Busy, busy, busy...

I knew that the next four months were going to be busy, but geez... We've got a concert in a week and a half, and I'm hardly breaking a sweat about it. It doesn't even raise a blip on the radar of coming attractions! The big concert coming up is in May. Mahler's "Symphony of a Thousand". We're not going to have the full thousand, but we're going to be much larger than normal. Almost 350 singers and 100 musicians. And the associated pains. Fortunately, others are in charge of housing and feeding the singers coming in from other states. But I'm the one who gets to squeeze that many people in a really confined space. It's going to be wonderful, and should go off without a hitch, but man, what a lot of work! Thank God we've been working on this for awhile. I'll fill you in on the summer concert later...

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One down side of this next concert...I've got rehearsal all day on Saturday. St. Patrick's Day Saturday. My traditional first green beer out of the tap at O'Toole's ain't gonna happen this year. Damn...or should that be o'damn?

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The University of Montana made the NCAA Tourney again this year by virtue of winning both the conference and the conference tourney. Got them a #13 seed in the East. A first round upset is possible, but I don't know if they'll get past the second round. Still it's nice to see the Griz still playing, but Gucci's Cats are sitting at home!

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Didn't fill you in on the checkup I had a couple of weeks ago. Doctor likes my numbers, for the most part. Blood pressure is still a tad higher than he'd like, but not "high". And the weight isn't good. On the other hand, my cholesterol (and all the other blood numbers) are just peachy! So I'm off the hook for another six months! Woohoo!

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Lastly, it's Pomplamoose and one of their originals this week!