I am still Alive
Jan. 12th, 2018 07:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
catsittingstillAnd one of the things I hope to do differently this year is spend a bit more time on Dreamwidth and a bit less time on Facebook.
So really quick thumbnail update: My Accountability Posts mostly ended up on Facebook. I went back and counted and I did 135 separate acts of resistance last year. They ranged from easy things like donating to the ACLU and the Democrats to calling my Senators and Congressman and also my state legislators, and things like joining Swing Left to canvas several times in NC-13 (the Congressional House District near Greensboro) and driving to Georgia to get out the vote for Ossof, to Virginia to GOTV for Northam and Wendy Gooditis there, and to Alabama to GOTV for Doug Jones.
This year I will be canvassing in NC-13, hopefully about once a month leading up to the election, and also canvassing locally in a state legislature district in Knoxville.
The library music group has morphed into an actual band and even played a couple of (unpaid) gigs here and there. We also sponsor a weekly Jam Night at the local coffeehouse, called The Creek, and last Thursday marked one year since we started doing that. Jamming and playing with the band continues to improve my mandolin playing skills. I learned to play a closed scale so I can play along with reckless, unstable guitarists who like to play in C sharp or G sharp. So far so good.
I’m working on relearning Fisherman’s Hornpipe. One of my band mates wants to do a version that’s fairly different from the one I learned way back when.
To be fair, I’ve forgotten most of the version I learned so it’s not much more trouble learning this version. And it does have some nice variations. But keeping track of the order the variations come in is a bit of a challenge.
I got an Apple Watch this summer and an iPhone X for Christmas. I like both of them quite a lot.
Dad and I were translating books into Dutch. We have finished Wee Free Men and A Hatful of Sky. We were working on The Wind In The Willows (which is harder than you would expect given that it is ostensibly a kids’ book.). However Dad’s skype quit working one day in October or so. I managed to fix it while I was visiting him for Christmas so we have resumed work. He also gave me a couple of books in Dutch (just fiction books: The Golden Compass and a collection of short stories called Iedereen Was Er which means “Everyone Was There.” But it’s a chance to keep up my skills.)
So that’s what’s up with me. I hope everyone else has been doing well.
So really quick thumbnail update: My Accountability Posts mostly ended up on Facebook. I went back and counted and I did 135 separate acts of resistance last year. They ranged from easy things like donating to the ACLU and the Democrats to calling my Senators and Congressman and also my state legislators, and things like joining Swing Left to canvas several times in NC-13 (the Congressional House District near Greensboro) and driving to Georgia to get out the vote for Ossof, to Virginia to GOTV for Northam and Wendy Gooditis there, and to Alabama to GOTV for Doug Jones.
This year I will be canvassing in NC-13, hopefully about once a month leading up to the election, and also canvassing locally in a state legislature district in Knoxville.
The library music group has morphed into an actual band and even played a couple of (unpaid) gigs here and there. We also sponsor a weekly Jam Night at the local coffeehouse, called The Creek, and last Thursday marked one year since we started doing that. Jamming and playing with the band continues to improve my mandolin playing skills. I learned to play a closed scale so I can play along with reckless, unstable guitarists who like to play in C sharp or G sharp. So far so good.
I’m working on relearning Fisherman’s Hornpipe. One of my band mates wants to do a version that’s fairly different from the one I learned way back when.
To be fair, I’ve forgotten most of the version I learned so it’s not much more trouble learning this version. And it does have some nice variations. But keeping track of the order the variations come in is a bit of a challenge.
I got an Apple Watch this summer and an iPhone X for Christmas. I like both of them quite a lot.
Dad and I were translating books into Dutch. We have finished Wee Free Men and A Hatful of Sky. We were working on The Wind In The Willows (which is harder than you would expect given that it is ostensibly a kids’ book.). However Dad’s skype quit working one day in October or so. I managed to fix it while I was visiting him for Christmas so we have resumed work. He also gave me a couple of books in Dutch (just fiction books: The Golden Compass and a collection of short stories called Iedereen Was Er which means “Everyone Was There.” But it’s a chance to keep up my skills.)
So that’s what’s up with me. I hope everyone else has been doing well.
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Date: 2018-01-13 06:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-01-13 07:16 am (UTC)Are you translating books into Dutch as a language exercise, or are you planning to publish your translations?
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Date: 2018-01-13 12:37 pm (UTC)Good to hear that you're doing music with friends, and I hope that you had a good time over at Gafilk - Joey's updating frequency from there was frightening.
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Date: 2018-01-13 02:26 pm (UTC)And still not on FB, so would definitely love to hear more from you here.
We're doing reasonably well here. Trying to keep a certain toddler from destroying the house.
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Date: 2018-01-13 04:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-01-13 04:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-01-13 07:40 pm (UTC)Kudos on the good work re resistance, and translation, and best of luck in continuing those endeavors.
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Date: 2018-01-13 07:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-01-15 05:27 am (UTC)I admire your perseverance in actually doing political stuff. I talk a lot but I think the most meaningful thing I actually did last year was to put a magnet opposing the Republican whose insanely gerrymandered district includes Champaign.
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Date: 2018-01-17 02:23 pm (UTC)