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would this be considered TimeFail or Competency Being Its Own Punishment?

So, I’d been sortof planning on making it to the Annual Picnic this year. It’s been at least a decade since I’ve been, mostly due to TimeFail of various (often competency related) issues. I’d even put in a request for that week off, and had gotten provisional approval. And then the Deputy Treasurer resigned, effective yesterday. There goes that “week off”.

Treasurer had made family plans for that week, as that was basically the only week that neither of her kids had training/work/sportscamp *and* her husband could get off. But that’s the week after summer tax bills hit mailboxes, and people will be coming in to pay them. The OfficeManager can take tax payments, but really doesn’t like to. So somebody has to cover, and as the newbie, that would be me. Unless they can find somebody to hire on as Deputy Treasurer in the next week and a half.
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Sliding Tiles - the major work is done. HandymanDan and his helper showed up today, and we got all the file cabinets in their proper places. It did not take as long as I expected it to -- once HD figured out how to move the fireproof files, it didn't take long at all. I even got all the stuff we took out of cabinets (so we could move them) back in to the cabinets (or into recycling, depending). And I found enough drawer rails so that files aren't falling all over the place. Now it's up to Z to sort his cabinet, and I have to figure out where the stuff that was in the bottom drawers of the Elections cabinet really goes. I then assembled the remainder of the shelf units that I had, and figured out what sizes to get for the rest of the stuff (now that I see what space I have, I need to modify my plan slightly). This weekend, I go find the rest of the shelves. Not tomorrow, as I expect I'll be stiff and creaky tomorrow after all that furniture moving.

Bands vs Weather - is now 3-2. The sponsor cancelled Wednesday evening's gig late. At 4pm, when they decided to go for it, the weather was fine at Belle Isle, even though it was raining hard at my house. Then it started raining at BM's house. Our contact at the sponsor left for Belle Isle about 4:30, and after about 10 minutes of driving in the rain, decided that there was no way we could do an outdoor gig that evening. Even if it stopped raining (which it did), there was a good chance that the performers would outnumber the audience, and that's never any fun; the grounds would still be wet; and while the temperature would be cooler, the relative humidity would be close to 100%, and it's No Fun trying to play a concert in that weather. I was 30 minutes into the 75 minute drive when BM called, so we went to the next roundabout and came home.
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- wore 'grubbies' to work today because HD and I had decided that today would be moving day. About 9:45, I texted him "are we still on for today?", and a minute later, my phone rang "um. ooops? I forgot. How's Thursday sound? And I'll write it on the calendar right now so I don't forget." He was at a job when I talked to him last week, and he's generally very reliable, so it was all fine. It gave me a bit more time to sort the space out, and time to figure out what shelving I'd need. The big query now is "is it worth my time to drive to Jackson rather than AA for shelves?" the answer, right now, is yes. (the less expensive black shelves aren't in stock at the AA store, and I need three of them. the Jackson store isn't really that much further than AA, it's just that AA is more convenient.)

- got drenched dashing out to the car to close the windows. I a)didn't think I'd be at work that long, and b)didn't expect it to rain quite so hard. I was done with work stuff anyway (other than take the rollaway out to the curb), so I dashed out to the car, rolled up the windows, got my emergency rainjacket on and did the trash.

- tonight's scheduled concert has been cancelled on account of Heat Advisory and chance of pop-up storms.

- tomorrow's scheduled concert may or may not be cancelled. It's supposed to be much cooler by then, but right now they say there's a 60% of rain after 5pm. The sponsor will make that call, probably by noon. Considering that I need to leave about 4pm, the earlier the better. I really hate it when I find out a gig's been cancelled as I'm driving to it.... I should stage my gear just in case, as there's a lot for this gig and I don't want to forget anything.

- the black cat insisted on going outside after the rain stopped. a few minutes ago, he appeared at the door because it started thundering. there will probably be more rain, too.
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I went in to the office on Friday, and with a fresh brain, was able to find a way to get the corner desk into the room where it was to go. The base of the section does not go all the way to the floor on all sides, so I was able to wrap it around the doorframe. Then I reassembled the desk, put the drawer keys back in the top drawer, and went on to vacuum where the desk had been. Then I emptied a file cabinet and cleared a space for a different filing cabinet and moved the maps that were in the wrong place and sorted out paint and measured all the boxes + things that I'd have to find storage for. Then left that sheet at the office. sigh.

Not that it makes that much difference at this point, as I probably won't be getting the shelves until next weekend. I don't want to have to take them out of the car other than at the office, and I have to haul Lily somewhere M-T-W next week. At least, that's the current schedule. I expect we'll still have rehearsal on Monday as it's indoors; but the T-W concerts are both outside in the Heat Advisory/Extreme Heat Alert areas (depending on the concert). The weather people tell us that it won't get below 70F until the wee hours of Thursday AM. Maybe. Friday night for sure!

The AC came on at 8:45 this morning. I have it set for 76. (Anything higher, and the cats get really lethargic and unhappy. No need to stress old cats more than necessary.)

Yesterday's Sousapalooza was fun. there were about 25 of us, more old (most of them older than me!) flute players than anything else. We played 8 different Sousa marches, all of which I had played before. Many of them (besides Stars and Stripes Forever) have been in a summer repertoire for one band or another. It was indoors, so we didn't have to worry about the heat. I really think that an event like this needs to be outside, but yesterday I was glad that it wasn't. It wasn't really a concert intended for an audience, just a bunch of people playing music together.
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called HandymanDan yesterday. We talked about what needed to be done, and what I could do ahead of time to make it easier on the day of the move. Before I called him, I sorted the list into "HD tasks" and "JR" tasks -- no need to have a guy and a handtruck to move bulky but light boxes down the steps, f'rex. So yesterday, after I talked to him, I did my office tasks, then went downstairs to disassemble and move the Steelcase corner desk. Well, theoretically. I got it disassembled, got the short bit moved into the space where it will go, got the long bit moved as well, but the corner bit will not fit through the door into the new space. I *thought* that all the doors downstairs were the same size, but they don't seem to be. I was tired and hot, though, so I left the corner bit in the large room and went home. I'll go back later today with a better brain and a working drill in case I do need to take the top off. (Only 70 in the basement, but very humid and no air movement. I did dig up a box fan, but I don't think it helped much.)

Then I need to vacuum where the desk was (o the bug carcasses!) and where the cabinets will go. And clear space in the Z+A room for another file cabinet. And empty the file cabinets so we can move them.

This weekend I need to ponder shelving for the election stuff. I guess a good place to start would be looking at what needs to go on the shelves, yes? I think I need at least two different sizes, one for voting booths and one for boxes of paper. While I'm at it, I should get the election shelf for the office - we're planning a shelf to hold the ballots and the notebooks all in one place. (then I can have the moving crew take the shelves downstairs....) And I should move the maps from behind the cabinet that's moving to the Z+A room. Hmm. Some sort of vertical map rack would be good in that space. Will mention that after the move is done.

And there's a funeral today that I think I'm going to skip. A former pastor passed late last week, and while she was a good pastor and a very nice lady, I didn't know her family well (they were all grown when she came to our church), and they won't miss me. (huh. she was younger than I thought.)
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- at home, the cats are being cats. Which is to say that Jiji is being very annoyed with me. I have, in no particular order: sent J away, failed at weather control (it's hot and humid now, and will rain, possibly hard, later), am *not* J, demonstrated my inability to skritch him "just right", gone away for "all day" Tuesday thus 'trapping' him inside (he can't fool me - he slept most of the time I was at work). Annabelle doesn't like the hot weather, either, as I don't let her curl up in my lap as much when it's 78F.

- in the backyard: I heard froggies on Monday after rehearsal, there was a small fuzzy sandhill crane in the yard when I got home from work on Tuesday (it looked at me very curiously before deciding I was no danger, and went back to lawn-poking), I saw fireflies yesterday evening after a concert in Fowlerville.

- on the road: (all rural two lane roads, because that's where I normally drive.) I came around a blind corner on my way to the concert yesterday, and there was a deer standing in the middle of the road. This was a few miles after the one who nearly ran into my car -- waited on the shoulder until I was nearly past, *then* started across the road. I accelerated just enough that it missed the rear bumper. Three miles from the venue, there was a quartet of ducks moseying across the road and I had to stop for them. Fortunately for all involved, the numbskull going 10 mph over the speed limit was far enough behind me that he didn't get to us until the ducks were off the road.

It was very hot in Fowlerville last night. We were, for the most part, under a pavilion so not in the sun, but I still had sweat running down my face. Many people deployed small personal fans. I have a little one, but it was in the other music bag. I should put it in Lily's case, and then I'll have it with me! (which will be good on Saturday, when I head up to Lansing for Sousapalooza. They say it will be 93 there. I hope we're on the shady side of the shop.)

Yesterday at work, I discovered that TE has handed responsibility for the entirety of the basement mess off to me. I don't wanna be in charge! So tomorrow I call HandymanDan and see when we can schedule him and a helper for a day. And BC and I went through and moved some expenses so that they were being pulled out of the correct account (fiscal year ends with June). I had been mis-attributing an expense because no-one told me that it actually belonged somewhere else. And then there was the one that I just screwed up. (Payroll is complicated, even if the payroll company does all the taxes, etc.)
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at the twp board meeting on Tuesday, the board decided that I needed to start the ball rolling (again) on the basement re-org. (note that I wasn't even at the meeting, because I'm only a twp employee, and I had somewhere else to be.) To be fair, the reason the ball had stopped is because TE had emergency abdominal surgery and was understandably out of action for six weeks. But he's back on his feet now, and can at least manage things. So I amended the write-up I did last time, and sent it out. Hopefully something will happen now.

FCB rehearsal was on stage this week (a last minute change because the bandroom was full of sorting music/instruments/uniforms, and their band director didn't want it rearranged). I put a big sign in red and black marker on a music stand in front of the door, and yet.... Every time I (or somebody else on set up) went back into the bandroom for percussion, there was a band member looking around, perplexed. One person had even taken it upon themselves to set up a chair and stand in the area where they usually sit.

The birds are getting to the strawberries before I do. There's only a dozen bearing plants this year, and this historical variety (my grandfather bought the first plants in 1933) is not one that has lots of fruit. We had lots of berries when I was a kid, but that's because we had 200 sq feet of strawberry patch, not 10. Well, and the soil at King Rd was better than the soil here, and I just don't have the spoons to do the required amendment here.

The pale pink peonies bloomed yesterday, and the dark pink ones have that lovely sun-faded look to them. And there is a carpet of white peony petals, and a thicket of lupine seed heads. I guess I know what I'll be doing this afternoon. :)

ETA: It's Friday the 13th. A black cat has already crossed my path. (OK, so he does that every day. I don't think it'll change anything.)
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but still some same ol' things.

LCCB is still far more freeform than I like. Every summer, I wonder why I play the summer schedule. DM is concerned about our stage comportment, but doesn't do a damn thing about the sprawling layouts with random people way far away from other people who mostly play the same part. But people seem to enjoy the concerts, so I guess that's why I keep playing....

Sup is doing the "why is this not done yet" queries, and my response is "because TW and HandymanDan haven't gotten back to me (or you) to schedule. *You* poke them...." BC is finally up to a trek into the basement to see the status down there, and OMG there's a lot of work to be done. No more than there was (less, actually, as I've taken the recycling in). Somebody else needs to take the rubbish. Other somebodies need to schedule TE and HD for a day of moving big stuff. OTOH, the AC is now working -- something in the compressor needed to be replaced, so it was and now it works. Just as well, as we are now in an "if you don't need to breathe outside, don't" portion of the summer. (Canadian prairies are on fire, and we get the smoke. yay?)

Early last week, I moved the main plants from the deckside garden to their new home. Then it got hot for a couple of days, and then it rained for about 18 hours, so they're well watered in. The East garden is very appreciative of the weather - everything is blooming! Peonies, Lupine, three shades of pink daisies, three very different irises (white, dark purple, yellow & bronze), and bright yellow paintbrush. And some scattered magenta & white & purple carnations.... It's been a few years since everything in that garden has flowered this profusely. There are some spring bulbs in there that I need to move, because they don't bloom before the shasta daisies around them get tall, so they're hard to see. If I move them to the new garden, we'll be able to see them!
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so the weather got decent, and I went into the garden to pull weeds. But I forgot to change into my weeding shirt*, and now I have a rash on my right forearm. It's not poison ivy, nor (this time) is it Queen Anne's Lace, but some random very sticky weed that we have lots of volunteering around the birdfeeders. If I notice, I can sometimes scrub off with exfoliant + soap and follow with antihistamines + cortisone cream and keep it from a big reaction; but this time I missed. :( So off to urgent care (after messaging doc, who is booking into next month!), where they pulled up my records and said "Hrm. This has happened before, the last time we gave you a steroid taper and a topical steroid. Will that be sufficient this time?" "should be." "Done. Hopefully we won't see you again." (yeah, I can agree with that.) I think I got this before the reaction got weepy and crusty, but I won't know until tomorrow. (one time, the swelling was so bad that they gave me a steroid shot in the office. don't want it to get that bad *ever* again.)

Still no external monitor at work, but I have a viable workaround. Poked into setup, and got background and window headers that I can live with. Discovered that the voter database has some really cool new features that will make my life as a Clerk of Elections easier. (N.B.: not a job that I really *want*, but is apparently one of the jobs I have.) BC will *not* be having shoulder surgery this year -- doc assessed her range of motion/strength and said "I don't recommend surgery at this time. Lotsa PT, but surgery probably won't help." As he's the guy who'd be doing the surgery.... (I saw him a couple of times, and he's good.)

I think I saw a Baltimore Oriole in the backyard today (I saw something with approximately the right coloring, but it was small and "dull". It's probably a yearling. The neighbors across the street get lots of Orioles, and I think they come to our house to drink/bathe.) This means I should dig out the feeder and make the syrup. J ate the blackberry jelly I use in the Oriole feeder, so I need to get more of that tomorrow when I go out. (Or not. Apparently, PastMe picked some up when it was on sale, because there's a jar in the basement.)

*my weeding shirt is long-sleeved with thumbholes that go under my gloves to keep prickly bits away from my skin. it's hanging in the laundry room next to the gloves.
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The concert last Sunday went quite well. I had a bit of a moment when I walked in and realized the *shape* and size of the space I had to work with. (I did not *quite* swear in church.) It did not fit the shape of the band very well at all! [I don't think the actual shape of the space changed from the last time we played this venue, but the renovations had fixed some of the issues with the sound. (my mother said to J "these acoustics are dreadful" the last time we played there.)] BM was still out ill, so I had a list of numbers to work from for setup. I wound up doing the final setup (once we got the chairs into rows) pretty much solo, because I was making it up as I went along, and there just wasn't room for more than one person moving chairs. It was a very tight fit. It didn't feel as tight as some spaces, because the edges were defined by low things (altar steps, kneeler rail) so we didn't feel like we were up against the walls. The actual performance went well, too! I was very tired after that, though.

Still no external monitor at work - local IT thinks it's probably the cable, but he didn't look at it until Wednesday, so it'll be next week before I know. The IT company that does the system IT screwed up Treasurer's computer setup, and are being cagey about fixing it (too busy figuring out who did it, rather than how to fix it. To be fair, they may need to know who did it to know exactly what they did...). T is very irked by this, and is making noises about finding another IT provider. I think that's a bad idea, as this is the first time there's been any real issue with the IT provider....

I have not gotten into the garden at all this week. It's been chilly (highs in the 50s!) all week, and raining a lot. Today is supposed to be not rainy, so maybe I can get out there this afternoon and (carefully!) pull some of the very very happy weeds.
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skipped work on Tuesday due to a very cranky back from too much yardwork Sun/Mon followed by moving *all* the chairs on Monday night. (BM is out ill, usual assistants were running late due to family things/traffic; so while there was reasonable help for teardown, I had to do most of the setup.) I woke up Tuesday morning with random spikes of numb down my right leg and a lot of very tight muscles in my back. I decided that the best thing I could do was not go in to the office *or* to LCCB rehearsal, and be very careful with my moving. I should be able to do the errands tomorrow....

There is an FCB concert on Sunday which means another session of moving chairs. And it's an away gig, so there's more gear to be moved. I will attempt to avoid moving percussion. I have no idea how this venue will work -- the last time we played there, the set up was sub-optimal. I hear that they have rearranged the space a little bit, but BM sent a couple of pix, and it doesn't seem that much different. We shall see.

I did go into the office on Thursday, and the laptop on my desk decided that it no longer wanted to work with the external monitor. The screen image would shrink, then expand, then go black; then resync with the external monitor, work for 30 seconds or so, then repeat. I tried reseating both ends of the monitor cable, but it didn't help. So then I unplugged the external monitor, and the display stabilized. I have no idea -- the monitor was plugged directly into the laptop's display port. (The smart guess would be that it's a faulty display port, but that's above my paygrade.) So I rearranged my desk so that I could actually see the laptop screen, and did my work that way. Not preferred, but at least I did get my work done. IT knows that there is an issue, but also that there's a workaround and it's not a "drop everything and fix this now!" issue.
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now that the grand office shuffle of 2025 is over, local IT decided that he really needed to _do_ the computer upgrade/transition that was budgeted for the 2024-2025 fiscal year.

As far as I can tell, there were no major issues. Some of my work actually got easier(!) as the upgrade fixed the voter database printing issues (I can now print natively from the website, rather than going through a multistep process). Logging in to the voter database *and* the accounting software both required only one extra confirmation each. As I got upgraded to a physically smaller laptop, I also got an external monitor, which required a certain amount of desktop rejiggering, but that, too, is done.

I hauled a trunkload of cardboard boxes off to the recycling center on my way home from work, so that's another stack of shtuff out of the basement.

I have been slowly working my way through the gardens, but we've been getting (much needed!) rain, so there've been days when I've been home but the ground's been too soft. I was able to get into the E garden yesterday afternoon and do some weeding, though. Tomorrow, I think I'll move a few things from the deckside garden which is going away so that J can replace the deck skirting. We will need to replace the cat's "stack of sun warmed bricks" at some point, though....
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Plumbing issue at work was (probably) not due to previous renovation -- the pipe from the building to the septic tank had come disconnected from the tank, and got full of sand/tree roots/etc. But that's been fixed, so Thursday we were back to work. I filed and dug out information for budget and watered the office plants and poked the accounting software people so I could have permissions to do the GL entry that I need to do now that I'm doing payroll and dorked with the flag and hauled a load of recycling out of the basement and into Sup's car so she could deal with it. (Accounting software support started to walk me through how to do the GL entry "I know *how* to do it, I just need to do it as me, not BossClerk". "yes, we know that me logging in as BC to do work is not optimal, but as I didn't have permissions to do it, and you need BC to authorize the change in my permissions and the reason I was doing it is because she was out sick, needs must....")

Today is a terrific day for weeding, so I guess I should go do some. Probably in the E garden because I didn't get to that one last fall, and it's a real mess. J and I went out this morning (before my breakfast!) and got trees out of there, but there's still a lot of last year's grass and perennials that need to be dealt with. And the daffodils in the NW driveway garden need to have the flowerheads cut off so they won't try to set seeds.

There is indeed at least one frog by the pond. Still haven't seen him (although I may have caused a froggie-flail when I went out for the bird feeders last night), but I definitely heard him. It's been getting cool at night, but yesterday evening was warmish and humid.
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it was a concert. We got a really congratulatory note from the director today, and I wonder if he was at the same concert I was. I mean, I understand that as a performer in the band, I tend to hear a lot of infelicities, and don't really hear the entire effect, but.... OTOH, some of my reaction may be colored by the fact that I "missed" three rehearsals for this concert, and there was a lot of finger-flying in the TSax part, and I was really off my game (I spent two rehearsals on BSax, then missed one because I had a (paid) FCB gig).

Got to the office today, and discovered that the plumbing issue we discovered Thursday afternoon is still not solved - the building was dark and there was a sign on the door saying "closed". Undoubtedly, Sup sent an email and mine went to my work email which I don't check when I'm not at work, mostly because when IT was setting my system up, he didn't set me up for offsite access. (This is a feature, not a bug, AFAIAC.) It was not a completely wasted trip though, as I was able to put the flag back up -- it'd been at halfmast for Pope Francis.

Last night's FCB rehearsal was very tiring, so it's probably just as well that I don't have rehearsal tonight. But I have no excuse for not weeding. (well, other than J is mowing, and I want to be on the other side of the house from the mower).
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LCCB concert is this weekend. It will be fine. There's too much fast stuff that I haven't had a chance to get really good at (so I'll be doing a lot of getting every other note), and the Glenn Miller medley is horrible -- badly arranged and poorly played. (I did get a bit of a chuckle out of the main things that the clinician mentioned - people don't listen to other parts, and the only time the band actually plays softly is when there are only a few people playing - because those are the things that I've been complaining about since I joined. hee.) As far as I can tell, I will be playing Bsax in the summer session. Whee? I mean, it's my preferred instrument, but I get tired of hauling it around to all the summer gigs. This year, they've rearranged the schedule a bit, and two (lightly attended) park gigs have been either removed or replaced with outreach concerts, so that will be a bit easier. I will still miss the last summer gig because I'll be in Interlochen.

Still wearing many hats at work. Still waiting for Sup to schedule a moving day. (Maybe I'll poke TE myself.) GC for the office remodel returned the keys yesterday, and then yesterday afternoon we discovered that the AC unit for the old building wasn't running. Thermostat says "cool", info panel on furnace says "cool", compressor not running. HVAC guy is already scheduled for next month sometime (annual system checkup), and it will be annoying to have him out twice. Maybe he can do the system check when he comes out to check on the AC. And there's a clog in the drains somewhere between the building and the septic tank. The question is exactly where? upstream or downstream of the clearout? not my problem.

Starting to really work on the garden. Finished half of the E bed (the area that I didn't get to in the fall); and raked leaves out of the NE garden, although they're still piled on the lawn because I got called away for other things. I'll go finish that this morning before the rains come. Tomorrow when I'm out I need to get more garden gloves. I bought a pack of inexpensive ones four or five years ago, and the last pair is getting a bit ragged.

J cleared grass out of the pond early in the week, and he said he didn't see any frogs, but the last couple of days there has been a toad chorus (at least three!) in the pond area, and today it really sounds like frog "chatter", not birds or toads, so maybe they were just hiding.
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BC is back at work, so last week I actually wrote down the plan for the sliding-tile game that is the basement rearrangement. (Sup wanted it all written out, not just a map. She really wants to get the shed sorted out, but we can't do that until we get the election infrastructure into the basement. And I only want to move it once!)

Tuesday's clinician visit to LCCB went really well. He worked us a lot harder than DM usually does, and really seemed to concentrate on the middle voices (baritone, tsax, low clarinets), so I had two days of hard musical work in a row. I was very tired on Wednesday.

I've been working in the garden when I can, but it's been a typical April -- cold and rainy one day, nice and sunny the next, usually with the nice days on days I have other things to do. I spent over an hour picking up branches yesterday morning, and then last night we got more wind, so there are *more* branches to be picked up (well, and the ones I didn't get to yesterday). I should do those today, but I need to run to the grocer (I had to stay home yesterday for Reasons).

sigh....

Apr. 9th, 2025 03:13 pm
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BC is back in the office. She's feeling much better -- they gave her a PICC line and daily IV antibiotics. In the week+ she was out of the hospital barely tolerating the oral antibiotics, the lung infection localised into a mass in one lung, but that began shrinking as soon as they started her on IV antibiotics. (the doc still biopsied it, but was pretty sure it was just an abcess, because antibiotics don't work on tumors.)

So I'm back to doing my job, which I'm falling behind on because of the time I'm spending doing a job I'm not really trained for. KB sat down with me last week and we did expense checks, so now I know how to do that. whee?

I trundled off last week to the hand specialist. I was not impressed. It very much seemed as though he'd decided what the issue was, and I didn't have anything useful to add. He poked at the thumb, had me do a few movements, manipulated it a bit, and said "wear the brace all the time. if it doesn't get better, come back and see me in a month". Yeah, no. There's a reason I'm only wearing it some of the time....

In music news, gaahh! Yesterday was LCCb rehearsal, and I was flailing badly. Then PS pointed out that it was effectively only my second rehearsal, as I'd missed last week and played bari for the first two weeks. Made me feel a bit better, but I'm still flailing. Two more rehearsals until the concert, and next week is a clinician, so really only one rehearsal. We shall see. I suspect that all I have to do is actually sit down and practice the frilly bits. (SR claimed that the theme song of the Michigan concert band/wind symphony scene is "It's A Small World", and the clinician is one of J's high school buddies. Whom I played with at Interlochen AllState in 1981.)
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BC is back in hospital. I do not *know* why, but I suspect that her system is not tolerating the strong oral antibiotics well, and so they need to be administered intravenously. She finished the first round of strong antibiotics, but apparently the pneumonia did not clear up as the docs wanted it to, so.....

So yesterday I did payroll. whee? (and Sup and Treas were off at a state meeting, so it was me and the office manager.) Tomorrow, S & T should be back, so I can consult with T about getting the GL entry for April's payroll done, and see if BC did the one for March. If she didn't, I need to do that one before I do April. I may have to do checks this month as well -- last month, BC came back for a week and was able to do them while dodging moving crews. (I don't like doing anything that requires me to sign in as BC, because if my account doesn't have permissions, then I shouldn't be doing them, right?)

Last night, a smaller FCB (just around 50 people) did a 30 minute gig before the State of the Cities address in Farmington/Farmington Hills. It required nearly as much work as a full 90 minute concert. Perhaps a bit more, as I had to figure out a smaller layout that would fit in a smaller space. I dug out the seat "dots" (that we used in 2021 when the layout was different nearly every week) so that BM and I didn't have to point everyone to their seat.

And today it rains. nearly an inch since 8 am (it's currently 1230!), and they say we'll get more. And it's cold. (35F and rain is hard to dress for -- winter jackets aren't waterproof enough, rain coats aren't warm enough and mine aren't big enough to put warm layers under. Maybe I should remedy that....)
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now that all the upstairs moving is done, I need to get back into the basement and get the clerk's stuff all back into the space where it belongs.

But the supervisor is saying "we need to sort the stuff in the shed"! I mean, she's not wrong, but there's 20+ voting booths currently in the shed that need to be put into the basement before we can work out there.

BC wants me to take Sup downstairs tomorrow, and say "this is what I need to have moved before I can put anything else (like the voting booths, or the 10 linear feet of shelf stuff currently in the FO space) away. We need a moving crew to do it. Please schedule one, or BC will." I think I need another set of shelves for the election stuff, but I can't be sure until I have the available space cleared. I know we need another "random stuff" shelf, but that's pretty easy -- the only question there is "one unit or two". Again, I won't know until I see the space available *and* get a better handle on the volume of stuff that needs to be stored.

Chilly again today, but sunny. I probably should have gotten into the garden with a rake, but it's a bit cool for that. Maybe this weekend, if it warms up before it rains....

The sandhill cranes have returned to the backyard. I think it's a pair we've had before, because they are unfazed by a cat (or two) coming out. The birds lift their heads, and watch, but then go back to poking at the ground once they've determined what it is. They stop what they're doing when J comes up the driveway on a motorcycle, but decide pretty quickly that it's not a threat either.
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Yesterday was moving day. I went in about 9 am, and finished packing the top drawer of one filing cabinet, the loose stuff out of the other filing cabinet, and BC's desk drawers. I moved the boxes of ballots into the corner of the boardroom. NW and I moved the small table out of the office into the lunchroom and moved the desk from the lunchroom into our new space, then I put the small file cabinet under that desk.

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