Note: Updated, now with blithering and photos!
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Just a placeholder today, folks. I don't have time for much blithering and Photobucket has decided that they're letting their site be hijacked by some win an iPad idiocy. Marko don't play dat.
Perhaps tomorrow I'll swing by and fill the Extended diary section with photos. I had seven to share this week. Sigh, Photobucket my old trusted friend-- now? Now is the time you've chosen for your betrayal?
Anyway, feel free to create your own week of adventures in the comments. I'll have to post and run tonight but I'll be back to prowl while your little sleepy heads are resting in innocent slumber.
It was a rather wet week in Prague. I took some photographs of some old paintings, helped a friend with a project, took a long walk to see if something near my home still existed, managed to do a bit of drawing and painting but I don't have anything ready for sharing from that. I suppose the highlight of my week was getting out and about on Thursday. I met two of my former students, one that I hadn't seen for nearly 15 years, at a cafe/gallery/club-- (I think they even have a swimming pool in the back somewhere) where an old friend of mine from the university here and his son were playing.
It was a fine evening in delightful company. It's a real boost to my own ego to have people like these in my life. I always learn something talking with my old classmate. This time I gained a bit of insight into the character of the founder of a new political party over here. Just another scumbag it seems. So many people have become completely disillusioned by the way corruption has entrenched itself in Czech politics. I think my former students could teach me quite a few things as well. Turns out that one of them is now doing restoration work-- restoring frescoes, murals, paintings-- which is work that I've always been curious about. Turns out her favorite part of the work is the 'soundings' they do to explore the layers that cover a wall or ceiling.
Here's a couple of my own paintings that I took photos of this week:
We had so much fun and my friends enjoyed the music so much that it seems that we've agreed to meet again in a couple weeks. And our group may be growing as more of my former students join us. I may have not been everyone's favorite ceramics instructor but a few people seem to have not been horribly scarred by the experience.
I learned something else that evening. I learned that five beers in an evening is not enough to get me sloppy drunk but it's plenty to make me feel that the next day might be a bit more pleasant if I'd only had four. I'm slowly becoming a cheap date in my old age.
Early in the week I managed to try out a recipe for pulled beef that Alexandra Lynch sent to me.
And the results were delicious!
And now, well-- the fall colors are calling me out. There's enough sunshine peeking through the clouds to make digging in the garden seem like a pleasant activity and not wretched, spine-wrenching work in the mud.
Time to find my boots ...
Sat Oct 12, 2013 at 3:24 AM PT: Finally got to my photos on a different computer. I had the same unblockable pop-up window on Photobucket but running crappy old Outlook I was at least given the option of closing it and getting back to the site proper.