Perfect concert day

A bit of news I meant to post a day or two ago: the grower my dad works for supplies plants to decorate the stage at Symphon Hall in Boston... so the company head got several free tickets to one of the Boston Pops concerts, namely to their "Pops at the Beach" concert in Hyannis. As he was telling my dad about this, dad started to ask if there were any spare tickets, but his boss cut him off at the pass: "Hardly anyone uses them... would you want them?" Of course my dad, whose favorite price is "free", jumped at the chance.

Turns out, they were VIP seating tickets worth at least $150 a piece. Which meant we not only had a great view of the stage, but we also had complimentary soda, chips, a cheese platter, and a goodie bag with all kinds of nick-nacks (pens, playing cards, a corkscrew, pads of paper, and doodads like that).

Keith Lockhart conducted a program of Broadway and Hollywood music, including several of my favorites: the overture to "Ben Hur" and the main title theme for "Lawrence of Arabia". My dad was trying to find some way for me to meet the maestro, but that didn't pan out. There's always next year!

The weather couldn't have been more delightful either: sunny with a lovely breeze off the ocean...

The only fly in the ointment today: I just suspended my MxO account, so now there's some sadness creeping into my heart as I finish this entry. For all the trouble people caused me on there, I miss them all, already. But... I found one of my all time favorite Disney clips, via GAFF:

Night on Bald Mountain, from "Fantasia" (unfortunately, two of the more gleefully dangerous headspace-dwellers are getting more of a kick out of it than I'd really like to be privy to...). Now, If I could just find the "Ave Maria" sequence that immediately follows it in the movie, I'll be a happy oddball.

The First rule of MMOs, according to WGAnubis

"Patch days and maintenance downtime are hell". Just had to hurry off EvE Online, since the server is going down for maintenance. Hopefully that will correct the login ditheriness that's been happening lately. I was running around New Eden, trying to collect fittings for my destroyer, since we've currently had some corp declare war on us, out of the blue: most likely some 12 year olds with nothing better to do than pick corporation names out of a hat and decide to declare war on them. This is nerve-wracking to say the least, since I've been trying to save up ISK (in-game currency) buy a game time code, since my finances have been cut to the marrow, thus I've had to buy a new fighter ship and new fittings and I won't be able to get much mining in since we're supposed to be sticking close to station, in case any troublemakers find us out asteroid mining. There goes a good piece of my nest-egg. Life is imitating my online gaming in more ways than I care for right now...

Now it looks like I might have to go on Mass. Health, the state's subsidized health care for low-income people. Turns out the funding to Catholic Charities got cut and they won't be able to offer counselling to non-insured people. Not that I want to, since I've had enough with bureaucratic nonsense to last me a lifetime -- thank you very much, Social Security and Mass. Rehab.

Why is it that the people who have harder lives due to disabilities have to have everything else made even more challenging by these bureaucratic hoops that the so-called normal people have to make us jump through?! I'm tempted to make them jump through a few myself, but I don't want to stoop to their level.

:: Realises she's been making liberal use of the "Welcome to my Life" icon...::

Back to the EvE of War... I've been liberally quoting the line, "What if they threw a war and nobody showed up?" since so far, the war declare-ers have not shown their faces anywhere near our home base, and they haven't even been online, either.