Tuesday
It's Tuesday, and the weather is excellent. We have doors and windows open, at least for a day or so. Tomorrow snow is in the forecast.
My DNS host seems to have evaporated this morning, so things like Organlive have fallen off the map. It doesn't seem to be that way for everybody, the stream is still up and running. The host's website is unavailable as well. Hope that sorts itself out.
Yesterday was my birthday. I didn't do anything especially birthday-like except that zinniz and I went to the melting pot for dinner. It wouldn't really have been my first choice for a special birthday dinner, but I had an AGO meeting in the loop, and the melting pot is right across the street from Bill's church.
I got to hand in my choices for nominees to the committee yesterday. I wasn't really aware that they can't do anything about the nominees but accept them. That's good to get that out of the way. It wasn't a completely horrible task, but it was a big step.
My next goal is to eliminate the paper newsletter and its editor. It's completely personal. I purchased a half-page ad for the recitals, and she apparently didn't have space for it, but she didn't let me know, so we went ahead and sent a check. She's on the list.
The postcards went out okay. It turns out that despite what I had been initially told, the church's printer will do two-sided card stock. I wrote a script to create a PDF with the addresses already in place (no, not a mail merge). Then all I had to do was cut them and run them through the postage machine. That took less than half an hour all told. I put them in the mail on Friday, and one showed up here on Saturday. On Saturday morning I had the color posters printed. They look nice.
We finished tuning the organ at Third yesterday. I wish my Peterson tuner hadn't died. It was tricky tuning the loud reeds without it. Setting a temperament with a cell-phone tuner seems to work okay, but it's not my preferred method. Temperatures are still a little weird, so I may end up redoing part of it in a few weeks. After tuning, I spent some time reading and relearning about the Syndyne system. I finally got the expression shoes like I want so that the all swells is next to the crescendo. I have two other things to work on, getting the pedal reversibles to work, which should be easy if they're wired properly, and finally installing the zimbelstern. That's going to be easier than I thought, I just need to buy more power cord to get that going.
There are still two dead primaries that the Reuter guys told me were just armature adjustments. They weren't. Also, the new tuning sleeves on the big 16 reed have a habit of falling down. Too bad they didn't just use scrolls. I just sent an email to JR to remind me why they prefer sleeves over scrolls.
So today is poster-hanging day. I was going to start early, but places aren't open early, and my first lesson got cancelled, so that gives me a little more time. Plus the weather is excellent today, so it's a nice day to go out for a walk.
In two weeks, this LJ will be a teenager.
My DNS host seems to have evaporated this morning, so things like Organlive have fallen off the map. It doesn't seem to be that way for everybody, the stream is still up and running. The host's website is unavailable as well. Hope that sorts itself out.
Yesterday was my birthday. I didn't do anything especially birthday-like except that zinniz and I went to the melting pot for dinner. It wouldn't really have been my first choice for a special birthday dinner, but I had an AGO meeting in the loop, and the melting pot is right across the street from Bill's church.
I got to hand in my choices for nominees to the committee yesterday. I wasn't really aware that they can't do anything about the nominees but accept them. That's good to get that out of the way. It wasn't a completely horrible task, but it was a big step.
My next goal is to eliminate the paper newsletter and its editor. It's completely personal. I purchased a half-page ad for the recitals, and she apparently didn't have space for it, but she didn't let me know, so we went ahead and sent a check. She's on the list.
The postcards went out okay. It turns out that despite what I had been initially told, the church's printer will do two-sided card stock. I wrote a script to create a PDF with the addresses already in place (no, not a mail merge). Then all I had to do was cut them and run them through the postage machine. That took less than half an hour all told. I put them in the mail on Friday, and one showed up here on Saturday. On Saturday morning I had the color posters printed. They look nice.
We finished tuning the organ at Third yesterday. I wish my Peterson tuner hadn't died. It was tricky tuning the loud reeds without it. Setting a temperament with a cell-phone tuner seems to work okay, but it's not my preferred method. Temperatures are still a little weird, so I may end up redoing part of it in a few weeks. After tuning, I spent some time reading and relearning about the Syndyne system. I finally got the expression shoes like I want so that the all swells is next to the crescendo. I have two other things to work on, getting the pedal reversibles to work, which should be easy if they're wired properly, and finally installing the zimbelstern. That's going to be easier than I thought, I just need to buy more power cord to get that going.
There are still two dead primaries that the Reuter guys told me were just armature adjustments. They weren't. Also, the new tuning sleeves on the big 16 reed have a habit of falling down. Too bad they didn't just use scrolls. I just sent an email to JR to remind me why they prefer sleeves over scrolls.
So today is poster-hanging day. I was going to start early, but places aren't open early, and my first lesson got cancelled, so that gives me a little more time. Plus the weather is excellent today, so it's a nice day to go out for a walk.
In two weeks, this LJ will be a teenager.