Busy day.

Brother kicked me out of bed at 07:00-ish AM, to bring him to work. Been ages since I had to get up that early, and the results are manifesting themselves now. But that's okay, I was on time for the rehearsal of ensemble this time around, which is an exception. Whoops.

We're there now also rehearsing the "James Bond theme", by Monty Norman. Under normal circumstances I wouldn't mention that, only this time I did the adaptation for the ensemble's unique setting. It's one thing to be rehearsing a piece the conductor prepared; as I can say now, it's quite another to be playing a piece which I had been working on for quite a while.

Next, I went to an instrument shop, to bring my bass flute in for repair, and to ask for prices for a normal flute (since, well, something happened to my previous ones). I'm considering both the YFL 411 and the YFL 311 currently. The main difference is that the 411 is a full silver instrument, whereas the 311 has a silver head, but the rest is silver-coated nickel. The quality of the 411 is supposed to be better, but obviously so is the price; €927 for the 311, versus €1600+ for the 411. Will have to give that some thought.

I also went to the local travel office, to arrange a flight to go to Edinburgh. However, I was slightly confused when I booked it, and so now I have these extremely cheap tickets to get there... in july, which is one month late.

Guess I'll have to go back and try to exchange them. Hopefully that won't be too expensive.

Finally, I noticed that our chicken had been quite productive lately, and that there were some 30 eggs in the kitchen; so I spent some of those by baking waffles. They were quite good.