Unexpected Windfall
We had an amateur musicians group concert last week, and it was again standing room only and we had so many donations that the box office was 2x the rental cost. That is unexpected. I think meetup’s e-mail really helped. Though, I don’t know how long this will last.
I played Twinkle twinkle little star from Le Toreador with Lucia and the flautist from Poughkeepsie. Lucia was under the weather (she is constantly under the weather now, with a 3-year-old), but sounded fine, so I was happy about that.
The Treasurer is organising a fundraiser for her community organisation specifically for up-keep of the Steinway at the cemetery that they use as event space. It’s in a month. I volunteered to play Rhapsody in Blue there, thinking a month will be plenty of time to polish it, but then realized I have more concerts. The week before, I’ll accompany the Ukrainian soprano in her audition for next year’s Carnegie hall concert (singing Silvia’s song, so that will be fun), and two weeks later I’ll be playing Juliette’s arias with Lucia at Carnegie Hall. The week after that, I was voluntold to accompany La Professeure’s college friend’s son at a concert (he plays the trumpet, very well now, but the concerto is hard).
So, it’ll be a busy few months. Not quite as busy as the holiday season though.
- S
Do you want to build a snowman
The day after the concert was our blizzard of the season. I noticed more media coverage for this than for the polar vortex we had the previous week. We were more worried about losing power this time, but at least it wasn’t going to be cold - the temperature stayed around freezing the whole time.
We had to stay home and shovel on Monday, but that was it.
And now that the temperature is above freezing, I am hearing a lot of falling chunks of snow and ice around the house.
- N
Magical gossip
I have been turning up a pair of test servers for our partner team that is trying out our new feature. This is not developers’ domain, but our reliability engineers are in Dublin, so a lot of back-and-forth with him for knowledge transfer took a lot of time. I happened to be in office on a Friday (I was going to Carnegie Hall to hear Ivan Fischer’s Mahler 3), and just happened to run into my co-worker who had turned up test servers before, and he helped me get through some steps without having to go through our Ireland coworker. And I only talked to him because we happened to be gossiping with somebody else.
Being in person in the office definitely is useful.
- D
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