VAAAAACAAAAASHUUUNNNNNN!

[etumukutenyak]

Technically, my time off began on Friday, but that was taken up with a retirement party for someone in our office, plus driving around on various small errands. I didn't have the chance to sleep late or avoid getting in the car -- unlike today. I slept in a tiny bit, got up to help Honey with her laptop (an official one) that somehow Sonny had "borrowed" to his room, and now is not working. Even attempting to boot in Safe Mode didn't work. Sonny has some 'splaining to do, eh?

After that, I got a cuppa, a slice of blueberry bread, and the paper from yesterday (unfinished due to extra work), and crawled back into my nice warm bed. After I finished the paper, I had a lovely little nap, then got up and got to slaving away in the various front rooms.

We've been redoing closets, so one closet no longer holds coats (now a linen closet). All the coats are thusly piled in the front room, so I cleaned out the closet in the sun room (which is now more properly labeled the ICE ROOM, as it is COLD out there) and moved some coats over. I've also got the camping box to close up and move into the basement, and then I can shift to the upstairs to clean the guest room. It hasn't been used as a guest room in quite some time, because it had been Honey's "home office" for a while, and it's full of her old files in boxes all over the place. I'm going to scan some documents onto CD or DVD for storage, and store the rest in the basement with the cats, which requires some preplanning as I'll have to put together the last shelving unit (still in its box). Metro shelving is very nice -- sturdy, easy to put together and results in a minimum of swearing. But before I put up the shelving unit, I'll have to clean out a spot to park it, which means that before I can get to work on the guest room, I have to spend some time in the basement.

Planning ahead, yeah.

Yesterday the bells played "Little Drummer Boy" and "O Come Thou Long Expected Jesus". All of us played in LDB, which is a nice song full of eighth notes and people have a tendency to rush ahead when there's more fast little notes. We managed to stay on target and even sounded nice. Our director played the triangle and a drum to round out the sound. He's a talented musician -- he also played his trumpet in a solo at the end, and his valve was stuck, so he transposed his music up in order to play the piece. On the fly, as he was playing, he was mentally transposing all his notes. Yes, he's a middle school music teacher, how did you guess?

All right. Back to the front room, to finish moving coats to the Ice Room, then to the basement to find the contact information for the heat pump company (annual checkup time) and the shelving unit. Don't wait up for me.

Comments

[i-calql8.livejournal.com]

Can I have the crossword puzzle when you're done with that paper, dahlink?

My 'vacation' so far sounds similar to yours--cleaning and re-organizing, with some eBay thrown in. Got the vacuuming done, now about to sweep/scrub the kitchen floor, wash dishes, and hamperize any unauthorized articles of clothing. Good times, good times...still, worst day cleaning > best day teaching.

And I definitely would not like to be Sonny right now.

[etumukutenyak.livejournal.com]

::hands over Style section:: Puzzle away, dahlink.

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Have a good holiday. :)

[etumukutenyak.livejournal.com]

And you too!

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

Particularly since Sonny has his own laptop now!

I used to transpose music by sight all the time. A lot of the churches we went to when I was a kid wanted orchestral accompaniment for the hymns and if I was playing clarinet, I had to transpose from the hymnals. A lot of times they preferred clarinet to oboe, even though I played oboe well. I used to play bells, too, and I always played the big ones and incidental ones because I was the strongest and the best musician in the group.

Since CDs & DVDs eventually die, you might want to get some online storage and back them up there, too.

Have a good vacation!

[etumukutenyak.livejournal.com]

Yes, Sonny needs to not play with other computers anymore. If he wants to break his computer, it's a learning experience. If he tries it with other computers, it's grounding time. ;-)

I used to sight read quite well, but I trained intensively when I was young, because I don't hear the notes (I see and feel them). More than 25 years later, that's gone. Still, being able to transpose on the fly is a talent worthy of note, pun intended.

Good point about the online storage -- that, in fact, is the kind of company my brother works for. I'm hoping most of these things can actually be shredded and recycled, rather than stored. She's changed her field of interest again (from sleep to drugs!, and doesn't really need to hang onto the old papers and such).

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

You got him one with XP? So it's something he's familiar with, and he shouldn't need to use another computer.

I used to be quite a musician. Between lung disease and partially-paralyzed vocal cords, that's changed.

She's curious about things -- has to move around! But yeah, the less you have to store, the better.

[etumukutenyak.livejournal.com]

Well, our desktop is XP; the notebook Eee is Linux -- I figured if he's going to be computer literate, he might as well have a Linux box early on. I don't think he's caught on yet that his computer has a wordprocessing function and that he can actually, like, do homework and stuff. I think he still is in "toy!" mode. He will learn. [insert evil laugh]

She's also been somewhat forced to change -- the sleep research was for the Army, and when the lab stopped having actual money to pay her for the work she was doing, she had to find another job. Now she's gone from contractor to FTE, and sleep to drugs (although she started out in drug research, and shifted to alcohol, and then to sleep...).

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

Oh, he'll have to install Star Office, too. When you first click on it, it has to be installed. Yes, I expect he will learn!

Oh, too bad she's being pushed, then, but at least she has a new job!

[etumukutenyak.livejournal.com]

Nothing beats learning by doing, except doing under the tutelage of a Wise One, and at this age, that isn't going to happen. ;-)

I hope this current job will be the last time she has to make a major change -- she's got good skills for this type of work and should do well in the institute.

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

LOL No wise ones, huh?

Yes, I hope this is the last time, too. It's very disconcerting to keep changing unexpectedly.