Sundays are sweet. My kids sleep late, Pat plays golf and all is quiet and peaceful in the house. I'm having my coffee, of course, studying, and blogging. I technically finished my homework last night, but I am doing extra problems just to make sure I really get it. I love the chapter we are doing now. It is called Application of the Normal Distribution, and deals with how you can use the bell curve to figure out probabilities based on the average score/salary/size and the standard distribution. Anyway, the formulas and the math are easy and fun, and it all makes sense which is nice. I want to earn my A and not get it based a curve.
The top photo is some violets I saw in the yard yesterday. They remained even after the lawn was mowed. I had gotten the camera to take a picture of a squirrel who was posed so funnily in a tree. He/she was lying on a branch lengthwise, with his front arms hanging down, and his tail slung over another branch. He was so relaxed and cute as trimmed butter.
Okay, I stole that last simile from the play last night "The Real Inspector Hound." At least I thought I heard one of the characters say, "trimmed butter." Sometimes I get my best ideas from hearing something wrong.
Anyway, here is my two cent review: Shortest play I've ever been to (90 minutes including 15 minute intermission), that's a plus. 3 actors were high school classmates, which is always interesting. John M. directed and filled in for one of the main characters who was absent. It was kind of a wry twist, as he played a theater critic who was standing in for another theater critic, so there was a battery of jokes that had dual meaning. Sean G. was the other theater critic who became wrapped up in the onstage play within a play, and his real life partner, Karen P., was a jilted tennis engenue. We are all getting up in years for some of these parts, but what the heck.
I had Boy14 and two of his friends with me, as Sean is their junior high math teacher. They seemed to really delight in him bellowing, "Reckless bastard" when a guy in a wheelchair knocked him over, and also embracing a fellow classmate's mother. The performances were pretty solid, though we've seen several of them in nearly every play the last five years. Actors playing bad actors can be tricky to pull off, but it worked.
The photo below the violets is a mock DUI scenario at the university on Friday. I went as part of my job (substance abuse prevention) even though these type of events have not been found to be effective deterrents as they are intended. They may have a short term effect, but people then go right back to their usual behavior. I thought the picture turned out pretty good, though. I used the action setting on my camera.
It's time to get on with the day now. Have a good one, y'all.
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