Excitement in Chamber Music

Read through Schubert's Quintet in C Major this evening.  I'm to do Cello I.  We did it at half speed and it wasn't too horrible!  By the time we finish working on the first movement, I'll probably be finally able to read tenor clef :)  It's such a lovely piece.  Will have a lot of work to do to get it ready for a recital.

2012

Well, its a new year.  Time to dust off the cello.  Signed up for chamber music class once again.  Had taken the last term off due to conflicting travel schedules.  Signed up hubby as well, he needs an excuse to play the violin.

Added another FSU online class towards the MLS degree to my schedule (5 of 12 to go) -- Museum Informatics which looks like it might actually be fun -- one of the projects is building a virtual museum exhibit using Second Life.

Language studies continue -- Chinese once a week with a new friend so I don't forget what I used to know.  Adding Korean to the mix with an online Rosetta Stone course since hubby and I are going to Jeju, Gyeongju and Seoul for our twentieth anniversary May 1st.

Add accounting work for tax season, stamp club work, and  helping out the local magnet school to totally book my dance card until April 27th when I plan to run away, far away -- first Korea, then China and Mongolia.

FSU Summer Course

This past summer I took a prerequisite course in "Website Development" at FSU.  Having played around with websites since the early days of Netscape, the course covered things I was already familiar with -- Dreamweaver, Adobe Photoshop, java script, flash et. al.  It did alert me to a few things that are now considered obsolete.

One of the class requirements was that everyone had to give a presentation on a web development tool that was either free or had a free version.  So I did get exposed to Xtranormal, Quick Response (QR) codes, and a couple of other things which I can't remember at the moment. As my mother used to say "It must not have been important." I know a few I marked off as being unfriendly to low bandwidth or it wasn't cross platform.   I was going to make up a list but the course site has already been taken offline. Weird, because none of the other classes I've taken at FSU had closed out their online areas.

Many of the items that were presented I already knew about -- such as Picasa, Prezi, Google docs, Drupal, Wordpress.  Anyway, it was a easy course to take over the summer.

The hardest part of the course was critiquing a library website in 3000 words.  That took several days and a little help from my friends.  Thanks friends!

Newest Addition

Hubby dubbed him "Pig". He does like to eat.

3 Months Later

Uh, where did the summer go? Ended up working for the CPA most of it (he lost an employee). A week trip to Minneapolis for a stamp show. A few projects finished.  Did manage to attend a drawing class at the local community college. One assignment was doing cross contours which I would never have suffered to do at home alone.

The calligraphy class I signed up for was cancelled though.

Helping out at the Magnet High school started up mid August and my FSU SLIS Organization class began this week.

I have to schedule some more fun before the end of this year.