Lots to cover with no good way to divide it into smaller entries, so bare with me, this is a big one…

I had a rather uneventful flight in to Baltimore on Thanksgiving morning, although it was quite bumpy. Meegan and Julio picked me up at the airport, and we drove up to DE. We hit some serious traffic around Joppatowne on I-95, so we switched over to the old Route 40 and got home in a little over 2 hours, all told. Man, there’s nothing like driving through North-East, MD to remind you of how close Delaware is to the “south”. It’s scawwy.

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I won’t go into the details of this one too much, but here’s my latest creation. The background pads make it somewhat symphonic in terms of sound and instrumentation. Of course, the composition behind it is still fairly simple and repetitious, revolving around a single 8 bar phrase.

No idea what the name means, I needed something and it looks neat. Enjoy Trinichus.

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Only this one isn’t on the Simpsons, it’s on my arms! I’ve done it again, apparently I have an innate knack for unknowingly applying poison ivy to every inch of my exposed body, including my face. Last weekend I thought I’d tackle the vines in my backyard that had grown unchecked all summer. So, I went out prepared with work gloves, long sleeve shirt, and both eyes peeled for Poison Ivy vines (as I vividly remembered my last encounter), of which I saw none. Turns out, that’s because my vines had grown together and around an old fence post, thereby masquerading as a large bush which I completely ignored. That’s too bad, because I pulled all sorts of other vines out of the middle of that large “bush”, and tada, I’ve now got poison ivy everywhere. And I got really hot, so I stupidly took off my long sleeve shirt, exposing all of my forearms. Crap.

At first indication on Tuesday that my face was getting a little puffy, I called my doctor and he refilled my old Prednisone prescription, which I just finished up today. What is alarming is that the rashes are moving around, and into places that I’m pretty sure didn’t touch a plant. So either I’m having a systemic reaction, or there are more plants than I realized AND some parts of my body take a lot longer to react than others. *sigh* I guess I’ll just have to wait and see — at least my face doesn’t look deformed anymore. I think I might actually take Joe’s tongue-in-cheek advice next time, wear a Tyvek suit.