ooogh. again
Mar. 24th, 2023 01:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jennlktwo 12 hour days this week (that's 12 hours away from the house). But we did get the first wave of absentee ballots into the mail. There will be a burst of ballots coming in early next week, and then the rest will come in slowly until the last week of April, when we'll get another burst. And there will probably be a lot that we don't get back, as people look at it and decide they just don't want to vote. (and one of those 12 hour days was work + rehearsal, so it's not as bad as it looks.)
One of those 12 hour days was self-inflicted -- we (C, DC, and I) traipsed off on an errand of mercy to help a brand-new clerk (appointed, not elected, because the person elected as clerk quit after three weeks!) begin to get started. We asked things like "where are your tabulators? Where do you vote? Do you have workers? do you have ballots? Do you have your absent voter list?" etc. DC called up the county clerk of elections to ask a couple of questions, and the person there said, "oh good, you're working with NewClerk" with a note of relief in her voice. Still so many problems there, but at least we got her pointed in the correct direction. I may be seconded there for a couple of weeks, because now that the ballots are in the mail I'm not as critical to DC.
Sunday's FCB concert was well received -- there were requests for more concerts like that. I don't know if there is anything else out there just like Wild Symphony, but there's got to be something we can do. Somebody in the band suggested just doing Wild Symphony again, every couple of years, and that's certainly a possibility. That concert was a lot of work, but then, any concert at the Hawk is a lot of work because there's so much that needs to be done to play at a venue other than North Farmington. Monday's rehearsal was.... annoying... I think is the word I want. Music stands are in short supply at NFHS, and on Monday we were *very* short of stands. After the fourth(!) person asked me if there were any more stands, I got up and said "there are no more stands. deal" It's so annoying when people keep asking me - look, it's after 7:15pm, and (assuming even a basic level of competence) I'm probably aware that there are not enough stands, and there's nothing more I can do. You all are supposed to be fricking adults and have a folding stand in your car, just in case! There's a concert on the schedule for May 21, and BM had to say three(!) times that we're not sure where we'll be for it. We've got NFHS reserved for it, but Maestro wants us to play "somewhere new", so people are working on that.
I am, however, quite ready for a week off from playing. So is my hand -- apparently, playing four days out of five is just at the limit, especially with all the envelope stuffing I was doing.
There are still branches all over the yard from the last few weeks of weather. It's too cold (and wet!) today to deal with them, but it's supposed to be nice on Sunday. So while J is off doing whatever, I'll be putting branches onto the burn pile.
One of those 12 hour days was self-inflicted -- we (C, DC, and I) traipsed off on an errand of mercy to help a brand-new clerk (appointed, not elected, because the person elected as clerk quit after three weeks!) begin to get started. We asked things like "where are your tabulators? Where do you vote? Do you have workers? do you have ballots? Do you have your absent voter list?" etc. DC called up the county clerk of elections to ask a couple of questions, and the person there said, "oh good, you're working with NewClerk" with a note of relief in her voice. Still so many problems there, but at least we got her pointed in the correct direction. I may be seconded there for a couple of weeks, because now that the ballots are in the mail I'm not as critical to DC.
Sunday's FCB concert was well received -- there were requests for more concerts like that. I don't know if there is anything else out there just like Wild Symphony, but there's got to be something we can do. Somebody in the band suggested just doing Wild Symphony again, every couple of years, and that's certainly a possibility. That concert was a lot of work, but then, any concert at the Hawk is a lot of work because there's so much that needs to be done to play at a venue other than North Farmington. Monday's rehearsal was.... annoying... I think is the word I want. Music stands are in short supply at NFHS, and on Monday we were *very* short of stands. After the fourth(!) person asked me if there were any more stands, I got up and said "there are no more stands. deal" It's so annoying when people keep asking me - look, it's after 7:15pm, and (assuming even a basic level of competence) I'm probably aware that there are not enough stands, and there's nothing more I can do. You all are supposed to be fricking adults and have a folding stand in your car, just in case! There's a concert on the schedule for May 21, and BM had to say three(!) times that we're not sure where we'll be for it. We've got NFHS reserved for it, but Maestro wants us to play "somewhere new", so people are working on that.
I am, however, quite ready for a week off from playing. So is my hand -- apparently, playing four days out of five is just at the limit, especially with all the envelope stuffing I was doing.
There are still branches all over the yard from the last few weeks of weather. It's too cold (and wet!) today to deal with them, but it's supposed to be nice on Sunday. So while J is off doing whatever, I'll be putting branches onto the burn pile.
