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David’s out on a training ride for the American Diabetes Association “Tour de Cure” today. He’s committed to riding 35 miles on June 10th at the ride event in Naperville, and some of us will be volunteering that day, too. After that, we’ll be celebrating his parents’ 50th wedding anniversary (David expects to be pretty wiped out). As David has diabetes (very well controlled by diet and exercise) he’s entitled to wear a red jersey on ride day. He’ll also be riding in honor of other family members who have diabetes.
Actually, David’s riding with some other team members who are riding ‘ONLY’ 35 miles today because they’re training for one of the longer rides, so he said he’d try to go the distance with them. If he succeeds, I expect he’ll be thinking about changing to one of the longer rides… we’ll see!
If you’d like to support David for his ride, please visit his donation page: http://urlq.us/adaride
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Yas! Sox and Laundry!
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Title: Easter Kitty Brought Us Sox!
By: GinnyRED57
Originally uploaded: 8 Apr ’12, 8.23am CDT
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This cartoon was on our seats when I arrived (early!) for rehearsal. The choir mistress is pleased with our efforts.
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Title: The Vicar Is REALLY into the Easter Vigil too.
By: GinnyRED57
Originally uploaded: 7 Apr ’12, 7.02pm CDT
This cross used to be at Holy Innocents before the merger in 2007
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Title: Easter!
By: GinnyRED57
Originally uploaded: 7 Apr ’12, 6.44pm CDT
It’s that time of year again – I’m singing at the Easter Vigil tonight at St Nicholas, and we’re doing the Hallelujah Chorus tonight and tomorrow. Much like in 2007, in fact, but we’re much more experienced now, and the freshening we’ve felt with Father Manny beginning his tenure has been a LOT of fun!
I’m also the web and social media boffin for St Nick’s so I do the website, Twitter, Facebook, and whatever else that’s internet-y. So I’m always interested to know how people find St Nick’s. I’m also on the Welcome Committee, just so that all makes a kind of sense.
Work is good too – not that busy, but expected to get busier after the “spring break lull.” One exciting thing: we’re all going to be working from home, the entire office. It’ll be a big undertaking but I’ve asked to be put on the list for the first wave. One of my teammates is already working from home and loves it, and I have a spare bedroom that’s small enough to be kind of ideal for a home office. All the tech gear and connection will be handled by the office, so we’ll be very interested to see how they deal with the wiring.
I’m looking for computer parts these days anyway; my desktop computer lost the graphics card I upgraded it with (WAAAAH!) so I’m limping along on the default one. So far it looks like we’ll swap for a bigger case and power supply, and then there’ll be room for a good quality graphics card. Hoping to spend less than $500 on it, maybe a lot less as prices are about to come down.
Anyway, Easter. My music is all collated, in spite of the best efforts of my choir mistress to keep throwing new pieces of music and hymns in that she planned for but never gave out because it was “in our Anglican DNA” and thus something we ought to know. Ah, well, it’ll be a good service and I’ll be very, very happy when we get through the “big stuff” like the Hallelujah Chorus.I also get to chant in the dark, which is always… fraught, but fun when it sounds good.
More later. Happy Easter, can’t wait to see who Bunny Stig turns out to be at church tomorrow.
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