Comments on: It’s Been a Busy Week http://www.millennialstar.org/its-been-a-busy-week/ Mon, 22 Mar 2010 03:19:10 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Brian Duffin http://www.millennialstar.org/its-been-a-busy-week/comment-page-1/#comment-36535 Brian Duffin Thu, 21 May 2009 15:25:50 +0000 http://www.millennialstar.org/2009/05/17/its-been-a-busy-week/#comment-36535 JA, perhaps when my children are older it will be more of a day of rest. Don't get me wrong, I love attending the Sunday block, but the 6:30 a.m. leadership meetings can be a drag. My bishop says I am being blessed. I will have to take his word for it. :-) JA, perhaps when my children are older it will be more of a day of rest. Don’t get me wrong, I love attending the Sunday block, but the 6:30 a.m. leadership meetings can be a drag. My bishop says I am being blessed. I will have to take his word for it. :-)

]]> By: JA Benson http://www.millennialstar.org/its-been-a-busy-week/comment-page-1/#comment-36485 JA Benson Mon, 18 May 2009 22:50:55 +0000 http://www.millennialstar.org/2009/05/17/its-been-a-busy-week/#comment-36485 After 20-plus years of Sunday callings, I now attend my meetings just cause I want to. Relatively speaking, day of stress has become day of rest. I wish you all the same, some day. After 20-plus years of Sunday callings, I now attend my meetings just cause I want to. Relatively speaking, day of stress has become day of rest. I wish you all the same, some day.

]]> By: Brian Duffin http://www.millennialstar.org/its-been-a-busy-week/comment-page-1/#comment-36484 Brian Duffin Mon, 18 May 2009 21:41:10 +0000 http://www.millennialstar.org/2009/05/17/its-been-a-busy-week/#comment-36484 We have a day of rest? Really? All I have on my calendar are moving and welfare assignments, meetings, home teaching and PPI's. I can't seem to find this illusive day of rest. We have a day of rest? Really? All I have on my calendar are moving and welfare assignments, meetings, home teaching and PPI’s. I can’t seem to find this illusive day of rest.

]]> By: Geoff B. http://www.millennialstar.org/its-been-a-busy-week/comment-page-1/#comment-36482 Geoff B. Mon, 18 May 2009 18:28:00 +0000 http://www.millennialstar.org/2009/05/17/its-been-a-busy-week/#comment-36482 On a related note, I once had a bishop who said Mormons were Jewish because our day of rest was Saturday, not Sunday. Some truth to that. On a related note, I once had a bishop who said Mormons were Jewish because our day of rest was Saturday, not Sunday. Some truth to that.

]]> By: JA Benson http://www.millennialstar.org/its-been-a-busy-week/comment-page-1/#comment-36481 JA Benson Mon, 18 May 2009 17:53:58 +0000 http://www.millennialstar.org/2009/05/17/its-been-a-busy-week/#comment-36481 I hear you Marsha. May is a busy time of the year. I have kids getting out of school this week with a graduation, recital and end of the year festivities it is fun and hectic. I hear you Marsha. May is a busy time of the year. I have kids getting out of school this week with a graduation, recital and end of the year festivities it is fun and hectic.

]]> By: Marsha Ward http://www.millennialstar.org/its-been-a-busy-week/comment-page-1/#comment-36479 Marsha Ward Mon, 18 May 2009 17:30:20 +0000 http://www.millennialstar.org/2009/05/17/its-been-a-busy-week/#comment-36479 Ah yes. I used to play it, too, but I never played with any group other than high school and college orchestras and the occasional church group. I haven't touched mine in years. Good for you. Ah yes. I used to play it, too, but I never played with any group other than high school and college orchestras and the occasional church group. I haven’t touched mine in years. Good for you.

]]> By: Ben Pratt http://www.millennialstar.org/its-been-a-busy-week/comment-page-1/#comment-36477 Ben Pratt Mon, 18 May 2009 15:54:27 +0000 http://www.millennialstar.org/2009/05/17/its-been-a-busy-week/#comment-36477 Viola. Viola.

]]> By: Marsha Ward http://www.millennialstar.org/its-been-a-busy-week/comment-page-1/#comment-36472 Marsha Ward Mon, 18 May 2009 08:34:12 +0000 http://www.millennialstar.org/2009/05/17/its-been-a-busy-week/#comment-36472 <a href="#comment-36471" rel="nofollow">@Ben Pratt</a> Whew indeed! Remind me which instrument you play, Ben. @Ben Pratt
Whew indeed! Remind me which instrument you play, Ben.

]]> By: Ben Pratt http://www.millennialstar.org/its-been-a-busy-week/comment-page-1/#comment-36471 Ben Pratt Mon, 18 May 2009 04:51:49 +0000 http://www.millennialstar.org/2009/05/17/its-been-a-busy-week/#comment-36471 Whew! I hear you! This week I got to administer a workbook my group had developed on light & color to a ninth-grade science class, including all the last-minute preparations. I had two Rainier Symphony rehearsals with the Rainier Symphony Chorus, which is composed mostly of members of the Northwest University Chorale and those from University Presbyterian Church's Cathedral Choir. I left late one morning to get the girls off to school since my wife had a Continuing Professional Education course that started early. I soldered the components onto a prototyping shield for my brand-new <a href="http://www.adafruit.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=17&products_id=50&sessid=3f153942e768c4d0638a582efb323bd0" rel="nofollow">Arduino Duemilanove</a>, and attended a delightful class on using Arduinos in the sciences. Yesterday my family and I started the day cleaning our chapel with another couple, then I left with one daughter for the University of Washington Physics Department, where I had a meeting (on Saturday!) to go through curriculum several of us will be teaching at this year's <a href="http://www.phys.washington.edu/groups/peg/si2009.html" rel="nofollow">NSF Summer Institute in Physics and Physical Science</a>. My daughter and I got home around 3, then at 5:45 I left for the Rainier Symphony concert. We performed Mahler's Symphony No. 2, which is an exhausting piece. Seriously, we perform the entire symphony in about 90 minutes, 30 of which is just the last movement. After I got home I helped organize the upstairs pantry and straighten up. This morning we got up, got all of us ready, made a picnic lunch, and went to church. Afterwards, we ate our lunch on the grass at Kubota Gardens. Wow. The rhododendrons were in full bloom. From there, we drove to Foster High School in Tukwila for the Sunday Rainier Symphony concert, and my family got to hear Mahler II. Yeah, I played it again. They liked it, except for the younger daughter. Her reaction was to barf in the van on the way home. So I cleaned that up, finally relaxed a bit, and now the girls are in bed. Time for a bowl of Honey Graham Squares with my wife, and then we're off to bed. No wonder I'm tired. Whew! I hear you!

This week I got to administer a workbook my group had developed on light & color to a ninth-grade science class, including all the last-minute preparations.

I had two Rainier Symphony rehearsals with the Rainier Symphony Chorus, which is composed mostly of members of the Northwest University Chorale and those from University Presbyterian Church’s Cathedral Choir.

I left late one morning to get the girls off to school since my wife had a Continuing Professional Education course that started early.

I soldered the components onto a prototyping shield for my brand-new Arduino Duemilanove, and attended a delightful class on using Arduinos in the sciences.

Yesterday my family and I started the day cleaning our chapel with another couple, then I left with one daughter for the University of Washington Physics Department, where I had a meeting (on Saturday!) to go through curriculum several of us will be teaching at this year’s NSF Summer Institute in Physics and Physical Science. My daughter and I got home around 3, then at 5:45 I left for the Rainier Symphony concert. We performed Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, which is an exhausting piece. Seriously, we perform the entire symphony in about 90 minutes, 30 of which is just the last movement. After I got home I helped organize the upstairs pantry and straighten up.

This morning we got up, got all of us ready, made a picnic lunch, and went to church. Afterwards, we ate our lunch on the grass at Kubota Gardens. Wow. The rhododendrons were in full bloom. From there, we drove to Foster High School in Tukwila for the Sunday Rainier Symphony concert, and my family got to hear Mahler II. Yeah, I played it again. They liked it, except for the younger daughter. Her reaction was to barf in the van on the way home. So I cleaned that up, finally relaxed a bit, and now the girls are in bed. Time for a bowl of Honey Graham Squares with my wife, and then we’re off to bed.

No wonder I’m tired.

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