Bands vs weather 2025 7-2
Jul. 16th, 2025 05:53 pmAnd the Bands are on a winning streak! If I'm keeping score correctly, each band has had one concert cancelled due to weather. It's been hot and rather icky for the last four concerts, but not raining nor "do not breathe outside", so they're a win!
I, however, have been flailing badly (by my standards, which means only a bit below average for the ensemble) at the Tuesday evening concerts. There are a number of factors for this, partly my 'real' job and partly leftover tired from Monday's FCB gigs which are always a lot of work (and driving. Cannot discount the extra tired one gets from driving home at twilight after doing physical work outside in 85F+ weather) and partly 'the last time I played this in concert I was playing an entirely different part'. It's almost as though I'm sight-reading the concert. I'm not *that* good at sight-reading.
First day of wearing my emergency-backup-Treasurer hat went fairly well. Four or five customers, one of whom knows the office staff well enough to know that I was 'out of position', as it were. (Treasurer had a community operations meeting to go to which overlaps with office hours, so she wasn't in the office until 11:30, and someone had to cover.) I took my laptop into her office, and did some of my work while I was there.
J is off to the Annual Picnic. I see lunchtime traffic on the Signal group.... Ji is only sulking a little bit. J was only home for a couple of weeks between excursions, and he kind of ignored Ji while he was here, so Ji has resigned himself to it. It is, however, still my fault that the weather's been "bad".
Sometime in the last couple of days, I cracked a toenail, and I didn't notice it until I wore my old Birks into town today. Ow! (I wore new Birks last night, and they're not as worn and don't push up on my toes as much.) Will have to be careful which shoes I wear to work tomorrow. sigh.
I, however, have been flailing badly (by my standards, which means only a bit below average for the ensemble) at the Tuesday evening concerts. There are a number of factors for this, partly my 'real' job and partly leftover tired from Monday's FCB gigs which are always a lot of work (and driving. Cannot discount the extra tired one gets from driving home at twilight after doing physical work outside in 85F+ weather) and partly 'the last time I played this in concert I was playing an entirely different part'. It's almost as though I'm sight-reading the concert. I'm not *that* good at sight-reading.
First day of wearing my emergency-backup-Treasurer hat went fairly well. Four or five customers, one of whom knows the office staff well enough to know that I was 'out of position', as it were. (Treasurer had a community operations meeting to go to which overlaps with office hours, so she wasn't in the office until 11:30, and someone had to cover.) I took my laptop into her office, and did some of my work while I was there.
J is off to the Annual Picnic. I see lunchtime traffic on the Signal group.... Ji is only sulking a little bit. J was only home for a couple of weeks between excursions, and he kind of ignored Ji while he was here, so Ji has resigned himself to it. It is, however, still my fault that the weather's been "bad".
Sometime in the last couple of days, I cracked a toenail, and I didn't notice it until I wore my old Birks into town today. Ow! (I wore new Birks last night, and they're not as worn and don't push up on my toes as much.) Will have to be careful which shoes I wear to work tomorrow. sigh.