tired.

Sep. 28th, 2022 10:42 pm
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and a teensy bit chilled. The Marching Band Exhibition at the HS was today. I got there at 4pm and discovered, to my surprise, that I was "in charge" of the field crew. Yanno, you guys do have my email address *and* my phone number - d'you think there's a way to let me know this *before* I show up? Not that it's hard - we're kind of like traffic cops, in that most of time we're not even needed, but every once in a while....

One new band (Ann Arbor Huron), a few returning after absence (Dansville, Blissfield, Grass Lake) and the stalwarts (Saline, (jackson) Northwest, Stockbridge, Williamston). The usual suspects were good, AAHuron was very good, Stockbridge was amazingly good for its <20 people.

It started off chilly (<55F), but the temperature didn't drop like I expected it to. I didn't even deploy my light jacket, much less the puffy I'd brought along. I probably could have, but by the time I thought about it, we were nearly done and I wasn't really uncomfortable....

Tomorrow I have to run errands, Friday is set-up for a funeral meal (get to spend a couple of hours in the morning putting out table covers and extra chairs and making sure there's enough paper goods for the meal on Saturday). And I need to make a Jello salad sometime Friday. I guess I should buy some Jello, eh? And some fruit to go into it. I'll see what they've got at the grocer when I get there tomorrow.

Friday is (sort of) J's last day at work. It's his last day of work, in that he gets to take off the headset and turn off Teams, but he's been retained for a couple of months so he can do the other thing he was supposed to be doing since January, and couldn't do because he was teaching Indian programmers how to problem-solve in Linux.
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(It's still an Expedition in the calendar the school sent home. I mentioned it last year, but apparently it never got changed. erm.) Another night of good weather -- no rain, not too much wind (although down in the swampy corner we could have used a bit more to keep the mosquitoes down), and while it got chilly toward the end it didn't get too bad. Then again, I wasn't sitting in metal bleachers -- SR said she got cold. There are a couple of band directors who remember me. Dexter's asked if I was going to be back next year, and I told him that I didn't think RC would let me get away. More bands than ever this year -- as many as will fit in the timeframe -- 14 plus the feature band (Eastern Michigan) and the Chelsea middle school. There was a teeny band (marching 22), a huge band (marching over 250), and pretty much everything in between. There were bands who had worked more on their music than the drill, and some that had worked more on drill than music, and a couple who were uncertain of both. There were at least a couple of bands who hadn't had the opportunity to do their halftime show at all (the bad weather a couple of weeks ago washed out a lot of games, and if that was the only home game before the exhibition...); and couple who hadn't had enough time to work the whole show, so only did part of it. Eastern was nearly in game day form -- very snappy and crisp. A much better presentation than Western was last year.

I'm not terribly pleased with a couple of things with the layout, but the cover looks better than the one that was sent to me, and I'm still not sure what happened to the Dansville band picture -- I was certain that I'd lightened it up, but the one that got used in the program was really quite dark.

And there's a football game tonight, so I'll get to see the show from the front this time. :) Maybe the entire sousaphone section will remember to swagger, instead of the two that did on Wednesday (and the one who started swaggering after he noticed somebody else doing it).

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