It was a week of family, with a funeral and a wedding on my wife’s side of the family. On Wednesday we drove a few hours in a very unpleasant rain storm to the funeral for her great uncle. It was an interesting experience going to a funeral for a family member I had never met. He was a pediatrician and active volunteer in his community, so he was very well known and very well loved.

I’ve decided I’m going to try the weeknotes thing that’s common among indieweb writers. For my first one, I’m covering last week, albeit a little late. On Tuesday, I had the final rehearsal for my orchestra concert on Sunday. I play trombone in the PennMed Symphony Orchestra, an amateur group made up primarily of medical students and healthcare professionals at Penn Medicine and CHOP, among other healthcare institutions in Philadelphia. The final rehearsal is always a bit stressful because anything that isn’t going well probably won’t be fixed before the concert, but this one was good.