Resurfacing

So, my music convention continued well after a rocky start. One clinician was outstanding, several more very good, all worthwhile. Fantastic to get to sing through about 150 church anthems. The experience of recording 6 pieces was amazing and educational. The schedule was relentless, though, and despite skipping a couple of sessions for rest, I arrived home ill, and the next three days were just miserable. In fact I ended up in urgent care Saturday night, after waking up shivering uncontrollably. Tested negative for strep or pneumonia, so they sent me home on max doses of ibuprofen and acetaminophen alternating, which knocked the fever right out. I still tired easily but feel much better.

I've never gotten con crud of this kind of severity before. The nurse suggested, for future events, thorough use of antibacterial stuff plus zinc throat spray.

Now I am gently reentering normal life, for certain values of that-- little about my life will be normal for the next six weeks! Laura is in Vermont, doing some fill-in work at her cafeteria and looking at apartments-- may have found a winner yesterday. She'll move as quickly as possible. Then we close on our house around Sept. 10, and plan to move around the 20th-- allowing some slack in case the closing gets moved back, and also to maybe do some quick work on the house first.

A very good omen today-- the current owner and one of our future neighbors reached out to invite us to a block party there this weekend. They made an extra effort to do so personally rather than go through the realtors. (In some circumstances this would be inappropriate, but after all I found out about the house because of the church connection, and my email is on the church website.) Having lived in places where our neighbors weren't at all social or even friendly, this sign of welcome makes me happy.