Will upload all the pics early next week. Too many of them :) Check back.
Today we went to Court Ingles and got TomTom Via 2.0. In retrospect the experience showed the power of human inertia. There was plenty of Garmin there. And yet our hands outstretched to TomTom. Dan went through the required vicious loop of uploading the latest patches and having it stop picking up satellites. In complete desperation we called UK-based support and got eponymous advise to restart. Miraculously, after 30 minutes of being suspended on a potted plant on the balcony it came to life. Hurray!!!
At night we caught the final 20 minutes of Thoth’s performance down the street. He is American violinist with a powerful opera-quality high range and good low range. Here is his site for more info. He invented the concept of Tribal Baroque. Absolutely amazing. And unfortunately those youtube videos do not do justice to his voice. The kids were transfixed. It was funny to seem him engage in banter with Lila Angelique over a drunk who kept dancing in their performance space. LA said he was making her nervous, she could not focus. Thoth said it is could be an exercise in learning to focus and she should try that – sounded like you are in New York.
BTW, these gluttonous, petty accounts are nothing compared to the travel notes of my 60+ year old college professor and his wife who are negotiating 100+ temperatures on tandem bike ride though Turkey and Georgia to fight Lou Gehrig disease: http://alsphiladelphia.org/lodish.
Ah tribal baroque, didn't realize there was a name for the musical style. Thanks for sending me his link! Do you know where they got the name Lou Gehrig disease from? Lou was one of the most famous baseball players on the New York Yankees, won multiple championships and set lots of records, but did tragically young from the disease. His name is revered in the baseball world.
ReplyDeleteWere you rooting for Portugal in the Olympic opening ceremony? :)