Ramblings of a rural(ish) geek

pretty much.

DB got his wisdom teeth extracted on Monday, and has been grumping about the house since. Scheduled followup was today. "well. You heal fast". He's still on soft foods, but at least he's off the liquid+yogurt+applesauce diet. Still will be on soft-ish foods on Xmas Day, so we'll probably do mac-n-cheese plus ???

Got the holiday packages out in the mail last Saturday. Mum got hers on Monday, SR's will show up on Xmas Eve (still on schedule). Her pressies went to LA, where they will be mongoled to Aus by a flight attendant friend. She and her housemates are apparently hosting Xmas this year, and she just emailed me for the recipe for the apple/cranberry stuffing I make.

Sunday's "ring-a-long" went pretty well. J and I wound up swapping bells from what we rang at rehearsal, but that wasn't a problem -- at least for us. I have finally figured out the timing for the tricky measures for Xmas Eve (dotted half note B on beats 1-2-3, quarter note A on 2 -- it's somewhat annoying how tricky that is to ring).

Still in thumb splint and thumb-sprain taping. Even so, I still say "ow" two or three times a day in normal everyday stuff, and when I helped J put the kayaks in the rack? yeah. There's something wrong. MRI is still on for tomorrow evening, afaik -- haven't heard from UMich to say otherwise. (Having an MRI that shows the damage won't speed the appointment with the specialist, but will expedite further treatment.) I have already given up on playing the March FCB concert. I hope I'll be back after that, but we'll just have to see how it goes.

I have started the holiday letter. Typos abound, as my right hand is still getting ahead of my left.

So that happened. But life goes on. (I suspect it helped that I was locked away until 11pm, and then I came home and went to bed without turning radio/TV/internet on.)

Last weekend, J and I ran off to Chicago for WindyCon; where I saw people I don't see often enough (which is unlikely to change, unless we move, and then it will be a different set of people we don't see often enough).

In band news, I have had to transcribe yet another BariSax part, this time from the score. mutter.

We still have not had a night cold enough that there's been ice on the pond -- there've been a couple of days when I've had to break ice out of the birdbath, but not enough to even warrant getting out the heated birdbath. I spent an hour pulling grass and cutting back the Russian Sage in the northwest flowerbed in preparation for the snow we may or may not get. (If I leave it up, we get a lovely drift across the end of the driveway; if I cut it back, the drift is less than halfway across the driveway.) They tell us we may have snow this weekend. We shall see. The larkspur plants that are blooming will be dismayed by snow, but everything else seems to be settling in for chilly weather.

Thanksgiving is next week. I have no idea what we're going to have for dinner. DB says ham, so I guess that's what we'll do. It will be SR's birthday on Thursday, and I haven't gotten her care package in the mail yet, so it will not be there in time. BadMom moment. I have gotten her presents, though (most will not be sent to her because she'd have to bring them back). so there's that.