life is full of problems and i am feeling full up of all of them! 

since i moved to this little village north of NYC, life has been very busy and full of change.  the entire fall flew by so fast i don’t even think i have breathed since the beginning of august when i found the ad for the apt.  now i am tired of change and flux and fixing/solving problems.  there is still much left to do/fix/resolve.  usually i am resilient and can troubleshoot and resolve problems but in the last month it seems as if everywhere i turn things are falling apart, expired or just plain broken.

1. my ipod is dead – this is SO NOT good for many reasons the least being my need to have a music fix each day – if i don’t listen to an opera or piano music or chamber music at least once a day – and this means listening while not doing anything like now i am recording the webcast of Washington Opera’s MAGIC FLUTE while doing a lot of stuff at the computer – anyway, i get very very cranky.  the other problem is that i have NO idea what i had on there – but at least one opera webcast – the unbelievably passionate and heartrending performance from Bayreuth 03 of Walkuere with Dean Smith and Urmana was on it.  heaven only knows what else is on there.   UPDATE – lovely people on the OPERA-SELL list have copies and i will be getting my own again soon!  this performance is one of the most amazing live broadcasts i have ever heard – these two were on FIRE in act one…absolutely incredible.   *

2. i had bought the two year extension care plan but of course APPLE says they don’t have it on record so now i have to find the original receipt – of course i can try to get a copy from COMPUSA – but you can only imagine what that will mean in trying to get someone to do this.and to find my receipt means sorting thru the study/office boxes and files for which i have nowhere to put since i moved   **

3.  the lyre on my new (old) piano is broken – this was discovered in a visit by the new piano repair guys who were recommended by my old NYC piano tuner who doesn’t make house calls to westchester.  and those D^$%d E and F are STILL sticking – making practising and playing EXTREMELY Annoying.   Also in the last visit the guy (named Guy) said the soundboard has a crack (which i see now) and there is TONS TONS of dust in the piano and the action needs regulating. 

so i was really stupid for buying this Chickering baby grand from a friend without checking it out – i realize that i trusted too much and WILL NEVER do it again – but after $3000 already spent i am feeling trapped – the WHOLE point of this move was to give me space and a place for my FIRST piano ever (the family piano was a console so i only had good pianos at school) and here i have probably bought a lemon – and the move was so expensive and fixing the apt etc.  ugh

i really cant afford to spend tons on fixing this up – and supposedly it was rebuilt by Beethoven pianos – i have to get the serial number from the previous tuner and call B and see what they have to say – the current guys say it couldn’t have been rebuilt as there is too much dust – but that they must have just done “surface” work.  anyway, i had a long talk with the head guy and the guy bringing back the lyre (it was taken away before Christmas and is being taken apart and reglued and fixed up) on Tuesday will do an eval and then we can discuss what would be the best next step – if its only regulating the action which is still a couple thousand (YIKES) then I’ll do it and hopefully that will do until i can save up enough to buy something really nice.– who knows when that will be. oh well six months ago i didn’t even have a piano much less a broken one. 

ok.  MAGIC FLUTE is almost over – time for a nice hot bath and a mystery (finally catching up on the PDJames’ that i am behind on – HOLY ORDERS right now). 

**tonight i have ordered three two-drawer filing cabinets to come this week so i can start dealing with the papers/files/etc that are in boxes in the study and in the basement and get some order back to my records, etc.

* i bought a sony psyc (which is the new name for the DISCMAN of old) for very little and it has radio reception built in so now i can have tunes on my commute to and fro nyc – and actually this will be a good chance to re acquaint with all my cds and it plays mp3 cds so i am actually now not in a hurry to deal with the ipod – i have til march 06 on the plan so that gives me a little breather.