Thursday 02/29/2024
Took a standard walk first thing. One, because I didn’t get one yesterday, and two, because they were doing the annual fire alarm test, and the fire alarm warning horns and flashing strobe lights would be on for half an hour from 9am, while they verified that strobes and horns worked in every apartment, so better to be out walking at this time.
Then I spent some time organizing info for the AV team meeting at 2pm. There have been some problems where the Zoom link for events, posted in the daily calendar email, have not worked when clicked upon. Researching the causes was a deep rabbit hole but worth going over. Another issue was the Green Room key. This is a room behind the stage, nominally for performers to prepare or wait for cues, but also partly turned into a storage hoard by the gift shop volunteers, well, that’s another argument. But it is kept locked. I have a key, but there’s a key kept at the front desk that anyone can borrow.
Two excellent ideas turned up in the meeting, both from Alice. One, let’s have one of those magnetic key safes with a Green Room key attached to the AV desk. Two, there’s an easy safety net when a zoom link doesn’t work. Just go to zoom.us/join and type in the numerical meeting ID. No need to manually start the zoom app or anything. I will push for this to be added to the bottom line of every daily calendar.
In the evening I experimented with videoing myself playing and singing. Needs work — it was out of focus, as a photographer I’m embarrassed — but will be useful as a way to work on my performance. I can stand to watch myself; I have a pretty good stage presence and demeanor, and sing on key most notes. Need much more rehearsal.
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