Sunday Night Badinage - 8/5

One of my life goals was to learn to play Gerschwin's Rhapsody in Blue. For perspective, this is a piece that professional piano players play. Not only am I not a professional piano player, I'm not even a piano player. I recently learned Minuet in G, and then moved on to "The Happy Farmer." So getting a little ambitious, I recently purchased the music for Rhapsody in Blue just for the heck of it. Well I started playing it last week... I'm getting there on the first two measures. I plan on skipping the next two measures because I physically don't know how to play it yet, and maybe hitting 2-3 measures after that. So there. I can at least say I started it!

Today we booked tickets to the next Stupidfest, which is slated to be in October and will be in Atlanta and a beach (probably Alabama or Florida Panhandle). One awesome thing about Atlanta is the great fares... I booked a non-stop flight from Dayton to Atlanta for $158. Any suggestions as to what to do in Atlanta, feel free to let me know!

Congrats to my little sister Linda, as she was proposed to on Friday and is now engaged. She is the first one in my generation to be engaged, and of course the entire family is very happy for her. I'm looking forward to the destination wedding next August! This picture is of them in front of an Ohio Sonic restaurant when they visited me in May.


Also looking forward to my good friends Jason and Linda arriving next weekend to go see the tennis tournament that my fair city hosts each year. And with them will be the return of Bucky the Beagle to Cincinnati!