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It's definitely been one of those weekends. Felt kinda pointless to me. I know, I know, it wasn't. I got stuff done. I finished all the graphics and remixing of Soul of a Harper.

Saturday, I also went out to the Austin Farmer's Market. That was really cool. It was pretty small, but it was the first time I went to a market that sorta reminded me of some of the markets of Italy. Kinda got me interested in trying to find more. But then, I won't be able to hit any on the weekend after this weekend.

Oh, and there was a great bluegrass band there, Hard to Make a Living aka HTML. I've been really digging bluegrass recently. Been a major resurgence it seems in the media, and the music has been totally wiring me. Love to do some bluegrass.

Something about the autoharp it seems. Most of the autoharpers out there play folk music and while I do too, the style has been creeping more and more to various styles. I never thought growing up that I'd dig folk music as much as I do. But man, it really gets into ye. Love to explore the styles more, and I will. It'll just take some time I reckon.

Feeling a wee bit better. Watching Spider-Man on my computer as I type. Woohoo!

After the Austin Farmer's Market, I watched Bridget Jones's Diary for the first time. Really good movie. Then, who knows. It's all a blur. Think I watched something else on my computer as I messed around in a daze until finally I got a call from a friend about Rennie gathering at Mother Egan's.

Wasn't feeling very social, but I needed to get out, so I went. That was kinda cool--one guy and eight women. Sweeeet!

But I left after a couple hours. Wasn't feeling much like listening to music and the Sarah Dinah Band was playing--Celtic music band. Interesting arrangement. Sarah doesn't play any instruments. She sings. Has a very nice voice. Not quite so typical like some Celtic bands I've heard.

What's interesting is watching the arrangement and performance. It's so different from our music and performance. Whereas with most Celtic bands, there's a specific formula that combines songs and tunes (in the Celtic music world, songs have vocals and tunes are instrumental). Sing a song, then play a tune. It certainly makes for an interesting musical performance. There's lots of dynamics. With us, however, there's not quite as much we can do because... well, there's just two of us.

I crashed pretty early that night. I think it was about 11pm. For me, that's early. Was kinda bored. Couldn't think what else to do. That's one of my probs working on a computer.

But then I woke up at 11am! There was a brief threat of rain. And then the storm hit. I was very disappointed it didn't last longer. I love storms, but then I would've preferred having a lass to share it with... Heck, it would've been nice to just have a "friend" to share it with. But I'm feeling a wee bit anti-social. So I did try calling some friends, but my bloody phone wasn't working. Really sucked!

The rain lasted only about an hour or so. That was disappointing. Then the day moved on, me not wanting to work on the computer at all. So I...well, I don't remember what I did. Oh, yeah, watched The Two Towers then fell asleep.

All in all, much less exciting a weekend than I hoped. I was looking forward to it... ah well.

So now I just waste time blabbering in my journal.

Oh, I remember what else. I worked on my store, A Dragon's Eye. I was trying to manipulate some of my photos.

I just don't think I'm cut out for graphic arts though. Staring at a computer is just too bloody exhausting. That's the thing that threw me a loop in the first place.

All righty, let me stop wasting your time. Hopefully, I'll feel better tomorrow, though the b*tching sure feels good. :)

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