I've discovered, since 'the thing', that as much as I love my large and well-decorated apartment, it's a really good idea to get the heck away from it every few weekends. I'd signed up for this Baltimore G&S thing the weekend of May 19th. My buddy Erika, a fine pianist, and friend Michael produce regular …
Author: Eric Peterson
Conductor, hornist, singer, business analyst, New Yorker. Happily gay-married. Knit and ice-skate for fun.
Right as right can be!
I've been through this before, but our local NYC G&S society is an appreciation society, not a performance group, so their meetings are basically attending and enjoying concerts of outside groups, or programs put together by members. I've been performing in and producing these concerts on and off for years - it's a great low-pressure …
Virginia’s not my home
I'm way behind on blogging, so I'll get to the whatcha been doing soon enough. But I'm on a road trip, and on the drive from Baltimore to Charlottesville today, random playlist served up Jim Croce's New York's Not My Home. And, while I like the song and I get it, it got me thinking …
April
So behind I might as well just blitz the month. It hasn't been that interesting, but let's see. We had an earthquake! Not a common thing on the east coast. Even odder, I felt nothing for the earthquake or the aftershocks, even though pretty much everyone else did. I was at home in my (admittedly …
Toronto pt. 3
So... I've spent the weekend in Toronto, lost my wallet, but managed to compensate for that (mostly), had a lovely Sunday of brunch and sightseeing. It's now the last Monday in March and I have two days of conference before I go home. I'd never been to a business analysis conference before. Actually, this was …
Toronto, pt. 2
To review, it's the 2nd to last weekend in March, I'm in Toronto for a conference, and the first day I'm there, I lost my wallet. So now it's Sunday morning, I've done a lot of scrambling, figured out how I'm going to get through the rest of the trip with no wallet, and have …
Toront… oh no…
Way behind on my blogging. Good thing I'm not under contract. I love cities, generally, and I really love Toronto. Actually, I've always had a good time visiting Canada, and have been to Vancouver, Ottawa, Montreal and Quebec at least once. But I've been to Toronto several times - usually in conjunction with a visit …
No telephone communicates with his cell
Had to use that title this week (thank you, KAL!). I'd gotten fed up with an iPhone problem, where tracks weren't copying over correctly from Itunes. You could fix it by unsyncing the music, then resyncing it and forcing it to recopy some fourteen thousand tracks over, but I finally said, OK, maybe time for …
In the room where it happens
My college buddy Carol, a flutist and audiologist who lives in San Francisco, came in last week to celebrate her birthday and see a lot of theater. She stayed with me for the first half of the week. so we had a lot of chances to go out and do stuff. She arrived on Saturday …
Augean Stables
I wanted to start the New Year by concentrating on redoing my estate, as well as (of course) paying attention to my health, losing weight, all those things. I did well on the weight thing for a while, then, with no obvious cause, threw all that over and am now eating and drinking the way …
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