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The Open Directory Project, where I am a meta editor, was down and out (for the editors if not for the public) from the end of October to the end of December last year. We couldn't log in and edit at all, which led to a terrible abstinence; in fact, I went so far as to start editing intermittently in Wikipedia. I even discovered that I kind of liked it (although I was very happy when the ODP returned) and so I've continued to edit a bit there as well. This morning I wrote a short article about the fiddler Gås-Anders. It was nominated for the "Did you know..." section of Wikipedia's front page, where interesting facts from articles written over the last five days or so are displayed -- I am sure it won't actually be listed in that section but all the same I feel quite pleased.

Writing that article and looking up facts for it also caused me to pick up my violin and play folk music for a good 45 minutes or so. I don't know how many years it has been since I last touched the fiddle; the bow was in a poor state (and I don't have a rosin), my fingers were unused to it and my fingernails are too long, and it did squeak rather a lot. But it was fun, and it sounded much much better than I had thought it would. Johan got home from his shopping trip while I was playing; when I went out into the kitchen and saw him he commented that I probably hadn't heard him return because I had music on -- that is, he'd thought it was a record playing! :-) Of course I haven't played the violin since we married and possibly not even for as long as we've lived together, so hearing music playing he would naturally assume that it was a recording. But still, and anyway.

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