bad news, good news
Oct. 22nd, 2022 11:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Today was a very slow day at work, aside from the part where the on-call maintenance guy called to see if I could go let a Collegetown tenant back into their apartment so he wouldn't have to drive to and from Ithaca (90-minute round trip) and charge the tenant a $75 lockout fee.
I said sure, drove up to Collegetown to fix the issue, and promptly got my left rear bumper mangled. *headdesk* Collegetown traffic and parking has always been a disaster, but it's twice as bad this year since several blocks of important roads are totally closed for construction projects, so every other road gets even more gummed up.
Honestly, I am shocked that I have never had any car accidents/damage there before now.
I will call either my Toyota dealer or a bodyshop on Monday and schedule a repair appointment for Tuesday afternoon.
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In better news, this evening I attended an NYS Baroque concert featuring music by Vivaldi and some contemporaries inspired by his work. It was lovely! The instruments involved were harpsichord, violin, cello, lute, theorbo (which is basically a lute with its own attached bass strings), chalumeau (weird period ancestors of clarinets) in two registers, period recorder, period oboe, and period bassoon.
The oboist (Geoffrey Burgess) was very good -- I am a lapsed oboist myself, so I always pay close attention to oboe players and parts -- but I was absolutely blown away by the bassoonist (Stephanie Corwin).
I said sure, drove up to Collegetown to fix the issue, and promptly got my left rear bumper mangled. *headdesk* Collegetown traffic and parking has always been a disaster, but it's twice as bad this year since several blocks of important roads are totally closed for construction projects, so every other road gets even more gummed up.
Honestly, I am shocked that I have never had any car accidents/damage there before now.
I will call either my Toyota dealer or a bodyshop on Monday and schedule a repair appointment for Tuesday afternoon.
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In better news, this evening I attended an NYS Baroque concert featuring music by Vivaldi and some contemporaries inspired by his work. It was lovely! The instruments involved were harpsichord, violin, cello, lute, theorbo (which is basically a lute with its own attached bass strings), chalumeau (weird period ancestors of clarinets) in two registers, period recorder, period oboe, and period bassoon.
The oboist (Geoffrey Burgess) was very good -- I am a lapsed oboist myself, so I always pay close attention to oboe players and parts -- but I was absolutely blown away by the bassoonist (Stephanie Corwin).