Busy!

Wow.  It’s been a busy week!  Last weekend, we moved our blog to a new hosting company from my old servers.  Self-management has a lot of advantages, but some pretty significant ones for a site that is starting to get some more traffic (lack of backups, restrictions on bandwidth, etc.). 

This week I’ve been working sound for a local high school production of Beauty and the Beast.  They’re doing a great job with the show, but it has been a lot of work stuffed into a pretty short amount of time.  The show opens tonight.  I expect that it will be pretty good.  I hope that they draw some good crowds. 

I’m working at home today, which is a great thing when one has an old house like we do.  I removed the pin that I had keeping the front window from riding up in its track and opened it, brought my stuff out onto the porch, turned on a little bit of music inside, and now I’m working from the comfort of our porch.  This is another reason why I like our neighborhood–I am sitting here working, watching the world go by, saying hello to neighbors, and just getting a chance to enjoy the sun and the fresh air while doing actual work.  This makes me wish that we had a rooftop deck on our building.  I’d work outside as much as I possibly could if we did. 

Spring is a great time for having an old house.  There are old plantings that are coming back to life again, old trees that are putting out leaves, new flowers that are coming up for the first time after being planted over six months ago, and so much more.  I took Jenny to work today, and I got home just in time to see the street sweeper heading up our side of the street.  I parked my car on the opposite side so that the driver could get all the way up our side of the street without obstructions.  Our neighbor Rob heard him coming, too, so he moved his cars out of the way.  Now we have a nice, clean curb.  Yay!  It took a while to get the city to start doing this again at all–now we just need to convince them to come up with some sort of schedule.  Though it might be informal, many of us would be hapy to park on the other side of the street one day every month so that we can have the street sweeper come through and get as much of the curb as possible.  And speaking of interesting sights, my Babcia and our family friend Mrs. Krol just drove past the house here.  I waved, but I don’t think that they saw me.  Then I saw our friend Nancy walking home after dropping off their car at the local garage.  Now I see some other neighbors coming home from Shop’n’Save with their little folding grocery cart thing.  I like living here. 

Well, I need to get some lunch.  I’m going to try a little hot dog shop run by some other family acquaintances out on 366 in Kinloch, then I need to pick up some more Rymer’s Lemon Blennd (yes, there are two n’s in there).  I had a real craving for some after an event last weekend, and now I’ve been enjoying it during the rehearsals for this show.  We just ran out, so I want to grab some more.  If I have enough time, I’m also going to do a quick run around the yard with the mower–it is supposed to rain this Saturday, which would be the only day I’d have available to do it this weekend. 

Off to lunch. 

jonathan