Sunday. Project day. What to work on today ( Read more... )

Day four. Dad needed some stuff from Sam's and he asked if I wanted to go; what the heck. I showered and dressed right away and we were out the door when my hair was still wet. However, as we pulled into the lot, he went, I wonder if they're open yet? Well, they were open if you were a business member; plebes like us couldn't get in until 10. ( Read more... )

The weather has been weird again. It was seasonal for much of last week, if humid, then on Friday it was barely in the 70s. It popped right back up to seasonal plus pea soup humidity; dewpoints were in the 70s today, and the air temperature 20 degrees above that. The air conditioners were cranking. When we talked with grandma today, she ( Read more... )

It's hard to believe, but I've been a musician for thirty years now. Thirty years ago this month, we had band sign-up day. It was in the gym of my grade school, and we likely got to try out different instruments, but my mind had been made up since at least the first grade three years earlier: I would play the flute. They could convince me to ( Read more... )

With the recent warm weather, it's been getting us into a spring-ish mood. I cracked open a couple windows yesterday, and even left mine open overnight. It actually wasn't that cold in my room, surprisingly enough, but I wouldn't call it warm, either. Mom spent much of the day going through her bathroom. She has a soaking tub in there that ( Read more... )

Rehearsal #2 on the week ( Read more... )

My days of being in the band may be over for now, but there's still flute choir, and we'll be performing at the band's Christmas concert in a couple months. Time to start practicing! It was nice to see the ladies again, and it was fun to play, though it's funny how out of practice I already am--I was not able to hold my air for long at first, but ( Read more... )

There were some interesting things that happened over the weekend that I wanted to get down ( Read more... )

This was the beginning of my weird Thursday. I'm not fancy enough to have a work-based email, so if I need to send something to a coworker, I have to use my own. No biggie. Plus, it allows me to check one of my email accounts while I'm working--without guilt--so bonus. And, first thing yesterday, I get a letter from the flute choir leader. One ( Read more... )

Now that I've joined a flute choir, I'm getting back into practicing. The leader sent me two more pieces last weekend, so now I have seven songs I'm working on. (Note: It's flute choir night, so this actually was written Wednesday night and postdated.) I'm finding that, while much of the music isn't too hard, there are some tricky bits. Time to ( Read more... )