{"id":1182,"date":"2007-04-19T07:28:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-19T11:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=1182"},"modified":"2007-04-19T07:28:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-19T11:28:00","slug":"atsa-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=1182","title":{"rendered":"At&#8217;sa better."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We finally got our takeout last night.  We splurged and got stuff from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrabbas.com\/\">Carrabbas<\/a> and then stuffed our faces while watching TV.  LOST continues to be good.  And we&#8217;re enjoying <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fox.com\/drive\/\">DRIVE<\/a> on Fox, although apparently its ratings aren&#8217;t that hot.  Hey, I like a show that&#8217;s low-rated on Fox.  There&#8217;s a shocker.  Maybe this one won&#8217;t get the axe after six episodes, but I&#8217;m not holding my breath.  I heard producer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timminear.net\/\">Tim Minear<\/a>, he of Firefly (cancelled!), Wonderfalls (cancelled!), and The Inside (cancelled!) say that he&#8217;s learned his lesson and has structured the first season so the whole thing can be wrapped by episode 13, just in case.  Shrewd guy.  Let&#8217;s hope it&#8217;s not warranted this time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bedlambards.com\/welcome.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/misc\/BedlamBardsKRF.jpg\" height=\"250\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\"><\/a>This Sunday, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bedlambards.com\/\">Bedlam Bards<\/a> are playing in Charlotte.  They&#8217;re a Celtic folk duo who cater to the Firefly crowd.  They won Rennaissance Festival Awards Best Musical  Group of 2006, so they&#8217;re not exclusively a Browncoat band.  The performance is at Ri-Ra Irish pub uptown from 4-7.  Apparently folks are starting to gear up for this, because I hear now there&#8217;ll be a costume contest.  There&#8217;ll also be door prizes and a raffle, including, of course, a Jayne hat.  This is an event organized by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlottebrowncoats.org\/bardsconcert.aspx\">The Charlotte Browncoats<\/a> and all proceeds will go to Equality Now.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unusual to see the Bedlam Bards on the East Coast, but they&#8217;re touring nationally &#8211; I know they&#8217;re playing Raleigh just before Charlotte &#8211; so if you&#8217;re interested, check around.<\/p>\n<p>Afterward there&#8217;ll be more Celtic music downstairs from a different, unrelated group.  Not sure if I&#8217;ll stay for that or not.  I can&#8217;t knit there, since I hear the place is hella smoky and I can&#8217;t exactly ship out Jayne hats that smell like ashtrays.  <a href=\"http:\/\/turtlegirl76.com\">Turtlegirl76<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/illiane.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">illiane<\/a> may be coming too.  Apparently the Browncoats may also be taking the Bards out to Sir Edmund Halley&#8217;s restaurant and pub on Friday night, if the guys are in a &#8220;go out&#8221; mood.  That sounds like a lot of fun, but the hubby has a regular Friday night commitment and I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;ll make it.  I need to catch up on my sleep anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of music, tonight is our daughter&#8217;s Spring program.  Grades K-2 will be performing, so this&#8217;ll be the last year with the little bitty kids.  My baby, my baby!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve finished up one project to go into the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/groups\/jar_o_joy\/\">jar o&#8217; joy<\/a> and will work on the second today.  After that, it&#8217;s just a matter of filling it up and shipping it out.  I have several care packages to go, since I also picked up a few things for my knitting niece at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stitchcharlotte.com\/\">Stitch&#8217;s<\/a> going out of business sale.  Her only local yarn store is WalMart, so I like to send a few things her way every now and then, just as a little treat.<\/p>\n<p>And now, I&#8217;m off to get some more printer paper &#8211; printing out a hard copy of our tax return for my records killed both my paper supply and my inkjet cartridge &#8211; so I can post up a couple of flyers for the Bards concert.  It&#8217;s for a good cause, it won&#8217;t kill me to post a few bills.  Then back home for crafty goodness!<br \/>\n<br clear=all><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We finally got our takeout last night. We splurged and got stuff from Carrabbas and then stuffed our faces while watching TV. LOST continues to be good. And we&#8217;re enjoying DRIVE on Fox, although apparently its ratings aren&#8217;t that hot. Hey, I like a show that&#8217;s low-rated on Fox. There&#8217;s a shocker. Maybe this one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}