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12:28pm Tuesday 7 December 1999

KTRU was great fun today! I didn't have a theme, but had a few excellent segues. One was priceless! I was playing the Sounds of North American Frogs CD, which consists of hundreds of tracks. Most of them are about 17 seconds long (a few are longer) and of the following format:

This frog, the blahblahbinous blahvine, has a trill twitter sound much
like its cousin, the bluhvine bloovious.   

[Trrriiillllllllll]   [Trrrriiillllllll]    [Trrriiillllllllll]  
[Trrrriiillllllll]    [Trrriiillllllllll]   [Trrrriiillllllll]   
[Trrriiillllllllll]   [Trrrriiillllllll]    

The spoken part is a very dry humorless voice. I played about 7 tracks and then just as he was done speaking, I cut off the frog CD and started a throat singing of India CD, and it sounded so perfect!

Anyone listening closely should have gotten a good chuckle.

Wende and I are going to work on the mountain fountain!! permalink

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23:47 Tuesday 7 December 1999

Wende and I spent the greater portion of today down south of downtown, mostly at Ares Robotics where we are working on all four different altars. When we arrived, the table for the water altar had no legs and no top. It was just a frame of two-by-fours. A man named Terry worked on it, adding the legs, reinforcing them, then adding the top.

During this time Wende and I spray painted our mountain fountain, first with a rust proof primer, and then with two different colors of fleck paint. We spent a lot of time just waiting around until finally Wende had to leave around 5:45pm. It was difficult for us to feel like our time was being used wisely; we played some, talked some, but mostly just waited.

After Wende left, I drove down to Garden Ridge Pottery to find some fake moss to line the bottom of the altar. They didn't have plastic moss, but some wood shavings painted dark green and light brown. I bought 18 one pound bags of the wooden fake moss. $2.88 + tax per bag.

Then to Home Depot where I bought a pump that will pump water up to the top of the altar to rain back down upon it. $52 + tax for it.

Back to Ares Robotics where I tested out the pump - it could spray a spout about 4 feet in the air without a hose attached. Nice!

It was pretty late so I headed home. Wende completed her meeting and we went to Taco Bell! (Do you see a trend?)

With Love

• Rob