Happy New Year!
I hope your new year provides you plenty of enjoyment and happiness in 2015.
Over the last two weeks, I've started a new position within the same company, eaten approximately half my body weight in junk foods (obvious exaggeration), and have narrowly missed calling in sick on the first day of my new position. Now that my voice has (mostly) returned, I can go back to "normal" life. yeah... my first day of work at the new job, I could barely whisper...
A few happenings have stood out, and I'm not going to lie, I'm looking forward to sharing them. :-)
First is H-Mart. If you've never heard of it, you're missing out. Seriously. Go Google it. You've heard of Asian grocery stores before, and probably been to a few. This is more like an Asian food emporium. This place is HUGE! They have an entire aisle filled with nothing but different brands of soy sauce - not even kidding. My friends and I went there one evening because we were bored, but left having each spent a smallish sum to purchase interesting or unusual foodstuffs.
By the way, I definitely recommend the seafood department. It's so cool! There are saltwater fish in tanks in the store. And, if you bought or brought a fish, they'll cut it up for you so you don't have to. Have to remember that the next time I am carrying around a fish!
On a completely different note, I started my new position this week. I'm now a statistics and data coordinator for the same company. While I loved my position in the support team, I'm sure I'll also come to enjoy my new position, too. A highlight (albeit a negative one) is that I entered statistics for a very large chain of offices (yay!). However, today - after I entered all their stats - their office administrator called me to inform me they'd found some issues with the documents they'd sent and I should just ignore them... *sigh* Looks like I get to troll through their stats on Monday, too!
The nephews and I invented a new game nephews this week. I stomp around as a dinosaur - "Stomp-o-saurus" - and make dinosaur growling noises. The boys think that's pretty awesome and will run away screaming. When they get caught by stomposaurus, they get "chomped" (tickled). It's a silly thing, but they really like it.
Orchestra practices started up again this week. I'm kind of excited for this concert. It's coming up fast, but it'll be a fun one - "pops!" We're doing Broadway musical excerpts. The music includes songs from West Side Story, Evita, Cats, and Phantom of the Opera. (I know I'm missing another, but I can't think of it now!) I'm thinking it'll be a fun one, but again, the bassoon parts aren't very exciting. Not that this is unusual in not-difficult orchestra arrangements, but it's worth noting.
Sometime this week, I need to sit down again and make some reeds... I've got one that works really well (if I soak it for half an hour before practice...), and the rest are all "moderate-weather reeds...
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Sometime this week, I need to sit down again and make some reeds... I've got one that works really well (if I soak it for half an hour before practice...), and the rest are all;" weather="">IT'S A REAL THING!
If you play bassoon or oboe, you know what I'm talking about. Most of the time, my reeds are thick enough that they're nearly impervious to weather changes and barometric pressure issues. If I were to play on a reed that was thin enough to be comfortable to play on...
1. I would have a hard time not over-blowing
and
2. It would most-likely be susceptible to the barometric pressure shifts and weather changes.
Perhaps I should study this to see if I'm right. For now, I'll just assume I'm right and call it good. :-)
END OF RANT
