I actually missed one; we’ve staged two more productions since Anne Frank. I will write more when I have time, but the latest was a Lower School production of Annie, Jr. which was, I think, the finest technical production of the year. Click more for some photos.
We’re back onstage, this time with a High School production of Anne Frank. I’m most proud of the set for this show, though the costumes and lighting are pretty nice, too. A nice touch is that one wall of the set is a scrim and in between scenes, we illuminate an orchestra behind it to play music to fill the scene breaks.
Photos after the break.
Back in May of 2006, I bought a new car, my Hyundai Elantra. Judi pointed out to me yesterday that we’re about to make our final $70 payment on the loan and then we will own it free and clear. That feels good.
I just saw something else that made me feel good about the purchase: Consumer Reports published their list of cars that “do the best job combining good performance and reliability with a low owner cost over the first five years.” Here’s their list of the top 5 economy cars:
- Honda Civic EX
- Honda Fit (base)
- Hyundai Elantra SE
- Toyota Corolla LE
- Honda Civic Hybrid
I notice two things: 1) my car is in the top five, which validates my purchase and 2) all of the top five cars were among the ones I seriously considered, so I know I was on the right track.
I also looked at Kias and Saturns, which didn’t make the top five, but it feels good to know that an external source validates my findings. 
A friend of mine blogged the following recently:
Arrived at work: 7:20am. Left work: 7:42pm. That’s 12 hours and 22 minutes. Must be some sort of record, even for me. (Sidenote to SD: how the heck do people with kids stay in this profession?)
I’m assuming that I’m the SD in the sidenote. Presumptuous, I suppose, but what the heck. As the three regular readers of this blog know, I keep late hours at school. Crazy late. I get to school before 7:30 every day and often don’t leave until after 10:00. I stay that late to work on school stuff, theater stuff, newspaper stuff, etc.
How do I manage it and my kids? Easy. I don’t; Judi does. I’ve had friends’ wives tell me that they wish they could marry a woman like Judi. She handles the kids on her own most evenings and even lets me get away from time to time to do the waste-of-time playing I need to do to stay sane.
Any moderate success I have in my life is due entirely to the fact that Judi is a majority shareholder in my life. Having a Helpmeet is awesome. (Thanks, babe!)