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I went in to the office on Friday, and with a fresh brain, was able to find a way to get the corner desk into the room where it was to go. The base of the section does not go all the way to the floor on all sides, so I was able to wrap it around the doorframe. Then I reassembled the desk, put the drawer keys back in the top drawer, and went on to vacuum where the desk had been. Then I emptied a file cabinet and cleared a space for a different filing cabinet and moved the maps that were in the wrong place and sorted out paint and measured all the boxes + things that I'd have to find storage for. Then left that sheet at the office. sigh.

Not that it makes that much difference at this point, as I probably won't be getting the shelves until next weekend. I don't want to have to take them out of the car other than at the office, and I have to haul Lily somewhere M-T-W next week. At least, that's the current schedule. I expect we'll still have rehearsal on Monday as it's indoors; but the T-W concerts are both outside in the Heat Advisory/Extreme Heat Alert areas (depending on the concert). The weather people tell us that it won't get below 70F until the wee hours of Thursday AM. Maybe. Friday night for sure!

The AC came on at 8:45 this morning. I have it set for 76. (Anything higher, and the cats get really lethargic and unhappy. No need to stress old cats more than necessary.)

Yesterday's Sousapalooza was fun. there were about 25 of us, more old (most of them older than me!) flute players than anything else. We played 8 different Sousa marches, all of which I had played before. Many of them (besides Stars and Stripes Forever) have been in a summer repertoire for one band or another. It was indoors, so we didn't have to worry about the heat. I really think that an event like this needs to be outside, but yesterday I was glad that it wasn't. It wasn't really a concert intended for an audience, just a bunch of people playing music together.

- at home, the cats are being cats. Which is to say that Jiji is being very annoyed with me. I have, in no particular order: sent J away, failed at weather control (it's hot and humid now, and will rain, possibly hard, later), am *not* J, demonstrated my inability to skritch him "just right", gone away for "all day" Tuesday thus 'trapping' him inside (he can't fool me - he slept most of the time I was at work). Annabelle doesn't like the hot weather, either, as I don't let her curl up in my lap as much when it's 78F.

- in the backyard: I heard froggies on Monday after rehearsal, there was a small fuzzy sandhill crane in the yard when I got home from work on Tuesday (it looked at me very curiously before deciding I was no danger, and went back to lawn-poking), I saw fireflies yesterday evening after a concert in Fowlerville.

- on the road: (all rural two lane roads, because that's where I normally drive.) I came around a blind corner on my way to the concert yesterday, and there was a deer standing in the middle of the road. This was a few miles after the one who nearly ran into my car -- waited on the shoulder until I was nearly past, *then* started across the road. I accelerated just enough that it missed the rear bumper. Three miles from the venue, there was a quartet of ducks moseying across the road and I had to stop for them. Fortunately for all involved, the numbskull going 10 mph over the speed limit was far enough behind me that he didn't get to us until the ducks were off the road.

It was very hot in Fowlerville last night. We were, for the most part, under a pavilion so not in the sun, but I still had sweat running down my face. Many people deployed small personal fans. I have a little one, but it was in the other music bag. I should put it in Lily's case, and then I'll have it with me! (which will be good on Saturday, when I head up to Lansing for Sousapalooza. They say it will be 93 there. I hope we're on the shady side of the shop.)

Yesterday at work, I discovered that TE has handed responsibility for the entirety of the basement mess off to me. I don't wanna be in charge! So tomorrow I call HandymanDan and see when we can schedule him and a helper for a day. And BC and I went through and moved some expenses so that they were being pulled out of the correct account (fiscal year ends with June). I had been mis-attributing an expense because no-one told me that it actually belonged somewhere else. And then there was the one that I just screwed up. (Payroll is complicated, even if the payroll company does all the taxes, etc.)