Notes listened to, and other notes...
Mar. 26th, 2023 09:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jennlkChineke! Orchestra, with violin soloist. Chineke! is a Black/POC orchestra from (mostly) the UK. They did a contemporary piece (quite nice) by Carlos Simon, S Coleridge-Taylor's Violin Concerto in Gminor (op 20), and Florence Price's Symphony No 1 in Eminor. I like Price's symphonies, so I was glad to see that on the program. Somebody earlier in the season did a different Coleridge-Taylor (a teeensy bit of digging reveals that it was Sphinx Orchestra, which makes sense).
I got asked if I wanted to move up to either Usher Supervisor or Head Usher. Nope. I have enough other things going on that I do not want more duties. :)
I am going to try very hard to stay home today. I haven't been able to do that since last Saturday, and the cat is getting annoyed. (I probably won't be in 'the chair of laps' all day, or even inside -- there's branches to be picked up! -- but at least she'll know where I am.)
Turns out that one of the things that J will be doing today is installing a new water softener. Whee? The old one (which we got used when we moved in to this house in 1995) has died in a difficult-to-repair manner, and the new water softeners are so much nicer that he decided to replace the entire system. It's somewhat unclear exactly how long the softener has been not working, but at least a few weeks. Last week I asked J when he last checked the water softener because there was hard water buildup on the cat waterer, and the water in the kettle was making odd noises as it heated up. He went and poked at it, manually cycled it, and then checked it a couple of days later and it hadn't run. So he took the head off and took it apart, and found that the connector between the flow meter and the actual mechanism had shattered. (It's a completely mechanical system, running on mechanical switches and water pressure.)
I got asked if I wanted to move up to either Usher Supervisor or Head Usher. Nope. I have enough other things going on that I do not want more duties. :)
I am going to try very hard to stay home today. I haven't been able to do that since last Saturday, and the cat is getting annoyed. (I probably won't be in 'the chair of laps' all day, or even inside -- there's branches to be picked up! -- but at least she'll know where I am.)
Turns out that one of the things that J will be doing today is installing a new water softener. Whee? The old one (which we got used when we moved in to this house in 1995) has died in a difficult-to-repair manner, and the new water softeners are so much nicer that he decided to replace the entire system. It's somewhat unclear exactly how long the softener has been not working, but at least a few weeks. Last week I asked J when he last checked the water softener because there was hard water buildup on the cat waterer, and the water in the kettle was making odd noises as it heated up. He went and poked at it, manually cycled it, and then checked it a couple of days later and it hadn't run. So he took the head off and took it apart, and found that the connector between the flow meter and the actual mechanism had shattered. (It's a completely mechanical system, running on mechanical switches and water pressure.)
