jeffb leaves

I've added a search capability to Blatherings, if you haven't noticed already. Feel free to test it out! You can find the search input field in the left-hand navigation column; it will search in all years except for 1999. I've moved over all my archives to Movable Type except for 1999; hope to finish that by the end of this weekend.

JeffB left early this morning to head back to California. We had fun hanging out yesterday. Activities included:

- Lounging about at the apartment in the morning and doing some musicstuff. JeffB and I are going to collaborate on a song, which will be fun.

- Visiting Steve's Music on Queen Street. Snooped around the recording equipment area, and I picked Jeff's brain about home recording equipment. The people at Steve's seemed to like Jeff a lot, and were impressed that he worked at eMagic (hey, I forgot to mention that JeffB gave me a very cool eMagic laptop case!). I picked up some new guitar strings (D'Addario Phosphor Bronze X-Light).

- Dropped by several shops along Queen Street including Acme Surplus. Acme is an amazing store with bins full of objects that lean towards electronics but also include (at least yesterday; the contents tend to change over time) things like mini disco balls on chains with clips, glass tubing, surgical masks, keyboards, sheets of coloured plastic, empty padded jewellry cases, night lights, condom holders, harmony balls, glass petri dishes.





- Browsed Pages and Chapters bookstores.

- Had lunch at Milestones. Both of us had my favourite meal there, Maple Cider Salmon Salad. I should probably order something else eventually at that restaurant, but I love their salmon salad so much that it seems pointless to try anything else.

- Walked to Yonge Street and checked out HMV. JeffB bought a CD for Jeff and me: Emmylou Harris's "Wrecking Ball". Thank you, Jeff!! :-)

- Snow! Lots of Toronto snow fell yesterday, will enhanced JeffB's Canadian experience, I'm sure.

- Hanging out with Jodi and Allison in Richmond Hill. We went to the Pickle Barrel then back to Allison's place. Lots of musicstuff and talking...we all had a ton of fun :-). We played all our new stuff for JeffB that he hadn't heard before, and he played a bunch of gorgeous instrumental stuff. Allison also played us a Great Big Sea song she thought we could learn for FilKONtario...she's asked me to learn some pennywhistle for it, which will be a ton of fun.





- After UT practice, JeffB and I headed back home. I was dead tired so ended up falling asleep on the couch while JeffB and Jeff did musicstuff (my Jeff actually played on the guitar! first time in a LOOONG time) and talked. Eventually I staggered off to bed.

Jeff and I really enjoyed JeffB's visit, and we're hoping that Maya can make the trek out here sometime so the four of us can hang out (or maybe we'll be able to make it out there someday).

My dad seems to be doing ok (largely due to the expert care of Sara and Annie, I'm sure :-)). He's coming to stay with us for a couple of days starting tomorrow.

I have an cartoon illustration plus a 1000-wd article to write and submit today, so I'd better stop Blathering and get to work. :-)

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Today's Blatherpics:

	Jeff Bohnhoff playing Gwyneth Paltrow.
	Jeff and Jeff talking.
	Jeff at our Urban Tapestry practice at Allison's place last night.