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 …
But enough about me
It's Pride Sunday here in NYC (we are big enough to have several Prides, but today is the big one in Manhattan). I was looking forward to actually going, but I still look a fright from my fall last week. I'm not in pain at all, unless you for some reason decide to squeeze the …
Happy Pride Month!
This was my view when I drafted this: Port Jefferson I’d forgotten I had Juneteenth off, so booked a quick Sunday overnight trip to Port Jefferson, on the Long Island sound - and I just got home. More on that later. So.. May was a whirlwind, June less so, but a lot to ketchup on. …
A year
Christamighty, I'm behind, and this is very obviously the next post to write, and I just ... well, I don't have a plan. Let's see what happens. May 20th was the anniversary of Charles's death. It was a Saturday, so I'd planned a gathering for Sunday. I really wanted it to be Charles's old crew, …
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