Done this weekend (20110812 Fr - 14 Su)

[mdlbear]

0812 Fr
  * up 8:30; W=198.2; drugs
  * WFH.  (not a whole lot of working, but Colleen and Callie are going out
    shopping later, and I've been able to get through my email and copy the
    git repos to my home system already.)
  : Colleen ordered a new charger (because N's couldn't be found) and rented a
    powered recliner for the weekend (pricy, but my stupid for not figuring
    out that we needed to order sooner)
  * mostly done with lunch.  Back on my head.
  * WFH:  2 more features implemented out of the Cosmetics ticket.
  * 3:15 Colleen and Callie out for an Expedition
  * WFH:  put in improved error messages.  Go me!
  @ Top 100 Science-Fiction, Fantasy Books : NPR +Tessara Dudley 
  @ The Door Opener Article Co-counseling.
    see also Re-evaluation Counseling - Theory
  * brief rehearsal

0813 Sa
  * up 8:15; W=198.2; drugs, nose 
  * early: go to Lunardi's for the crab.  BACON!  Bagels on the way home
  * transpose Times to G capo 2
  * scripting edits to Times
  * crab lasagne
    bechemel: 1 stick butter, 3/4 cup flour, milk; a little nutmeg  
    2x(bechemel, noodles, riccotta, crab, mozzerella) + grated cheese
  * 4pm collect Mike W. at SFO
    My flight is VS 0019 arriving at 1550 on the Saturday (which is about
    midnight my time!). I can BART my way to you by the looks of it, if it's
    not convenient to pick me up, although my brain may be a bit out by then! 
  * rehearsal in the evening

0814 Su
  * up 7:38; W=196.6; drugs, nose, teeth, hair, laundry, light
  ~ must leave house by no later than 10:30 to get to SF for lunch date
  * about an hour of rehearsal
  * Mike Whitaker chorded several songs for us
  * noonish take N. and Mike to game
  @ Latex: Squeezing the Vertical White Space | Terminally Incoherent
    \linespread{0.5} instead of the baselineskip hack
  * added indent and Indent environments to song.sty; need to add them to html
  * enter chords for Kitchen Heros; tweaks elsewhere.
  @ TeX Frequently Asked Questions
  * dinner out at Red Lobster with the YD
  * Rehearsal.  Communication difficulties.
    The fundamental problem all weekend was different people's expectations,
    combined with a lot of late-breaking schedule changes, trying to
    squeeze intensive rehearsals in around that, plus Colleen's difficulty
    with our rehearsal style (as opposed to run-throughs, which she likes).

It was a pretty good weekend, on the whole, but there was more friction than was good for us. That's fixable, now that we know how to plan Tempered Glass visits. I'll get to that later.

It was also tiring, with about 500mi worth of driving, and me doing a lot of the cooking, fetching and carrying. With special thanks to the Younger Daughter, who was exceptionally helpful. We took her out to dinner Sunday night, while Callie and Naomi were having dinner with old friends of N's, and Mike Whitaker was visiting the Bohnhoffs. Good times were had.

We got in some good rehearsal time, too, with four songs worked on. One of the problems, though, was trying to cram in an intensive rehearsal session every day, along with shopping expeditions (Callie and Colleen), a baseball game (Naomi and Mike), dinner in San Francisco (Callie and Naomi), and a full day of work from home (me). Yeah. Not a terribly realistic schedule.

One of the other problems was that Colleen, not being a musician herself, really doesn't want to sit on the kind of intensive rehearsals that we do when we're working on new songs. They quite understandably drive her crazy. So...

The conclusion we (well, mostly Naomi, but she's Tempered Glass's artistic director and main inspiration) came to was that, when they're visiting the Starport, it's a social visit. Talking, hanging out, visiting other friends, making music certainly, but if there's time to squeeze in an actual rehearsal it's an extra. In contrast, when I go up to Seattle, it's a "working weekend" and the emphasis will be on getting in some good, solid rehearsal time every day.

Did I mention that we'll be giving a concert at Conflikt? That's the plan. And it'll be almost all new material.

Did I mention the crab lasagne? There was crab lasagne. Also salmon. And cheesy eggs, and bacon.

Plus a surprising anmount of coding done; about an average work-day's worth in spite of being at home Friday and fitting it into the spaces between bouts of insanity.

So, ... a good weekend, but kind of stressful and disappointing because we tried to fit a week-long visit into a weekend, with predictable results. We're learning, though -- next time will be better.

Not a whole lot of links, but you'll find a few in the notes.

Comments

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Ooooo.... crab lasagne. Yum....

Sounds like a *stuffed* weekend. Whew.

[mdlbear]

Overstuffed (moving the metaphor over from food to upholstery), but good. Surprisingly, I lost weight, probably because I didn't have time to snack.

[chaoswolf]

"With special thanks to the Younger Daughter, who was exceptionally helpful."

What? She was helpful? And still swooning over UB who should be...ahem. Not going there in public....grrr...but Helpful? WTF?

"Did I mention the crab lasagne? There was crab lasagne. Also salmon. And cheesy eggs, and bacon."

*Shakes fist at mdlbearDamn you! You're trying to make me homesick.....I hardly ever do this, but I am going to call you an evil bastard.....Now I have to come home for Xmas.

[mdlbear]

*rubs hands gleefully* My work here is done.