Pennsic XLI, Thursday, Peace Week
Thu Aug 2 19:18:30 EDT 2012
Laptop resume from hibernate doesn't take long at all. (Although it is confused about the networking, since the WiFi was turned back on.) Reloading RAM from the disk must draw more power than awaking from suspend, but it hasn't been losing a trickle of power preserving the RAM the whole time it was asleep.
I woke up early this morning - 06:43. I couldn't get back to sleep, so I got up early. This gave me time to look through the day's schedule of classes and go to the camp store for ice for my cooler. I didn't see the cart anywhere (probably in someone's tent overnight?), so getting more than ~20 lbs (?22->kg) wasn't an option. Pop-Tarts and a peach for breakfast again, and cheddar and deviled-chicken spread sandwiches for lunch again.
Today's classes were mostly music. All the classes I picked today had room, all the instructors were there, and all had enough handouts. (For instructors, figuring out how many handouts to bring is a crapshoot. You often don't know how popular your class will be. When it's scheduled and what it may conflict with matters. If you're doing it more than once, and the first class wants 3/4 of your handouts, do you hold back, or hope fewer people will come next time? Or do you try to get more copies made?)
And the Known-World Choir's rehearsals started today. Our camp's land agent is giving the choir a try this year. She's not a great sight-reader, but she's got a strong voice, a good sense of pitch, and an ear for and familiarity with other languages, and I think she'll have the music down by next Thursday if she comes to most of the rehearsals. She's a tenor; the KWC is always short on tenors, and even shorter on basses. The tenor section was pretty solid today. (It helps that I already know 3 of the pieces really well (and I'm one of the stronger voices in this group).) It will really piss anniemal off to find out that Anna and I have something in common, but Annie's whole attitude about Pennsic needs adjusting.
I saw Erin at one of the classes mid-day, and she was (of course) at KWC rehearsal.
Friday 00:25
Getting to bed at an almost decent hour. Had a nice shower. Dinner was delayed a bit because of battery problems for the oven on the gas range. There was a glass-fusing class I could have gone to at 20:00. Considering dinner wasn't ready, I should have gone to the class. It will be offered again Sunday evening, but there may be more people going for it then.
The Rogue LED flashlight is excellent, but it is bulky in my journey bag (belt pouch). But I don't need to carry it with me, since after classes I'm back in camp before dark. Next week though, there's things going on in the evening, with reasons to be out and about, so then I'll need to fit it in. And it's too big to live in my fanny pack the rest of the year. Here's hoping the Link is the solution for both.... (And it's orange. ☺)
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Laptop resume from hibernate doesn't take long at all. (Although it is confused about the networking, since the WiFi was turned back on.) Reloading RAM from the disk must draw more power than awaking from suspend, but it hasn't been losing a trickle of power preserving the RAM the whole time it was asleep.
I woke up early this morning - 06:43. I couldn't get back to sleep, so I got up early. This gave me time to look through the day's schedule of classes and go to the camp store for ice for my cooler. I didn't see the cart anywhere (probably in someone's tent overnight?), so getting more than ~20 lbs (?22->kg) wasn't an option. Pop-Tarts and a peach for breakfast again, and cheddar and deviled-chicken spread sandwiches for lunch again.
Today's classes were mostly music. All the classes I picked today had room, all the instructors were there, and all had enough handouts. (For instructors, figuring out how many handouts to bring is a crapshoot. You often don't know how popular your class will be. When it's scheduled and what it may conflict with matters. If you're doing it more than once, and the first class wants 3/4 of your handouts, do you hold back, or hope fewer people will come next time? Or do you try to get more copies made?)
And the Known-World Choir's rehearsals started today. Our camp's land agent is giving the choir a try this year. She's not a great sight-reader, but she's got a strong voice, a good sense of pitch, and an ear for and familiarity with other languages, and I think she'll have the music down by next Thursday if she comes to most of the rehearsals. She's a tenor; the KWC is always short on tenors, and even shorter on basses. The tenor section was pretty solid today. (It helps that I already know 3 of the pieces really well (and I'm one of the stronger voices in this group).) It will really piss anniemal off to find out that Anna and I have something in common, but Annie's whole attitude about Pennsic needs adjusting.
I saw Erin at one of the classes mid-day, and she was (of course) at KWC rehearsal.
Friday 00:25
Getting to bed at an almost decent hour. Had a nice shower. Dinner was delayed a bit because of battery problems for the oven on the gas range. There was a glass-fusing class I could have gone to at 20:00. Considering dinner wasn't ready, I should have gone to the class. It will be offered again Sunday evening, but there may be more people going for it then.
The Rogue LED flashlight is excellent, but it is bulky in my journey bag (belt pouch). But I don't need to carry it with me, since after classes I'm back in camp before dark. Next week though, there's things going on in the evening, with reasons to be out and about, so then I'll need to fit it in. And it's too big to live in my fanny pack the rest of the year. Here's hoping the Link is the solution for both.... (And it's orange. ☺)
[This entry was originally posted as http://syntonic-comma.dreamwidth.org/538011.html on Dreamwidth (where there are
comments).]