Yesterday among other things, many other things, I went to Low's and returned the light that was too bid, and got a couple of LED lamps that are not too yellow, and put one in the fixture I have here in the office that had a yellowish one, and in the other, took the lamp I had up in the loft and put it in and put it here in the office. Between the overhead light, now yellowish due to Ken's "improvement" and my two "daylight" lights, the office had decent light again.
I got back here and my day's work was getting things ready to list, which went into the evening as it takes a lot of time to take those old oscilloscopes apart. The problem here was that I was up past 2AM and the illegal night club operated but with a smaller crowd than they'd been having, and the honest truth is that if I'd gone to bed at a decent time I'd have slept through the moderate amount of noise.
I practiced, and that longest song, "Always With Me" is still in progress. All I could do is try my best.
I woke up at 8 and was over at Nijiya at 9:30. I got a little package of gyoza and a can of coffee, and ate and drank at the table out front. I went back in and bought a bunch of senbei, and went over to the event at the temple.
It was interesting, I picked up the calendar I'd paid for at the office, and it was lots of short speeches and such things. We actually had some local politicians there and Buddhist Churches Of America people, and so on, so that was impressive. The lunch was amazing. So. Much. Food. I had some char siu, soba, poke on rice, potato salad, and importantly, some cucumber pickles. I ate fast, as I'd noticed everyone else had their music stands set up.
Once I had eaten, I used to bathroom and rinsed my mouth, then went out to the bike and got my music stand, music, and shakuhachi. I set my stand up with the others, and after everyone had eaten, there was an announcement and we were on.
It went just like practice/rehearsal. We played the songs in order, and I didn't miss too many notes. Plus on that long song, when I got lost I was able to jump back in. Poor Paul Endo, playing next to me, hadn't been able to get any notes to come out in practice, but he got some out this time, and when we were done I told him he'd sounded pretty good. Overall it went well.
We went off the stage as the choir went on, and they sang some neat stuff. Then it was more speeches and things, and then we had the hall for another hour to socialize. We each got a set of 5 Rinban Sakamoto trading cards which is a pretty hilarious idea, and I especially like the one about his shakuhachi playing since it shows his whole career, starting out under a teacher at the Mo'ili'ili Betsuin Temple, where I may indeed find myself playing and learning, not too long from now.
There was so much food, and the food *they* had being friendly to older people's teeth, they hadn't even put my senbei out, and I got it back so I have lots of senbei now. And I came back here because it's enough excitement for one day. Last night and the night before I got 4 hours of sleep so I need to get to a schedule that gives me a full 8 hours of sleep and it's not that safe to be out riding around until then.
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