![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Instrument case and stuff
Aug. 15th, 2011 09:08 pmI glued the sides to the bottom today. ( The details, for those who are interested. )
In other news, it is finally starting to cool off! Kip and I walked around the block just after sundown and when we came in the house was warmer inside than it was outside! I think this is the first time since May that that's happened. I wasn't expecting that in August, but I'm glad it's here and I sense some serious canoe-time in my future. And--ha!--this time I got the canoe finished *before* prime canoeing time instead of almost missing it completely like I did with Constance.
I got Finale PrintMusic 2011 for my half-birthday (the general birthday celebration we conduct while the family is together) plus an inexpensive-but-got-good-reviews pair of earphones to use for mixing. PrintMusic 2011 is now loaded on the newer laptop (I'm pretty sure the old one won't even run it.) It has changed somewhat from the (2007?) version I was running before, but hopefully not so much I can't work with it. I still need to unpackage the earphones and try them out, but I will do that soon. I went to Carson Newman but they don't have the schedule for the building with the studios yet. I have been slowly getting back into practicing but found that--while I can still play reasonably well, and I can still sing everything, I can no longer play and sing for an hour at a time. Well, plus I bet I've lost a lot of the finer edge of my playing, but right now what I'm noticing is the ache in my hand and the wobbling of my voice. However, I have a plan; I practiced 15 minutes this morning and I'm going to go practice 15 minutes when I'm done here, and see if I can work my way up to a solid half hour in a few days.
Also I missed two Alice Days in the run up to having family over and then while family was visiting. I will try to catch up at some point but I think at the moment I'm aiming to make the next Alice Day at the end of this week.
And I have three more little things to change on the LWV Booklet and then it's ready to print out a copy for our Thursday meeting for the "board" (leadership team?) to sign off on. Then that goes to the printers, a comfortable three weeks before I need to hand it out.
So life is actually pretty good with me. I hope you folks are all doing well too.
In other news, it is finally starting to cool off! Kip and I walked around the block just after sundown and when we came in the house was warmer inside than it was outside! I think this is the first time since May that that's happened. I wasn't expecting that in August, but I'm glad it's here and I sense some serious canoe-time in my future. And--ha!--this time I got the canoe finished *before* prime canoeing time instead of almost missing it completely like I did with Constance.
I got Finale PrintMusic 2011 for my half-birthday (the general birthday celebration we conduct while the family is together) plus an inexpensive-but-got-good-reviews pair of earphones to use for mixing. PrintMusic 2011 is now loaded on the newer laptop (I'm pretty sure the old one won't even run it.) It has changed somewhat from the (2007?) version I was running before, but hopefully not so much I can't work with it. I still need to unpackage the earphones and try them out, but I will do that soon. I went to Carson Newman but they don't have the schedule for the building with the studios yet. I have been slowly getting back into practicing but found that--while I can still play reasonably well, and I can still sing everything, I can no longer play and sing for an hour at a time. Well, plus I bet I've lost a lot of the finer edge of my playing, but right now what I'm noticing is the ache in my hand and the wobbling of my voice. However, I have a plan; I practiced 15 minutes this morning and I'm going to go practice 15 minutes when I'm done here, and see if I can work my way up to a solid half hour in a few days.
Also I missed two Alice Days in the run up to having family over and then while family was visiting. I will try to catch up at some point but I think at the moment I'm aiming to make the next Alice Day at the end of this week.
And I have three more little things to change on the LWV Booklet and then it's ready to print out a copy for our Thursday meeting for the "board" (leadership team?) to sign off on. Then that goes to the printers, a comfortable three weeks before I need to hand it out.
So life is actually pretty good with me. I hope you folks are all doing well too.
