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that was a week...
Feb. 26th, 2023 08:12 pmor maybe more.... The days all run together when nothing changes.
No FCB rehearsal on Monday because farmington schools were closed for a mid-winter break.
Work on Tuesday was trying to figure out how to print voter information cards -- the old laptop I have doesn't handle the output files natively, so I need to sit down and poke at it, probably when nobody else is in. local IT thinks I may need a pdf reader, which I can't install because I'm not admin, and he couldn't because he was on his way out of town. sigh. but at least I can process voters/AV applications/etc. Tuesday night was LCCB rehearsal, which went fine. I made fewer mistakes this time, which is good - the concert is in one more rehearsal! I hope the bassoon player will mark her bloody music so she doesn't mess up the end bit in Children's March, because when she plays it wrong we both sound wrong -- it's just the two of us there. I also got most of the cues in a couple of other pieces that I hadn't been playing but now need to.
Thursday was pretty, with all the ice on everything. They told us not to bother coming in to work unless we got called, so I got to stay home. There is an generator at the township hall, but I don't know if anyone besides me and the office manager could get in, as nearly everyone else lives down dirt roads. And there were lots of branches down across roads -- when I went into town on Friday I could see remnants of about a hlaf dozen places where there'd been branches across the road. We lost a branch on a tree in the easement, and one trunk (of the four) on the river birch broke off about 15 feet up. The power stayed on until the wind came up in the afternoon, and we were without grid power until late Sunday afternoon. We have the solar panels and two batteries, though, so it was pretty painless. The internet went down late afternoon Thursday, and came up (erratically) on Saturday morning.
No church this morning, as they're on the same circuit we are. I went out this afternoon and picked up branches and looked at some that had been really weighed down by the ice on Thursday, but most of them seem to be OK.
No FCB rehearsal on Monday because farmington schools were closed for a mid-winter break.
Work on Tuesday was trying to figure out how to print voter information cards -- the old laptop I have doesn't handle the output files natively, so I need to sit down and poke at it, probably when nobody else is in. local IT thinks I may need a pdf reader, which I can't install because I'm not admin, and he couldn't because he was on his way out of town. sigh. but at least I can process voters/AV applications/etc. Tuesday night was LCCB rehearsal, which went fine. I made fewer mistakes this time, which is good - the concert is in one more rehearsal! I hope the bassoon player will mark her bloody music so she doesn't mess up the end bit in Children's March, because when she plays it wrong we both sound wrong -- it's just the two of us there. I also got most of the cues in a couple of other pieces that I hadn't been playing but now need to.
Thursday was pretty, with all the ice on everything. They told us not to bother coming in to work unless we got called, so I got to stay home. There is an generator at the township hall, but I don't know if anyone besides me and the office manager could get in, as nearly everyone else lives down dirt roads. And there were lots of branches down across roads -- when I went into town on Friday I could see remnants of about a hlaf dozen places where there'd been branches across the road. We lost a branch on a tree in the easement, and one trunk (of the four) on the river birch broke off about 15 feet up. The power stayed on until the wind came up in the afternoon, and we were without grid power until late Sunday afternoon. We have the solar panels and two batteries, though, so it was pretty painless. The internet went down late afternoon Thursday, and came up (erratically) on Saturday morning.
No church this morning, as they're on the same circuit we are. I went out this afternoon and picked up branches and looked at some that had been really weighed down by the ice on Thursday, but most of them seem to be OK.
