Me, in my recliner this morning, drinking coffee. "Echo, play Renaissance."(I call the machine "Echo" instead of "Alexa" because I work with a lady named Alexa and when we mention her in meetings, the machine wakes up.) The machine plays early music for about 15 minutes. Then decides to start playing the Tchaikovsky violin concerto. …
Author: Eric Peterson
Conductor, hornist, singer, business analyst, New Yorker. Happily gay-married. Knit and ice-skate for fun.
Old Haunts
I was going to write a huge detail-filled post about last weekend, and realized that there was just a lot that would be dull to readers, and a smattering that would be inappropriate to share. So I'll hit the high points. I spent the long weekend in Philadelphia, the city I lived in from graduation …
First Two Weeks
So, the last two weeks have been about checking things off lists. De-Christmassing - I brought the boxes up and started the 'striking' process. As I said on FB, I also inventoried the boxes of ornaments I never bothered to unpack this year. We have SO MANY beautiful ornaments! We collected them on trips, and …
So… 2023!
A nice New Year's weekend, with both social events and downtime, wrapping up the holidays. The work week was nice and quiet. I got a good performance review. But things are going to be very busy starting today, ugh. Also found out right at the end of the week that Citibank had finally created the …
Doing Christmas
Welcome to that weird in-between week between Christmas and New Years! Or, as I saw someone refer to it on FB, the "taint of the year". So, how did Christmas go? Actually, it was fine. You make your to-do list and it seems overwhelming and then somehow it all gets done. I knew I didn't …
May God hold you in the palm of his hand
Last week, I went to my dear friend Vikki's funeral. I'd met Vikki through theater friends and Savoynet - she'd started doing shows in England at the festival in 2002, I started the year afterward. Not long after, I joined two local theater groups she was very active in, and by that point we were …
Brain dump
Sorry, this one is more about emptying my head than providing entertainment value, but... well, we'll see. Since getting back from Thanksgiving, various concerns getting dealt with. At work, I've taken over the testing role on my team as well as keeping my current analysis role. Part of what this involves is doing regression testing …
Thanksgiving
Neglected to mention in the last post that we passed the six-month mark since the thing. Feels like it should have been a milestone, but it really wasn't. He's still gone, I'm still learning how it all works without him - or remembering how to do it. I've been single before. I still continue to …
Guncle
So, one of the open issues from the last few weeks was I was waiting to hear whether I got a particular conducting job - for a show that goes up in April. I'd interviewed for it months ago, had not expected to hear results immediately, but I knew that, per tradition, auditions for that …
Everything Changes
At my job, things are getting shaken up a bit. My team's workload is shrinking, which means people are going to be reassigned to other projects. First, we thought that would be me, with the QA person taking over the (not that complicated) BA work and me going to some new project. Then, my big …
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