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January 6th, 2006
11:18 am
 relsqui has been reading fairy tales of late. In particular, one about a castle suspended by silver chains from trees. Inside the castle is a couch which is suspended by gold chains. As a result of the rocking motion, anyone who sits on the couch will be lulled to sleep and the only way to wake them is with the sound of 1,000 violins.
I went to sleep at my usual hour for work and b's webserver crashed at some point afterwards (finally tracked down to a backup script running amok). She's been working on Drun, so she was really anxious for me to wake up and figure out what happened. Her friend Psudo suggested a series of ways to wake me up. In particular, he suggested murdering someone (in his words: "violence is always the answer"). After going through a series of various schemes which probably would have failed to wake me up, she started musing about the sound of 1,000 violins.
At length, my alarm went off, so I awakened and she told me about the fairy tale and the thousand violins. I looked at her and unintentionally echoed the thoughts of Psudo with:
"Figures. Violins is always the answer."
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![[User Picture]](https://l-userpic.livejournal.com/35138600/8209326) | | From: | velikij |
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| Date: | January 6th, 2006 11:44 pm (UTC) |
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I always have mixed feelings about violins. I played one in a school orchestra when in grade school, and hated it - not for the music, which I loved, but for how hard it was to hold the strings down with my weak fingers, especially my little finger on the skinny E string, thinner than a cheese slicer wire. So I gave it up, took up the recorder later; I gave the violin away a couple mo. ago to a friend's music school in S.F. I was reminded of all of this talking to a friend of James', who is a musician, and knows of a long-ago bike-racing friend of mine who is 1st oboe for the Cleveland Symphony. Ah, life's spells ... 1. hahaha
2. hurrah for fairytales. tell her from me that I'm going to steal her storybooks someday soon, and/or trade her for some of mine.
3. "Mob violence solves everything! ...except mob violence."
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