tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-206174302009-02-21T06:14:50.447-08:00This is the part where the planet repeats everything that's already happened and I just happen to live through it.Mamlukehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07073512375239377643noreply@blogger.comBlogger128125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20617430.post-44554731420119520092007-06-29T07:40:00.000-07:002007-06-29T08:09:06.319-07:002007-06-29T08:09:06.319-07:00

Hello - yeah, I'm lame for not posting again, I've actually moved quite a bit away from daily or even monthly posting here mostly because our real lives are busy and I've been concentrating my updating time on my Flickr Account & photography SO...and if you really want to keep up with me - bookmark my Flickr Account :)Me: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mamluke/I add content there daily and

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OK - I'm finally posting again - I HATE TRANSITIONS. The stupid forced transition in blogger to make you use google's e-mail sucked. I had put it off forever and apparently during my non-blogging time, their "deadline" passed. Their system totally mucked up my blog for a bit (from my end) and has also erased my profile. And apparently it will only let me log in using the stupid gmail address

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Our lovely cat Ethan passed away last night. He was 18 and had lived a long healthy life and was greatly loved. He'll be greatly missed as well. Between the past concert weekend and the hectic rehearsal schedule beforehand, I'm wiped. We've got another weekend of concerts to go and I'm swamped with work as well. I'll post more later when I've got some more time and energy.

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New Year - woo? actually last weekend was pretty nice, considering I'm STILL SUFFERING from this stupid thing. The week before New Year's was fairly low-key. We got to incorporate our Christmas gifts into the house and Mrs. Mamluke's finally arrived in the post for me - a Roomba! - my first robot. Well at least the first that doesn't shoot sparks out of its eyes and scare the cat from when I

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A Happy Day - much post-holiday shopping - very productive - then found a cute French animation that reminded me of one of my favorite songs by the Boswell Sisters about blowing bubblesso here ya go:Sebastien CartoonHappy Song SampleYou can purchase the Boswell Sisters album here, but I'm afraid you can't purchase the animation yet as it's from a school site.

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yeah yeah yeah - it's been 20 days since I posted, but I had my reasons, so there. New client has been eating up my time - yay! New client has paid very well, so I did a little shopping Bought some air tickets to see in-laws in Oregon & sister-in-law in London for month of February - something to look forward to nowConvinced some friends in Minneapolis to come join us for a bit in London and

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and it's cold. Not that I mind, mind you, but it does take a bit of getting used to in getting ready to emerge from the house in the morning. I was fretting over Mrs. Mamluke this morning as he was leaving with his scarf undone, no-hat and no-gloves. He swears I'm being controlling in telling him to wear a hat & gloves and close his scarf when it's -3 F outside with a windchill of -19F when in

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So rambling around the web I found a cool Flickr thing and in the process found a good way of finding out who's linking to my photos or me on the web and lo and behold, there are people out there who are linking to me! So now I'm linking back to them to spread the love. It makes for an interesting take on what others deem "interesting" about your own work I'll have to say. And I'm still

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catch-up - Thanksgiving was very nice - lovely time at our friends D&R's place in the far suburbs where we ate heartily, played some games and watched "The Family Stone" which turned out to be actually worth watching. We even bought a copy later to send to the in-laws for the holidays. Friday - I went shopping - and I know - those of you in the states are thinking "is he completely insane?"

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My business has been plugging along now for about 3 years and I still enjoy it. It's leveled off growth wise as I blogged about earlier and I've enjoyed the regular hours of my long-term University projects a lot. So what could make it better? A long-term client on the other side of the coin to bring in some more moolah! And I met them on Monday - through a friend's recommendation and it was

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And yes I stole that title from Men's Vogue, but it fits perfectly - Francesco Vezzoli's short art film from the Venice Biennale purporting to be a trailer for a remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula - to die for, but definitely not work safe. And I'm coveting Helen Mirren's hair.

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well I'm back now - exhausted, but back home. The tour was quite nice - I purposely limited my snarks about how "if I ran the zoo" to one a day (although I did have three one day, but to three different people - does that count?) The gathering of folks together to travel and sing was fun and I got to catch up with many and the social interaction time was nice all around. The timing of the travel

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not much time - catching a cab - things past: Halloween, dinner parties, the horsey set, a horrible movie, freaky warm spells, a pretty good election will elaborate laterthings future: chorus concerts & tour, the far north of Minnesota, Canada!, "alone time for Mrs. Mamluke" Back next week!

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Autumn sunset from our backyard tonightWent to see the Brecht play - Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder last night at the Frank Theatre ('Mother Courage and her Children') - it was way too long (but that wasn't the performers fault) - 60good/40bad acting abililities - lovely lighting - pretty good performance overall. Verdict on Brecht? I have no idea - does he just not translate well? The thing

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And now for your seasonal post of random surrealism - I was trying to post to a friends blog and decided to just sign-up to the livejournal system he posts under so my comments would show up as something other than anonymous - my profile then just links to my regular blog here. So as I'm signing up, they tell me my nom de blog is already used! wtf? I'm original! well apparently a year ago,

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not much going on really - Fall is progressing - work's still slogging along - we saw two movies this past weekend - the Ethan Green film which sucked worse than any movie I've seen in recent memory - I felt really bad for Eric Orner in that it's not like he's got another movie hanging back in his cartoons somewhere ready to bust out. Also managed to finally see the X-Men III movie - which

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and probably our last - we had a lovely warm day and managed to get the rest of the yard cleaned up, got the bulbs dug up to winter in the basement and I cleaned out the garage - woo! domesticity! well I was satisfied at the end of the day and felt productive, so there. We're still waiting on the rest of the maple leaves to fall so we can mulch the beds, but other than that, we're set for

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I just realized I've been here too long in Minnesota, in that I just posted an entire blog entry about the weather. Hmmmmmmm. So here's another.Mind you the hot news in Minnesota weather now is the newish (this past summer) weather guy on one of the TV stations here - Sven Olaf Sundgaard who is cute as a button, is fairly small (thus making him cuter) and speaks Norwegian. Crowds were all

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After a simply gorgeous and warm weekend with clear blue skies and vibrant fall color, it's been snowing off and on for the last two days. Mind you it's a bit warm still for any ground stickage, but it's still a surprise when it first happens - you go into a building and it's simply overcast and windy and when you emerge 10 minutes later, it's white-out conditions and blustery. Course by the

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well I just got a moment to finally recap my life since the 2nd. yikes. drama. southern drama. well . . . slighly less than full-on southern drama.Mom came and visited and it wasn't horrible (and I loved grouchbutt's naming of her 'Momluke' so much that that's what she shall be from this point forward - insert wink, mouth click and finger pointing towards New York here). I had planned on a huge

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So we had a cool spell and now another warm spell - fortunately it hit about the weekend again so woo! Because my mom's coming to visit this week, I get all hyper about the house - I don't know why - it's not like she's running through the place with a white glove when she visits - but nonetheless, she ingrained into me that I should clean when I'm expecting company. It's also fall now and we

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So I had no idea what they call "Indian Summer" elsewhere in the world prior to today - any takers? For those of you from elsewhere that don't know what I'm talking about - it's a warmer period that occurs in the autumn after the first frost. Check out the wiki definition here. So apparently it's a North American thing? except in the UK where it's "Old Wives' Summer." Surely they call it

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Well September 21st, 10 years ago today, Mrs. Mamluke and I tied the knot. Woo! Ten years - yeah it seems long, but we've actually been together 15, as we'd been together four before deciding to get married and it took a year to plan. So we have our "we met" anniversary in May and our "we got hitched" anniversary today. And I still love the guy. And really it doesn't seem long at all - it's

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So I'm feeling a little more positive now that my "day" has passed. That's the first birthday that's really made me think about aging I guess. Up until now, they've all been just celebrations, not really milestones. huh. even though it was an odd number birthday too - Anyhoo - I was at my University office all day Tuesday, & I was planning on staying home today and working from here, but the

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My Birthday day was today. Hmmmmmm. What to say. I slept in. I ate breakfast. My sister called to say she was sorry she hadn't sent the present she got for me two weeks ago, but she was sending it out now, really. I sat in front of the computer surfing and shuffling through Flickr photos. I got some lovely presents from the in-laws in the mail and a sweet card. I put away the presents I had

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