And that’s about all there is to it. Surely you all know that since December I’ve been missing my ‘T’ on the keyboard of my computer. I’ve had many opportunities to send it in to get it fixed (after a long period of hoping they could just send me a ‘T’, but HP doesn’t operate like that…I’m sure few vendors do, actually), but I could never make the decision to go without my computer for an undetermined period of time.
They say it’ll take 5 business days from when I send it to when I get it back. I think they’re lying. But we’ll find out…I may have a lovely surprise Friday, or I might have to wait until September. The shipping sticker says “March 12, 2007″ on it, which is when I requested the shipping box from HP (they send you a prepaid box so the whole operation really is free). The Purolator guy said this was fine, but I can’t help but wonder if that’ll get some funny looks.
My hearing is finally back! For those of you who missed this whole thing, my right ear was blocked for about a week. In short, it’s back now thanks to helpful nurses.
I had a plan, starting last Monday, to listen to the all the Pink Floyd albums in chronological order (while on the bus to work and back). Of course, I couldn’t do this since I only had one ear. Rather than start this morning, I figured the first thing to listen to should at least be something that I was mildly familiar with. As I got on the bus at in the late morning, it was sunny. I started playing Dark Side of the Moon on my iPod when the bus pulled out of the stop.
About ten minutes later, I looked out the window and saw the sky was covered with very dark, ominous clouds. For the next half hour, with Dark Side of the Moon in my ears, I watched a fantastic lightning/thunder storm from the bus hurtling down the highway. It was especially great during Us and Them, as about every 30 seconds there were long flashes of huge fork lightning.
That was probably the coolest way I can imagine to come back to hearing properly again.
I’ve been going to the festival every day since I last posted, but yesterday was the first time I could be there from the afternoon all the way until midnight (it was a Saturday). I saw so much yesterday it’s going to be difficult to not leave anything out.
First, I would like say that I found Jesus at the festival. Heh. He was playing the keyboard for a reggae band. Rather than include a picture directly in this post (it looks weird…it’s just too out of place), you’ll have to go here to see it. I’m sorry you can only kind of see his face, but it was hard to get a non-blury-good-angle picture.
On a more important topic, I saw the California Guitar Trio yesterday afternoon (okay fine, and their home page) and was able to take some decent video footage of them. They played a song that I’m guessing is called “The Marsh” but I’m not sure…ya’ll will have to identify that one for me. They played Echoes by Pink Floyd, as well as Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody. The following video is from their performance yesterday (Saturday). It’s really sad that the Echoes recording stops before the end of the song, but I just didn’t have enough space on my SD card.
After the California Guitar Trio, I ventured over to my favourite stage (Les Tropiques) and saw a fantastic reggae band. The program/map pamphlet I had said they were South African. The stage itself said they were from Quebec. But when the lead singer introduced the band, half of them were from Jamaica. So I’ll have to describe them as South African/Quebecois/Jamaican, for lack of a better way of saying it. They were also fantastic, and surprisingly loud. I would say that they had the audience dancing probably more than any other event I’ve been to so far.
There are many more videos and many more pictures, but I think I’ll wait a couple of days to post them. I hope you enjoyed the video! I feel like I have so much more to say, but I’ve been holding this blog post here for many hours already. I figure it’s just time to finish this one up and post more later.
Music: Everything at the Festival
IBC: 66,939-73,253
For the last few days, after I finish work and sometimes after school, I’ve been enjoying the free concerts at the Montreal Jazz Festival. It’s going on every day from about one in the afternoon to midnight, and I’ve been there as much as I can.
Only a couple of minutes ago did I actually read the Wikipedia article mentioned above, and I have to say I’m astounded. It’s the largest jazz festival in the world? It sometimes attracts crowds of over 100,000 people? I had no idea…
This is one of my shorter posts, since right now I’m eating lunch at work.
IBC: 66,807 - 73,120
Music: Bob Dylan
(as a side, Dylan was here last night (at the jazz festival) but that one was a bit too much money)
