There was success yesterday - I got myself an "unescorted" pass to go into work. It was only a temporary one - no swipe access, so I had to make phone calls whenever I wanted to go through a door, but it was better than needing to be escorted everywhere.
At lunchtime, I went to sign the lease for our rental property. That went pretty smoothly. I even managed to spend half an hour at school helping out with the orchestra rehearsal. I ended up taking a string (ie. violin) sectional. Of the four violinists who had instruments, one had to rush off to the library, one was about grade 4 or grade 5 standard, one would probably have struggled with grade 1, and the last had never played a C natural - only C sharps. The piece, Bertie Badger's A B C was written especially for the individual members of the orchestra - so there were some 3rd position parts for the first violinist, and much simpler parts for the 2nds and 3rds. (As well as the violins, there are 4 flutes, 3 clarinets, 3 saxophones, 2 trumpets, a recorder, a cello, and a drum kit.) Looks like everyone will have at least a little challenge, and it may sound good when it all comes together.
When I got back to work, things started to go down hill. First of all, it was explained that the green pass was not feasible, and that I needed to go back to a red pass. It wasn't long after that that they explained I shouldn't be on site until all the paperwork was completed. So I'm working "off-site" for now.
That's not so bad, because I've got Internet access at home. Well, at least I did have. My laptop died quite seriously - won't boot. I tried plugging the usb broadband mobile modem into the other laptop, but I can't get it to work. "Data Modem invalid" is the error message. Also, our boxes of clothes etc didn't turn up at the new house. And the phone wasn't working either.
Fortunately, the boxes did arrive today (Sat) (after another arranged deadline passed). And there's a friendly phone-man crawling up and down the street trying to trace the signal from our phone line. So that might help. There are some people on the Internet who've recommended solutions for the "data modem invalid" error, so I've got a couple of additional things to try - maybe the planets will be more favourably aligned tonight. (And yes, I have my Holst CD now, so that could help too!) I even have the recovery CD for my new laptop, but using it would put our photo collection at risk. Yes, I know, don't even think about saying anything...
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