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there must have been a week in there....
Oct. 11th, 2024 05:50 pmbecause it's Friday again.
I did the usual things - rehearsals continue apace. Livingston's concert is Oct 20, Farmington's Oct 27, bell choir has been shifted to November because there weren't going to be *any* rehearsals with everyone there until Oct 28. Maybe.
I got into the gardens over the weekend -- one of the gardens was too dry to weed (the weeds broke off at ground level), but I was still able to cut back things in that bed, and then I went to a different, more overgrown, garden and the ground there hadn't dried out so much and I was able to fill the garden cart three times!
I'm still reveling in the new laundry room! Space! Recycling not blocking the dryer door! Shelf that doesn't wobble when I put the detergent back on it! (It is a little weird having to take a few steps *before* turning down the hall -- I haven't _quite_ run into the doorframe yet...)
Election work has been ramping up. We have about a dozen people (out of 1200+) concerned that they haven't gotten their AV ballots yet. sigh. They all went to the PO at the same time. The PO says that they're not to be considered "late" until it's been two weeks since they got mailed. *and* it's still almost four weeks until the election -- there's plenty of time for it to show up. And if it doesn't? Fill out a form saying you didn't get it and we'll issue you a new one. (this will invalidate the first one we sent you so that it cannot be voted.) The only people with a valid concern are the snowbirds who plan on leaving in mid-Oct who had their ballots sent to their summer address, and they were all very polite about the whole thing....
BossClerk wasn't in last week (her husband had some weird reactions to meds and spent four days in hospital), so DC and I had to make sure that the clerk-y deadlines were met. Fortunately, BC wrote up and sent off most of the notices for publication the week before, so that bit was done. I hope she gets back into the office before payroll needs to be done, because I *hate* doing payroll.
Thursday, I ushered at Hill Auditorium for the first UMS concert of the season -- a solo piano performance by Isata Kanneh-Mason. She is terrific! I really like her stage presence -- she doesn't do a lot of flourishing while she's playing, but it's obvious that she really knows and appreciates the music. The audience was just the wrong size for Hill -- too big for just the main floor, but the mezzanine and balcony were at less than 30% capacity. But they were very appreciative! (I recognised her encore by the second measure of the intro (I missed the first measure because I was closing a couple of doors that had been opened early). Too much listening to Gershwin piano music or something....)
I did the usual things - rehearsals continue apace. Livingston's concert is Oct 20, Farmington's Oct 27, bell choir has been shifted to November because there weren't going to be *any* rehearsals with everyone there until Oct 28. Maybe.
I got into the gardens over the weekend -- one of the gardens was too dry to weed (the weeds broke off at ground level), but I was still able to cut back things in that bed, and then I went to a different, more overgrown, garden and the ground there hadn't dried out so much and I was able to fill the garden cart three times!
I'm still reveling in the new laundry room! Space! Recycling not blocking the dryer door! Shelf that doesn't wobble when I put the detergent back on it! (It is a little weird having to take a few steps *before* turning down the hall -- I haven't _quite_ run into the doorframe yet...)
Election work has been ramping up. We have about a dozen people (out of 1200+) concerned that they haven't gotten their AV ballots yet. sigh. They all went to the PO at the same time. The PO says that they're not to be considered "late" until it's been two weeks since they got mailed. *and* it's still almost four weeks until the election -- there's plenty of time for it to show up. And if it doesn't? Fill out a form saying you didn't get it and we'll issue you a new one. (this will invalidate the first one we sent you so that it cannot be voted.) The only people with a valid concern are the snowbirds who plan on leaving in mid-Oct who had their ballots sent to their summer address, and they were all very polite about the whole thing....
BossClerk wasn't in last week (her husband had some weird reactions to meds and spent four days in hospital), so DC and I had to make sure that the clerk-y deadlines were met. Fortunately, BC wrote up and sent off most of the notices for publication the week before, so that bit was done. I hope she gets back into the office before payroll needs to be done, because I *hate* doing payroll.
Thursday, I ushered at Hill Auditorium for the first UMS concert of the season -- a solo piano performance by Isata Kanneh-Mason. She is terrific! I really like her stage presence -- she doesn't do a lot of flourishing while she's playing, but it's obvious that she really knows and appreciates the music. The audience was just the wrong size for Hill -- too big for just the main floor, but the mezzanine and balcony were at less than 30% capacity. But they were very appreciative! (I recognised her encore by the second measure of the intro (I missed the first measure because I was closing a couple of doors that had been opened early). Too much listening to Gershwin piano music or something....)
