That was odd.

The computer that I use is set up in the den such that my back is to the window that looks out over the backyard and the field behind it, currently snow-covered. Just now, I saw the reflection of a truck going past. Wait, What? Sure enough, there's now a trio of utility trucks in the field down by the main road - I can't see their badging from the house, so I dunno whose. The workers have set out work cones in the field, and are deploying for something. I have no idea what, as they are nowhere near a high-tension pylon, the residential electric lines are on the other side of the road, and the work lift is not useful when you're doing pipeline work. The two pickup trucks went down the embankment from the road, but the guy with the work lift had to come the long way round where the access is more level.

Ji decided that he didn't want to go out if there's gonna be trucks in the field.

A couple of hard rehearsals in the last couple of days - new music in the FCB, and in-depth work in LCCB. THe LCCB is doing Enchanted a bit slower than the FCB does, and it's throwing me off, especially in the calypso transition. It doesn't help that the barr/tenor sax part is supposed to fit into a space that's not there because the upper winds aren't playing together. He worked on them, and it got easier to get our entrance. Still have to work on the speed though - I play it too fast for them because that's the speed we play in FCB.

The tenors in the FCB are complaining about their runs in Dance of the Tumblers. Dudes, I've got the same ones, over a worse range, with a slower horn. I don't want to hear it. (There's an alternate fingering for a note that makes one of the runs possible.) Orchestral transcriptions are hard on low woodwinds.