Well, dear readers, I am sitting here like so much fish, listening to music, wondering why it’s been so damn hard to cast the last few Kritzerland shows (interestingly, November is almost cast). Everyone wants to do them, I get asked all the time, and when we finally come calling people, for one reason or another, can’t do it. Sometimes it works out fine (our last cast was superb and that show was really hard to cast), and sometimes I accept some folks I normally wouldn’t. The October show has, in fact, proved impossible to cast – we have a few asks out and if none of them pan out I’m going to do a different show, one I know I can cast easily. Doing a Flaherty and Ahrens show comes with certain requirements. So, we’ll see what today brings.
Yesterday was a day in which I awoke after ten hours of very necessary sleep. By the time I got up it was a little past noon-thirty. I got up, answered e-mails, did some work on the computer, then went and had an egg salad and bacon sandwich on egg bread with no fries or onion rings. After that, I picked up a little package, then came home. I forwarded some orders, had some telephonic conversations, did more work on the computer, did the shorter jog, then sat on my couch like so much fish.
Last night, I watched a little documentary about Gregory Peck, mostly stuff from his one-person Q&A thing he was doing at the time, interspersed with current footage of his family, along with the requisite film clips. I’ve always enjoyed Mr. Peck’s performances and he seems like he was a very genuinely nice person. One does forget just how many great movies he was in. I enjoyed watching it.
After that, I went to Gelson’s and got some prosciutto and melon balls for my evening snack, because I’d really only eaten about 500 calories and jogged some of that off. I ate it all up, whilst doing more work on the computer, which was followed by more telephonic calls and organizing this thing that’s happening on Wednesday, which I’ll tell you all about in tomorrow’s notes.
Today, I have a lot o’ stuff to do, especially casting the show so I can assign the songs. Or, if we haven’t cast it, then changing the show to one I can cast easily. I’ll eat, jog, hopefully pick up some packages, and then in the evening I have a rehearsal for the Wednesday morning thing, which I’m looking forward to. It won’t be hugely long but it will most likely be fun.
Tomorrow I must finish the two sets of liner notes and get those projects in for approval. Wednesday morning is the thing I’ll tell you about, then the rest of the week is meetings and meals and going and doing and doing and going. Hopefully the Indiegogo campaign will continue to do well – yesterday we got to 48%, which is pretty damn good if you ask me.
Oh, and a Mr. Fix-It will be here to fix the washing machine, which was leaking water last Saturday – I’m sure it’s just a bad hose. So much of life is just a bad hose, don’t you think? Nothing like a new hose to get things to rights. A new hose just does the trick, doesn’t it?
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, cast, assign songs, eat, hopefully pick up packages, write, and have a short rehearsal. Today’s topic of discussion: What are your favorite late-night or mid-afternoon snacks, diet or non-diet, healthy or not healthy? Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, happy to get rid of a bad hose and get a new hose, which, of course, is not a euphemism.