Ignore the title, it was the openining night. Our co-director is just cool. :P

We did well, I think. The only thing we messed up was I think the Act I finale, and the audience didn't notice anyway.

So, there's one line that I've messed up every time in the past. Instead of 'Well spoke, well spoke,' I kept saying 'Aye aye...' Well, friends, last night I said the correct line! It was great. I stood there and said, 'Well spoke, well spoke.' It was even at the right time. Everything was perfect, but for one thing: Every other member of the chorus--every single one--said 'Aye aye' instead. x_x I just simply can't win.

I downloaded Google Desktop for Linux, which basically is just a fansy 'find' command that goes faster and also searches the web. I also got Picasa, which indexed all of my photos for me and stuff. I'm gonna use Picasa web albums from now on, instead of Photobucket, since Google is infinitely better at everything. Except, apparently blogs.

In case I hadn't already told you, Gayden Wren--playwright: Very Truly Yours, Gilbert and Sullivan and A Gilbert and Sullivan Christmas Carol (He likes Gilbert and Sullivan)--will read my name and see me sing and act in his show at some point in December. He won't be attending, but still... We're recording it, and he's receiving a copy. Neat.

Random thoughts:
I wonder why I have no tag for HMS Pinafore.

You all should get a Facebook account. I NEED TO SEE YOUR FACES.

If nothing else, you should get some IM and log on regularly or something... I prefer Facebook. All of my photos of you are, no doubt, ancient or non-existant. :(

I was volunteering at the library the other day, for a 'Family Game Day'. I'm sure I've spoken of these before, but this time I was in the kitchen the whole time, mixing lemonade and making popcorn and pouring pretzels and handing them all out to little kids and big kids alike. (Have you no shame, other volunteers?? (Just kidding, I ate some too)) Now if only someone would give me a job doing this, (You make mixing lemonade AN ARTFORM!) I'd have it made.

But that's enough about that. My attentions are still being drawn primarily by chess, (I discovered my weakness: I undervalue pawns) but now there's a side-distraction in PHP and XHTML and Java and anything else used as a standard in web design... It all started with wanting a PGN parser/viewer in PHP, so that I could share my chess games without the help of chess.com. But now it's evolved to the point where I'm re-learning PHP.

I know I've done it before, no need to tell me. I recently have been wanting a domain name instead of just a subdomain, but I don't really need one... Everything I could possibly want to do is provided by freehostia for free. And while they're the best free host I've found, it looks like their actual hosting services are... Expensive. I'd have to compare it with more than I did, though.

This has all sort of come to a climax with me considering building a resource for chess... A mirror for the University of Pittsburgh's FTP site, plus links and, if I end up creating on, an open source PGN viewer in PHP... Not that anyone will look at or use it.

I've also been wondering at the point of combining a blog with a social site... Although, to me Livejournal has never seemed as much like a blog as a live journal. I tend to use it as a way to keep in touch with people I'd like to keep in touch with. But, as my journal isn't friends only, it's also a place for random strangers to gather bits of information and put it in little notebooks, and then come visit me... Not that this has happened.

A blog, to my mind, tends more to be for news and such. So if I had a blog on my site, it would be about the site itself, or about the subject of the site.