I had a busy summer. It’s been quite a while since there’s been a month with no posts on the blog, but alas, here we are.
What was happening? Well, we went to Asheville after school let out and took the kids to the Biltmore Estate, as well as teaching The Girl how to drive a Gator. (That’s the kids with a haybale on my uncle’s field.)
I went to Tanglewood and sang Mahler’s 2nd Symphony for my third time with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, this time under the baton of BSO conductor Andris Nelsons. (It was cool.) I also got to watch a performance of music by Schubert in Ozawa Hall with Emanuel Ax and Peter Serkin accompanying the Tanglewood voice fellows, on a perfect moonlit night.
I took The Girl to hear Chris Colfer read from his latest YA novel.
I made my annual Vegas trip to attend Black Hat, where in addition to all the normal conference stuff I finally visited the Neon Museum, one late night when it was still 95° outside.
I also got to see infosec luminary Jack Daniel memorialized as a tiki god. (Really.)
We took the kids on a ferry ride to Spectacle Island, where they got to see Boston from the harbor…
And we finished the summer with a family trip to Williamsburg, where the kids got to see another side of Colonial American history.
There were many other things that happened, of course, but I’m not ready to talk about Charlottesville just yet.