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Friday's big priority was to take myself and my piano to the library, set up for the wine tasting, and play a couple of hours, then knock down. I practiced all day, hoping my injured wrist wouldn't let me down. Around 4, I loaded the piano in my car in the light drizzle. Sandy helped me heave the 75-pound instrument up the narrow steps.
I brought a fan and was in control of my own temperature all evening. At 6, the event began. I had to adjust to the somewhat shocking sound of my piano playing really loud to reach the crowd below. I should have put my ear plugs in. Delicacies were being served below. I had some.
The cheap printer did a slack job on the program book. All the greys had dropped out -- like they shot from a copy of the copy I gave them (along with a printable PDF which I doubt they used). I could have done a better job than that on any copier I have ever worked with. I told my contact I wanted a proof, but never got one.
I woke up this morning, still a back-weary. Sarah and I went to Mittineague Park with Traigh and Shane, hiking to the soccer fields, playing a while, then hiking back home. Then this afternoon, Sarah and I hiked to join Cathy for kid activities at Westfield state -- coloring, mask-making, pumpkin painting, sand art, bounce house, and some food -- our parking spot was on the far side of campus, and we went through the woods to get there. On the way back, Cathy gave us a ride to my car.
I had earlier checked on SD cards for my new camera, and found that the neato model that folds and becomes its own USB drive was available there. The 1GB card was $39.99. I checked to see how much the 2GB card was, and it was $35.99. I bought it online, and we picked it up at Circuit City this afternoon, so now I have room for about three times as many photos as we took on our entire China trip.
Speaking of which, I put up a new flickr photoset of some China pictures -- specifically, tea and teapots. Short and stout, tall and willowy, but all with a handle and a spout. Here's one sample, reduced in size so as not to bust anybody's flist window. If you like tea or ceramics, though, please go view the whole set. Or try to (and if you can't, give me the particulars so I can pass them on to the alert folks at the help desk).
Dodecahedral teapot Teapot with the twelve signs of the Chinese place mat. I mean, the Chinese zodiac. This was the second neatest teapot I saw.
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Friday's big priority was to take myself and my piano to the library, set up for the wine tasting, and play a couple of hours, then knock down. I practiced all day, hoping my injured wrist wouldn't let me down. Around 4, I loaded the piano in my car in the light drizzle. Sandy helped me heave the 75-pound instrument up the narrow steps.
I brought a fan and was in control of my own temperature all evening. At 6, the event began. I had to adjust to the somewhat shocking sound of my piano playing really loud to reach the crowd below. I should have put my ear plugs in. Delicacies were being served below. I had some.
The cheap printer did a slack job on the program book. All the greys had dropped out -- like they shot from a copy of the copy I gave them (along with a printable PDF which I doubt they used). I could have done a better job than that on any copier I have ever worked with. I told my contact I wanted a proof, but never got one.
I woke up this morning, still a back-weary. Sarah and I went to Mittineague Park with Traigh and Shane, hiking to the soccer fields, playing a while, then hiking back home. Then this afternoon, Sarah and I hiked to join Cathy for kid activities at Westfield state -- coloring, mask-making, pumpkin painting, sand art, bounce house, and some food -- our parking spot was on the far side of campus, and we went through the woods to get there. On the way back, Cathy gave us a ride to my car.
I had earlier checked on SD cards for my new camera, and found that the neato model that folds and becomes its own USB drive was available there. The 1GB card was $39.99. I checked to see how much the 2GB card was, and it was $35.99. I bought it online, and we picked it up at Circuit City this afternoon, so now I have room for about three times as many photos as we took on our entire China trip.
Speaking of which, I put up a new flickr photoset of some China pictures -- specifically, tea and teapots. Short and stout, tall and willowy, but all with a handle and a spout. Here's one sample, reduced in size so as not to bust anybody's flist window. If you like tea or ceramics, though, please go view the whole set. Or try to (and if you can't, give me the particulars so I can pass them on to the alert folks at the help desk).
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