{"id":8885,"date":"2015-08-29T18:32:35","date_gmt":"2015-08-30T01:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/?p=8885"},"modified":"2015-09-29T22:28:05","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T05:28:05","slug":"the-busy-ness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2015\/08\/29\/the-busy-ness\/","title":{"rendered":"The Busy-ness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So much working.  Here are the non-working things that have been happening:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>After getting incredibly lucky and winning tickets on the radio (thanks <a href=\"http:\/\/thesoundla.com\/\">100.3 the Sound<\/a>!) I took Audrey to see her favorite band in the last show of what may be their last tour.  After finding our seats at the Fabulous Forum, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rush.com\/band\/\">Rush<\/a> did a set consisting of their hits played in reverse chronological order, with the stage continuously updated to match the band&#8217;s status at the time the song was released.  A stage that started out filled with futuristic displays changed to stacks of amps before they ended the night with two amps balanced on chairs in front of a projection of a high school gymnasium while playing &#8220;Working Man&#8221;, a song off of their first record. I wasn&#8217;t a fan of Rush prior to meeting Audrey, but I&#8217;ve got to admit that it&#8217;s pretty amazing that just three people can produce that much sound.<\/li>\n<li>The next big musical event was a <a href=\"\/journal\/2013\/07\/29\/july-2013\/\">return visit<\/a> to see the LA Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl.  They performed Wagner, Strauss, Liszt and others, all in perfect sync to act as the background music for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodbowl.com\/tickets\/warner-bros-presents-bugs-bunny-symphony-25th-anniversary\/2015-08-14\">Bugs Bunny cartoons being simulcast on the Bowl&#8217;s screens<\/a>.  My knowledge of classical music is so extensive that I recognized each and every piece, from Kill da Wabbit all the way through the Rabbit of Seville.<\/li>\n<li>Peppered throughout the last month have been numerous trips to San Antonio for work &#8211; they are excited that it is finally cooling down to where high temperatures are only in the nineties.<\/li>\n<li>The final adventure of late was a trip to see Audrey in the Bay Area.  I flew in from Texas late Friday night, we hung out with my parents for Saturday&#8217;s lunch, and met her boss and co-worker for an amazing dinner in Sausalito.  On Sunday I wanted to revisit my old haunts in Palo Alto, and in the process discovered that absolutely nothing there is familiar &#8211; I couldn&#8217;t even pick out the house I used to live in; apparently I was more sleep-deprived during the dotcom days than I realized.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Audrey will be home regularly in September before returning for good at the beginning of October, so life may get more interesting once I again have someone around to force me out of the house on a regular basis.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/photos\/images\/iphone\/los-angeles-forum-rush-concert.jpg\" alt=\"Rush at the Forum\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" class=\"img-main\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">Geddy Lee and the Rushes at the Fabulous Forum.  Taken mid-concert during the &#8220;giant stacks of amps&#8221; phase of the show.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So much working. Here are the non-working things that have been happening: After getting incredibly lucky and winning tickets on the radio (thanks 100.3 the Sound!) I took Audrey to see her favorite band in the last show of what may be their last tour. After finding our seats at the Fabulous Forum, Rush did &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2015\/08\/29\/the-busy-ness\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Busy-ness&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[28,29],"class_list":["post-8885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-los-angeles","tag-recap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8885"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8898,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8885\/revisions\/8898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}