Friday 01/02/2026
Morning Muffin Mosey, up to the pop-up bakery to get Joanne’s special bran muffin. Don’t know if I ever explained that. She has for a long time had lunch with the same group of women and she brings this very large bran muffin and they split it four ways. They’ve been doing this for years. So I get to tag along on her expedition to buy her weekly muffin, and then we have coffee and chat.
Today we came up with a plan to go up to the Legion museum tomorrow. There’s an exhibit that several people have told us they enjoyed. There’s a Channing House bus to see it next week but it conflicts with some other things, so we are going on our own tomorrow.
Next I did some tech. Last week, apparently I didn’t write about this, I bought off Amazon a wireless headset, planning to use it with a small amplifier when I perform at the Lee center. It is simple, the head-mounted mic has a small transmitter in it (instead of a separate transmitter pack like our usual wireless mics). And the receiver is a little plastic lump with a minijack sticking out of it to plug into any mic input. It works great.
Coincidentally Gigi, who runs the drama group that is rehearsing now, asked if they couldn’t have more and better wireless mics. So today I verified that the receiver of this mic could also be plugged into our main sound board, so the sound would come out of our auditorium system. Yes, it can. But then I showed it to Gigi and she vetoed it for the drama group. They need lapel type mics, because they are going to be wearing wigs so the headset won’t work.
So then I spent a long time shopping at Amazon, Sweetwater, B&H, looking for lapel type mics that are small and have a receiver that might work with our auditorium system. Finally ordered one set for $25. Gotta love them cheap Chinese knock-offs.
Played a little music, did a little reading.
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