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kayreIt's been a while.. what's been going on?
Last week the kidlet was offered her old job back, in Vermont. It was a tough choice, she spent days on it-- and decided to stay here in Albany. Main reason, in the end, was that she doesn't want to be a cook all her life, and the Vermont job is so comfortable that it would be hard to break away. Here she's got a less comfortable cook position, but forward momentum in a couple other areas of her life.
My arm is still healing, but there's still a little crater that hasn't closed. I see the doctor again tomorrow; he has mentioned the possibility of restitching it. It is small enough now to cover with a large adhesive bandage, which is a relief after a month of wearing a gauze pad held in place by a stretchy mesh tube (which my piano student calls my elbow sock). Saturday there was a large funeral at church, and during the reception afterwards probably a dozen people chummily linked arms with me as we talked! So the elbow sock is coming back for big church events for a while!
After months of planning and negotiating the church has a new sound system. It's been a very challenging process for me. Attempts to upgrade the system had been dragging on for years before I came, and there was a grim determination to get the job done this time-- and I felt deeply uncomfortable with the sound designer they were working with. Professionally, he's very invested in contemporary praise band style worship, and I felt he was pushing us towards the kind of system needed for that; and personally, he was very LOUD and longwinded, so that it was hard for me to even be in the room with him. I gave in to the inevitable, and just pressed to get everything I could possibly use added to the system.
Surprisingly, once he got the contract Sound Guy became a bit quieter and much less long-winded, and we began to have some decent conversations during the installation. And as he put the finishing touches on, he gave me a couple of real gifts. We decided to mike the piano, so that we can very lightly boost it in the front of the church; it sits in the back, in a really awful position, right in front of the organ pipe box (as the worst aspect of an otherwise improved arrangement back there). That boost vastly improves a not-wonderful instrument. And because of its location in front of the pipes-- we are actually doing some subtle magic on the organ, creating a hint of reverb where there is virtually none, and also boosting the rather wimpy bass (only one 16' stop).
Next challenge-- selecting a new electronic keyboard/digital piano for the church, and persuading my committee to actually go through with buying it. There's designated memorial money that's been sitting idle for FAR too long, and the keyboard will be truly useful.
Last week the kidlet was offered her old job back, in Vermont. It was a tough choice, she spent days on it-- and decided to stay here in Albany. Main reason, in the end, was that she doesn't want to be a cook all her life, and the Vermont job is so comfortable that it would be hard to break away. Here she's got a less comfortable cook position, but forward momentum in a couple other areas of her life.
My arm is still healing, but there's still a little crater that hasn't closed. I see the doctor again tomorrow; he has mentioned the possibility of restitching it. It is small enough now to cover with a large adhesive bandage, which is a relief after a month of wearing a gauze pad held in place by a stretchy mesh tube (which my piano student calls my elbow sock). Saturday there was a large funeral at church, and during the reception afterwards probably a dozen people chummily linked arms with me as we talked! So the elbow sock is coming back for big church events for a while!
After months of planning and negotiating the church has a new sound system. It's been a very challenging process for me. Attempts to upgrade the system had been dragging on for years before I came, and there was a grim determination to get the job done this time-- and I felt deeply uncomfortable with the sound designer they were working with. Professionally, he's very invested in contemporary praise band style worship, and I felt he was pushing us towards the kind of system needed for that; and personally, he was very LOUD and longwinded, so that it was hard for me to even be in the room with him. I gave in to the inevitable, and just pressed to get everything I could possibly use added to the system.
Surprisingly, once he got the contract Sound Guy became a bit quieter and much less long-winded, and we began to have some decent conversations during the installation. And as he put the finishing touches on, he gave me a couple of real gifts. We decided to mike the piano, so that we can very lightly boost it in the front of the church; it sits in the back, in a really awful position, right in front of the organ pipe box (as the worst aspect of an otherwise improved arrangement back there). That boost vastly improves a not-wonderful instrument. And because of its location in front of the pipes-- we are actually doing some subtle magic on the organ, creating a hint of reverb where there is virtually none, and also boosting the rather wimpy bass (only one 16' stop).
Next challenge-- selecting a new electronic keyboard/digital piano for the church, and persuading my committee to actually go through with buying it. There's designated memorial money that's been sitting idle for FAR too long, and the keyboard will be truly useful.
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Date: 2015-06-23 12:25 pm (UTC)