Buncha Stuff |
For the last week and a half, my car was making this noise while accelerating, like a fluttering “card in the bike spokes” kind of noise. It still drove fine, but I was worried that the engine would suddenly fall out in the middle of the highway or something, so yesterday I took it for state inspection and also to see what that noise was. Turned out, it was the EGR tube that had rusted through and broke, and it needed to be fixed anyway for my car to pass the state emmissions test, so that was fine with me. (Expensive little tube, though!) I also needed a light and new wiper blades to pass inspection, and I got an oil change.
I think last night’s episode of The Office was one of the better ones this season. Still so depressing, though! We need to get back to people pulling pranks on each other, instead of Andy making Angela miserable, Angela making Dwight miserable, Jim and Pam somehow making each other miserable, and Michael being miserable over losing Jan and Holly. I’m surprised there was no closure on the Pam/Fat Jim relationship, but I wonder if they’re saving that for another episode – like, he follows her to Scranton to try to talk her into coming back to NYC, and he and Jim get into some sort of fight. Also, I loved Michael’s presentation on international business relations or whatever: “In Italy, you must always wash your hands after going to the bathroom. This is considered to be polite.” And: “I would like you to pretend that you are from Abu Dhabi.” “Helloooo…” What was up with Darryl? Kelly sent him the break up text, he wrote back that it was cool, then we see him walk to his truck, and… that’s it? I thought he was going to go slash Ryan’s tires or something. Also hilarious how the moment the chase was over, Ryan was disinterested in Kelly again. But he “realized that for whatever reason, [he] just couldn’t do better than Kelly.”
I’ve been listening to the recording of our Fall Concert. It’s got its moments. For one thing, there was a kid (probably a couple kids) screaming throughout the performance. We just had a big discussion this week at band about asking your friends with kids to please be respectful of the fact that other people paid to attend (not to mention the fact that we’re making an archival recording), and take your kids out of the room if they won’t be quiet. This was probably the noisiest crowd ever. Of course there were also a few mistakes here and there, questionable soloists, etc. But overall I think it was great. “Porgy and Bess” and “Pirates of the Caribbean” turned out excellent!
Our plans for this weekend depend on the weather. I’ve heard conflicting reports. So I’ll let you know what we ended up doing, but either way we’ll probably be in Bucks County.
