Catching up, of sorts.
May. 18th, 2022 07:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jennlkFCB concert at Hill Auditorium was Sunday. It went pretty well, I think. I threw a decent amount of money at things, and we rented percussion from SMTD rather than renting a truck and hauling gear from two different places in Farmington. (Somebody else threw money at it as well, because I know how much I threw at it, and I know how much it all cost....) I left the house at 10:15 and got home at 5:30. Moved chairs and stands and percussion and a 7ft grand piano. (I'm still not really sure when Maestro insisted on the piano, but mine is not to question why.) And killed my black dress pumps. Now I get to find another pair. sigh. I hate buying dress shoes.
Attendance was kinda sparse, but there were more people in the audience than onstage, so.... If we do this again, the publicity team has *got* to do a better job. There was no advertising in the A2 area, and the event wasn't even listed on the auditorium website(!). I do blame MW & FB for that at least a little bit, because they picked a date, put down a deposit, and then walked away from the board. Prez & BM came in in the middle of things, and were kinda making it up as they went along. I don't know what Publicity was thinking, but the answer seems to be "not much". To be fair, there were at least three other community band concerts in the area at the same time (A2, Dexter, LC), so most of the people that *I'd* invite to a concert were already committed somewhere else.
Still working on rearranging furniture in the house. J needs to run an actual ethernet cable up to the space that will be my new "office", and then I can move the computer and a shelf from the LR up there. And bring the chair that we had to stash upstairs last summer down into the LR now that there's space for it. I got another accent chair at IKEA today, but I don't know if it will stay in the LR or go into the nook upstairs. I think I may have gotten ahead of myself - it currently seems as though the furniture solution will be the futon in the office, a chair and lamp in the nook, and the mattress/box spring standing in a corner until needed.
I was going to weed today (Monday was a day of rest, other than necessities and 90minutes of sight-reading; Tuesday was laundry and cleaning and driveway sealing and 2 hours of sight-reading), but it rained all day. So I ran errands instead. Hopefully, it'll be dry enough tomorrow that I can weed the strawberries and maybe around the pond.
Attendance was kinda sparse, but there were more people in the audience than onstage, so.... If we do this again, the publicity team has *got* to do a better job. There was no advertising in the A2 area, and the event wasn't even listed on the auditorium website(!). I do blame MW & FB for that at least a little bit, because they picked a date, put down a deposit, and then walked away from the board. Prez & BM came in in the middle of things, and were kinda making it up as they went along. I don't know what Publicity was thinking, but the answer seems to be "not much". To be fair, there were at least three other community band concerts in the area at the same time (A2, Dexter, LC), so most of the people that *I'd* invite to a concert were already committed somewhere else.
Still working on rearranging furniture in the house. J needs to run an actual ethernet cable up to the space that will be my new "office", and then I can move the computer and a shelf from the LR up there. And bring the chair that we had to stash upstairs last summer down into the LR now that there's space for it. I got another accent chair at IKEA today, but I don't know if it will stay in the LR or go into the nook upstairs. I think I may have gotten ahead of myself - it currently seems as though the furniture solution will be the futon in the office, a chair and lamp in the nook, and the mattress/box spring standing in a corner until needed.
I was going to weed today (Monday was a day of rest, other than necessities and 90minutes of sight-reading; Tuesday was laundry and cleaning and driveway sealing and 2 hours of sight-reading), but it rained all day. So I ran errands instead. Hopefully, it'll be dry enough tomorrow that I can weed the strawberries and maybe around the pond.
