Nice to have a mostly-open Sunday after a very-overscheduled past week. The Friday before last weekend, my dad was due to arrive mid-afternoon from Durham. But the weather was all thunderstormy and everything got postponed or cancelled. They actually boarded his flight and got out to the runway, then had to turn back. Then, every …
Turn turn turn
One of my favorite writers asked, on FB, when (ignoring the calendar) we felt like the seasons changed. I think she was going for a weather-related feeling, but to me, it is the calendar, and not the official dates. Summer is Memorial Day to Labor Day, duh. Fall... well, undecided whether it goes until Thanksgiving …
Flashback: 2006
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 …
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 …
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