About 25 minutes for the HOA board meeting last night. The storm a couple weeks ago caused some localized flooding, which caused erosion in our community park. The cost to repair is not insignificant, so we called for a board meeting to discuss this in front of homeowners. Being a single issue meeting, I wasn't expecting a lot of attendance... it was even less than I anticipated. Beyond board members, a couple spouses, the management company rep, and two people from the landscape company, there were 13 other people.
Of the 4 board members there, the decision to move forward with the repairs was unanimous - the 8 acre park is the biggest community-owned asset; it needs to be maintained. And in a timely manner. The management company had a contract for me to sign immediately after the meeting.
On a different topic: more music for me today. It's time for the every-other-Friday jam with my local guys. Some good ol' rock & roll is good for the spirit.
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I had the opportunity to try my wireless in-ears monitors with the guys today - it worked great. For me. I could hear myself (vocals) really well for the first time with these guys. Unfortunately, the wireless frequency messed with the wireless transmitters the other guitar players were using. I turned my in-ears off. :-( It wasn't the only thing that went south today. One of the other guys broke a string. Another had an issue with his wireless guitar stuff. And not to be outdone: my Emerald Virtuo just quit. I unplugged my wireless stuff and tried a regular guitar cord... nothing. Looking closer, I saw that one of the Fishman Fluence pickups had come undone from the mount and caving into the guitar body.
Well, that's not good. We took a break while I worked on it. With no tools and crappy light. Allan's place is less than 2 miles from our house. I called Joan and asked, "If you aren't in the middle of something, could you bring me another guitar?" She asked, "Which one?" I selected the easiest for her to grab, no case for it. Not the best one to play with a loud rock band, but the easiest.
Joan was there in about 10 minutes, and brought my Emerald X7. I asked if she'd want to take a couple minutes and listen to us play something (she hasn't heard us before). We went inside, she met Allan at the door, and as I was about to introduce her to the guys, she said, "Let's see... you are Tony, you're Roland, you're Joe, and you're Bob." She got them all right. I was impressed.
We played a couple songs for her, then she took off; and we finished our jam. As always, Joan saved my butt, bringing that guitar so I could keep playing.
Back home, and I'll be messing with that Virtuo. And probably bring a second guitar for any practices.
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