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Never turned the ringer on my phone back on after rehearsal last night, so I missed several calls and my wakeup alarm to meet Scott and Ed at Katz’s this morning
at 7. I woke with a start at 7:15 and flew over there, apologized profusely, and we set to work on planning for June 28th (if you are reading this, assume you
are invited). We’re investigating getting a band to play, specifically the El Orbits or the Allen Oldies Band, guys who went to St. John’s with Ed and are friends with (and played at the 30th birthday
party of) Mark Vane. If availabilty and cost don’t preclude, I hope we get them. Otherwise, we’ll do something else
fun, rest assured. Because we’re gonna try to go this route on the entertainment, we are going with burgers (regular and veggie) this year…everybody likes
them, and they won’t break the bank. Now back to sleep.

Watched the eclipse for about an hour, from as soon as I got home from my last choir rehearsal at St. John the Divine to about ten minutes ago. As the light of
the moon grew smaller, it reminded me of the butter melting in the pot for the Rice Krispie Treats I made today. But unlike the butter, it never fully went
away. There was one spot, at about 11 o’clock on the face of the moon, that remained the whole time. It dimmed, but was always there.

I’m sure there is some profound point I could make about hope always remaining, or I could quote Winston Churchill (“Never give, never give up, never, never,
never!”)…but I won’t.

It was just cool to be able to watch it on a pleasant spring night in Houston.

Stacey Frankle brought over her Gateway becuase it was refusing to play DVDs. I deleted and reinstalled the the software, and it seemed to be playing fine. But
when I plugged in some speakers to check the sound, got the most hideous staticky sound imagineable. Checked the speakers by hooking them up to my Mac: sounded
fine. Attached another set of speakers to her machine: sounded crappy. Switched PCI slots between sound card and ethernet card (which required reinstalling
drivers becuase WinME is too stupid to realize that nothing has been added, just swapped): still same awful sound. Her mom came online while working on it;
tried to convince her Stacey needed a Mac. Instead, she’s going to have to upgrade to XP (normally I wouldn’t use the term upgrade in describing a move to XP,
but a poke in the eye with a pointed stick is better than WinME) and possibly replace her sound card.

She takes it back, set it up in her room, and the DVD player freaks out again, but the sound is working. Ugh.