The third and final contest I was judging for Mrs. S was last Saturday. Lucky for me, this one was for the smallest of the three programs and started later in the day, so I didn't have to get up at 5 AM! Woohoo! It makes such a difference getting to leave at 7:30 as opposed to having to be there at 7:30 ( Read more... )

1. My car
I took my car in for an oil change on Monday. Two days and lots of money later, I got it back. This is what cracked me up--I'd been at the dealership for a couple hours before the guy came up and told me what the techs found. He's going through this litany of things--and, oh yeah, Merlin definitely did NOT replace my oxygen sensor--and ( Read more... )

Monday ended up being an important day in the long, storied history of Regular Band. However, it started off like any other rehearsal--and in the midst of it, was par for the course for rehearsals of late ( Read more... )

I needed a few things for work but kept forgetting 1) to write down what I needed, then 2) to go. When work was busy, I'd write down a few things here and there, so I had a collection of little notes at home, but I needed to consolidate them and make a formal list. Then, I needed to get off my butt ( Read more... )

I finished my Christmas shopping today ( Read more... )

After talking to my boss yesterday, he left it that he was going to think about the situation, talk with YC, and get back to me on when I could return to work. I said, call me. When I didn't get a call by the close of business, I figured, okay, guess I'm not going back tomorrow. That's fine. I want to be sure everyone's okay with my coming back ( Read more... )

Note: I had a family member whose birthday fell on 2-29. He passed away in 2009, but he'd be 17 today. Or 68 if you count by non-leap day years. Apparently his kids were very excited when they "surpassed" him in age around their teenage years. Scarily enough, his oldest grandchild will turn 13 this year. How did that happen... (And that's the ( Read more... )

I ran an errand after work. I've needed to go to Office Max for a while; I'm low on printer paper, plus I needed tape for a work project. I'd also thought about getting a mini-filing system for some work papers and they happened to have something that seemed useful. However, I'd recently gotten an idea to customize a discbound notebook to turn ( Read more... )

It's been a few weeks since we last met. Two weeks ago, nearly everyone else had conflicts, so we canceled. Last week, the director was guest-conducting at the assistant director's school, so we canceled. This week, it was just Harold and Marian and me. I got there about 7:15 and could tell they were there, as the gate was unlocked and Marian's ( Read more... )

I have a lot of notes and things that I take with me to camp. For a few years now, I've brought lists on sheets of paper and attached them to a clipboard, which made it easy to carry them around and store them in my bag. I've also had a small notebook so I can jot things down as they happen, which is handy when I want to make comments at the ( Read more... )