May 2019 Update

I finally know about my job situation, and it is transitioning.  I was offered a position with Wipro to continue doing the same work I have been doing for the past several years at Xerox.  It’s an answer to prayer, and I will officially be a Wipro employee on Monday, May 20.  This is my last day as an Atos employee.  Thank you for praying for me!

Other than that, the news from this past month starts with Easter.  We had a lovely Easter celebration at our church, followed by a dinner with our local family at our house, consisting of too much good food, all of which I had to try.  Multiple times.

On May 5, we remembered Cai’s birthday from afar.  Kevin’s birthday was on May 14, but we had the party at their house last night, May 16.  Again, too much good food eaten multiple times, but hey, you only live once.

On May 11, my quartet, Achording to Us, sang three songs during a break of a zydeco concert at our rehearsal hall, the Harmony House in Webster, NY.  Lots of different people and groups rent our facility for concerts, wedding receptions, and so on, because it’s a historic and beautiful place.  We are one of very few barbershop choruses that own our own building, so it’s pretty great.  Anyway, the zydeco people have been asking our facility coordinator for a long time for a group from the chorus to entertain during their break, so my quartet did so.  It seemed to be well received, and it was a ton of fun.

We celebrated Mothers’ Day in a sort of unique way.  My chorus had been invited to sing the National Anthem for our local minor league baseball team, the Rochester Red Wings (they’re the AAA affiliate of the Minnesota Twins of the MLB).  I asked Krista, Hannah, and Ella what they thought of that, and they all said they would love to go to a Red Wings game for Mothers’ Day.  I don’t know if they were lying to please me, but I think they were sincere.  Anyway, the Anthem went well, and we had a good time at the game, even though the weather was cold and damp.  I’m sorry I don’t have pictures from that.  You’ll have to use your imagination.

Actually, I only have one picture from the last month, and that’s of some spring snow here.  If you remember, we got some in Minnesota last month when we visited Kortney and Mat, and we got some here in late April.  Of course, we can’t compare them, because it was 8 inches in Minnesota, and only a dusting here, but we do what we can to be as Minnesota-like as possible.

The final piece of news was some excitement I had today.  Our chorus’s annual show is tomorrow night (I’ll tell you about it next month), and today, to promote it, four of us went on a local radio show for about a half an hour.  We sang two songs, and the host interviewed us about barbershop singing in general, and our show more specifically.  It was so much fun!

If you want to listen to a recording of the radio show, go to https://www.iheart.com/podcast/the-bob-lonsberry-show-on-wham-20922208/.  You'll have to search back to Friday, May 17, 2019, and the 11:00 or fourth hour.

 

That’s all until June!