Boy, nothing like a few days back at work to sap the energy. I could have used an extra couple of hours' sleep this morning. Still, I think we're on the brink of making some serious progress on the project; we've finally worked our way through Royal Bank's byzantine strategic sourcing processes and should be receiving one (1) brand new multi-hundred thousand dollar Sun server and four (4) brand new quad-CPU Windows 2000 servers today for our development environment. (No, Philip, we can't put Linux on them; the application we're installing only runs on Windows 2000.)

The other main news this week is the start of the choral music season. Exultate started up Tuesday with rehearsals of Carmina Burana for the 20th Anniversary concert in October. I haven't performed Carmina Burana for over a decade, but it's a lot of fun to sing and it's coming back to me quite quickly. On the down side, John's not sure about keeping me in the choir due to my maddening tendancy to want to flit around the world and miss whole months of rehearsals; this won't be getting better during my LOA, so after the first concert of the season I may be out for the rest of the year.

Yesterday was my first rehearsal at Calvin Presbyterian, singing for the wonderful Stephanie Martin. We covered a lot of ground in two hours, and the choir's standards seem pretty high. Plus Steph's a great conductor, the choir is full of fun people, and they do a lot of social stuff together... I think I'm going to really enjoy singing with them.

On deck for the weekend: dinner at Christopher's tonight (whee!! ), Molly's 30th birthday party tomorrow (huzzah! ), and Kate coming back into town on Sunday. We're planning to spend the afternoon going around the art gallery.

Only three weeks of work left...

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