{"id":169,"date":"2006-04-23T16:42:58","date_gmt":"2006-04-23T21:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/23\/best-date-ever\/"},"modified":"2006-04-23T16:44:54","modified_gmt":"2006-04-23T21:44:54","slug":"best-date-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2006\/best-date-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Date Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andrea and I had a great date yesterday, while the kids had a sleepover at grammy&#8217;s new place: Mellow Mushroom, including Andrea&#8217;s favorite beer (Blue Moon) and me winning both Hera and Zeus AND Rosenkoenig (oops don&#8217;t mean to brag); home to watch Crash (study in racism) and Haunted Mansion (silly but colorblind); then SNL with Natalie Portman. The best part was our reminiscing about the anti-motivational talk from the droll leader of the bagpipes at a demonstration at the Exploris museum:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>q: Do you march in any parades? a: Ha you must be kidding &#8211; this is the learning band, we&#8217;re lucky if we can stand still and play.<\/li>\n<li>q: How many of you are from Scotland?  a: Not me.  I dunno, Frank?  I think Frank is 5% Scottish.<\/li>\n<li>That&#8217;s called the drone pipe.  For obvious reasons.<\/li>\n<li>Now let&#8217;s have the drums play by themselves.  Nobody ever seems to care about the drums.<\/li>\n<li>The bagpipes have an extremely limited range. They can only play (8 or 9?) notes. So you&#8217;re not going to hear anything too fancy.<\/li>\n<li>q: How do you harmonize?  a: We can&#8217;t harmonize at all, really.  Next question?<\/li>\n<li>For our final number we&#8217;re going to play Amazing Grace, a song that people ask for a lot; I don&#8217;t know why, it has nothing to do with bagpipes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrea and I had a great date yesterday, while the kids had a sleepover at grammy&#8217;s new place: Mellow Mushroom, including Andrea&#8217;s favorite beer (Blue Moon) and me winning both Hera and Zeus AND Rosenkoenig (oops don&#8217;t mean to brag); home to watch Crash (study in racism) and Haunted Mansion (silly but colorblind); then SNL &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2006\/best-date-ever\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Best Date Ever<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-my-rowdy-friends","category-daily-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9M0Zg-2J","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2199,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2017\/birthday-in-chigaaaaaaaaaago\/","url_meta":{"origin":169,"position":0},"title":"Birthday in Chigaaaaaaaaaago","author":"m","date":"May 14, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Of course I don't talk about my birthday! \u00a0No one my age would be so foolish. \u00a0 But this one was too good, I can't help myself! 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