Ok, it isn’t a report, just a link. But still, I love making the news.
http://www.telegram.com/article/20120512/NEWS/105129967/0/
Make sure to read the whole article.
~Kelly
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Spring Boston Area Music Making
Apparently a lot of the people I know are making a lot of music in the next few weeks. I’ve posted everything I know about below. If I’ve forgotten anything please let me know. I encourage you all to attend everything you can, I know at least one person involved in each of the below and they’re all great.
Music at Mission: Ensemble St. Germain- Sunday May 20th, 2012 3:00pm
Hi folks. It’s taken me a few days to get the information together on this one, but I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be appearing with the Ensemble St. Germain in the final Music at Mission concert of the season.
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A Pleasant Culinary Surprise
This past weekend Kelly’s father came to town to attend a convention. Since both of us spent much of the weekend working, we did not really get to see him at all until yesterday, when we went out to dinner. Now, Kelly’s father had decided to treat us, but he asked us to pick the restaurant, and he said he wanted to try something different, something he might not be able to try back home.
A belated post-PAX report
Although I was fairly swamped with work this past weekend, I somehow managed to take the time to go see PAX East, the huge gaming convention and general geekfest organized by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins of Penny Arcade fame. Kelly’s brother Matt came up from Philadelphia and joined Patricio and I as we indulged ourselves in a geek’s paradise – specifically, a gaming geek’s paradise. So go no further if you have a low tolerance for that sort of thing.
Mark your calendars- April 12, 2012 8:30pm
Ok, so remember how I said about Nathan that someday I’ll be able to say I knew him when? I can already say that about my friend Dave.
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Fears of a dry summer
Well, it looks like my fears of a drought this spring and/or summer may just be coming true. Most of the rivers in the state (and in Connecticut and Rhode Island) are far below normal for this time of year, and there is already talk of how this will affect fisheries and agriculture. I wonder if we will have problems with fires this year. Hopefully nothing too bad. Anyway, I need to check on the level of water in my rain barrels before I do any major planting this year. I still hope to do some herbs in pots if nothing else.
-Geoff
Concertizing and Audience Behavior
I’ve been reading The Hub Review a lot lately. It’s well written and he gets to see and review a lot of things that I would never make it to see. What initially caused me to finally bookmark the blog was his story about some audience misbehavior, something I have talked about in the past.
A follow-up to my earlier post on emergency planning
Now that almost everyone is back on the grid, NStar recently announced that it has no intention of reimbursing customers for any financial losses they may have suffered during the power outage this past week. And for some of those customers, I would imagine that the loss is a bit more than pocket change, to put it mildly. Imagine all of the restaurants that had to throw out all of their meat, seafood, produce, and dairy products. And that is on top of the loss they suffered for having to let customers leave without paying. Plus a couple of days where those businesses made no money. And so the wait staff and bartenders made no tips. It is not as bad as it could have been, but it was certainly bad enough. And that is why I will continue to harp on this issue of planning for events like this.
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This is why I believe in emergency planning
The big news tonight here in Boston is a fire in the Back Bay that led to power going out in huge swaths of Boston. Apparently the fire started in a utility building containing two large transformers. In order to fight the fire, it was necessary to cut power to the transformers. That has now led to a power blackout in Back Bay, Prudential Center, Copley Square, Chinatown, the Theater District, and Kenmore Square. They are saying now on TV that they are allowing people to return to their homes but they have no idea when power will be restored to this area.
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The Books are Taking Over... 