Recent Days

There has been some disruption in routines around the house lately.

On the internet front there was none–internet, that is–from sometime early Saturday until late Tuesday. Our router stopped working and nothing except waiting for a replacement to arrive would fix the situation. Over 80 hours total of deprivation! My goodness but it seemed an eternity. Verizon FiOS support gets mixed marks: a) being forced to talk to the automated Miss Verizon until she determined that, indeed, she couldn't fix the problem and would hand me over to a person, when I knew what the problem was–not helpful; b) the actual people I talked to, however, were very helpful and considerate.

Isaac is battling a rather strong insurgency of cellulitis in his lower right leg. Cellulitis is an infection of the connective tissues of the skin (more here and here, if you want details). He's had it three times before in the last decade or so. This round is acting pretty tough but is responding slowly to antibiotics. He's starting to get around better but he's still trying to maximize his time at home with his leg up, which reduces swelling and keeps more problems at bay.

Meanwhile he continues playing for rehearsals of "The Sound of Music", our musical theatre group's latest musical production. I decided I wanted a lighter schedule this time so I'm playing 'cello in the pit orchestra. The 'cello part is great in "Climb Ev'ry Mountain".

For those who know our friend HelenJean, this past Sunday (at Isaac's church) was the latest installment of her early-music concerts featuring her friends and fellow students from Peabody, where she herself is now enrolled in a degree program after several years of just taking courses that interested her. (HelenJean is our age, which makes her a very non-traditional student.) The concert was a great success.

Posted on April 9, 2008 at 21.33 by jns · Permalink
In: All, Personal Notebook

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  1. Written by chris
    on Thursday, 10 April 2008 at 07.49
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    and here was me hoping you'd climb out of the orchestra pit for at least a cameo role on stage. I'm seeing you as one of the nuns: "I confess, Mother, that I have sinned" … while holding the sparkplug wires to the nazi staff car

    [I don't care if that's only in the movie, that's the cameo that suggests itself to moi for you]

  2. Written by S.W. Anderson
    on Thursday, 10 April 2008 at 18.45
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    Sorry to hear about the router outage and sorrier yet about Isaac's cellulitis. Nasty business in both cases.

  3. Written by jns
    on Thursday, 10 April 2008 at 23.52
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    Thanks for the interesting cameo suggestion, Chris; perhaps I'll keep some spark-plug wires handy in the pit. I have to admit, though, that the part that would have most attracted my attention would have been that of Herr Zeller, the Nazi. I feel that his unsmiling grimness would build on my portrayal of Jud Fry in "Oklahoma" some years ago. Herr Zeller, by the way, would seem a step up since he doesn't get killed in this show. Dying on stage is very tiresome.

    SW, I'll pass along your thoughts to Isaac. The cellulitis is nasty but seems to be improving slowly.

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