Like the second day of school...

 

I am getting together with my new music friends, less than 5 minutes from our house.  I wrote about this a couple weeks ago - not planning to change anything with Mark and the guys, this is in addition to that music group.

I may have mentioned that these guys play loud... I'll be bringing some molded ear plugs today.  And an electric guitar rather than one of my acoustic/electrics.  I am the oldest one of this bunch, where I am the youngest with Mark and the guys.  The song choices are very different - these guys are more about jamming and a harder sound.  I was a bit out of my element two weeks ago, but I'll be better prepared today.

Joan said to me, "You should probably wear one of your guitar shirts today."

"What?"

"Well, you want to fit in."  I don't give much thought to fitting in.  "How about your Tommy Emmanual shirt?"

"I'm not sure these guys would know who that is."  (TE is an absolute kick-ass acoustic/electric player, btw)  I pulled a Gruen Guitars t-shirt out of the drawer.  Gruen is one of the premier guitar shops in the United States.  And, if they don't know, I'll tell 'em.  ;-)

 Look at me, trying to fit in... I may get to sit at the cool kids' table.

 --------

Today is Friday.  I get my Architectural Committee requests reminder on Fridays.  One new request came in, I got that approved, and all the rest of the requests are done for me, just waiting on the other committee members to get trained.  That will happen on Monday.  We should be ready to roll.

I got an e-mail yesterday from one of the other HOA board members - a neighbor had contacted her to ask why her Architectural Committee submission was taking so long... I just got it a few days ago, and voted on it right away.  Unfortunately, the people hadn't looked at the Design Guidelines, so the request was going to be denied.  The committee has 45 days to complete a review and vote - I hope to get that down to a week or less, but this particular request was submitted about 2 weeks ago, and this committee was just formed; so it had been waiting for that to happen.  Timing.  I wrote to the homeowners, explained the timing and suggested they resubmit after making a couple changes.  Everybody happy.  For now.