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same ol, same ol'
Apr. 25th, 2025 09:56 amLCCB concert is this weekend. It will be fine. There's too much fast stuff that I haven't had a chance to get really good at (so I'll be doing a lot of getting every other note), and the Glenn Miller medley is horrible -- badly arranged and poorly played. (I did get a bit of a chuckle out of the main things that the clinician mentioned - people don't listen to other parts, and the only time the band actually plays softly is when there are only a few people playing - because those are the things that I've been complaining about since I joined. hee.) As far as I can tell, I will be playing Bsax in the summer session. Whee? I mean, it's my preferred instrument, but I get tired of hauling it around to all the summer gigs. This year, they've rearranged the schedule a bit, and two (lightly attended) park gigs have been either removed or replaced with outreach concerts, so that will be a bit easier. I will still miss the last summer gig because I'll be in Interlochen.
Still wearing many hats at work. Still waiting for Sup to schedule a moving day. (Maybe I'll poke TE myself.) GC for the office remodel returned the keys yesterday, and then yesterday afternoon we discovered that the AC unit for the old building wasn't running. Thermostat says "cool", info panel on furnace says "cool", compressor not running. HVAC guy is already scheduled for next month sometime (annual system checkup), and it will be annoying to have him out twice. Maybe he can do the system check when he comes out to check on the AC. And there's a clog in the drains somewhere between the building and the septic tank. The question is exactly where? upstream or downstream of the clearout? not my problem.
Starting to really work on the garden. Finished half of the E bed (the area that I didn't get to in the fall); and raked leaves out of the NE garden, although they're still piled on the lawn because I got called away for other things. I'll go finish that this morning before the rains come. Tomorrow when I'm out I need to get more garden gloves. I bought a pack of inexpensive ones four or five years ago, and the last pair is getting a bit ragged.
J cleared grass out of the pond early in the week, and he said he didn't see any frogs, but the last couple of days there has been a toad chorus (at least three!) in the pond area, and today it really sounds like frog "chatter", not birds or toads, so maybe they were just hiding.
Still wearing many hats at work. Still waiting for Sup to schedule a moving day. (Maybe I'll poke TE myself.) GC for the office remodel returned the keys yesterday, and then yesterday afternoon we discovered that the AC unit for the old building wasn't running. Thermostat says "cool", info panel on furnace says "cool", compressor not running. HVAC guy is already scheduled for next month sometime (annual system checkup), and it will be annoying to have him out twice. Maybe he can do the system check when he comes out to check on the AC. And there's a clog in the drains somewhere between the building and the septic tank. The question is exactly where? upstream or downstream of the clearout? not my problem.
Starting to really work on the garden. Finished half of the E bed (the area that I didn't get to in the fall); and raked leaves out of the NE garden, although they're still piled on the lawn because I got called away for other things. I'll go finish that this morning before the rains come. Tomorrow when I'm out I need to get more garden gloves. I bought a pack of inexpensive ones four or five years ago, and the last pair is getting a bit ragged.
J cleared grass out of the pond early in the week, and he said he didn't see any frogs, but the last couple of days there has been a toad chorus (at least three!) in the pond area, and today it really sounds like frog "chatter", not birds or toads, so maybe they were just hiding.
