively stress-free.  Betsy Jones, a baritone player in the GBB, introduced me to it a week or so ago and I think the last few minutes of it might just be the most gorgeous music I’ve ever heard in my life.  Seriously.  If I could just loop the last 2:50 forever, I might be like one of those rats that does nothing except press the bar that sends happy electrical impulses into its brain, eventually leading to death (but very happy death) by starvation.

Anyway, I didn’t go to Macon on Saturday because I spent a great deal of time in the morning looking for the camera lens.  I couldn’t find it in a number of different stores, so I guess I’ll get it online after the first of the year.  Happy birthday to me and all that.  One of the places I looked for the lens was at Frye’s Electronics, which is a HUGE computer/camera/electronics store near my house.  Once inside, I of course had to look at all the cool toys, and that ended up costing me about two hours.

So instead of going to the cemetery in Macon, I went to the Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta.  Oakland was founded in about 1850, is huge, and has some really interesting stuff – historically and photographically.  Along with a whole bunch of governors of Georgia and mayors of Atlanta, the cemetery has one of the largest Confederate sections in the country (maybe THE largest.  I’m not sure).  The cemetery sits on a windy ridge overlooking downtown Atlanta, and it’s possible to get some really cool juxtapositions of new and old in a picture if you’re observant enough.  I’m not, but I try hard.

It was a rather chilly day on Saturday, however, so after walking around the cemetery for a few hours, I was more than ready to get out of the wind.  I did this by going to the party at Rich Ita’s house that I mentioned in my last entry.  It turned out to be not much of a party.  It turned out to be 4 people.  Rich, Betsy Jones, Rich’s roommate and me.   We ate pea soup and ham (prepared by Rich) along with pierogies and cookies (by Betsy), and then watched a couple of movies.  I got home between midnight and one o’clock and slept like a dead man until Boo decided that she was starving to death at 0700 and woke me up.

I didn’t really do ANYTHING for the rest of the day yesterday.  Sat on the couch, ripped movies to a hard drive, read a little bit, ate a lot and watched a bit of television.

TWD