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Bye bye, Easter
May. 19th, 2013 06:35 pmToday was Pentecost, which is the fiftieth and last day of the Easter season (Christmas is 12 days, but Easter is 50; go figure). Our church celebrates Pentecost with twelve birthday cakes, one for each month of the year.
We sang "If Ye Love Me" by Thomas Tallis, and a South African song, "Haleluya Pelo Tsa Rona". Afterwards, New Hampshire called to say one of their servers had crashed. I was able to talk them through getting it back up, but almost all the cakes had been eaten by the time I got done. I managed to snag a bit of June, April, and March.
Our music director is on sabbatical beginning next week; we'll have substitute organists for the next three Sundays, and then we're gone for the summer.
Now I'm trying to get this thrice-blasted machine working for a Vermont client. The $500 sound card I ordered was bad out of the box, and now it looks like the $300 GPIO card is bad too. I have a spare one around here somewhere, but I've looked high and low and can't remember where I put it. It was on top of the radio by my couch, but a few weeks ago I decided to put it Somewhere Safe, and now I can't find it anywhere. Damn.
I was supposed to get this box shipped out yesterday, but couldn't work on it because I got an emergency call from Boston College.
I found some time to mow the front lawn this afternoon, but don't know what to do with all the stuff that's planted there. Some of it is good and some is weeds, but I can't tell the difference; it's all green to me.
I'm not in a good mood; I've been working flat out for weeks, my house is a mess, and I'm getting more demands on my time than I can handle. Lately I haven't have time for anything but work. How do other people manage to have lives, let alone get anything major done, like raising kids or writing a book?
We sang "If Ye Love Me" by Thomas Tallis, and a South African song, "Haleluya Pelo Tsa Rona". Afterwards, New Hampshire called to say one of their servers had crashed. I was able to talk them through getting it back up, but almost all the cakes had been eaten by the time I got done. I managed to snag a bit of June, April, and March.
Our music director is on sabbatical beginning next week; we'll have substitute organists for the next three Sundays, and then we're gone for the summer.
Now I'm trying to get this thrice-blasted machine working for a Vermont client. The $500 sound card I ordered was bad out of the box, and now it looks like the $300 GPIO card is bad too. I have a spare one around here somewhere, but I've looked high and low and can't remember where I put it. It was on top of the radio by my couch, but a few weeks ago I decided to put it Somewhere Safe, and now I can't find it anywhere. Damn.
I was supposed to get this box shipped out yesterday, but couldn't work on it because I got an emergency call from Boston College.
I found some time to mow the front lawn this afternoon, but don't know what to do with all the stuff that's planted there. Some of it is good and some is weeds, but I can't tell the difference; it's all green to me.
I'm not in a good mood; I've been working flat out for weeks, my house is a mess, and I'm getting more demands on my time than I can handle. Lately I haven't have time for anything but work. How do other people manage to have lives, let alone get anything major done, like raising kids or writing a book?
