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It’s been a crazy busy week - after the new Pride and Prejudice play it was all rush rush getting ready for the wrap up in Calgary, KJ’s going away party, and heading off for vacation (yes, an actual vacation. Not a few hours tacked onto either end of a business trip, but a trip designed to be fun without the headache of worrying about being client presentable or anything else)

The rush meant I wasn’t double checking things the way I should and so when we were repacking after KJ’s going away party (btw, his new blog is http://4kconsulting.com/pictoncastle for those of you who want to read about his adventures) at 11 pm - S realized his passport was still in Edmonton.

The 2 (highway between Calgary and Edmonton) is doing night construction. Also 8 am flights with an 11 pm panic suck. We were so tired that the hoped for excursion into Toronto didn’t happen. The exhaustion continued through British customs and the two buses to Bath. Mine evaporated when we arrived.

For those who don’t know Bath features heavily in the works of or about Jane Austen and of Georgette Heyer. If you like Regency anything and haven’t read them - Do It!

For those who know what I’m talking about - saw the pump room, royal theatre, putney bridge, and milsom street. Tomorrow is stonehenge and more bath!

Okay - onto other things… like working on KJ’s blog.

So I’m going to assume everyone who wants to know the basic plot of P & P knows it and skip to the play related parts. This performance was the new adaptation by Tom Wood seen at Citadel Theatre in Edmonton with the ever charming C as company.

The costumes were gorgeous and accurate - they even had different fabric and levels of ornamentation to display station! But it was the motion capable set with pieces capable of creating shrubbery that most captivated me - the actors were able to cross the stage ‘walking down a path in the shrubbery’ turn around outside the rotational platform/portion and then walk down a different arrangement of set pieces creating a new path.

Okay, first the good changes:

1) The meeting of Mr. Wickham by the Bennet girls and subsequently Mr. Darcy has been changed. It’s a good change and plays well with the adaptive set. It involves a sword fight which had some excellent and well thought out staging.

2) The scene before the return of Mr. Bingley has been adapted in that the Bennett’s are doing laundry. They play it very true to the era and it is entertainingly comedic.

The less entertaining changes is best explained by saying that they put a kiss in between Mr. Bingley and Jane in front of the family in the sitting room after she accepts! I was horrified that they’d done so many other true to the period things, including having the gents flip their coat tails and not showing the girls’ ankles, only to have that. They also put in a kiss between Mr.Darcy and Lizzie, but that was at least out in the park away from the families so it’s less completely scandalous and almost vaguely plausible.

I’d still encourage everyone who is fond of the author, the book, or the period to go however.

Or so this site tells me

Quote:
“July 28 Edmonton ALB Rexall Place
July 29 Calgary ALB Pengrowth Saddledome”

My new place here isn’t very big, but anyone coming down for the show will be guaranteed a hot shower, a share of whatever food I have on hand, and a piece of floor. Not that I have tickets yet, but just as soon as I can I will. ^_^

So ‘long time no post’ would be a bit of an understatement.

For those interested my SK cell phone is no longer active because I have *finally* done the last of my wrap ups. No SK phone, no SK residence, no SK classes.
But I’ll be by to visit the first weekend in February (arriving the 2nd departing the 3rd) using the shiny flight pass I bought myself as a graduation gift.

I have a Halifax cell phone now for emergency use when I’m in Nova Scotia rather than paying roaming + LD etc. I’ve been to Halifax twice this month and will be going again this weekend. Then for a whole week in Feb according to the current schedule. Let’s hope the east survives my repeat visits….

I’ll be in Edmonton to visit people the weekend of the 23/24th.

I purchased an iPod Touch last week and am grateful for the mental space it has been clearing. It now remembers dates and phone numbers for me. With the transfer of the cell phone a number of phone numbers were lost, but I am more of an e-mail person anyways…

A couple of entertaining iPod related tales….

I was heading to an SCA event and had forgotten the address. I’d looked up directions on the iPod earlier that day and so opened the map application and there was the address. It was good, because I’d had both the number and the street wrong.

S and I were out to dinner on date night. We were planning to go to a movie afterwards, but hadn’t picked which one or a theatre etc. The restaurant we were in had wireless… So we used the iPod Touch to look up theatres and listings and choose what we were seeing and where. More restaurants need wireless networks! I also should note that I’d love to have wireless on flights again. It would make the time commuting so much less painful.

And that’s really all I’ve got to say for the moment. Work goes on and life goes on and nothing is really settled yet. Presumably when I’m changing base cities I’ll remember to post it here so until then I think it’s safe to assume that I’m at least half of the time in Calgary.

So happy belated holidays, birthdays, new year and all that jazz…

I’ll be in Stoon next week for those interested in doing lunch or some such. ^_^

In the meantime, this came to me via e-mail and I thought it was entertaining enough to share with the world (or at least those people still actually reading this):

Job Related Reading for Geeks

I’ve actually been fairly productive today and expect I will tomorrow as well. It’s nice to get back into the swing of things and it makes me want to reschedule the trip to Stoon, but since KJ is going on vacation the week after for the first time in a dog’s age it’s not really possible. Nor would it be fair really given both A and I took non-illness related time off over the summer and KJ didn’t get to.

Hose 9 pm Thursday April 26th, Any takers?

So Vista launched… I think maybe this was a *really* good time to be taking a break from the industry.

This article about internet usage entertains me:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070126.gtweb26/BNStory/Technology/home

One month down, three to go. The first blitz didn’t kill me so theoritically the remaining acid rain of assignments shouldn’t either. Today I will clean my apartment and cook in preparation for finishing my client work before the next academic crunch. Too bad that it starts on Monday!

On a side note: Hose f/1/07 ~10 pm for those what are interested.

November 10th

Supper
Location: Broadway Cafe - I even phoned them in advance
Time: 7 pm

Drinks
Location: Hose and Hydrant
Time: 9ish pm