Yes.

I've finally succeeded in connecting to MLB.com Gameday Audio, thus giving me the capability to listen to Twins spring training games live. Right now, we're leading 6-2 in the 7th over Toronto. I have to leave for a band concert in like, 2 seconds, so we'll pick this up when I get back in however many hours.

(Intermission)

Well, it's now Monday morning. Intermission lasted a bit longer than I had anticipated. For those of you who are interested, the concert went successfully. I felt good with the way I played. We had a long day of rehearsals leading up to the concert, then I played in both the Symphonic Winds and the Wind Orchestra, so I was a bit blasted by the end, but stuck through it. They had to bring in a local gig player to pinch hit on bass trombone. His name was Dave, it was sort of fun to talk to him about trombones, mouthpiece sizes, delryn rims, all the geeked out stuff that normally peppers my conversation at Luther. Emily and Mary came to hear the concert, so that was cool. Anyways, I read a bit of E.M. Forster's Howard's End, the latest installment in the ever exciting BRITISH NOVEL course to wrap up my day.

The weekend as a whole went well. Anna's grandparents were here, they all left this morning for a weeklong trip to Glastonbury and Bath. Kevin was also in Dublin for the weekend with his mom and stepdad. Friday night, a few of us tried out a new pub, The Frog and Onion. It wasn't what we expected, as it was an extremely smoky place with one of those perpetually loud blues bands that always seems to inhabit extremely smoky drinking establishments. But we had fun, I think. In honor of the impending holiday, I had a Guinness. Sunday I worked somewhat half-heartedly on my American History biographical essay. I'm doing César Chavez. I'm finding him quite interesting. Saturday night, the lady and I went out for dinner and a movie, as we never actually have gone on a real "date." It was fun. We hit up a casual French restaurant, then saw The Good Shepherd. It wasn't exactly what we expected, mainly in the fact it was 3 HOURS LONG. Quite unneccesary, but whatever. We had a good time.

As part of my birthday money, I bought Led Zeppelin I this weekend. It has seriously made me consider dropping trombone, picking up electric guitar, learning to wail like a banshee, and switch my career from mild mannered history professor (just speculation, don't read into it) to towering god of rock. I'm trying to expand my musical horizons and appreciation, and now owning two Zepp albums, I am not disappointed. Check out this great article by the Onion for some related laughs.

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So that's what's up right now. Me and César Chavez are spending the day together, in hopes of finishing the essay by tomorrow at 4:30, when my dad arrives from Edinburgh. Hopefully I'll be productive enough to be able to go to baseball tonight. But, I'm confident thus far. That's what's up, later folks.