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In 1998 and 2001 I traveled with the Marching Illini across the pond to Ireland and Great Britain. Well, they’re going again in 2008. I grabbed a copy of the signup forms and info at rehearsal last night, and put them online. I am interested in going, but I don’t think I could afford it right now. I just knew that some of you reading also went and might be interested in the ten year reunion tour.

Short version: Thurs March 13 through Friday March 21 (about half/half Ireland and London) Band plays a few venues including the St. Patrick’s Day parade in Dublin. About $2300 ($2000 for bandos).

Let me know if this sounds interesting to you.

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From the special features of the Happy Feet movie,

“If there’s one thing I would want to be remembered for it’s passion and enthusiasm. Conservation is my job, my life, my whole being.” — Steve Irwin

In a strange turn of events, despite having summer band activities three nights this week, I have watched more Netflix movies this week than I have in a long time. I’ve watched 7 movies in the last 90 days, and over half have been in the last five days.

I’m really excited to get back into Deadwood again, but disappointed with myself that the timing of things slipped and I’m going to need to wait until Tuesday now to get the next disc. I should have arranged my queue better when I sent in the last one. Oh well. The third season is starting stronger than the second, I think. I really missed this Shakespearean western. Richardson and Farnum, Starr and Bullock, Alma and Elsworth, Swear’gen and even the hoopleheads. The menu theme for Rome is playing in the background now, and I have a few other HBO series discs in my queue. It’s good television — better than what the networks put out on their summer lineup (but I have taken a liking to the Next Best Thing.)

ALA, a big librarian organization, is having their annual conference this week. I pondered for a while going, but it wasn’t in the cards this year. I said that last year too. Maybe next year I’ll have more time and money and inclination of what to do with myself. But I did take another step towards professional librarianism this week when I watched Desk Set. Fifty years after that was filmed, I think the “electric brains” have made a giant impact in organizational research and reference, but I think it’s obvious they haven’t replaced people — they’ve just changed the nature of reference.

And the irony of my ever-long queue of Netflix movies and when they finally bubble up to the top was not lost on me when I received an animated movie about dancing penguins on the first day of summer.

Steve and others inspired me to upgrade Wordpress and switch to a more flexible theme. I’m giving the “rapid access” theme a spin. Wordpress is almost getting like WinAmp — each time I check, there are updates. And they’re all security related, and I should totally upgrade now. Considering I’m not doing anything special with this install of Wordpress, I’m considering moving the blog over to a hosted service somewhere. More on that later. Have a good weekend!

xkcd is funny today. Brings a new meaning to the first law of library science.

I feel so accepted and understood when online comics mimic my life, and sadly, I get all the jokes on xkcd. Even, for example, me checking to see if I could hotlink to the comic here, and finding the license.

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2007
Peter J. Griffin, Conductor
Lt. Bruce McDonald, USN, Guest Conductor
*Program*
Thursday, June 21, 2007

Star Spangled Banner

Brighton Beach / William P. Latham

Light Cavalry Overture / Franz von Suppe; arr. Fillmore

An Irish Rhapsody / Clare Grundman
– Peter Griffin, conductor

Sea Songs / Ralph Vaughan Williams

Cajun Folk Songs II / Frank Ticheli

American Civil War Fantasy / Jerry Bilik

The Thunderer / John Philip Sousa
– Lt. Bruce McDonald, guest conductor

The Sound of Music, Selections / Rodgers and Hammerstein 2nd; arr. Bennett

Armed Forced Salute / Bob Lowden

The Stars and Stripes Forever / John Philip Sousa

Illinois Loyalty / Guild; arr. Hindsley
– Peter Griffin, conductor

This concert starts the 97th consecutive season of summer band. I hope to see you there, and I hope it doesn’t rain!