Month: October 2023

We played:

• CORONATION
• TOULON
• FOLKINGHAM
• Dowland: Now, O now; Burst forth, my tears; All ye whom love or fortune hath betraid; Come away, come sweet love
• Praetorius, Bransles and Passepiedz from Terpsichore
• Sermisy, Je ne mange point de porc
• Arcadelt, Il bianco e dolce Cigno

Thanks to Ishmael for taking notes.

We meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm, at 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA. Let me know if you want to come.

We are making progress on the boxes – we’re probably about where I expected to be last May. I can access most of the boxes without help.

I’ve found quite a lot of stuff including the printer and the old desktop computer. It looks like the good stainless flatware has gone forever, but of course it could have ended up under books in a box I haven’t unpacked yet..

The old receiver and the wok are still available, although I expect most people our age have as many of those as they want.

I had acquired a quite good set of coffee making equipment before I decided that even decaf was too strong a drug for me. So if you have any desire for a roaster or a grinder, let me know.

The paperback novels are mostly going to be donated, so if there’s an author you would like to own more of in dead-tree form, let me know, and I’ll lay them aside for you.

We played:

• Nola, Cingari simi
• Holborne: 55. The night watch; 21. Infernum; 17. Paradizo
• East, Hence stars too dim of light
• Gibbons, The silver swan
• Arcadelt, Il bianco e dolce Cigno

Thanks to Ishmael for taking notes.

We meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm, at 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA. Let me know if you want to come.

There’s still a room with boxes that should be in other rooms making it impossible to move in the stuff that should be in that room. Anyone who wants to come early and help alleviate that situation is welcome.

There are still two large pots and a wok. The receiver in my home media center seems to have stopped working, so I have ordered a replacement. If anyone wants to try rehabilitating the one that’s been through the fire, they’re welcome to it. It was up-to-date when I bought it in 2007. The replacement includes a pre-amp, so if the old pre-amp ever re-surfaces, that will be available, too.

Based on the fiddling with the new receiver, it’s likely there was nothing wrong with the old one. The dog had chewed the cable on the headphones I was testing with, and the speaker/wire combination I was using for the center speaker doesn’t work with the new one either. This means I’ll need help moving the TV again.

We played:

• Vaughn Williams, KINGS WESTON
• Gibbons, SONG 5
• Holborne: 49. Ploravit; 36. My selfe; 31. The funerals; 55. The night watch
• Rore, Altiero sasso
• Cavendish: Come gentle swains
• Ravenscroft: Now God be with old Simeon

Thanks to Ishmael for taking notes.

We meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm, at 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA. Let me know if you want to come.

As has been the case since I got back, people who want to come a little early and help juggle boxes will be welcome. Anne and I made progress last week on the small room that needed the 3D tetris skills, and this morning I finally found the box with the printer in it. I have not managed to extricate it from the box and verify that it works, but there is definitely progress happening. The next step is to move enough stuff for other rooms out of the small room that the stuff that will end up in the small room can go there instead of cluttering up the other rooms.

There’s also still a maneuver that needs at least 4 hands to get the media center set up.

A more fun activity I need help with is that there are lots of pictures, decorative ceramics, and wall hangings that need to be hung. One person can do it, but it’s a lot easier and more fun with two.

Now that I have access to the brewing equipment, I find that none of the large pots I acquired for that will work on the new stove. So anyone who finds that they still have things to add to the stew pot when their dutch oven has gotten full, should come take a 30 or 40 quart pot (with spigot). There is also a wok.