Good Morning
72°, 96% RH. High overcast, with sun peaking through. Forecast high of 90 and chance of a passing shower.
We got about 1/3” of rain yesterday in several showers.
Yesterday started with the airport authority manager (that’s also an old friend) stopping by early with checks for me to sign. We had a nice chat over tea in the shop. After he left, I started back to cleaning up in the shop and trying to find new homes for various “stuff” like these table legs.
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A neighbor came over with a shaft off his mower to see if I could cut a new key way in it to keep him going until a new one arrived. The original one that is wallowed out is 180° from this new one. He also left with the table legs…..
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Next on the agenda was to pull out the gear we will need for Saturday’s show. This one we have to provide the PA and lights as well as the sound engineer.
Thats a lot of stuff to move and set up for a batch of septuagenarians. It doesn’t make it any easier that we lost our longtime friend and drummer Monday afternoon. His understudy is easily up to the task, but he will be missed. He also oversaw the setup of the lighting.
We have a couple of youngsters to help move and setup the equipment, they are both engineers in their day jobs, be interesting to see how it goes.
I also had to do some setup on the mixer as we will be using stage monitors rather than in ears, nothing like lots of configuration changes to make sound check interesting.
Because of all that, we are starting early, and I’ll miss Drew’s tree party.
No outside work today, I’ll continue setting up and staging gear for Saturday.
The son of one of my wife’s old coworkers is coming after to lunch to review and prepare for his Private Pilot check ride.
The goal is to make sure that he has all of the boxes checked and requirements fulfilled before he meets with the examiner (possibly my oldest son). That will take a while, there’s lots of boxes to check. It’s surprising how many applicants are not qualified to take the test due to missing one of them.
After we confirm his eligibility, we will go over the knowledge areas. This is helpful to me, as it keeps the information fresh, and we look up what neither of us know….
After that, our sound engineer is stopping by to review the changes I made to the mixer setup and routing, so he can minimize his surprises at sound check
That should take me to dinner and the recliner….
