Rake's Progress March 18 2012

Mirable Dictu!  The New Activities Director has scheduled the bus to take us downtown for a Vocal Arts Ensemble and orchestra performance of  "The Rake's Progress"!  I saw Stravinsky on stage in Boston 1952, rehearing one of his works. This outing will be a debut serious-music item for our residents.
I am also negotiating for a "bridge lamp" to set in the card-corner near our post office.  It is an agreeable little nook with card table, but without good lighting. Jane is not here today, maybe I see her later, and we can haul in a good lamp.
       After four years!  Today I decided to use my microphone ( which has been useless) on the CONVERSATIONS part of my Berltiz Premier Learning System  (July 03, 2011),  And it worked.  I can replay my voice within the dialog in the program!  Hurrah!

The BIG DAY, March 18:  Three of us were to be driven in the company car to the opera today,         but
the schedule was changed because "the brakes went out and the car will be in the garage all week-end."  I worried when I heard who our driver was going to be:  she is not this sort of music-lover needed for this event.  Last year when she was to take a busload to Metamora, she wouldn't let the seniors off the bus there.  It didn't mean anything to her!  We had to proceed to an all-you-can-eat buffet which was a visitation to a Quentin Blake (Illustrator of Fantastic Mr Fox) venue in Indiana. O je,