rainer's birthday (192/365c)

brian leaves on a trip to genf for a job interview, and it's rainer's birthday

brian really laid back about leaving. he walked kids to school, i walked with him to the hauptbahnhof at a relaxed pace. nina and i had coffee. pauli and i sat at parks and had coffee too.

i put out bio muell one day early... oops... i don't know why that's something important i had to remember, but i made a note about it.

centa helped me finish a flyer. we skyped rainer for his birthday. edward showed us snippets of recently digitized home movies from 1988 - 1991, which broke us into a wave of nostalgia.

Brian took this from the plane... we'll miss him!

Brian took this from the plane... we'll miss him!

chocolate gateaux mit schlag (191/365c)

chocolate gateaux mit schlag (a trilingual dessert) and drinks late while brian at choir. he wasn't sad about missing the chocolate. sometimes chocolate is the most important answer to unimportant questions. 

these late chorus days are also perfect times to video chat across time zones with nick.

more enthusiastic than i look

happiness regardless of perspective (190/365c)

today just a photo without context...... 

happy regardless of perspective

 

skipped a day yesterday, oops (189/365c)

hanging out before the concert

Quintet played a wonderful All-Robert-Stolz concert, and it was well attended (it was a small room) and we had a great time. I brought a large a large set of people - my whole family, Nina's family, and some extra friends. 

small audience subset

afterwards we went out for pizza and beer and sat outside, since it was balmy enough although october is nearing an end.

 

more art, more science (188/365c)

art gallery called <rotor> with manuela and then coffee.

waiting for coffee at "das gramm"

revolution in art:
write directly on the wall

first playthrough for theodore dubois flute trio, without harp. very silent all of us... all too shy to really talk ... 

brian and i took theodore to the so-called "bildungsmesse" - a big conference center with all kinds of schools to look at and decide between, although we are pretty sure where he's going to go.

and in the evening, so exciiting! we had tickets to the very first opening of graz's new science center, the COSA, for kids at the main museum. there was a talk, magic tricks, tesla lightning, space-age music and of course we could walk around the exhibit and be the first ones to try things out. it was entertaining to be there so very late, way past everyone's bedtime.

to linz and back (187/365c)

linz. lots of driving.... quintet played for a several hour reception at an art gallery. the art was all photographs variously enhanced with photoshop. some really nice pieces. more than one with a musical theme, where the models in question were obviously holding a violin for the first time. the organizer told us she wanted "soft" background music, but eventually we became the stars of the show, and people were making requests, gathering round, and taking cell phone videos.

barbara even posed for her own art shot. 

absolutely perfect posture

forgotten day (186/365c)

judo, kerstin not there. i went to the asp instead and hung watching felix and socializing with other moms. ... and that's sadly all i know.