So I’m a month older than I was the last time I sat down to write something here – and a couple of pounds lighter thanks to renewing walking and cutting out as much processed sugar as possible. Don’t get me wrong: I’m still a fat bastard, but I’m a little less so now.
At work, we’re in the doldrums after tax season, and so it’s interview season. I’ve done a bunch in the last month, and they’ve been a pretty good crop, actually. I think offer letters have been sent out to two and we’ve got two others going through background and drug tests. Hoping to have them on board in the next 10 days or so. I’m also promoting my one Junior Consultant to a salaried Level 1 position on or about July 1, which is nice. She’s been a junior for longer than I would’ve liked, but I had a talk with her at the beginning of last month and told her I needed her to step up. She did. Assuming she did okay on the test I gave her yesterday, she’s ready to move up and I won’t have any juniors on the team….until the newbies come in.
Need to mow half of the front lawn today, and I’m hoping I can actually get my edger working so I can edge everything. The stupid thing just sort of died on me a couple of weeks ago, so I’ve got one half of one side of my driveway edged at this point. I’ve tried on three occasions to get it to start and keep running, but so far it’s been good for about 5 minutes before it quits. If I can’t keep it running today, I guess I’ll be making a trip to Home Depot for a new one. It’s amazing how much better my lawn looks when it’s been edged.
The band played a concert at Reinhart College (hope I spelled that right) a week and a half ago. It’s in Cherokee County, well north of Atlanta, and at about 20 minutes before downbeat our solo horn player sent a message that he wasn’t coming. Needless to say, there were some bad words following that. A couple of the pieces on the concert had fairly exposed solo horn parts, so our 1st horn learned those as quickly as possible and I learned the 1st horn part as quickly as possible. Another exposed part had to be transcribed for the flugel player, since all three horn parts were needed. Made it through the performance okay.
A couple of days after that, we had a board meeting, in which it was pretty much unanimously decided that the solo horn player won’t be returning for the 2019-2020 season. The big question is who’ll play that part. The 1st horn player and I have both said we’d like to play it at times, but not exclusively – it’s a painful part to play if you haven’t developed a high-range embouchure. I’m sort of hoping that Andrew (1st horn) will bite the bullet and do it, so that I can move back to 1st horn – which has always been my favorite horn part. Then we can recruit somebody to take my spot on 2nd.
Or if they want to try me on solo, I’ll do that, too. It’ll hurt for a few months, but might be a good learning experience for me, and could force me to deal with the stage fright that I’ve always had when playing solos.
Have plans to do some housework this afternoon – cleaning out my master bedroom, primarily. I’ve had a twin bed in there for the last few months (moved my queen to the guest room before Cy and “T” visited), and at first I was getting great sleep in it because the cats didn’t fit on it and pretty much left me alone. That’s changed in the last couple of weeks. They still don’t fit, so they just jump all over me and make sleeping pretty much impossible. Time to bring the queen back into play.
It is now officially summer in Georgia, and it’s been officially HOT for several weeks. Temps today should be in the mid-90s, which makes the thought of cleaning my room a bit more palatable than the thought of mowing the lawn.
But they’ve both gotta get done, so I guess I’ll go get started.