Weekend fun
Monday, 27 March 2006 07:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daFriday night, I went to dinner with Quaker friends; two who are going away on a 4 month trip to walk across Spain. We'll certainly miss them, partly since they are responsible for a lot of the week-to-week repair tasks for the Meeting House. Speaking of which, the weekend also featured not one but two Quaker Meeting House disasters, one sewer-pipe-related and expensive, they other boiler-related and expensive. Those became the capstone to Sunday's Quaker Meeting, which included an emergency Business Meeting to deal with the problems. Otherwise, the Quaker Meeting continued the last month's string of really good Meetings- there were a few surprising messages, all of them good.
Saturday, I lazed and programmed. Fish and I talked about photo mosaics and by the time we were done talking, we were most of the way toward planning the code, so we (mostly he) went ahead and wrote a mosaic-builder. That will get its own post, later.
I also went over to our favourite neighbours' (L & D) house for an extended chat and coffee. They just bought a shiny silver espresso-maker for L's birthday. D, being D, had to try out what happened if he turned on the steam-maker when there wasn't a cup in place ("to clean it out") with predictable results. L, being L, rolled her eyes and shoed him from the room while we made coffee. :)
In the evening, I went to the concert for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
melted_snowball's chorus, themed for Easter. Most of the first half was a capella and I was really feeling the harmonies. Great stuff.
Oh, Sunday also featured a walk uptown withroverthedog, to try and buy a book and a ticket to see Karen Armstrong speak next Saturday (her latest book is about the 9th century BCE, during which time she says all of the following were created: Confucianism and Daoism in China; Hinduism and Buddhism in India; monotheism in Israel; and philosophical rationalism in Greece. I don't exactly believe her dates are that tight; Confucus lived 350 years later; but I liked her other books on comparative theology so I'll go see her speak again.)
Saturday, I lazed and programmed. Fish and I talked about photo mosaics and by the time we were done talking, we were most of the way toward planning the code, so we (mostly he) went ahead and wrote a mosaic-builder. That will get its own post, later.
I also went over to our favourite neighbours' (L & D) house for an extended chat and coffee. They just bought a shiny silver espresso-maker for L's birthday. D, being D, had to try out what happened if he turned on the steam-maker when there wasn't a cup in place ("to clean it out") with predictable results. L, being L, rolled her eyes and shoed him from the room while we made coffee. :)
In the evening, I went to the concert for
melted_snowball's chorus, themed for Easter. Most of the first half was a capella and I was really feeling the harmonies. Great stuff.Oh, Sunday also featured a walk uptown with
roverthedog, to try and buy a book and a ticket to see Karen Armstrong speak next Saturday (her latest book is about the 9th century BCE, during which time she says all of the following were created: Confucianism and Daoism in China; Hinduism and Buddhism in India; monotheism in Israel; and philosophical rationalism in Greece. I don't exactly believe her dates are that tight; Confucus lived 350 years later; but I liked her other books on comparative theology so I'll go see her speak again.)
