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Apr. 20th, 2013 06:34 pmNormally I would take a three-day work week and be grateful for it, but I didn't really want one the way I got it. It was nice that I didn't have to try to get to work on Friday, absent the T, but it turned out to be the most boring exciting day I've ever had. I checked on the news about once an hour. After the lockdown was lifted, I went for a walk just because I could. And then I went into a liquor store for beer and they had a TV on, and that was when I found out about the second shootout and all I could think was "Damn it, here we go again." I can understand Brighton being locked down, since it's conceivable that he could have gotten here from Watertown, but I think locking down all of downtown Boston was a bit excessive. My boss lives in Watertown and one of my coworkers lives in the area that got searched. I bet there will be some stories on Monday.
Today things are back to normal around here. People are belting up and down the street at 40 mph like always, and I haven't heard any sirens today. I went to my voice lesson and made another large breakthrough (yay!), and then went grocery shopping like always. Trader Joe's had milk and yogurt and alcohol and produce, but no spaghetti. I guess that didn't get delivered yesterday.
It seems there's a corollary to the "I think I sound funny when I listen to recordings of my voice" phenomenon. When I cut out the vibrato and sing in such a way that I think I sound squeaky, I don't, and I am in fact doing it right. If you ask me, I sounded like a Muppet, but my voice teacher thought it was excellent. I guess that's why I'm taking lessons.
Is anybody else having issues with Adobe Flash Player version 11? It installed itself this morning, and immediately after that, most of the web pages I tried to load caused the computer to give me the Spinning Beachball of Death for a couple of minutes apiece. I disabled the Flash player and the SBOD went away.
Today things are back to normal around here. People are belting up and down the street at 40 mph like always, and I haven't heard any sirens today. I went to my voice lesson and made another large breakthrough (yay!), and then went grocery shopping like always. Trader Joe's had milk and yogurt and alcohol and produce, but no spaghetti. I guess that didn't get delivered yesterday.
It seems there's a corollary to the "I think I sound funny when I listen to recordings of my voice" phenomenon. When I cut out the vibrato and sing in such a way that I think I sound squeaky, I don't, and I am in fact doing it right. If you ask me, I sounded like a Muppet, but my voice teacher thought it was excellent. I guess that's why I'm taking lessons.
Is anybody else having issues with Adobe Flash Player version 11? It installed itself this morning, and immediately after that, most of the web pages I tried to load caused the computer to give me the Spinning Beachball of Death for a couple of minutes apiece. I disabled the Flash player and the SBOD went away.
