Tuesday 09/17/2024
Excused myself from the writers group today because I wanted time to obsess about setting up for the folk festival full rehearsal at 1pm. Without the big mobile tv I had no way to show the videos that people are to sing along with. So I decided to sub in my personal 27in iMac. I got one of the shopping carts from the basement and at 11am I trucked the iMac down with my bag of other cables and bits, and put it on a table on the stage, with audio from its headphone jack into the sound board.
Plus Susan was tasked with sitting with her personal laptop, scrolling the sing-along lyrics on the big screen, except at the last minute Jerry had decided he needed his personally prepared video for his song, on that projector screen. Jerry is a heck of a nice guy and a good neighbor, but he’s also just a bit of a… never mind. He’s fine. It’s all good. So I had to train Susan how to switch between the lyric slide show and the video movie, and back. But she’s smart and got it quickly. I mean, that’s what 30 years of teaching college English Lit will do for you.
So 1pm came around and we ran through the show. I didn’t screw up my two numbers too badly or at all really and everybody else was fine. The show came out too long, so after an executive decision was made to cut two of the number.
Also, we have definite word that Joanie is coming, wants to come in early and see the whole show, and will address the group and maybe sing if her voice is up for it. Another reason to cut a couple of songs, to leave room for Joanie to talk longer if she wants to.
Shut everything down and put everything away, trucked my iMac back to my room and set it up again, and shut myself down for the day.
Codgerville 