Cosmic confluences

Let's take a break from our time-task inventory to talk about the weekend.

Friday night I did a little bit of that web surfing that the kids are all talking about. I checked in with a few blogs of friends and then, before turning in for the night, went through some old favorites. A hometown writer, who was recommended by Kramer, is still at it. As I have always enjoyed his recommendations, I usually take a close look at his blogroll. What did I see? A link to this China blog that AZK recommended a couple months before I left for China.

Now how does that happen? And how am I supposed to describe those degrees of separation? Is it a loop? Is it a directed-node graph with me being a double parent? Or am I a convergence point in this network?

All this is perhaps in mind because I've been playing around with Facebook a bit and saw a neat-o keen Flash application that puts all your friends in a circle and maps them to each other. I got pretty sucked in.

So I started this by saying I would talk about the weekend a bit. This afternoon we took a little walk in the Coast Range with the 新朋友 and guests from Seattle. In the car on the way up, I was asked "how do you spend your weekends?" I wound up talking about chores and studying and just a bit about gardening. How boring I am.

So tonight I decided to come out to the Goat (where I am right now) and do my studying. I plowed through about 50 pages of my fire ecology textbook, and an article that I have some serious questions about. And to top it all off and make me all multi-task-y, this counts as entertainment too! Because after about an hour they started re-arranging the furniture for a show. First act: a solo singer, violist, accordian player. Very nice. (And face painted!) Now we're finishing up the second act--who I think I've seen here before. Accoustic duo (I love the accoustic bass guitar) with a singer with a pleasantly scratchy voice. And both have been talking up the headliner (one more song to go!) from PDX.

So a few minutes ago I decided to switch from coffee to beer (because really, there's only so much coffee you can drink in a night) and stick around for a few more songs. And here's where the recreational part really kicks in: the Goat hasn't always had beer. So I'm perusing the list and OMFG: they've got Lakefront. WTF? So now dear reader, I am sharing with you yet another cosmic confluence of events: Eugene bands (complete with spinny dancing and a face-painted accordionist) and a fine Milwaukee beer. How do I find myself in these situations?