home from Pennsic

[cellio]

I am home from Pennsic. It was fun -- good music, good camp, visited with some but not all friends, weather was mostly fine. More later. It began inauspiciously: a couple hours after I arrived it rained, followed by rain, followed by a storm (just for some variety, you know), followed by rain, and then a sprinkle (you tease!) followed by rain, followed by... you get the idea. That went on for about a day and a half (with two camp cars stuck in the mud trying to park) and then it cleared up. And as I said, it was fun otherwise. Rain is good for the land; we just need to work on distribution over time. :-)

While driving to pick up Erik from Mary's Assisted-Living Resort and Spa, Feline Edition (everything was fine, no problems), my other cat-sitter called. I don't use the phone while driving, so I returned the call a few minutes later and it went to voicemail. A few minutes after that he returned the call and my phone never rang (went straight to voicemail), just like Mary's call to let me know she was ready for Erik hand-off. But between those two calls the phone rang normally. This happens every now and then, seemingly randomly, and has happened with multiple phones. I assume the problem is Verizon, not my phone. How bizarre.

What'd I miss here? (And in the world, I suppose, but I have a pile of newspapers to help with that. Yes, I'd rather get the obsolete-by-the-time-I-see-them papers (and have a trusted party bring them in) than tell a stranger that the house he comes to every day will be vacant for a week...)

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[starmalachite.livejournal.com]

Re phones: Steve & I frequently have the same problem trying to reach other with T-Mobile. It's got to be on their end, since we have the exact same phone. A few times, I've seen him at a distance & phone to get his attention (for example, at an amusement park 2 weeks ago) -- & it went straight to voicemail! It just seems to be a fact of life, possibly governed by proximity to a cell tower or phone "traffic" density.

[osewalrus.livejournal.com]

Sorry we did not see each other besides my waiving to you at the Boreal Masters seminar.

[cellio]

I'm sorry too. I had thought to grab you after the seminar to make plans and failed to notice you slipping out until it was too late. :-(

If I wanted to present at the symposium next year, and given that so much of the prior work is not yet published, would you be willing to provide a "continuity check" for me? As a relative newcomer I neither want to duplicate prior work nor unknowingly contradict it...

[gingicat]

Bob, who sang choral stuff with us last year at NHC, sent regards and regrets that Institute conflicted with Pennsic.

(I missed you too, of course.)

[osewalrus.livejournal.com]

I am not so clear on the continuity myself. As was noted at the seminar, we need to have all the papers posted.

I'm trying to work on a new contribution myself: "The Shmata Manuscript: The Boreal Master and the The Cairo Geniza."

[cellio]

Did you get to sing with Bob this year? Did you try any Rossi? Inquiring minds want to know. :-)

The conflict is unfortunate, but presumably it won't happen every year (since it didn't last year). Next year if I don't go to Jerusalem (Shalom Hartman? Pardes?) and if it doesn't conflict with Pennsic, I'll likely go back to NHC.