recent events

laura & phil took kids for friday night 10/17, stacey & steve went to natasha's and "lost in translation"
gramma snyder died early sunday oct 19
xav got a ukulele for his birthday 10/21
max got his bobcat badge 10/23
max was sick 10/24
stacey was in wichita for funeral 10/25

Guitar Songs to learn

Family Favorites
Happy Birthday (started) * Home on the Range * I've Been Working on the Railroad

Jazz Standards
I Can't Get Started * Where or when * Let's do it * Night and Day
Night in Tunisia * Salt Peanuts * Take the A Train

Classics
Hound Dog/Black Dog * Blue Moon of Kentucky * Mystery Train
Folsom Prison Blues * Ring of Fire * O Death * Take Me to the River

Modern
Rodeo Clowns * Sledge Hammer (Gabriel) * Never There (Cake) * Happy Hour (Housemartins)
Love Cats (Cure) * Celebrity Art Party (Embarrasment) * (it sounds great when you're dead) Robyn Hitchcock

Other books

Started a biography of the Buddha, and it was interesting, but not great, so I moved on.

A Lesson Before Dying, about the black man convicted of murder in 1950s south, and the teacher who is tasked with "teaching him to be a man", but the same man who wrote The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman.

Another good book - Kubler Ross on LIVING

Life Lessons: Two Experts on Death and Dying Teach Us About the Mysteries of Life and Living
by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross (Author), David Kessler (Author)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0684870754/qid=1066320446/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/104-2049330-5592717?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

Kubler-Ross, who identified the stages of grief (anger, denial, bargaining, acceptance) worked with another expert in end-of-life issues to talk about the things that people who are dying wish they had learned earlier. I've listened to part of it on tape, and it seems really good. Would be a good book-group book.