Today I took the morning off to do some engineering work.  I am grateful that I have some work I can do because I am spending quite a bit of money I don’t have.  I really need to work more than a half day, but that’s all I had for now.  I went to a place that was part coffee shop, co-work space, part restaurant and had a pool.  This is a brilliant concept to me.  I didn’t go in the pool.  By the time it got hot enough to not be able to stand it, I was done with the chunk of work I had.  So, I decided to go back to my hotel pool.  I did the pool then a massage and back to the pool.

My half sister, Carly arrive around dinner time.  I’ve never been traveling with her so this should be fun.  I was adopted and didn’t meet her until I was 34.  We’ve hung out a few times in Denver, but not a lot.  We went to dinner.  The place we went was beautiful.  It was huge and had little dining bungalows all spread out amongst gardens.  If this place was in the US, it would be a real expensive dinner place.  It was only slightly more expensive than any other place I’ve seen in Bali.  We went to an open mike night at a nearby bar to meet up with my friend, but it was so crowded that we couldn’t get a seat at the same table she was at.  We went upstairs instead.  This is where I fell in love.  I fell in love with the lamps they had hanging from the ceiling and over the bar.  Sorry, not the “in love” you were all hoping for.  They were made of fabric, metal and beads.  The light shown through the beads on the top.  Then strings of black with beads on them hung down below the lamp.  It looked as if the beads were tiny stars of lights floating below the lamps.  I took a picture.  It’s not great, but you’ll get the idea.

How do I become a lighting designer?  I think I would love that.

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