I like to start Saturday with a powerwalk, but it's raining... so instead spent a leisurely time reading Teh Internet. Ended up rereading blog posts from seventeen years ago, covering my last trip to the festival for Ruddigore. I'd forgotten that it was a pretty weird time in our life. C's company had announced that …
Author: Eric Peterson
Conductor, hornist, singer, business analyst, New Yorker. Happily gay-married. Knit and ice-skate for fun.
Each to his accustomed place…
... steps unwillingly once more. (Ruddigore quote stolen from Stuart Box, it totally sums up how it feels coming home from the Festival) It's the weekend after getting home and it's been a pretty mellow week and I've been using the weekend to set the apartment back to somewhat normal. Of course, there is a …
It certainly entertained the gapers
OK, back home, back to the salt mines, and happily ripping video clips from the show DVD (to be posted soon). It was a glorious experience, for the most part. Rehearsals were largely a joy. Ruddigore does have a lot of dance, and there were rehearsals early on where, towards the end of the day, …
Singing hey derry down derry
So, as expected, I have not had time or energy to blog. This is the lovely morning off we all get (including me). I've dropped my laundry at the service, have been assured I can pick it up in plenty of time to get to my afternoon rehearsal, and have been spending the morning in …
Here we are at the scene of our former triumphs
I think I have time to do this - it's a little after 7:00 am, I've already had coffee, pills, and read the NY Times and done the Wordle. Need to get the machinery going at 7:30 or so. Flight to Manchester quite painless, and no problem going through customs and picking up luggage. I'm …
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Skol!
Currently in the SAS lounge at the Oslo airport, waiting for my flight to Manchester. Transit from Oslo to airport absolutely no problem - Uber'd to train station, Norwegian driver of Pakistani descent very nice and friendly. Although Brad and Trond had told me the secret of getting to the airport via train cheaper than …
Scandy
That seems to be the new term for 'designed in the Scandinavian style', like furniture and so on. Makes me twitch. But I, for the moment, am back in my father's father's homeland. After some last minute score prep kerfuffle - Act 2 printed pages never arrived from Staples, and I had to print them …
The Swamp before the Storm
Still hot. Still muggy. However, I see the basic temperature range when I'm in Europe is like 50's low, 70's high. That will make packing easier. I know (intellectually) that I don't have to pack for every likely scenario - however, I also know that I'm big enough that finding me clothes over there might …
Strike That. Reverse It.
So I leave for Europe in less than two weeks, and I think I'm on track. I do have a list a mile long of things to think about, but they are getting picked off one by one. I worry about packing, although I've gotten pretty good at it - I don't pack light, and …
Oh, yeah, summer
We've had cool summers before, and it hasn't really gotten that hot yet - but once we crossed that summer-line, it's been muggy as fuck. I put it off for a while, but yesterday I installed the two portable air conditioners. It's pretty easy, although I should probably get some more foam to plug up …
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