More of the same.....
Nov. 19th, 2025 05:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jennlkwork -- new DC is, on first appearances at least, going to be terrific. Smart, snarky (so I don't have to explain some of my commentary), and learning fast. We are *not* going to be audited, so that's another audit staved off by doing the "Audit Notebook" (in which we assemble as much of the procedural documentation as we can, while we still remember where all of it is filed!). [The state Bureau of Elections does a random procedural audit of 5-10% of precincts after every election.] Tomorrow, I (hopefully) can move the 2024 election stuff into the basement and file the 2025 stuff in the drawers where the 2024 stuff has been. And maybe even get the election shelf unit put away as well. My email addresses have been sorted out, and updated where possible. (I don't like Outlook, but it's what we use at work, and it is kind of nice being able to collect emails from two inboxes and change addresses as things come across.)
bands -- I really do not suggest changing parts three rehearsals before a concert. Tuesday night was a bit of a shock. (and I still got the "one player only" parts. sigh.) I marked the bits that I have to work on, so sometime this week I need to pull out a horn and work on fingerings. whee? TSax player on Monday night does not seem to grasp the concept of "this piece doesn't need as much work as some others on the program, so we're not going to rehearse it for the first few rehearsals", and was trying to tell me that we weren't going to play Block M at the concert. Um, yes we are; DC told us why (it was in the first concert that the FCB ever played, 60 years ago). We ran it a couple of times in rehearsal, and DC expects us to work on parts on our own so that when we rehearse it again it will be better.
garden -- I cleared the E garden and the front flowerbeds last weekend. Four garden carts full of stuff hauled to the heap. That only leaves the two N gardens to clear. Maybe Saturday? I deployed the heated birdbath the Monday after WindyCon because it was going to be cold. And it was! The pond has had a skin of ice nearly every morning since then. The birdbath has mostly been empty in the mornings, because the deer are drinking from it. J still has to put away yard stuff. I got one hose put away, but now the hook in the garage is full, and I don't know where the rest of the hoses go.
bands -- I really do not suggest changing parts three rehearsals before a concert. Tuesday night was a bit of a shock. (and I still got the "one player only" parts. sigh.) I marked the bits that I have to work on, so sometime this week I need to pull out a horn and work on fingerings. whee? TSax player on Monday night does not seem to grasp the concept of "this piece doesn't need as much work as some others on the program, so we're not going to rehearse it for the first few rehearsals", and was trying to tell me that we weren't going to play Block M at the concert. Um, yes we are; DC told us why (it was in the first concert that the FCB ever played, 60 years ago). We ran it a couple of times in rehearsal, and DC expects us to work on parts on our own so that when we rehearse it again it will be better.
garden -- I cleared the E garden and the front flowerbeds last weekend. Four garden carts full of stuff hauled to the heap. That only leaves the two N gardens to clear. Maybe Saturday? I deployed the heated birdbath the Monday after WindyCon because it was going to be cold. And it was! The pond has had a skin of ice nearly every morning since then. The birdbath has mostly been empty in the mornings, because the deer are drinking from it. J still has to put away yard stuff. I got one hose put away, but now the hook in the garage is full, and I don't know where the rest of the hoses go.
