I looked at digital drum kits at Sweetwater today. I have always wanted to play drums and/or trumpet. 
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Have spent today exploring one tiny corner of Disney World. We’re here for the marathon weekend so we’ll see a lot more of it when we run through it… but wow it is big.
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I always enjoyed Fort Wilderness. Is it still there? (It was a camping / RV / Rental Trailer section.)
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My son made me burst out laughing this morning when he unwittingly nailed Calvin's enthusiasm for snow.
And then we slipped and drifted to school on our bikes as slowly as we could.
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That’s the one in Florida, right?
Currently had a good breakfast after a fun last night, where I went to open mic night 
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I can wholeheartedly recommend learning to play drums. It’s so much fun to play your favorite songs and drum along!
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Behold this amazing mnemonic:
- DisneyLANd
- DisneywORLd
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What? LAN, ORL? I don’t get it.
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That’s Los Angeles and Orlando.
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I’m not sure about Fort Wilderness, will have to explore further!
Yes, we’re in Florida. Annoyingly we’ve brought the weather with us from the UK and it’s unusually cold!
Today’s positive: ran the first of our four marathon weekend races. Such a great atmosphere here.
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No snow yet, and I ain’t holding my breath since we’re lucky to get a slush every other year and the last good snow around here was before I was born, but January has actually mostly felt like winter so far and the hottest day for the next week has a forecasted high of only 49F. Been chill enough to sleep with a second blanket for the last 3 or 4 nights. The slipper socks I got for Christmas have proven too thin for the season and are ankle socks so they leave my ankles exposed, but wearing them over the calf socks I already have has proven a comfy way of keeping my feet warm without slipping on the kitchen floor.
I’m loving it.
Honestly, I wasn’t that impressed with Disney World the last time I went there. Not bad, but there’s just so much of it that you’re totally exhausted before you’ve even seen half of it. Had I Amusement park money, I’d rather go to Busch Gardens in Williamsburg Virginia again. Much closer(~90 miles instead of over 700, and small enough you can take in everything before you get sick of it.
Never been to any other Disney parks because they’re just too far away.
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Busch Gardens in Tampa Florida is pretty great too.
I too have never been impressed with Disney - not enough good rides, and ridiculously expensive for the value you get.
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From Wikipedia:
Fort Wilderness is an original 1956 feature of Tom Sawyer Island. Previously a guest-accessible feature of the island, Fort Wilderness was closed after the island re-opened from a refurbishment in 2003.[10] In 2007 Disney demolished the original 1956 Fort Wilderness due to long-neglected termite and weather damage. A new Fort Wilderness was constructed; however, instead of being constructed with authentic hand-hewn logs, it was built with standard milled lumber. The new Fort Wilderness is not accessible to guests.
Edit: I also read that at some nebulous future date, the entire Tom Sawyer island area will be replaced with a couple Pixar’s Cars themed rides. 
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Yeah, I feel like Disney World banks more on media tie-ins being a selling point, Nostalgia, and the belief that kids are undiscerning than on actually being a good amusement park. Never been to BG’s Tampa Park since the Williamsburg park is comparatively in my backyard… I also recall King’s Dominion being pretty good, though it’s been longer since I’ve been ther than BG or DW.
Too bad Fort Wilderness is no longer what it used to be. Many years ago when my children were small, we camped in the adjacent camp greounds. We would rent a golf cart for the duration and you had access to all of the other park areas via the lake system.
Fond memories!
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Aww that sounds great!
We’ve been very focused on the races so far but will explore the parks next week. We’ll make sure to see the Muppets section as that is apparently also being ousted by the Pixar Cars thing sometime soon.
Today’s positive: a quieter day planned in advance of the longer races tomorrow and Sunday.
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For the past couple days I’ve been writing what’s probably going to be the most tedious bit of code anywhere in the Bedquilt stack. I’m implementing a Relation<X, Y> type in Rust, which conceptually represents a finite set of (x,y) pairs but is indexed in both directions so you can quickly look up the set of all ys that are related to an x or the set of all xs that are related to a y. Internally, it’s just a HashMap<X, HashSet<Y>> and a HashMap<Y, HashSet<X>> that are kept in sync with each other. Implementing all the various iterators and mutators that users might want nets out to a substantial bit of code, all of it horribly dull. I was annoyed that there isn’t already a crate for this, so the one I’m writing will be released as a standalone project that’ll be a dependency of Bedquilt but not otherwise tied to it.
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Enjoying some winter sun now that the temperature has warmed up slightly.
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Just realized today that if I don’t want to play boring classical songs when practicing on the violin I don’t have to and can learn pop songs instead lmao. then I played for like 5 hrs 
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And now I wonder what violin covers of modern songs would sound like. As far as I know, Country is the only modern genre built around the ubiquitous Guitar Ensemble of 2-3 guitars, drums, voacals, and sometimes a keyboard synth that routinely adds violin to the instrumentation, and that’s me assuming violin and fiddle are identical other than name, and piano gets all the attention when it comes to adapting modern music to solo classical instruments, and despite violin possibly being the second most prominent classical instrument after piano, it never occurred to me to look for violin covers…
And I hit pay dirt on my first google search for a violin cover:
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