I don't feel like I have anything to post about, even though I've certainly been busy the last few days. Some snippets:

Covered Squonk Opera's production in Bloomington for CATS. Music wasn't thrilling. Visual effects were great. I loved some of the effects they made with essentially two overhead projectors and a bunch of venetian blinds. Good stuff.

Luna Music Festival, a women's event here in Bloomington also didn't thrill me. The Music was pretty good all-around, but it seemed like the sets were too long and the crowd was pretty dead (and small). Part of my reaction probably came from us having so little time to set up and really the whole crew being in a bit of a funk from that frantic start. The causes were good and I wanted to like the show, but I just found myself wishing they would get it over with quicker.

Easter lunch at my Uncle Phil's was nice, if pretty uneventful. Melissa came down to meet the family, and that went well. The food was good, and I got a free banjo from my uncle, plus he and my aunt tried to get us to take their upright piano (I will do that when I have the room). It was good to see the family, and I'm looking forward to learning to play this weird East German 5-string.

Also, my grandpa had a heart attack this week (Weds night). Melissa and I went down to see him Friday morning at the hospital, but he was sedated pretty strongly and wasn't much for conversation. He looked ok though, outside of some bruises from IV needles. It was nice to see my Grandma Martha and my dad for a while, and I'm glad we went down, even if grandpa was kind of out of it. One humorous note: we left for a while for the nurses to bathe and shave him, and when we got back, he told us that he'd gone to Appleacres (an orchard about 30 minutes away) and had some apples while we were gone. That's some good painkiller action they've got at Dunn Memorial Hospital if it makes you think you've gone to eat some fresh apples when you really just got a spongebath.