Happy 72nd Birthday to me

Thanks to everyone who sent birthday wishes, either in person, by phone, email, or post.

Celebration

Someone emailed me that 72 is a perfect square (9) times a perfect cube (8).

We had a small dinner party, with roast beef, a good wine that (serendipitously) went very well with the blackberry appetizer, and a chocolate cake.

A friend who couldn’t come to the dinner party because of having covid called. He’s on the Paxlovid, and his symptoms are pretty much gone except that he gets tired with very little exertion.

Someone posted that he hopes my housing situation is resolved.

HOUSING

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Not yet, but there is some hope. We got the electricity connected.

This means that soon we can get gas connected (which we requested last May). They wouldn’t do the gas because the first thing they want to do when the gas is connected is test the furnaces, and that requires electricity.

Once we have both gas and electricity, we will have heat, and the people who are doing the floors will be able to do the urethane.

Once the floors are done, we can start moving things in like appliances and plumbing fixtures, and then it should be a small number of weeks.

I don’t have a schedule for any of this happening, but I believe all the people who are working on it want it to be over.

PETS

For those of you who missed it, Maia died last May. She is missed, especially in the current situation. I’m not doing anything like enough walking, and I don’t think it makes sense to adopt a new dog until I have my house back.

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Orion is doing his best to be helpful.

News of the week of February 14, 2023

Nutmeg (PSF)

Schedule

We meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm at the home of Wendy Goble and Richard Schmeidler in Arlington Center. Please let me know if you want to come.

News of the week of January 17, 2023

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Schedule

We meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm at the home of Wendy Goble and Richard Schmeidler in Arlington Center. Please let me know if you want to come.

NEFFA

We are scheduled to lead a workshop at NEFFA at 11:30am on April 23. Please let me know if you want to be in the group – I can list you as a performer if I know soon. You should expect to come to some Tuesday rehearsals if we do that.

Otherwise, please come and participate that day. I expect the pent-up NEFFA energy after three years of online festivals to be impressive.

News of the week of January 3, 2022

EB1911 - Helleborus niger

Meeting Reports

January 3, 2023

We played:

Schedule

We meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm at the home of Wendy Goble and Richard Schmeidler in Arlington Center. Please let me know if you want to come.

News of the week of December 20, 2022

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Schedule

We meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm at the home of Wendy Goble and Richard Schmeidler in Arlington Center. Please let me know if you want to come.

News of the week of November 29, 2022

A weeping woman, Rembrandt van Rijn, c. 1644, Detroit Institute of Arts

Schedule

We meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm at the home of Wendy Goble and Richard Schmeidler in Arlington Center. Please let me know if you want to come.

News of the week of November 1, 2022

Schedule

We meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm at the home of Wendy Goble and Richard Schmeidler in Arlington Center. Please let me know if you want to come.

We will not be meeting on Tuesday, November 8, as it’s election day. Please vote.

Playing Opportunity

The Boston Recorder Society is resuming in-person meetings this month, with a meeting on Sunday, November 6, 6:30-9:00PM. The Loud Wind group will be coached by Bruce Randall. The recorders will be coached by Eloise Degrugillier.

Note that “Loud Winds” is interpreted very loosely. It has often included both recorders and string players.

If you want to go, you should register in advance on the BRS site. I won’t be going this month, because it’s too busy of a week to do that much driving for that little playing, but I’m sure the people who go will have fun.

Sad News

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Figure 1: Sue and Bizzi with ice cream

Sue Cornwall, who played with us briefly in 2009, died on Monday, October 31. During that time, she hosted a particularly memorable meeting, with good food, good beer, and a kitchen wall full of rat cages.

People who saw her after 2018, remember her constant companion, Bizzi. She told me about taking him with her on a trip to France. Aparently French restaurants are as welcoming to dogs as one remembers, but museums are not, so she didn’t see as many museums as she expected.

Her funeral will be next Saturday, Nov 12, at First Parish UUA, 14 Bedford Rd. Lincoln. I have her husband’s address for sympathy notes, if anyone would like to send one.