All’s Well That Ends Well in Trichotomy

A Bite

Our realtor held our first open house last weekend, and this week we signed a contract. Our realtor was right; the house sold fast, and above asking - though maybe we asked too low.
The buyers are currently renting a house a block away (I would walk by that house on one of my daily walks), so already know the neighbourhood. Now we are in a waiting period for the title to clear and for them to get a mortgage. I hope this goes smoothly.

If this contract is executed, our old house will have appraised 100% over 12 years.
I don’t feel too bad about that, since we already overpaid for this house.

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A Test

Last week was also the first concert for the season for our performance group. We had a full attendance and no cancellations. I think it’s because it is so close to when the sign-ups are available. For the next concert, in October, I already got a cancellation. My hypothesis is that if people sign up too far in advance, they forget about it in the interim and double book themselves. I’m doing an experiment for the rest of this season: I’m only releasing sign-up spots less than 3 months before the concert. I had dinner with a mezzo, her pianist and their friends afterwards; it is nice to do something social after the concert. However, my voice was tired after; it’s the first time this happened, and I’ve been hosting these for a year.

The performers at the November Carnegie Hall concert had a photo shoot for promotional materials before the concert, and I was surprised to find the soprano I’m playing for showing up. It was only then that I remembered we are also going play at Carnegie Hall.

We tried out our piece at our flautist’s church in a concert in Poughkeepsie - the reason he arranged the concert. The Lucia went well, so I am feeling confident for November. My solo didn’t go well though. People said it sounded good but I felt the keys were off - middle register is loose and the ends are tight. So there was no balance and when I tried to force sound out, I made other mistakes. Made me want to perform it on a better piano now. La Prof said I should do it at next year’s Carnegie Hall concert. But given how unenthused I am about playing this year, I think I’ll just do it at the next monthly concert.

We stayed overnight after the concert and hiked over the walkway over the Hudson the next morning. It’s a pretty park but it was drizzly and rainy all morning, so I hope we’ll come back some other time.

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A Type

The amateur group has a spreadsheet of past performances going back to 2012, and I wrote a script that searches the spreadsheet so people can search their performance recordings from the website.

The ENT pianist performed last weekend and told me he couldn’t find his recording. I was surprised the script was gone.

I’d been thinking about improving it already - it was my first apps script and was written as part of a hack for our old new website. And our spreadsheet is getting large so the script was taking longer and longer to respond. So I recreated it, but with pagination logic and using JSON as transport message. Everything worked except every now and the I’d get a CORS error. It turned out the error had nothing to do with CORs; whenever apps script fails it would be interpreted by chrome as a CORs error. I wasted several hours to realize the underlying problem was a type problem (I didn’t convert the page parameter into an integer, so the “next” page after N is “N1”, so the page that loads after that will try to index into an array with “N1”). That’s why I don’t like untyped languages. What would have taken 3 hours too three times as long.

There was a graph showing that javascript comments on github have the most curse words. I am not surprised.

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