Catching up

The Last FKO (which, it turns out, may not be the last; there is a new con chair and some new concom members) worked out fairly well.  I did a lot of the pre-trip organization, and we ended up driving up with four in my Forester, Alice and Lauren as usual and Gabrielle because she was looking for a ride.  It required some world-class Tetrising but I was up to the job, and the Forester is very nice to travel in.  The con itself was much fun, and the way the hotel was arranged meant I could always eat outside or in our room so I could keep my mask on pretty much everywhere else.

I have two major projects coming due.  I am putting together the booklet for the local League of Women Voters and I am recording a mandolin and an octave mandolin track for a song on Lauren’s album.

Fortunately the bullet journal app I have been using has meant that I have stayed on top of getting things from people to put in the booklet, and it went out for proofreading yesterday and all I have to do is enter the suggested alterations, have my husband proofread it again and enter his suggested alterations, and I have the rest of the week to do that.  Early next week I take it to the printers to have 25 or 30 copies made. 

I ran the rough draft of the mando and octave mando lines past Lauren and she generally liked it but wants one change so I need to try re-recording the octave mando line strumming with my thumb instead of a pick.  But there’s no point sending in the final files until early next week, so I also have a little breathing room on that.

In other news I have entered almost all the Chamberfilk tunes into Finale.  One of the benefits of being the one to enter them is that nobody complains when I pick them also, so we’ll be doing one of my tunes (Wild Rose, which I think is reasonably simple but also melodic), as well as Banks of Sicily, Ship of Stone, and Morning Has Broken.   I have entered all the melodies; I just need to enter the chords now.  I am wondering if it would be nice to have, like, harmonies and stuff, but I have no idea who will show up to play or how capable of players they will be.

I have a guitar-lute which I am going to give to a friend, but I think it needs a little work to be in tip-top shape for her so I’m going to look into having that done.  Local luthiers seem to be fairly busy and not as interested in the job as I would have expected but I have a place I can take it to so they can look it over, so I guess that is the next step.